Assignment: Art Show Logo Contest

As you may have been informed, in lieu of our JFKMHS Art Show, we will be hosting a district show at Woodbridge Community Center on May 10.  JFK and WHS are competing to have students create a logo in their classes. The winner will have their logo used for the annual event as well as printed in the Woodbridge Corner and various flyers, etc advertising the show. 

Logo should contain the words:

Woodbridge Township

Celebration of the Arts

*Can contain the Kennedy and WHS logo, but doesn't have to.

*Celebration of the Arts should be the primary focus

* Please submit logo in PHOTOSHOP FORMAT via GOOGLEDRIVE

FILE MUST BE LABELED LASTNAME_JFK_ARTLOGO

DUE By:

January 9, 2018

Tutorial: Colorize an object in Black & White photo

Use this link to follow directions! You may use any color photo you have!

And here's what the selective color effect will look like with the overall image converted to black and white, leaving only the woman's red dress in color.

Assignment: Famous Photographer Research

DO NOT PLAGIARIZE!!!!!!!!

This assignment is a way to become accustomed to writing about art, interpreting and analyzing artwork produced by prominent photographers throughout history.  Through this research you will become more familiar with an artist’s style, process, and technique.  Each of you will use this research as a source while completing a photo assignment by emulating your photographer’s unique style.

DO NOT PLAGIARIZE!!!!!!!!

You must sign up and commit to a photographer with Mrs. Rotella.  You cannot have the same photographer as anyone else in your class.  Please make sure these photos are school appropriate.

DO NOT PLAGIARIZE!!!!!!!!

Here link to lists of famous photographers: Link and Link

Here is the LINK to select your photographer form to let me know what photographer you will be using.

You will be creating is a blog post (Major) and a poster (Minor) to share with your classmates. 

You will have your blog post spelling and grammar checked and posted by 12/13/17 and your poster is due submitted via email AS AN ATTACHMENT to rachael.rotella@woodbridge.k12.nj.us

DO NOT PLAGIARIZE!!!!!!!!

Jerry Uelsmann

Section 1:  Brief Biography

This section should include relevant information about the photographer, including when and where the photographer lived and produced art.  The biography should contain information relating to his or her artwork, as opposed to trivial facts.  Life events that influenced, changed, or made any sort of impact on the photographer’s artwork should be included in this biography.  Do not get overwhelmed with the little details of the photographer’s life.  Instead focus on the bigger picture – what shaped his or her unique style of taking and making photographs.

Untitled, 1982

 Section 2:  Artwork

This section should discuss style, process, techniques, common subject matter, and common themes of your photographer’s work.  Make sure to note if there are any significant shifts or changes in any of these elements throughout your artist’s life.    Discuss the different locations of their photography, who or what influenced their artwork, and most importantly discuss their UNIQUE STYLE.

Journey into Night, 2006

 Section 3:  Analysis

Select 5 specific photos completed by your photographer that you will like to investigate and discuss further.  Describe such things as composition, style, subject matter, concept and your thoughts and feeling.  Be specific.  These photographs will be the basis for your recreations.  Make sure you save clear copies of the selected photographs.

Section 4:  Plan

Write a plan of what you will do in order to create a poster in the photographer's style.  Be specific.  Describe the images, fonts, wording, etc.  YOUR POSTERS SHOULD HAVE A CLEAR CONNECTIONS TO THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S WORK. Work in 300 resolution, RGB and have image size be AT LEAST 13x19 inches.


DO NOT PLAGIARIZE!!!!!!!!

PS Tutorial: Pop Art Portrait

Using the LINK here, use a photo of yourself (or anyone, really) to make a Pop Art inspired portrait. YOU WILL POST TO YOUR BLOG FOR CREDIT. 

PS Tutorial: How To Place An Image In Text With Photoshop CC and CS6

How To Place An Image In Text With Photoshop CC and CS6

PS Tutorial: How To Use The Color Replacement Tool In Photoshop

How To Use The Color Replacement Tool In Photoshop

Use this tutorial to learn how to use the color replacement tool. You may use these images from the internet or one of your own. Show me your finished piece for credit. I will need to see your HISTORY tab so I know you followed the tutorial. 

Assignment: Diptych with Interaction

Luiz Maurina, Dyptich "The Fighter" 2011

Thumbnail Drawings of your IDEA & model names DUE TOMORROW (Tuesday)

IMAGES DUE: Wednesday Dec 6th

Save as Last_First_Dyptich etc. in MAJOR folder and POST to blog

1. Read the artist statement & View the work of artist Richard Vantielcke below in your Major Assignments folder, or click on link - interactive images by Richard Vantielicke

Richard Vantielicke

2. Start formulating an idea, and choose your model or models. It does not have to be someone from our class. It can also be someone from home. You will have Thursday  - Monday to shoot this assignment. If you are absent, you will still be responsible for the shoot. You will have to set up your own makeshift studio at home, with a sheet and a window for light. The specific days will be assigned.

A final diptych in which one half of the diptych “interacts” with the other either by theme, movement, message or concept.

Richard Vantielicke

Other examples...

Dave Kimelberg is a Boston-based photographer, lawyer and general creative-type photographing tatooed professionals proving, at the very least, you should not judge a book by it's cover.

 Shubani Singh, Dyptich 2011

Elisa Sapolinick, Dyptich 2011

BLOCK 1 Studio Shooting Schedule:

Tuesday November 28, 2017

Brianna model: Ryne

Lara model: Ayah

Shannon  model: Areeba

Liani  model: Jenn

Hope model: Sam

Sam  model:Hope

JILL  model: Jenn

Wednesday November 29, 2017

JENNIFER model: jill

GABRIELA  model: Moh

MOH

AUSLIN model: Sergio or Martin

NIKHIL

LYLE

Thursday November 30, 2017

RYNE

ERNESTO model: Joel

JOEL

MARCELLA

AYAH  model: Lara

Friay Dec 1, 2017

AREEBA

SERGIO

RATANDEEP

KEVIN

MARTIN model: Auslin

BLOCK 4 Studio Shooting Schedule:

Tuesday November 28, 2017

PATEL, JAY

PAULIKAS, ASHLEY

KHAN, HANA

SHAH, ZAHRA

WOOTEN, KYAISHA

ABREU, LINDSEY

ALMONTE, NADEGE

Wednesday November 29, 2017

EL RASHIDY, HOSSAM

FERNANDEZ, CHELSEA

GARCED, MAVEN

HERNANDEZ, CHABELY

KAM, GABRIELLE JOYCE

SERNAQUE, MEYBOL

Thursday November 30, 2017

KHAN, MAHER

LOMBARDI, AMANDA

MCMAHON, HANNAH

MOTTA, DAKOTA

PASCALE, NICHOLAS

CLAIBORNE, BRITTANY

CLARKE, DASHAWN

Scholarship Opportunity for Seniors (FYI)

I’m very excited to let you know that Jostens has become an ambassador for something really exciting called the Purpose Challenge!

It’s an awesome campaign to help high school seniors find their purpose in life, write better essays for their college applications and apply for the chance to win $25,000 in scholarship money.

What’s awesome is that the Purpose Challenge is grounded in research from UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center and it features a free online resource with engaging video content, reading materials and brief written exercises – like imagining your ideal life at age 40 – to help high schoolers better develop their sense of purpose. Their toolkit provides step-by-step guidance on how to write a meaningful college essay and students can then submit their completed essays in a contest to win up to $25,000!

For more info, please check out the Purpose Challenge's website, introductory video, and press release, especially the endorsement of Michelle Obama’s education initiative, Reach Higher...How cool is that?!

Assignment: Yearbook Marketing

Today you will begin creating materials for marketing. You'll learn what marketing is, how companies utilize it and how to appeal to your demographic. 

1. You will research movie posters that are popular with your generation. 

2. You will choose a topic which would fit the design, using the above examples as a reference. 

[topics included in the yearbook range from Sports, Events, Dances, Awards, Acceptances, friendship, Academics, Arts, Admin, Teachers.ETC ETC ETC ETC ]

3. Design a movie poster in Photoshop using the same layout and fonts (as close as possible) but your words, ideas and images. 

The goal? Advertise the product with something people can relate to, sell the product. 

Post completed poster to your blog by Wednesday 11/22/17

PHOTOSHOP FILES MUST BE 300 resolution

Photowalk: JFKMHS

For this week's photo walk, we will be taking pictures that are "JFKMHS". Think about the yearbook and images that are featured. Each of you will be required to post FIVE images that follow RULE OF THIRDS and represent "JFKMHS" in some way. The final step to this project is to upload these images to yearbookavenue.com under the folder "Student Photographers".

These Photos can be posed or candid, as long as you are paying attention to angle of the subject matter as well as rule of thirds. FIVE photos must be posted and put into yearbookavenue for credit.

Assignment: Why Watermarks?

What is a watermark? 

Question: What is a watermark? How can I add a watermark to my photos.

Adding a visible watermark is a common way of identifying images and protecting them from unauthorized use online. Today, you're going to create an effective watermark and apply it to your digital photos or art work.

Answer: A watermark is a visible embedded overlay on a digital photo consisting of text, a logo, or a copyright notice. The purpose of a watermark is to identify the work and discourage its unauthorized use. Though a visible watermark can't prevent unauthorized use, it makes it more difficult for those who may want to claim someone else's photo or art work as their own.

Tips for Effective Watermarking

If you are going to use a watermark, care should be taken to ensure that the watermark is effective, not only for proving that an image was modified, but also for educating the would-be pirates about copyright and ownership. Ideally, the watermark should be a copyright symbol along with the name of the owner, and the URL of the owner's web site, if applicable. This not only conveys the message of copyright, but it gives others an opportunity to contact the original owner of the image. Watermark placement can be a bit of a balancing act. The watermark should be placed carefully so as not to detract from the image too much, but you also don't want to place the watermark in a area of solid color or a textured area where removal would be easy to conceal. The example on this page was designed to show an extreme example of watermarking and would be is far too distracting for a portfolio photograph. In practice, the watermark should make up a smaller percentage of the overall image area compared to this example.

     

How to Watermark Your Photos

So now that we've discussed what a watermark is and how to make them effective, you may be wondering how to put a watermark in your images. There are many methods for watermarking photos. We'll use Photoshop for today's purposes. Please open the program and open the tutorial in your Photoshop folder, watch the video in this post OR find an online tutorial that is easier for you to follow.

 Your Assignment: Create a Watermark, save it on a transparent layer (PNG file) so you can use it again, as well as pasting it to one of your photos. POST your watermarked photo on your blog. 

POST YOUR COMPLETED WATERMARKED PHOTOGRAPH TO YOUR BLOG FOR CREDIT FOR TODAY'S CLASSWORK. We will Critique your Painting Parody tomorrow as I am out today unexpectedly. 

Assignment: Famous Parody Painting

It's time to have some fun. Your challenge, is to PUT YOURSELF in a famous painting. 

Adaptation of Edvard Munch's, The Scream

Adaptation of Edvard Munch's, The Scream

You may replace something that was already there, or add to it, if you think the painting is just missing something. Example of both of these can be seen above, in re-creations of Edvard Munch's "The Scream", whose original I've included for your reference

Edvard Munch's, The Scream (Original Painting)

You may also find, you'd like to match the painting techniques these masters of their craft tried so hard to exemplify, see anything odd about Mona here???

Adaptation of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa

Take images for this assignment today and/or for homework after you've found a painting you want to use during class.  DUE POSTED BY WEDNESDAY 11/15

Photowalk Friday: Playing with Light & Shadow

For this week's assignment, you may not be able to get this image merely on our photo walk, however other then keeping up with the photo-a-day, you have no other homework over the break. You may choose to shoot this image on your own and hand in on Monday 11/13 when we return from break.

You are to manipulate light using shadows and take an interesting photo. It does not have to include a person, and object casts a shadow! If it's not sunny, use a light source- a lamp, a flash, etc...

Posting your Alphabet Art

Directions how to post your Alphabet Art are on CLASSROOM. If you need assistance, any Photo II person can help.

"HAPPY"

Assignment: Alphabet Art

For your photography assignment, you will be experimenting with what we'll refer to as "Alphabet Art". Using photography, you'll be responsible for spelling out a word of your choice using black and white images. Please photograph in color and we will learn as a class how to properly convert to grayscale so as to achieve proper contrast. 

"KENNEDY"

Choose a word, at least five letters long, and cannot be the same as any other student in the class

Start photographing, take more then 1 picture for a given letter as you may find something better later in the week. Look high and wide to find your letters, they can be in the most unique places. Try your best to find natural letter forms and not have to "spell it out" yourself using found objects.

• See me to approve your word and make sure no one else has claimed it
• Take COLOR images
• Upload images by Wednesday MORNING and we will, as a class, talk about color conversion.
• SAVE EACH IMAGE separately in a folder titled Letters, in Major assignments.
• For POST credit, place each image on panoramic canvas much like the one above, using a black or white background color. Post to blog by Friday Nov. 3 titled "Alphabet Art", before you leave class.
• Also place a saved version of your flattened, full word in 'letters' folder as a final image.

"LOVE"

Photo Walk Friday: Get up Close!

There is something magical about seeing a subject up close and personal. This opens up a whole new world of options for you as a photographer. Close-up photography, or macro photography, can be a very rewarding form of photographic expression. The great thing about it is that you can do this from your basement at home, if necessary. Of course you can, and should, go outdoors too and setup shots in a forest or at the sea, but you can also setup shots of everyday subjects and shoot them up close.

To do some great close-up shots, you won’t need a macro lens. You can use almost any lens to make close-up images. Bear in mind that each lens has a minimum focusing distance. This can range from a few centimetres (1-3″) to half a meter (20″) depending on the lens. Telephoto lenses will have a longer minimum focusing distance, while medium range lenses (24-70mm) will have a closer focusing distance. The difference between macro lenses and non-macro lenses is that a macro lens has a much shorter focusing distance (30cm/1 foot or closer) in most cases.

Also, a macro lens has a magnification ratio of 1:1. What that means is that the lens can reproduce the subject onto the sensor at it’s actual life size. So if your subject is 20mm in size and it is captured as 20mm on the sensor, that means it has a 1 :1 ratio.  Some lenses can only reproduce a 1:2, or 1:3, ratio which means that the subject will be half the size or less, on the sensor, relative to the size of the subject. I would suggest that you try close-up photography with the range of lenses you have. See which one works best. Prime lenses are usually a good place to start as they have great clarity and sharpness. 

Experiment with different exposures, sometimes a slightly overexposed macro scene can look good, so play around with that. Above all, have some fun. Use it as an exercise in learning more about photography, and try and get some dynamic images too! In a future article, I will go into more details about settings and exposure modes. In the mean time, start shooting some close up images and let’s see how things look.

Photoshop Tutorial: Gold Foil Text

Follow Tutorial above for creating gold foil text. This tutorial can be used for any background, not just gold foil. Go nuts! Create something fun and POST to your blog titled: Text Tutorial for full credit. 

Assignment: Reflection Photography

Using what you have learned about composition, lighting and backgrounds when shooting portraits, create a portrait that is a reflection of  someone.

Portrait Photography:  Reflection.

Create a reflection portrait: DUE Thursday 10.26.17

1. The photo that you use for this assignment MUST be an original of yours, one that you took with a digital camera/iphone this semester.

2. Your image must be a portrait of a person, reflected in something.

3. Do NOT take a picture of you in a mirror, we have seen way too many of these already. Try for the most amazing, creative, compositionally dynamic image I have ever seen.

4. Upload your image in your drive or personal photos folder and POST the image to your blog titled Self Reflection. We will VOTE on the most creative one! Prizes are involved.

How to make stuff FLOAT in your photos!

Peter McKinnon teaches us how to levitate objects in his video series...

Please watch the video and follow his instructions to make the cup float- 

Hopefully you created your own over the weekend for HOMEWORK, so pay attention!
In the meantime, we'll be practicing this skill Monday!

"FLOAT" photographs DUE MONDAY 10/23/17

Photowalk: Primary & Secondary Colors

Primary Colors: Red, Yellow & Blue

Secondary Colors: Orange, Green & Violet

You'll be looking for the primary colors out in the world today. You'll need to POST MINIMUM 3 photos showing 3 of the 6 colors. Extra points if you can get the colors in one image!