Week 3 - This is Where You Should Be

WEEK 3 – FOUNDATION PHOTOGRAPHY - ASSESSMENT 14th DECEMEBER

1. Sketchbook check – up to date with homework, research, blog, and journal? Are you on track in your Exploratory Stage?

2. In class tasks:

1)    Studio Portraits and Lighting, incorporating long exposures

2)    Perspective and how to use it – High and Low Angle Perspective

3)    Revisit past assignments: Photograms, Long Exposure Portraits, and Long

      Exposures

4)    Sketchbook and Research Maintenance

3. Journal Entries

Discuss a conflict within your work or working practice that has challenged you. Was it in creating ideas, executing ideas, editing your work, dealing with subjects/location, fulfilling your own personal goals? How did you address this conflict, and hopefully, overcome it? Did it lead to 'better' work in the end?

Action Plan for next 3 weeks – What, where, why, when, how am I going to make work for my project? What do I need to do to make this happen?

4. HOMEWORK:

Make work!

Artist Research representing studio portraits/lighting:

                        Eve Arnold

                        Richard Avedon

                        David Bailey

                        Cecil Beaton

                        Guy Bourdin

Look into the use of perspective – find examples of high and low angle photography – Double Page Spread – What is the advantage, feeling, purpose of different angles?

Incorporate some of the class tasks into the making of your own work – for instance use of portraits, lighting, perspective and movement.