PHD101: Introduction to
Photography & Design
Warm-up Project: Partner
Portraits
Due Week 2, after our
Lightroom Lab
In class, Week 1
Interview
your partner. Find out about
his/her likes and dislikes, obsessions and motivations. Ask them about their favorite childhood
memory or the environment in which they feel most at home – anything that will
help you define an appropriate location, quality of light, and approach to
photographing them in a way that tells the viewer something about your subject,
conveying a mood or characteristic.
Using
some of the information you’ve gleaned, take at least 10 distinctly different portraits of your partner. To increase variety and creative impact
of your images, consider the following elements of photographic seeing:
·
Change the location
·
Change the perspective (worm’s eye, bird’s eye, high, low)
·
Change the use of frame & subject placement (fill frame, frame
through something, center, off-center, use foreground/background relationships)
·
Take at least one portrait that doesn’t show the subject’s face
·
Vary quality of light (inside, outside, window light, specular,
diffused)
·
Vary the distance between photographer and subject
Return
to class by the designated time to download the images you shot.
Next Week
Bring
to class all the images you shot for the project on a flash drive or external
hard drive. We’ll take the
images through our import/export process in Lightroom, and you’ll work with
your partner to submit paired images or diptychs
of the portraits together. We’ll
present and discuss the images at the end of class next week.
Project Objective
·
Get to know your classmates
·
Practice photographic seeing
·
Learn the import/export workflow in Lightroom
·
Understand the hallmarks of personal vision in photography
·
Explore the impact of pairing and juxtaposing images
Grading
You
won’t be given a grade on the content of the project, but your active
engagement in the project will be assessed as part of your participation grade.
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