FA/VISA 2065 Introductory Digital Photography: Camera to Image

Assignments

Faculty of Fine Arts
Department of Visual Arts, Fall 2010

PROJECTs
FA/VISA 2065 Fall 2010

Working in pairs, using just one camera and taking turns shooting, collect (photograph) as many items on the list as you can. Do not use the built in flash! Use as much variety you can think of, such as: different vantage points (above the subject, below, close up, etc), re-arrange objects, pay attention to how you frame the subject in the viewfinder, photograph each other where necessary. Have fun!

Then come back to the lab and each of you produce a contact sheet. Do not print it out. Put the file in my Drop Box on the server. Use file name: your_last_name_contact1.pdf (Smith_contact1.pdf).

1. Apple: really out of focus                       
2. Book: close up (the edges of the book match the edges in the viewfinder)
3. Car (moving): shot with shutter speed ½ second
4. Diamond                       
5. Elevator: set to daylight (open sky), shot indoors
6. Feather
7. Green chair: very close up                       
8. an ‘H’           
9. Inch                       
10. Jelly or Ju Jubes                       
11. Kitchen                       
12. Long road                       
13. Machine
14. Neon sign
15. Open mouth: indoors (No flash! Just use available light, camera set to daylight (open sky).
16. Profile
17. Queen
18. Red: with a grey card
19. Sign: indoors
20. Television screen (on)
21. Underwear
22. Vacation ad
23. White circle outdoors with a grey card
24. White circle indoors with a grey card (no flash! just “available” light)
25. Yellow square
26. Zigzag

Contacts due in instructor’s drop box by end of class Week 4

Goals: flatbed scanning, print output, contact sheets.

Relying solely on acquired images using a scanner, create a series of works that use found images and/or objects. You can think of this as a collage, a still life or the equivalent of early Xerox art. The goal is to think of a concept and subject, and then assemble objects, materials and found images and arrange them on the scanner.
- Scan at resolution of 300 dpi
- Produce 6 different images with the same concept and make an 8.5” x 11” contact sheet with your images and leave in Instructor’s drop box by due date
- Then choose 2 images to print (size TBA)

Contacts due end of class Week 6
Final Prints due in class Week 7

Goals: improving camera control and exposure, potential of paired images, print output, identity as subject matter, expressing identity.

What is identity and how can we represent it? Does a portrait really represent the self?  How does the media portray us? These and other issues will be discussed during class and in the production and critique of this Project.

Working collaboratively with a partner in the class, create a portrait of either yourself or the other person. A portrait can be defined however you choose (ie. it doesn’t have to be of their face, etc.). How you work with each other is up to you! For instance, you and your partner might choose a more traditional approach in which the photographer decides on the aesthetic and conceptual approaches. Or you might decide you want to be the “director” and direct the other person as to how to do a portrait of you.

Then decide on, and shoot a second image to pair with it. This second photograph can compliment the portrait or even contradict it. Try different pairs of images to see what happens when you bring similar or disparate photographs together. Pay attention to the formal qualities of your pairs (ie. tonal range, colour balance, orientation portrait or landscape mode, margins, etc.). Work with a few different pairings to see what happens when you pair disparate or similar photographs into one work.  Choose the pair you like the best and make 2 final prints, output size maximum width 17”.

Contacts & Prints Due: in class Week 9

Goals: overall synthesis of all camera operations, properly balanced prints, sequencing,

Create one print that integrates a minimum of 4 images into one work. It can be a bookwork or a sequence of prints, a narrative, a collage, etc. You can use scanned images and anything you want to shoot. The subject is entirely up to you! Please submit a contact sheet of at least 12 images from which you will use 4-6 in the final work. Collectively they will create a narrative or extend the concept and subject matter. Prints can be made on a maximum of 20” wide paper.

Contacts due by end of class Week 12
Project Due: in class Week 13