Assignment: Portrait Series

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Portrait Series:

Using what you have learned in about composition, lighting and backgrounds, take a series of portraits.  You will be turning in 4 portraits; they should be part of a series, which means they are thematically related to each other in subject matter and/or compositional style.  For example if your theme is self portraiture, make sure the photos you take for this project and the 4 you turn in are all self portraits.  If your theme is a composition style like lighting, make sure all of the portraits you take for this project have interesting/dramatic lighting.  Perhaps you want to dress up in some way or you want to take portraits of in action.  There are many ways to approach creating a theme for this project.  You cannot complete this assignment until you have taken at least 15-25 portraits on the digital camera– the more pictures you take, the better results you will get.  You will be turning in your 4 BEST portraits for this assignment on one composition.



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Rubric

1.      Create a series of portraits (at LEAST 4)

2.      All photos that you use for this assignment MUST be originals of yours that you took with a digital camera or phone this semester. Background should be minimal and a solid color, hang a sheet or shoot against blank wall.

3.      Your 4 portraits must be part of a series and have a theme (either compositional style or subject matter or both.)

4.  Do NOT take a picture of you in a mirror, UNLESS, it is the most amazing, creative, compositionally dynamic image I have ever seen.

5.      Always save your images in your Weblocker or upload in class YOU CAN NOT USE A flash drive.

6.      SAVE TWO VERSIONS OF YOUR FINAL BY FRIDAY. 1 flatten JPEG and 1 Tiff file. Please approve your final with me before flatten so that I may suggest editing options. SAVE both in H; drive labeled as follows:  LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_PORTRAITS in MAJOR Folder

AND

      POST the Jpeg version. Title: Potrait Series. Include an artist statement that is at least one paragraph (3-5 sentences)

 

 

PHOTOS FOR ASSIGNMENT WILL BE DUE MONDAY 2.25.13

A COMPLETED COMPOSITION WILL BE DUE FRIDAY 3.1.13