Step 1 - Check out my Pinterest board for still life ideas:
Step 2 - Choose an object or group of objects to photograph. You may use something of your own or something from my collection.
Step 3 - Set up your shot. Think about background, lighting and composition. You might want to play with the colored backdrops, you might want to set up your objects outside, you might want to use a location within the school...the choices are endless! It is okay to shoot your objects in more than one location, but try to shoot at least 10 pictures in each location. Be sure to shoot from different angles too!
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." ~ Dorothea Lange
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Getting Started With Photoshop - Let's Check out the Toolbox!
Today we're going to play with some of the major tools in the Photoshop toolbox. Use a portrait please as we will learn how to brush out your zits (yessssssssss!) There is a great blog post called Photoshop's Toolbox that you can refer to outside of class or if you need a reminder in future lessons.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Portraiture
This week we are going to concentrate on portraits and will start to learn PhotoShop. Before you jump into your photography, I want you to take a few minutes to explore some portrait photos and get some ideas. I used Pinterest to gather examples. Click on the screenshot below to go to my Pinterest board with portraiture samples. Come to the rug in four minutes with at least four ideas for portraiture.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Simplicity Photo Essays
Today I want you to spent about 25 minutes exploring iPhoto.
- Import all of your simplicity photos to iPhoto.
- Create an album in iPhoto called Simplicity Photo Essay by ____ (<- put your name there!)
- Add the selected photos to the album.
- Explore the editing tools. Don't be afraid to try things. Cropping is an especially effective tool that can dramatically change a photograph. You can always click "revert to original" if you mess it up too much and want to start over.
- To save changes to a photo, press COMMAND and S at the same time.
After 25 minutes, I will instruct you to start posting your photos to this blog. Give your photo essay a title (it would be great if you could go beyond "My Simplicity Photo Essay" and then upload your chosen photos to the blog post. You can write captions for you photos but you don't have to. Make sure to include your first name somewhere in the post.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Dorothea Lange, by Emily

I see a grocery store after the bombing in Pearl Harbor there is a sign in front of the door saying
I am an American. I think Lange wanted to show an aspect of racism in America. The photograph is showing the story of people having to prove there race so they don't have to go to an internment camp. The dark sign of the store helps make the banner on the store pop.
Kyle's Dorothea Lange Photo & Response
I chose this picture because it is the same person in one of her best Great Depression pictures this women has migrated from farm to farm for work. Their diet is birds they killed themselves and frozen
veggies.


Ryan and Gene
Dorothea Lange; Sam


Thank you for reading. :)
"Toward Los Angeles, Calif." Madie

This picture really speaks to me. This photo shows two men walking on a dust road all by themselves. A sign to their right says "Next time, try the train." this photo is saying that these men can't afford to take the train, so they have to walk to their destination. I think Dorothea photographed this because it shows how people had to live when they couldn't support themselves. I think that maybe these men are moving or traveling to find a new job, and maybe start a new life. i can tell by their body language, (slouching) that they are worn out, exhausted, and tired. This picture is so simple, but yet, it tells a story. This photo really speaks to me because of how powerful it is. Dorothea probably wanted people to realize the story that this photo is telling.
Thanks!
Photo by Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange, Sophia L.


The Great Depression in a Point of View- Isabel and Meaghan

We think Lange wanted us to know how bad the situation was during the great depression in America. When we were looking at the pictures this caught our eyes because you see two young children and there young mother trying to get shelter from a long stick and tarp.
When we looked at the picture in great detail we got very little information about the photo so we assume that this mother has a lot of children and can't provide for them. They have very little and is living on scraps.
Natural Disaster Aftermath
By Dorothea Lange
I see a forest scene where most of the trees are either on the ground or about to fall. I feel the this picture is a scene of natural disaster's aftermath. I chose this picture because it shows the power of the earth and how it can destroy anything in a matter of minutes. I think that Lange wanted us to think about all the people that would be affected by this disaster. Its telling the story of the rescuers, the victims, the victims' families, and the people who were not affected by it but still would feel sorry for them. This scene shows that nature built those trees in hundreds of years but destroyed them in seconds.
By Brandon and Woo
Dorothea Lange - Japanese soon-to-be soldiers

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