Devil’s Lake/Hartman Creek Digital Assignment

Field trip expectations

Be on time

Use the bathroom facilities and not the woods

Clean up after yourself, make sure all garbage is placed in the proper receptacles

Carry your cell phone on you at all times, make sure your teacher has your number

Work with a buddy

Treat each other with respect and be helpful

No cliques

What to bring:

Camera

charged batteries

Tripods

Warm clothing

Food

non-alcoholic beverage

Props

costumes

bug spray or tick repellent

The assignment

Assignment 1: Nature/landscape Photography

Students are required to shoot 60 plus images. Half of the images should be of aesthetically pleasing compositions in nature using compositional tools such as:

Rule of thirds

S-curve

Golden ratio

Framing

Triangular

The second half of the assignment is taking images of textures in nature. All of these photos will be used to create a folder of “stock” photos for you to refer back to for upcoming assignments. If you enjoy doing portraits in nature, I would shoot a few of those as well. They may come in handy for your Uelsmann Photomontage assignment.

Feel free to use costumes and makeup, get creative!

Assignment 2: Levitation

You can try to do this at hartman,but it may work better to get together with a friend so you have easy access to props and tables so you can move them out of the way to take a picture of the background.  Try to take enough pictures to do 3 or 4 finals.

Assignment 3: see throughs.  You may want to have your subject holding a Frame, mirror, hula hoop or some other type of framing object so you can erase through part of the image.  This assignment works similar to levitation.  You will need to shoot one image of the subject and then a second picture without moving the camera of the background.  

Assignment 4:HDR High Dynamic Range Photography

Using your exposure compensation on your camera and using a tripod, shoot 5 pictures of the same subject at -2, -1, 0, +1 +2.  Do at least three sets of using a different composition and background in each.  

Portraits:  This is what some of you have waiting for, portraits! Portraits can be done in many different ways.  You can have posed images:

Or you can have more decisive moment images, capturing someone in action.

Either way you want to go, I want you to take 8-10 images of people in nature. Take at least 2 close-up images so you can use them to learn about touching up faces.  You want to have at least one image where you can see the person’s eyes. Remember to focus on the compositional rules we discussed earlier in class:

Rule of thirds, dynamic composition, framing, triangular,...