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Week 4 on Photography: Class Materials

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| February 6, 2012


cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog

Photo Challenge

You hopefully have a camera with you! You have 20 minutes to complete this challenge, to take and post your best photos to satisfy the following. You are restricted to places in the building our class is scheduled.

  • Make an ordinary object look more interesting, almost supernatural.
  • Take a portrait of a person; have them display an emotion.
  • Take a photo that makes use of converging lines.

Allow enough time to take the photos and upload them to your flickr account. Tag all of your photos ds106photoblitz

Discussion of Photos

View tagged photos http://flickr.com/photos/tags/ds106photoblitz

On Photography

Thru The Lens

View more presentations from Alan Levine

Resources

Photo Editos

If you do not have Photoshop or commercial software, some alteratives

Pimp Your Flickr

See also Flickr fun tutorial by @wwnorm

Assignments

Week 4: Photography and Visual Assignments, see
http://ds106.us/2012/02/06/week-4-photography-and-visual-assignments/

Every day for next 2 weeks: Daily Create photos http://tdc.ds106.us/. Suggest making a flickr set to hold your daily creates (see tutorial video)

By next Sunday, complete 10 stars worth of visual assignments

Examples of Visual Assignments

Photo and Editing
Splash that color
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/splash-the-color/

Image with a message
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/image-with-a-message-2/

Normal to Extraordinary
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/normal-to-extrordinary/

Album Cover
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/an-album-cover/

Noticing Things

Illustrate 106
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/illustrate-106/

Unlikely Intersections
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/unlikely-intersections/

Common everyday objects
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/common-everyday-object-2/

Find Yourself
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/find-yourself/

Creating scenes
Return to the scene of the crime
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/return-to-the-scene-of-the-crime/

Art Comes to Life
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/art-comes-to-life/

Buddy Photo
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/buddy-photo/

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