Sketchbook Assignments - Sketchbook assignments are due every week. For quarter one, you are required to submit at least THREE versions, angles, compositions, or lighting for any prompt on the list provided. Post ONE theme of your choice per week. For your second quarter you will be expected to post FOUR versions weekly. Here is your rubric:
Rubric Sketchbook Assignments 60 pts. ______ Prompt was thoughtfully executed with a minimum of 3 “sketch” viewpoints (angles, lighting, composition 20 pts each) 20 pts. ______ At least one photo was optimized with Photoshop or digital media filter. 20 pts. ______ Photo is posted correctly to your blog, (10) labeled with the specific prompt it illustrates (10)points
Photography Sketchbook
1. Photos taken without looking through viewfinder This requires at least five versions.. Check results for each shot, pick the best Composition
2. Two Photos, before and after of a person you don’t know, but would like to get to know. Take one photo before, then another after you get to know them, even if for only a few minutes. This might be fun!
3. Photograph something that you don’t like. How would you communicate that you don’t like something? With a close-up? With heavy contrast?
4. Photos taken from public transportation or car. Take AT LEAST two photos. Consider your Framing while photographing from a moving object. What is the Focal Point?
5. Picture signifying hope. This could be as simple as an object (flower?) or a scene, or a person (what is their expression) Think first about what describes hope for you.
6. Picture that communicates simplicity. Again, this could be as simple as an object (flower?) or a scene, or a person (what is their expression) Think first about what describes simplicity for you.
7. Pick a phrase from one of your favorite song and try to illustrate them with a photograph. This requires really using your imagination!
8. through the Looking Glass. Use real glass, plate or mirror! Photograph THROUGH it. You would be using Frame within a Frame composition.
9. Portraits from above. Use your vantage point! Use Framing with the Edge!
10. Extreme vantage point. This has a lot of flexibility, so use the most interesting subject - YOU!
11. Self portrait, not of the face. See examples!
12. Photograph of bubbles. See examples!!
13. Cut up photo. Use a photograph from a magazine. Break up the space. Cut it into several pieces and put it back together again.
14. Three photographs taken throughout your day: How would you describe it in a short sequence? The best moments, the worst moments? A nothing moment?
15. Trace a portrait from a magazine photograph. Pay attention to the CONTOUR lines, which are the outlines of everything you are drawing.
16. Photograph your favorite candy! Use a close up composition.
17. Choose a photograph from a magazine, paste it onto a larger sized background and draw what was left out of the picture.
18. Overlap three photos. Trace one and include it in the collage. Keep the photo simple.
19. A final photograph doesn’t always end up coming out of the printer. Photography Artists often incorporate other media; paper, thread, magazines, vintage paper and tracing paper. All elements may be sewn together. 20. If you are inexperienced with paint or wet media, do not let that stop you! Feel free to include this your photographic investigations. Photos will be enlarged with a photocopier, taped onto a background of a collage of newspaper, before being slightly obscured by paint (photo-copied images are more easily adaptable to paint.