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Photo I

This class explores the basics of traditional black and white photographic printing as well as digital photographic processes using Adobe Photoshop. We will examine both the aesthetic and technical aspects of the photographic process through several method based assignments. The uses of metering, lighting, composition, and technical aspects of the camera will be reviewed during class to give students a basic understanding of the art of photography.

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Pinhole Photography

9/12/2016

This week we will be making real working cameras out of a can of oatmeal, a piece of aluminum with a tiny hole poked into it, some paint, and a whole lot of tape. I promise these are real working cameras and they give a very nostalgic, almost dreamlike quality to the images.

Justin Quinnell is a great pinhole photographer who has been working solely with pinhole photography for the last 22 years—he's even made a pinhole camera out of his mouth!

IPad Self-portrait

9/8/2016

You are going to create a self-portrait with the iPad and incorporating the iPad in to the self portrait (see above examples for inspiration). Also, click here for more examples.

Step 1: Take a self portrait of yourself using your iPad (or iPhone if you have one).
Step 2: Incorporate that first photo into another photo of yourself by holding up the iPad to your face and having a friend take a second image of you (your friend can email or text it to you to work on).
Step 3: Play with different ways to make the image interesting with photo effects and/or several overlapping self portrait.

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IPad Self-portrait

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