UNIT 1 - Introduction to Photography

DISCUSS & Essential Photography and Digital Skills (Developing Craft) Photographic Concepts
Questions Camera Skills

1. Is photography art? How 1. TAKE NOTES: 1. TAKE NOTES: photoshop intro sheet 1. TAKE NOTES: How do
is it similar to and what are the 5 and VIDEOS photographers see the
different from other kinds active choices that world?
of art (painting, sculpture, photographers 2. PRE-DIGITAL ACTIVITY: make a
etc). make with their magazine collage with one background 2. ACTIVITY: snapshot vs
cameras? VIDEO image and 4 elements from other photos fine art examples snaps
2. VIDEO: some people's & SLIDES vs art venn
opinions about 3. DIGITAL SKILL ASSIGNMENT: Look at
photography and art. 2. ACTIVITY: examples. Then create a photoshop 3. VIDEO: is instagram good
analyze choices collage using either a cat or a dog. Make or bad for photography
3. why are some choices worksheet sure to use at least 5 different source 2012
photographs better than inside the frame photos, and be creative. This is an
others? assignment for practicing how to use the 4. ACTIVITY: Get on
3. TAKE NOTES: selecting tools, the transform tools, and computers and go to
4. What choices must a more choices cutting and pasting. Make sure you explore photos on this site
photographer make VIDEO & SLIDES chose the selection tool that is right for Find several photographs
before beginning a work? the job. Sometimes combining selection that you think are good.
4. VIDEO: leading tools can be the best solution. Make sure Think about what makes
5. What skills and and reframing them good. Find several
vocabulary do I need to the edges are nice and neat. The goal is
to NOT be aware that it has been photographs that you
appreciate visual art? 5. ACTIVITY: in don’t think are good.
class critique: photoshopped. Taking the time to make
6. VIDEO: What is sure it is neat and done well makes a big Think about what is in the
learning to look photo that you don’t like.
photography? difference in the quality of the image.
7. VIEW: 9/11 images 4. TAKE NOTES: How to download and 5. VIDEO and TAKE
DISCUSS: Are these turn in photos NOTES: Am. Photo
photos important? In
what way are they or why
aren’t they?

ASSIGNMENT – Think about what it means for a photo to be “good”. Then take 2 good photos of ANYTHING using a digital camera.
Bring in the memory card on the due date.

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UNIT 2 - Light and Shadows
DISCUSS & Essential Photography and Camera Skills DIgital Skills Photographic Concepts
Questions

1. What makes my 1. TAKE NOTES: lens choices more 1. DIGITAL SKILL: how to 1. VIDEO and TAKE
photos look good? examples and in portraiture and use levels and curves to NOTES: Am.Photo 2
Then watch video achieve a full range of 2. ACTIVITY: make a 5×7
VIDEO ACTIVITY: use your camera to test tones painting, matching a full
2. How are your this out. Start out wide but close to 2. TAKE NOTES: range of tones using
photos graded? the person, then zoom out more photoshop intro part 2 marks of different sizes
How would you and more as you stand farther and 3. DIGITAL SKILL and spacing
grade photos? farther away. ASSIGNMENT: 3. DISCUSS: culling is
then check out the 2. TAKE NOTES: color to b&w, tone handcolor examples important
rubric and value, contrast/ exposure, (layer blend) and
3. How do people judging tone/contrast directions. Take a
express 3. Shadow and Light SLIDES & photo, make it b&w,
themselves VIDEO then add colors back in
through art today? 4. CRITIQUE! using layer blending
4. Who is an artist? modes
5. VIDEO: ethics
(TAL)

ASSIGNMENT – photo assign – 2 photos where shadow or light are very important
○ Shadow and Light SLIDES & VIDEO
○ pinterest examples
○ how to come up with ideas infographic

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UNIT 3 - VISUAL ORGANIZATION
DISCUSS & Essential Photography and DIgital Skills Photographic Concepts
Questions Camera Skills

1. What inspires me? 1. Visual 1. DIGITAL SKILL: dreamscape 1. ACTIVITY: find examples of each of
Organization (layers) create a the P&E of the assignment, and put
2. What problem SLIDES & memory/dream/nightmare them in a google doc. make sure to
solving skills do I VIDEO using at least: 5 sources, 1 label them. Or MAKE: Visual
need to create 2. Creating focal adjustment layer with a organization chart
art? points using clipping mask, 1 filter, and 1
gestalt layer style 2. ACTIVITY: play photo dice game
3. How do I use my and take photos in class
knowledge of art principles and
VIDEO 2. Advanced Curves video
vocabulary and 3. TAKE NOTES: photography has
concepts to create 3. VIDEO: Rule of styles/periods/movements and
art? Thirds vs STRAIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY is
Golden Ratio one of them. Paul Strand was one
4. How can I use the 4. CRITIQUE! of those photographers.
principles and 4.
elements of
design to create
effective artworks.
5. How do artists
from different eras
present similar
themes?

ASSIGNMENT – photo assign: 6 photos – line, shape, texture, pos/neg space, repetition, contrast

● examples
● examples on pinterest

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UNIT 4 - CAMERA CONTROLS (Shutter Speed and Aperture)

 DISCUSS & Essential Photography and Camera Skills DIgital Skills Photographic Concepts
Questions

1. What kinds of 1. 1. NON DIGITAL SKILL:

ideas can be 1. camera basics 2. table time: altered by
communicated 2. camera settings explained hand
through the 4 3. shutter & aperture SLIDES 2. ACTIVITY: ss and ap
visual effects of and VIDEO mini book
shutter and 4. notes handout
aperture? 5. ACTIVITY : get in groups of
2 and pick from the
2. When would you following : infogram,
choose each of jeopardy, or write and act
the effects? out a skit. Make sure to
include the
3. Can art help me definitions/explanations of
understand other both
subjects in 6. CRITIQUE!
school?
4. Can other subjects
help me
understand art?
5. How do other
types of art deal
with motion and
space?

ASSIGNMENT – photo assign– 4 photos: shallow DOF, greater DOF, blurred motion, frozen motion

○ Examples
○ special rubric

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UNIT 5 - Portraits
DISCUSS & Essential Photography and Camera Skills DIgital Skills Photographic Concepts
Questions

1. How do I use art 1. VIEW: kim and kanye 1. VIDEO: avedon or

in my everyday 1. VIDEO: working with models – 2. DIGITAL SKILL: fixing leibovitz
life? mario testino tools 2. VIDEO: lachappell
2. How does art help 2. ACTIVITY: planning sheet 3. VIDEO: the job of a 3. VIDEO: patrick d
us learn about 3. VIDEO: hipster posing photo retoucher 4. ACTIVITY: reflect on
other people? 4. VIDEO: outdoor lighting / the 4. DIGITAL SKILL: effective effort
3. What choices can whole picture makeovers, makeover 5. Why didn't people smile
I make that will a. lighting diagram instructions in old photos?
show different b. more lighting 5. DIGITAL SKILL: 6. ACTIVITY: make a 5×7
personalities or c. simulator removing red eye foam print, showing
moods in a d. class studio demo principles and elements
portrait? 5. CRITIQUE! of design
4. What make an
artist successful?

ASSIGNMENT – photo assign – 2 photos of the same person, everything about them must be different (lighting, body language,
distance, location, clothing, etc)

○ same but different and semi current ones and SLIDES and VIDEO
○ Examples and SLIDES
○ posing models

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UNIT 6 - Aesthetics
DISCUSS & Essential Photography and DIgital Skills Photographic Concepts
Questions Camera Skills

1. Are memes art? 1. ISO 1. DIGITAL SKILL: blend 1. is it art?

video 2. common photo animals (fixing) and here plus 2. price of art (judd reinhardt hirst
2. What makes my problems and fruit-animal hybrid or fruit andre)
art look good? solutions hybrid (find two animals facing 3. VIDEO: Marina and Ulay, Jay-Z
3. 12 questions in 3. Why aren't my the same way, duplicate 4. The case for Mark Rothko
aesthetics photos in focus? background of one and 5. WRITING:: philosophy
4. How does art 4. CRITIQUE! remove head, paste other 6. ACTIVITY: online galleries 1 2 3 4
reflect culture? head and body parts on and 5 6 7 8 9 and worksheet to print
How does art layer mask out area that you and fill out
shape culture? don’t need, might want to use 7. VIDEO: museum of bad art
lower opacity brush, then 8. DOCUMENTARY: My Kid Could
create new empty layer for Paint That
cloning low opacity using “all 9.
layers’) Hybrid Animal
Instructions Note Sheet

ASSIGNMENT – photo assign – 4 beautiful photos of “ugly” things

○ examples
○ plain vs. glorified
○ more examples 1 2 3 4

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UNIT 7 - Diptych or Sequence

DISCUSS & Essential Photography and Camera Skills DIgital Skills Photographic Concepts
Questions

1. What are the 1. Diptychs, Triptychs or Sequences 1. ACTIVITY: creating 1. VIDEO: Duane Michals
different ways that 2. CRITIQUE! diptychs using CANVAS 2. ACTIVITY:
artists have SIZE and the CROP presentation- individual
combined art to TOOL photographers
communicate 2. ACTIVITY: Create a 9x9 3. listening sheet
ideas? grid based on the 4. CREATIVE WRITING
2. What is principles of visual ACTIVITY: photoeye
juxtaposition and organization story and starter sheet
where else do we 3. ACTIVITY: create a 3x3
learn about it? grid made up of parts of
3. IS a photo “worth your prior photos.
1000 words”? Challenge yourself with
a 4x4 if you are done
early.
4. DEMO: resolution, size
& crop demo
5. When to use different
file types
6. DIGITAL SKILL: all
about emailing photos
7. How to straighten a
photo and demo with
cropping tool

ASSIGNMENT – Create a Diptych, Triptych or Sequence in which images must interact with each other in a way that makes them say
something more than if they were alone.
● examples and more examples
● some peer examples included here

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UNIT 8 - Color
DISCUSS & Essential Photography and Camera Skills DIgital Skills Photographic Concepts
Questions

1. What is the 1. color theory 1. ACTIVITY: 1. VIDEO: colors of the year VIEW:
emotional 2. color and mood color correction pantone explanation, ben moore,
connection to 3. photo examples 2. Editing in Raw ACTIVITY: play bendoku and
color? 4. color temperature / white balance 3. ACTIVITY: take color test
2. What do different 5. VIDEO: color theory creative color 2. ACTIVITY: make a mood board
colors mean in 6. VIDEO: white balance and your wheel (show 3 full of things that are big and
different cultures? camera primary and 3 important or trending in
3. How can we 7. CRITIQUE! secondary, teenagers lives right now, and
manipulate color color the then predict what a “teen color of
to communicate objects next year” would be. (new
different ideas? yourself, use at photoshop file that is
least 3 source 2000×3000 pixels @ 72 dp, at
photos, make it least 30 sources images, and
interesting) include box with 2017 teen color
4. DIGITAL of the year. then save it in the
SKILL: TEEN COLOR folder)
PHOTOSHOP 3. ACTIVITY: do a web quest and
QUIZ fill out the photo history
worksheet then history of photo
lecture
4. VIDEO: daguerreotype
5. TEST: color quiz

ASSIGNMENT – photo assign– 3 photos: monochromatic, analogous, complementary

○ examples

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UNIT 9 - Conceptual Photography
DISCUSS & Essential Photography and Camera Skills DIgital Skills Photographic Concepts
Questions

1. how can images 1. CRITIQUE! 1. DIGITAL SKILL: add 1. VIDEO: MOMA handout
help with social tattoos and instructions and video
issues? (use warp tool) 2. WRITING: c.s. Script
2. VIDEO: art and 2. DIGITAL SKILL: social 3. ACTIVITY: create paper
society issue / meaning 1 2 3 4 sculptures based on the
3. Do artists have a 3. QUIZ 2 assignment sound
responsibility to words
their audiences? 4. SELF REFLECT: using
4. Do artists have a the Wiggins Creativity
responsibility to Rubric
society (to not 5. VIDEO: photos on a
make work that social issue
stereotypes, etc) 6. VIDEO: Mary Ellen Mark
5. When should art
be censored?
6. What is
propaganda?
What do you think
of it?

ASSIGNMENT – pick 2 sound words, turn in 2 photos: snap, crackle, pop, whistle, rustle, swoosh, bass, crescendo, resonance,
boom, echo, screech, rattle, thud, scream, click, shout, whistle, twack, shhhh, shush, tsk tsk, squeak, creak, symphony, boing, chime,
ring, silence, tap, knock, hiss
● Instructions: do NOT photograph something making that sounds, rather think about the sound, figure out how the noise would
LOOK, and photography something that looks how the sounds feels.
● Sound assignment video

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UNIT 10 - Commercial Photography
DISCUSS & Essential Photography and Camera Skills DIgital Skills Photographic Concepts
Questions

1. Is art still art if it is 1. wildlife, fashion, food, product, 1. 1. VIDEO: working as a

made for wedding, and sports skills commercial
someone other 2. CRITIQUE! photographer
than the artist? 2. ACTIVITY: photo
2. How is assignment and
commercial art presentation
different than fine requirements
art? 3. VIDEO: food photos
3. What are some 4. VIDEO: j. sartore
ways to make a 5. VIDEO: shooting love
client happy? 6. READ: anatomy of a
4. Which is more photo shoot
important, what 7. Photographing food
the artist wants or
what the client
wants?

ASSIGNMENT – Turn in 2 photos, any mix of wildlife, fashion, food, product, wedding, and sports
● examples
● planning sheet

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UNIT 11- You the Artist
DISCUSS & Essential Photography and Camera Skills DIgital Skills Photographic Concepts
Questions

1. What are some of 1. study guide for exam 1. DIGITAL SKILL: 1. Using SCAMPER to
the things that you 2. CRITIQUE! Frankenstein - combine come up with ideas.
did this semester 5 people together into Video 1 with
that made you a one person. explanations and Video
better 2 with examples
photographer? 2. make portfolio of 8
2. What things did best photos
you do this 3. VIDEO: Culinary
semester that got Canvas
in the way of your
photographic
progress

ASSIGNMENT – come up with your own assignment based on your interests or a conceptual idea
● examples 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
● proposal form

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