October 5th

October 5th This week I want you to take photos with a “Thanksgiving” theme. Examples: a basket of fall veggies, pumpkins, pies, (not sure if you like food photography but you can try this just for the week) be creative using leaves, or whatever else you can think of. ~For the month, try to think of creative fall photographs. Try to go somewhere and take a creative landscape. Take pictures of fall flowers (sunflowers, any flowers that are in season right now) Take up close shots of leaves or other unique things around that remind you of fall. Gardens with corn in them. Try to capture “falling leaves” Hopefully we can get together and try that last one. ~Study using media arts technologies to solve a specific visual design (graphic design) problem. Perhaps someone was needing a creative photograph for a magazine. They have specific requests – they want a leaf with a white background but they want it to look real, they are having a hard time making it look like a maple leaf they are adding too many corners. What would you do? Study/look into what people do to create photographs with white backgrounds for magazines. How do they use the photograph of the leaf to create a graphic design? ~Take several different images using creative ways to photograph things for example: Apples in a line. Balls or something in a triangle One item that stands out in colour to all other things surrounding it Different textures – water, grass, leaves, dirt etc.Or, here are some other ideas: (you can look at my flickr in "galleries" as I have put together some ideas for you to shoot. You don't have to do all of them.Composition: How you compose the photograph – compose a photograph with fall items Proportion: When organizing fruit say for a photograph, try two different photographs one with the odd number of each fruit and the other with an unproportioned amount of fruit. - The ratio of one element to another Emphasis: Organize whatever you like with one item standing out more than the others. - An item standing out more than others in colour. Variety: Photograph different varieties of leaves Movement: Either a landscape photo with the water rippling blurred so it looks smooth or one where you can see the splash of a rock falling into it. - Try photographing both of these options. ~Write about how over the years photographs have been influenced by history, social media, people and cultures.These are main principles in art and design, when applying it to a picture, it helps it become composed well also. Here are some of the websites I gave you to look at earlier as a refresher of other ways to describe these principles. https://www.goshen.edu/art/ed/Compose.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_design_elements_and_principles http://www.ursyn.com/Orchestra/pages/Toby.html