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Still Life Project

This document provides guidelines for a still life photography project for a high school digital photography class. It explains that still life photography involves arranging inanimate objects to depict through controlled lighting and compositional skills. Students are instructed to arrange 3-7 objects with an appropriate background, and to experiment with composition, lighting, focus, and camera angles while taking at least 20 photos - 10 in black and white and 10 in color. The top 3 photos must be selected, edited in iPhoto, and accompanied by an artist statement, photo titles, self-evaluation, and rubric for the project.

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Still Life Project

This document provides guidelines for a still life photography project for a high school digital photography class. It explains that still life photography involves arranging inanimate objects to depict through controlled lighting and compositional skills. Students are instructed to arrange 3-7 objects with an appropriate background, and to experiment with composition, lighting, focus, and camera angles while taking at least 20 photos - 10 in black and white and 10 in color. The top 3 photos must be selected, edited in iPhoto, and accompanied by an artist statement, photo titles, self-evaluation, and rubric for the project.

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Digital Photography I- Skyline High School

Still Life Project


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Still life photography is the depiction of inanimate subject matter- most typically a grouping of object. Still
life photography is a demanding art, one in which photographers are expected to be able to form their work
with a refined sense of lighting, coupled with compositional skills. The still life photographer makes picture
rather than take them. The photographer has control over every aspect of the scene. It requires the
photographer to preplan the image and set it up. Think composition. Make it dramatic. Make the viewer really
see the objects in a new way. Remember to think about grayscale, color, unity and balance. Look at the work
of Jan Groover, Sandy Skogland, Edward Weston Holly Lackner and David Ashmam. Be creative. Think
color scheme, texture and varying heights. Triangle formation are often used in a still life.
For a successful Still Life Project please use these guidelines:
1) Arrange 3-7 objects in a Still Life with an appropriate background. Study it from all angles as if circling a
sculpture. Examine things about it such as, the shapes/forms, surface textures, the character of light on its
surfaces, the shadows and overlaps of objects - every detail. You may do more than 1 Still Life but you will
need 20 photos to turn in to your folder marked Still Life and 3 final images along with an Artist
Statement, titles for your work and Self Evaluation.
2) Now study the Still Life through your camera lens. How does the viewfinder crop the Composition?
How is it balanced? How does the Rule of Thirds apply? What happens when you zoom in or out? What is
the background like? What happens to the image when you move up, down, left or right? How does your
lighting affect the Still Life as a whole? Play with composition. Move individual items around, eliminate
or add objects as necessary, but do not have less than three or more than seven objects in your Still Life.
Experiment with different types of lighting. Fully explore the Still Life visually.
3) Set your camera to Black & White mode. Shoot at least ten pictures in Black & White. As you make
each exposure, experiment by changing your vantage point, changing the lighting, changing what you
choose to have in or out of focus. Think about how colors translate into black, white & grays, how shadows
and highlights affect the image.
4) Now reset your camera to Color mode. Shoot at least ten pictures in Color. As you make each
exposure, experiment by changing your vantage point, changing the lighting, changing what you choose
to have in or out of focus. Think about how colors work with or against each other, how shadows and
highlights affect the image.
You need a total of 20 photos of which 10 are edited and 3 are dropped per approval. Save all 20 to your
Still Life Folder. Post top 3 to your Weebly. Make sure to edit in iPhoto (adjust- definition, sharpness and or
denoise).

DUE DATE to be determined. Please see Portrait Artist Statement and turn in with the
Digital Photography I Project Rubric and make sure to fill out Self Evaluation.

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