Module 15 Photo Assignment

15.09: The Darkroom

Module Fifteen: Photography Assignments

Please complete the following exercises. Submit the work as a file attachment. The Photography Assignment exercise is worth 15 points.

1.            Using a photo editing software program, adjust an original image in at least two different ways. For example, you might apply a filter and adjust the color of an image or you might adjust the contrast of an image and crop the image. Submit the original image, the image after the first action, and the image after the second action.

2.            Using a photo editing software program, create a special effect in your photograph. Each program will have different options for special effects so you may wish to check the manual or look for tutorials on creating special effects. The special effects may range from creating the illusion of texture in the photograph to adding glitter to the image.

3.            Choose one image that you have taken and edit the photograph in a photo editing software program. You can use any of the tools in the program to enhance or improve the image. Submit both the original image and the edited image.

4.            Use a photo editing software program to create a layer of an image. Submit the original image and the image with a layer present.

5.            Using one of the images that you have taken, create a print of your image. For a digital image, print the image into a physical photograph. When you are finished, take a photograph of the printed image, making sure to show that the image has been printed, and submit the photograph to show that you have completed the task.

Module 14 Photo Assignment

Module 14 Photo Assignment

• Practice cropping photographs. Submit one photograph that you’ve cropped and submit the original photograph.

CROPPED

UNCROPPED

• Practice adjusting the color and brightness of photographs. Submit one original photograph and one photograph that has the color and/or brightness adjusted.

COLOR UNADJUSTED

COLOR ADJUSTED

• Practice resizing images. Submit one original photograph and one resized photograph.

ORIGINAL

RESIZED

(NOTE: Resizing is shown through this medium, I will attach the resized photo in the assessment. 

• Practice turning a color photograph to a black and white photograph. Submit the original color photograph and the new black and white image.

ORIGINAL

BLACK AND WHITE

• Practice applying filters to images. Submit an original image and one in which you have applied a filter to the image.

ORIGINAL

WITH FILTER

Module 11 Assignment

MODULE 11 PHOTOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT

• Environmental portraits are portraits that use props and/or the background to give information about the subject of the portrait. For example, taking a photograph of someone in a hard hat in front of a building under construction tells you the person might be a construction worker or foreman. Take an environmental portrait of three different people. Include a short description of the person, indicating what the props and/or background say about the subject.

The props and background, and the person themselves, clearly show that this person is dressed up as the Statue of Liberty on a crowded street. Possibly to charge to take pictures with tourists.

Based on his attire and body type, it is very possible that this man is a body builder. They way he is looking at his phone suggests that he his waiting for a text, or for someone to show up. 

From the machinery, and the camera, around this man it is evident that he is a photographer. 

• Submit one black and white nature shot that could also be a fine art photograph. For example, you might take a photograph of a landscape in the area where you live or a macro photograph of a flower.

• Submit one photograph that a photojournalist might take of an event or setting. Think about the story that you want to tell with the photograph and aim to illustrate that story through the photograph.

Depicted here is a family taking pictures with the Easter Bunny at Westshore Mall, an event which happens yearly.

• Food photography is one area that has grown in popularity, particularly with stock photography. Practice taking photographs of different types of foods. Submit three of your favorite culinary/food photographs from your practice.

• Compile ten photographs that you might use in your portfolio. Submit the photographs with a short description of why you feel these would make good portfolio photographs.

I choose these photos because they are a diverse set of photos from different situations, all taken by me, and they all came out nicely. 

Module Seven Photo Assignment

MODULE SEVEN PHOTO ASSIGNMENT
 

• Practice taking portraits of people. Turn in three of your favorite portraits from your practice. 

• Take photographs of a child. (Be sure to obtain permission from the child’s parent(s) to do so.) Turn in three of your favorite photographs of the child.

• Take some photographs of a group (with three or more people). The group might be a family or a group of friends. Experiment with some different arrangements. Turn in two pictures that show a different arrangement of the people in the photographs.

• Practice taking some posed photographs of someone. Experiment with different props and portrait looks. Turn in three photographs that you feel are the best.

• Practice taking some candid shots of someone. Experiment with having the person engage in different activities. Turn in three photographs from your practice.