Assignment:

Create 2 floating food images. Remember items with more physical layers is more interesting, but having those layers be easily attached helps to make them interesting (i.e. it is very hard to float a layered trifle or an ice cream cone). You will need to take several images of each food to give yourself options, but the setup is most important. Think about a clean background to make it easier to use the content-aware fill option, also think about your lighting. Creating a mini studio is helpful in making this very clean in post production. 

Steps:

• Start by checking out this website on one way to photograph your floating food
• Also check out this video on throwing a donut (this one was done with clear fishing wire)
• Think of ideas—what kind of food do you want to float? Think back to your food photography project
• You are creating 2 floating food images, you want to take several images for options but they may be of the same setup. Remember to change your lighting.
• Post-production is where these are going to come together by erasing objects that hold the food up, so be sure to have a clean background that is easy to use for content-aware fill. 

Objective: To create interest in your image by implementing photoshop editing techniques to make pieces of your photo disappear

Assignment:

Create a series of images using old toys. You can make up adventures and photograph them in interesting scenarios. This can be a series of 6-8 images, or 6-8 separate scenes with the same or different toys. You may want figurines instead of stuffed animals as it will look more real. Lego characters can work, as do Barbie's, action figures, or doll house characters. You can also purchase miniatures and even have more fun as they are tiny figurines. 

Steps:

• Check out this "behind the scenes" of a toy photographer
• Think of ideas—how can we have the most fun with these toys?
• You are creating 6 images at minimum
• Pay attention to focus and make sure you can get close enough to make these interesting. Blurry photos will not help your audience to be interested in your photos

Artists:

• Mitchel Wu
• David Gilliver

Objective: To use your imagination using tiny toys and bringing them to reality by the way you photograph them.

Assignment:
For this assignment you will photograph 50 digital frames with high key and low key B&W images in mind. During the shoot you'll want to consider what mood you are going for because that will dictate how you light and expose the image. If low key is moody and high key is more airy then consider not only your subject while you are shooting but also your lighting and camera settings. Some of this can be done after the fact with your editing in photoshop, and some has to be done in camera while you are shooting. You are showing me equal high key and low key photographs for this assignment. It may take two separate shoots with different ideas in mind. 

Steps:
• Check out these 2 resources on low key photography (article #1, article #2)
• Check out this resource on high key photography
• Portraits work well for this project but really any subject works
• You do not need to show the same object as high key and low key, the subject you photograph may dictate the mood you are going for
• When you are focused on low key, be sure to have a darker background and expose it a little below what the light meter asks for.
​• When you are exposing for high key, make sure to have a brighter background and expose maybe a little bit higher than the light meter dictates

Assignment:

You must photograph 50 digital frames focusing on food photography. You can photograph meals, focus on a table scape, make a whole meal, just a dessert, you have many options. Think about shapes and making your food look appealing to your audience. Search instagram for cooks and even local favorite restaurants—how do they photograph their food? 

Steps:

• We eat every single day of our lives. Not all of our food is set up like a dinner spread, but think about ways to make each one of your meals look interesting
• You'll notice that many of these photos are shot from above (birds eye view) but how else can you make an interesting food photo?
• Watch your edges, notice that most foods are not perfectly centered...or alone. So consider breaking the frame with your food, or pouring a few bowls of food instead of just one
• Consider your dish wear, the more beautiful (or simple) the serving dish the more interesting the image is
• Lighting: definitely consider your lighting, many of the food photographers use natural window lighting to enhance their photos 

Resources:
- Pinterest food photography board for more inspiration 
- Food photography tips and tricks
@bakeritablog
@halfbakedharvest
@ambitiouskitchen

Objective: To use the camera and lighting to make a professional image that makes food more appealing to the viewer. 

Assignment:
For this assignment you will take a photograph of your pet (or a friend's pet if you don't have one) and turn them into a renaissance style portrait. This is a lot of photoshop work to attach your pet's head to a renaissance style oil painting and make them look regal. I have attached a few high resolution renaissance style portraits for your use, but you can also search your own. Make sure the image you download is high resolution though so you can properly attach your pet's head to the portrait. 

Steps:
• Check out this youtube tutorial on how to make your pet into an oil painting portrait
• Download a renaissance portrait to use as your background (remember to find a large image to work with, otherwise you may not be able to print) or you can use one of the ones I attached in your google classroom assignment
• You want to consider where your pet is looking when you are decidsing on which portrait to use.  
​• Exposure is important in these images, as well as size, so don't use an iPhone image for this.

Assignment:
For this assignment you will photography 50 digital frame of natural framing. Consider what you are looking through. What about using a pipe and shooting through that? Do you have windows that are interesting and show something curious on the other side? What about a cutout in your wall? Think about how to use your environment to create interest with your framing. Also don't be afraid to make your own frames to shoot through if you are having trouble finding them in the natural environment. 

Steps:
• Start by finding researching interesting natural framing, do you already do this sometimes in your own work?
• Walk around your house seeing if there are any interesting objects to photograph through
• Consider making your own (or bringing your own) with you to enhance an image

Assignment:

Create 3 composite journey images. You can use object, take a walk outside, photograph several portraits in a row, or explore even more conceptual ideas about the passing of time. Remember to take several images that overlap with one another, try 10 images or 50 images...how might more images be interesting? 

Steps:

• Start by checking out Al Wildey's work
• Think of ideas—how can you best represent a journey or the passing of time?
• You are creating 3 images, this will be 3 separate shoots to create the overlapped imagery 
• Post-production is where these will really come together, try to think about a lot of change in your images and also about small movements if you want the image to hold together more clearly

Objective: To use separate images (taken over a short period of time) to create the feeling of time and memory.