Two of the prints in your final project will be a direct re-creation of another photographer's image. You'll make a rough draft and a final draft of this picture. Have your rough draft completed by November 21st - we will be looking at them in class.
One of the best ways to learn an art form is to study the work of another artist, so for your final project you'll need to find one photograph from another photographer that you want to re-create as closely as possible. One of the values of using a digital camera is that you can use it as tool to learn from your mistakes (as well as your successes). While you're photographing for this project, look closely at the images you're capturing, and try to discern what you can do to make your image look more like your source image. Inspect your camera settings and exposure in your camera's info mode and in Lightroom.
Every photograph is constructed using the same, essential elements, and when you carefully inspect an image, you can decode and translate the visual language of a picture in an attempt to better understand the choices and decisions that the artist made to create it.
Every photograph contains these elements (use this list as a guide):
Light: direction and intensity (controlled by exposure)
Frame / Composition: frame orientation and camera position; foreground and background relationship; visual lines, angles and balance (or lack of) - symmetry or asymmetry
Depth of Field: range of sharp focus (controlled by aperture)
Time: stillness, movement, also related to sharpness (controlled by shutter)
Color / Tonal Value: temperature of light, color/tonal compliments and contrast
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