Shooting Project #2: Place

PHD101

Introduction to Photography & Design

Shooting Project#2: Place

Due Week 4, after Lab period

Many types of photographers strive to capture and convey a sense of place: editorial travel photographers, commercial photographers shooting architecture and interiors, fine art photographers who focus on the classic beauty of a landscape, or those who create conceptual project around our use (or abuse) of the environment.

What is "sense of place" and how is it conveyed photographically? To show sense of place is to capture the unique aspects of a place, its culture and its character, through composition, quality of light, and the choice of whether to include the human presence.

Conduct some research into other photographers’ techniques for conveying  a sense of place, and look at one photographer more in-depth for your blog commentary #2.

Based on your own professional or personal interest, determine which photographic approach appeals to you in conveying a sense of place.  During the course of the week, set out to make at least 50 images capturing a sense of any one place you choose (inside or outside, restaurant, building, neighborhood, home, natural space, industrial space, etc.).

Work on moving beyond the literal and making the familiar new through the way you photograph it.  Try to capture different perspectives and convey your mood and feeling about the place through the way you use composition and light.

Requirements

·       These images must be shot specifically for this assignment and previously shot photographs will not be accepted.   Make sure your date/time function in your camera menu is set properly.

·       Shoot in the exposure mode that’s comfortable to you and will yield the best results.  If you’re not comfortable shooting manually, use the program mode to get proper exposure.

·       Take care to avoid camera shake by shooting in brighter natural light so that slow shutter speeds aren’t necessary (or use a tripod in low light if you know how to do so)

·       Shoot in RAW + high fine jpeg

·       Use only available light – no flash

Submission standards

In class, we’ll review the Lightroom import/export workflow we performed for project one.  You’ll choose 5 - 10 images from the 50 that best convey sense of place and work well together to create a mini photo essay on your place.  Process & organize them through LR, and remember the following parameters:

·       Add contact info, copyright, and keywords to the IPTC metadata of all images

·       Resize to 150 ppi, 10” for the longest dimension

·       Rename as LastName_ProjectName_sequence#

·       File Format = jpeg

·       Color Space = Adobe RGB

·       Output Sharpening = Screen

In addition to the 5 – 10 selected images, submit a contact sheet of at least 50 images shot for the project (following submission instructions given in class).

Grading

All shooting projects are worth 30 points and are graded according to the following criteria:

·       Image management (following assignment specifications outlined during lab period)

·       Creativity of approach to concept (effort and thought demonstrated)

·       Visual impact (use of photographic seeing, basic mastery of technique)