Happy Thursday :)

OLIVIA BEE

Good day, today I will be away as I have an appointment in Prince George. Please remember your sign out procedures when you leave this classroom.

1) Get a sign out card

2) Go directly to the office and hand in    your card

3) OUTSIDE and on foot ONLY.

4) back BEFORE the bell placing your card BACK in the box.

Please post your assignment on your blog--choosing the best shots and labeling them accordingly. This can be one large post as opposed to many small posts (same assignment)

Remember the photos of the week (last week)--JUMP!

this week--SUNSHINE

Please look above at the sun shot Olivia Bee took. Her work generally revolves around interesting lighting and positioning of sun, sun spots and vintage colouring. Her work is like a snap shot but refined artistically. It is very nostalgic and thought provoking. Her images are used throughout teen magazines because of those reasons.

 Please be on your best behaviour!

Today we will go to her site and see some of her video and commissioned work.
Example of one of her videos:

Photo 11: Please remember to read over your booklet and work on the second assignment listed below:

Basic Photographic Techniques

Please take TWO photographs that are examples of the compositional elements listed below. Please choose ONE of the best from each section and post on your blog.

Rule of Thirds
Informal/Formal balance
Selective Focus
Leading Line
Lighting
Grouping
Horizon Line
Framing 

Good afternoon

Olivia Bee is a talented young photographer. Here are some more of her images.

Check out the links from yesterdays post!!!
Today, I will demo simple techniques in Photoshop. Please select a computer and get ready.You will find images in google image these images must include one with a red eye due to camera flash and one that you would like to manipulate.
We will go over:
RED EYE: with use of the tool under bandaid
CLONE STAMP:
Grade 12 students may sign out if they have had previous Photo shop experience.
Hue and saturation
Selection tools and the magic wand!!
How to change eye colour: Selection and Hue and Saturation

Photographer of the week: Olivia Bee

http://www.flickr.com/photos/-oliviabee-/

http://www.oliviabee.com/

Olivia Bee, an internationally-acclaimed artist/photographer whose work has appeared in publications like Frankie Magazine and Seventeen… all by the tender age of 15 years old. With a knack for ethereal moments and immaculate cropping, Olivia’s photographs are full of dreamy narrative. Olivia was kind enough to chat with me about her future, high expectations and her definition of an artist:

Olivia writes, “I was born a small and scared kid. I wouldn’t play at the park when there were other kids there [and] I lined up my toys. I didn’t like going out of my house often and I had really bad OCD. Art was always a part of my life. In 6th grade, I discovered photography and I guess I thought it was pretty cool. I kinda “woke up” to the world when I was like 13, [as I] started realizing that there were wonderful things going on… but there were horrible things going on.”

“I started really making sense of my time in terms of fun things and memories. I started going to concerts and started having lots of friends and started just doing things other than sitting in my room and drawing. When i was 14, I figured photography was a great way of writing down my feelings, and when I entered high school, I kinda exploded. I wasn’t very happy and I made all these stupid depressing photos. It was around like, March that I decided I was done and wanted to take photos to document the wonderful memories I was going to have.”

“My life started on April 5th of 2009.

From about that point on, everything changed. I had a lot of fun. There were periods of brief sadness, but whatever. My photos now are for documenting my teenage years. A diary of sorts.”

“I want to be a photographer and I want to make movies. I want to go to college to experience it all. But first, I’m buying a school bus and driving nowhere with a bus full of friends. I don’t know what I want. Well, I want a husky.”

 

*Remember to post your photo of the week from last week: JUMP and this week the photo assignment of the week is the sun. Please be creative!

Good morning

Today we will finish off with Annie Leibovitz. Below are some of her past and more recent photographs.
First part of the double you will be allowed to sign out (pending your PROMT return BEFORE the bell for the break) The second part of the double we have a special speaker.

Wed Sept 22

Annie Leibowitz

Annie Shoots the Queen
Annie travelled to the palace to take photos of the Queen and has commented that she had a window of opportunity to photograph the queen in ONLY the 25 minutes allotted to her. (2007)

On the current issue of Vanity Fair, Tiger woods is photographed 'shirtless' and the photo was taken by none other than Annie Leibowitz.



Good morning, most of you have completed the elements of composition assignment and will begin taking photos. It is VERY important that you are back BEFORE the bell.

Tuesday!

We discussed this image yesterday and today we will- for a moment look at the next image created by Annie Leibovitz and spend a moment thinking about the image, its quality, what makes it interesting and what compositional elements may be used by the artist that makes the image appealing.

Please think about a couple of comments that may come to mind in terms of composition, meaning and intrigue.

The Photo of the week today is 'JUMP' All students are expected to post this photo by THURSDAY. If you have not finished your work you will have to post the reason why you do not have your photo completed.

Please hand in any student contracts.

Photographer of the week

 

Annie Leibovitz

American artist and photographer Annie Leibovitz attended the San Fransisco Art Institute with an intent on studying painting. After a trip to Japan she discovered an interest in taking photographs. She spent time on a kibbutz ( ) in Israel which allowed her to hone her skills further. In 1970 she approached the editor of the Rolling Stone Magazine and she impressed Jann Wenner with her portfolio and was given her first assignment: Shoot John Lennon. Leibovitz's black-and white portrait of the shaggy-looking Beatle graced the cover of the January 21, 1971 issue. Two years later she was named Rolling Stone chief photographer.

Among some of her subjects included Bob Dylan, Bob Marley and Patti Smith. While on the road with the band she produced her iconic black-and-white photographs of Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, shirtless and gritty. In 1980 Rolling Stone Magazine sent Annie to photograph John Lennon and Yoko Ono, her vision was to photograph them both nude. Yoko had refused to take off her clothing and this resulted in a very profound image. Hours later John Lennon was shot in front of his apartment. The photograph ran on the cover of the Rolling Stone Lennon commemorative issue. It was also named the best magazine cover from the past 40 years.

Her recent book "photographers life 1990-2005"

includes all of the famous photos and some of her personal images of her as a child, her family and interests.

Friday September 17

Good afternoon, today we will finish our series for the Photographer of the week: Jillian Greenberg.

The Photo of the week will start on Monday. You will have until Friday to post and get a mark for the photo each week, making it 30% of your entire mark.
Please remember the sign out rules and keep on task or the freedom you will have earned will  be taken away.

Please email me the link to your blog and when you bring in a camera--please be sure to show me the memory card and camera and if you have  a flash drive or not. Thanks!!

Happy Thursday

Good morning,
today you should have time to work on the Photo projects and gain an understanding of the elements of composition. Grade 11 students who are finished everything MUST submit a blog address to my email address posted on the board. apye@mail.sd91.bc.ca Please also tell me the type of camera you have and the memory card (how many gigs) and if you have a flash drive. I will keep note of all of the information.
Grade 12s also. No one signs out until all information is gathered.

Rules for sign out.

No driving to ANY LOCATIONS (locations must be in WALKING DISTANCE)
No hanging out at Timmy's (if you must grab a coffee, get one to go)
No walking the HALLS!! (this may cause a suspension from outside photography-you will be subject to
                                           taking photos in the exciting classroom)

I will go over CAMERAS and the LAW today.
Also continue with Jillian Greenberg

 

Jillian Greenberg Photoshop tutorial

White Balance: DSLR Know-How with Tamron Episode 10

How to Get Your Camera Back When You Lose It

Hi, and good day. This is a fun link that demonstrates a rather interesting approach to getting a lost camera back.

How to Get Your Camera Back When You Lose It

We will continue with Jillian Greenberg today.

Greenberg's Photographic Technique:
Greenberg's signature style are portraits with harsh lighting and "shiny" highlights. They look much like HDR composites that have been overexposed on the highlights. As far as how the look is achieved, Greenberg told Digital Photo Pro that she uses "a lot of masking, apply color curves, dodge and burn. It's all done by hand, like painting." While Greenberg does still use film to capture the initial images, the final outcome is the result of very heavy digital editing.

Jillian Greenberg continued..

Jillian Greenberg Continued....
Good afternoon, today we will continue to look and talk about Jillian
Greenberg's work. We will also begin the photo presentations. All students wishing to present today can sign up and I will give you 5 minutes to prepare yourselves to present. Please remember *
clear voice, talking loud enough so that all can hear, and remember to look around the room.



Animals Crying?

Yesterday we looked at a Canadian born photographer: Jillian Greenberg

We discussed her controversial work and today we will view a short video

where she explains her art concept.

Jillian Greenberg-video      <---Click on the link to view the YouTube Video

Photographer of the week

Good Afternoon, today I will talk about our first Photographer of the week. Each week I will introduce you to a famous photographer and we will look at their work all week. Today, we will also continue with the reports and sign up for presentations. If you have completed everything, you will create your BLOGGER account, where you will post all information and photos from this class.

Born July 1967 in Montreal, Canada

Although born in Montreal, Greenberg grew up in Detroit. She was interested in photography from childhood, along with drawing and other arts. She obtained a BFA in photography from Rhode Island School of Design in 1989.

Main Photographic Subject:

Greenberg's main photographic subject is portraiture. Whether for magazines or solo exhibits, Greenberg focuses on portraits of her subjects. Animal or baby, politician or the less famous, these are most often staged and her methods have often thrown her in the spotlight with a lot of "bad press" fairly often. Greenberg readily admits that her photography is heavily manipulated after the fact to achieve a finished look.

Greenberg's Photographic Technique:

Greenberg's signature style are portraits with harsh lighting and "shiny" highlights. They look much like HDR composites that have been overexposed on the highlights. As far as how the look is achieved, Greenberg told Digital Photo Pro that she uses "a lot of masking, apply color curves, dodge and burn. It's all done by hand, like painting." While Greenberg does still use film to capture the initial images, the final outcome is the result of very heavy digital editing.

Crying Babies Controversy:

In July 2006 Greenberg unveiled a politically charge photographic series entitled "End of Days." The photos showed toddlers in what appeared to be extreme distress. Some screaming, others with red eyes, and still others with faces nearly covered in tears. Instantly parents around the world protested that these photos were of much more than slightly upset children.

http://photography.about.com/od/famousphotographers/p/endofdaysphotocontroversy.htm

First Full Day

Good morning,
today we will be discussing some of the rules associated with being in the Photography classroom and participating with camera equipment etc.
You will be assigned a project and will be required to present to the class.