Darkroom techniques assignments

Darkroom Techniques

Assignments BCHS - COM TECH 2225

BRINGING YOUR VISION TO LIGHT

01

Light Light Painting

BOKEH

For this assignment you may refer to the trick photography document and youtube as a guide to help you understand either light painting or bokeh photography. Your instructor will also provide exemplars and video instructions on the Bert Church Media Arts youtube channel. You may pick one or the other to work with, and you may take as many photos as you like for the critique. However, you may only submit one final photograph for grading.

You will be graded on: Composition, Clarity, Exposure, Subject choice and your participation in the workshop critique.

04 02

Double Exposure COMPOSITION

Photographic manipulation

BRING IT ON! What you need to do is take two photos to combine in Photoshop; and what you’ll end up with is a double exposure.Mr. Byers will provide you with tutorials on how to combine your images. The tutorials will be posted to the Bert Church Media Arts YouTube channel, and you can watch those anytime anywhere and see how the double exposure works. When you take photos for this assignment, think about what you’re combining. Will you use the same subject? Or different subjects? If you’re combining the same subject, are you going to be choosing the same background? The same lighting conditions?

The same angle or focal length? Take all of these things into consideration before you come up with your final project. You may take and combine as many photos as you like, however; you may only submit one final photograph for grading.

You will be graded on: Composition, Clarity, Exposure, Subject choice, Use of Photoshop tools and your participation in the workshop critique.

03

Shadow Dark and Light

USING LIGHT AS YOUR SUBJECT

For this assignment you’re going to be using light as the source of your inspiration for your compositions. The assignment is Shadows, so, you will need to take photos of shadows. That sounds pretty easy but we want them to be interesting and compelling. Take some time to research this, look at other examples, flickr is a good start point. For example: http://blog.flickr.net/en/2013/01/17/in-theshadows/ Your compositions may be colour or Black and White. Again, you may take as many photos as you like for the critique. However, you may only submit one final photograph for grading.

You will be graded on: Composition, Clarity, Exposure, Subject choice and your participation in the workshop critique.

04 04

Day for Night BURN AND DODGE

Changing the time of day

Daylight Savings For this assignment you’re going to take a daytime photo, and it can be of anything that you like. Then we’re going to turn into a nighttime photo. So we’re going manipulate some the elements to darken it up and to give the impression that it is actually taken at night. My suggestion for this assignment is to keep it simple, take a pretty clear composition of something outside. Clouds definitely help with this assignment, so if you can have it on a day with partial cloud cover that will work well. The video tutorials will walk you through the process of creating this project.You may take and combine as many photos as you like, however; you may only submit one final photograph for grading.

You will be graded on: Composition, Clarity, Exposure, Subject choice, Use of Photoshop tools and your participation in the workshop critique.

05

B&W and Colour Make it pop

ELEMENTS STAND OUT

For this assignment you will take a color photo. Then, you’re going to convert it to black and white and a mask out some of the black-and-white to reveal a color element. It’s a pretty simple process and will be explained with a video tutorial and the YouTube channel. You may take and use as many photos as you like, however; you may only submit one final photograph for grading.

You will be graded on: Composition, Clarity, Exposure, Subject choice, Use of Photoshop tools and your participation in the workshop critique.

04 06

POP ART COLOUR & BW!

FILTERS

Make it Pop! Some of you probably heard of Andy Warhol, he’s a famous pop artist from United States. Over the years he made a number of pieces that became quite famous because of their simplicity and interesting color and design. You will get to re-create his Marilyn Monroe piece using a portrait of yourself and filters in Photoshop. You can watch the video tutorial that will walk you through the entire process.You may only submit one final photograph for grading.

You will be graded on: Composition, Clarity, Exposure, Subject choice, Use of Photoshop tools and your participation in the workshop critique.

07

Through the Looking Glass World upside down

A NEW PARADIGM

This assignments a little bit different what you’ll be doing is you’ll be taking photos through another piece of glass Netherlands and so it’s going to be interesting experiment because you’ll be looking at the world often upside down

04 08

Vignetting LOREM IPSUM AD MINIM VENIAM

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Crop it out In this assignment was to be using an older Darkroom technique called vignetting it’s a way of masking out some of the content around subject to make them more of the focus in a vignettes that are black white or blurred will take a look at all three

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This project is Sutley more creative projects using masks and Photoshop project itself is pretty open him all you’ll need to do is combine a couple of images together using a mask however you want you to be as creative as you can with this so I’ll give you some examples and YouTube videos and perhaps you’ll give you some inspiration as to what you could do with masking

04

90 Degree Turn LOREM IPSUM AD MINIM VENIAM

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CW or CCW This is a simple assignment, take a photo, turn it 90 degrees... ok, that may over simplify this assignment. You’ll need to think about how you will set up a shot that turns your camera and/or your subject around.