Attractive/Repulsive Examples

Attractive/Repulsive...what NOT to do

Make sure that you always have a focal point (unlike this). Well, there is just so many things wrong with this photo- Can you figure out what is "bad" about this picture?

Assignment 2

In this assignment, you are to approach color photographic imagery by taking and or creating images that affect you in contrasting ways: attraction, repulsion.
1. You are to use images that follow this line of inquiry: attraction/repulsion
2. From the images that you make, choose two that are most attractive to you and the two that are the most repulsive to you.
3. Especially concentrate on the color aspects of these sensations. Use color to convey attraction and repulsion (not just a photograph of an attractive person, flower, car, etc....)
The paradox is that the more repulsive an image gets, the more it tends to start looking more, well, attractive....
Artists to look at : Gregory Crewdson, Cindy Sherman, Richard Misrach, and Jan Saudek.
Play with your ability to manipulate and control color. Ultimately, you will use color to dictate what it is your image is about. You must make use of adjustment layers in your 4 images. The images that do not utilize a colorcast must be color balanced. During the critique you should be able to explain why you have chosen to make these images and what reaction/reading you are looking for from viewers.
You will turn in four images.

4 Easy Ways to make your Photos Pop

By the end of the week (Fri 4/30 EOC), you should have 8 Photos that you have applied these 4 filters to. If you do the math, then that means that you should have 2 photos PER filter (that are photographs that you have taken, at some point in time).
They should be on your blog, on their own. Please explain why you chose the photos that you did (for the effects). Don't forget to spell check.
When you save them on the class flash drive, please save them with your name, with the original (4 on one document). 

Make sure that you understand how to use these images, as they will show up again on a later assessments.

4/23/10 : Weekend Assignment (formative)

Color Exercises
The purpose of this assignment will be for you to gain an understanding of how color is affected by differences in light temperature. We will use projection for this exercise to avoid the amount of color variations introduced during digital color printing.

1. Make one exposure under fluorescent lighting. What are you going to set your camera at? (Fluorescent, Incandescent, etc.? Its up to you, but be able to tell the class)
2. Make one exposure indoors under incandescent lighting (ordinary household bulbs)
3. Make one exposure with at least two different light sources (i.e. daylight an tungsten, daylight and fluorescent)—may have to set up…lamp to window, lamp to grocery store
4. Make a long exposure of over one second (if your camera allows for it).
5. Take 2 “outside” photographs. Watch the weather this weekend (don't just save it for Sunday night or you may be in trouble).

You will have SIX photographs that are taken over the weekend.

Next week we will go over camera settings, white balance, etc.

Extra tutorial.....

This is optional: Use your photos to create an iPod ad ,

as well as turning day into night with a photograph that you take (or it can be a photograph from the internet).

Contact Sheet

Your contact sheet needs to be 8x11 inches @ 300 dpi.
There are 4 colums and 7 rows, with your name on it and the box unchecked [to include titles].

You should save the contact sheet as a flattened jpeg in the alphabet file for your class [with your name as the title].