Digital Photo: Composition Reading and Homework
This is not a writing intensive course, but there is some reading the first couple weeks of class.
Please take notes on the bold faced words as you read from the links below. You will be shooting the various composition elements this weekend and next week. We will also have a quiz on this material as well.
Bring your cameras to class every day.
In Class reading:
http://photoinf.com/General/Robert_Berdan/Composition_and_the_Elements_of_Visual_Design.htm
http://photoinf.com/General/Geoff_Lawrence/Composition.html
(Take quizzes at the end of each section below)
http://cybercollege.com/tvp023.htm Start reading at "Strive for Feeling of Unity"
http://cybercollege.com/tvp024.htm
http://cybercollege.com/tvp025.htm
The Elements and Principles of Design
This week during class you will shoot 24-36 pictures with at least six different subjects.
Please shoot three Rule of Thirds shots, three texture shots, three color contrast shots, three leading lines shots and three frame within a frame (using other objects to frame your subject) shots.
Homework: Do the same assignment except use subjects and objects away from school.
Due Monday the 3rd of February: 12 INTERESTING shots using all four techniques described above. Some people will take 40-80 pictures for 12 good ones.
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