P1: Ways of Seeing

Project 1: Ways of Seeing

Background
Photographers are keenly observant and constantly seeking visual treasure on their daily travels. They search for juxtapositions, sequences, new view-points, and looking out for reflections, refractions, symmetries, and shadows. They experiment widely with cameras, new and old, with film stock and printing, with focus, long exposures, double exposures, and light.

Assignment
Create a variety of images, by experimenting/combining different techniques, and visual languages. Photograph various subject matter, including people and objects. This assignment is an exercise to looking at things from different perspectives, close-up details, abstractions. For this project, you MUST photograph through various lenses, glasses, plastics, with the intent to distort light (no digital (Photoshop) distortions allowed!). Feel free to build contraptions, models, change objects if needed.

Criteria
A minimum of 50 shots (personal digital archive)
Print and mount 3 final pictures

8×10 – print size (vertical or horizontal)
14×16 – white matte-board

Image resolution must be @ 300dpi
No low-res output
Upload final images to ‘drop box’ folder, or email them to Nil.

Calendar
Brief: Tuesday, Jan 24
First batch of images – Thursday, Jan 26
Narrow selection, select and print final images – Thursday, Feb 2
Final Presentation – Tuesday, Feb 7

Grade Criteria
Presentation – 20%
* Project participation/discussion in class – 20%
Creativity/content – 50%
Craftsmanship/dimension – 10%

by Nil Santana

by David McMichael

by Taylor Hood

by (unknown)

For research, and reference: movie by John Berger

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