Learning Goals and Planning for "Color"

1. What do you know about the essential questions?

They try to help us create better images and understand how to use color to have better composition and   dynamics.

2. List your learning goals specifically based on the essential questions for the project:

I want to be able to show different images that create meaningfulness, and can make certain objects stand out.

3. Brainstorm multiple ideas that meet your learning goals for taking the photos such as who/what/where/lighting/shooting modes/composition/technique:

Get complimentary color together, and also contrasting other ones. Use different lighting and possibly even shading some ways.

Ideas for Complimentary Color Harmony (Include possible subjects, composition elements, lighting, type of depth of field, shooting modes, etc:

Lighting should be soft and not bright sunlight. Use colors such as red and orange, possibly yellow too. long-medium depth of field.

Ideas for Analogous
 (Include possible subjects, composition elements, lighting, type of depth of field, shooting modes, etc:

Use some green or red to contrast. Possibly some purple and orange. Short-medium depth of field. And use Bright sunlight to see the big differences.


 

Critique on "Things"

Essential Questions:

How did you meet your learning goals based on the essential questions?

I went ahead and made sure I got good composition and i made sure the sun helped brighten certain aspects of the glass and eggs, just to add to the grayscale of the picture.

How did your goal setting, brainstorming and planning impact the results of this photo?

Because I planned ahead, I was able to get just the right photos that I wanted.

How did you elevate the content(Your Subject) of this photo from ordinary to extraordinary?

I went ahead and zoomed in on the detail to help get the contrast and attention to detail of the eggs and the glass.

What are dynamics in photography and explain the dynamics in your photograph.

The grayscale helps create a contrast between the light, the glass, the eggs, and the background.

Landscape Critique

How did you meet your learning goals based on the essential questions for this project and what do you still want to learn?

I went ahead and kept my camera with me wherever I went over break. I took pictures of any landscape I thought or found interesting to me, so I could bring out the best qualities of it to everyone else.

How did preplanning/brainstorming impact your results?

I think it allowed me to be able to capture great landscape pictures.

What composition tips did you follow when taking your landscape photos? 

 

I wanted to make sure I didnt capture any trees right in the middle of the photo, or whatever else the object was. I made sure to use the rule-of-thirds and wanted colors that contrast each other a little.

How do the tips work together to impact the success of your photos?

I think I made the pictures come out pretty well. I think the photo above was one of my best.

How did you problem solve quality of light and bad lighting situations?

I went in the morning and in the evenings.

Goal Setting/Planning - Depth of Field Studio

1. List your learning goals specifically based on the essential questions for the project:

I want to be able to learn how to develop black and white film. I also want to be able to take pictures to learn how to focus in several different modes. 

To create a dynamic perspective of taking pictures to try and understand how to incorporate different depths of field into different picutres and get the same quality and complexity as in a regular digital photo .

2. Brainstorm multiple ideas that meet your learning goals for taking the photos such as theme/story/who/what/where/lighting/shooting modes/composition/technique:

1) Move the objects within the picture frame around a lot.

2) Create different dynamic scenarios with different lighting affects and shadows.

3) Try and combine different elements of what it meas to have a quality photo and incorporate them in while taking pictures.

4) Use unique objects, i.e.; my dragon sculpture, an award, etc.

Photography 1: Learning Goals/Planning Blog - Things

Essential Questions:

How do professional photographers take extraordinary photos of ordinary objects?

Who was Edward Weston and how did he take photos that were extraordinary?

What are dynamics in photography?

1. List your learning goals specifically based on the essential questions for the project:

1) Bottles and Glasses:

Goal: achieve the best possible white, gray and black tones, using correct aperture and shutter speed combination. Basically to produce an interesting composition that makes good use of these tones.

2) Water:

Goal: Capture some of water’s different qualities: calm and still, rippling, splashing, falling cascading, moody, etc.

3) Old Things:

Goal: Show how the age of an object influences its character.

2. Brainstorm multiple ideas that meet your learning goals for taking the photos such as who/what/where/lighting/shooting modes/composition/technique:

Tips: Don’t rely on your light meter (use the “point of departure” to get the correct effect)

Background should be true white, but have visible texture to it.

Watch for how the shapes and shadows of the glasses or bottles contrast or reflecting with each other.

Tips: Watch for interesting reflections in water. Try looking for pebbles, fish, etc. in the water.

keep an eye out for floating leaves, sticks, debris, etc. Try shooting a calm surface and then throwing a pebble or something to see the reaction the water makes. you might catch of someone playing or people playing with water.

Tips: look for peeled paint, broken glass, things that have been abandon, used up, worn out. Try to capture the object’s character. Notice how light and texture may help portray that character.

Dream, believe, Inspire

Preplanning helped me stage the right people in the right motions and even good lighting.

How is personal content and perspective important to your image?

I wanted to make sure I captured the perspective of how one might grow up and see that they can make a life for themselves.

How can your image influence change?

I wanted to make sure that kids especially could see that they could grow up and be whatever they want.

How do content, composition, and technique work together in your expressive image that warrants a second look by the viewer?

I added a darkening edge on all the pics to try and create an image of a snapshot like image into someone's life.

Learning Goals/Planning - Landscape

1. List your learning goals specifically based on the essential questions for the project:

I want to be able to capture an old house and some pictures of some old farmlands.

I want to also take pictures that capture a good sun light when it hits the landscape or whatever it is im taking.

2. Brainstorm multiple ideas that meet your learning goals for taking the photos such

 as who/what/where/lighting/shooting modes/composition/technique:

I'm going to use the landscape pictures I took when I was on my way moving from VA to CO. I took alot and therefore I'm sure I can find some good ones.