Artist Statement

This will be written in essay form. 3-5 paragraphs. The artist statement should give us insight to what we will be able to see and experience throughout the rest of your portfolio, i.e. everything underneath this post.

Address the following in an order conducive to your choosing. Some of the questions overlap each other, so just make sure at some point you have touched on the idea.

-Overview of what will be found in the portfolio.

-How do you feel about your portfolio?

-What was your favorite thing looking back that you did or experienced in class? why ?(this could be a technique, tool, project, etc.)
-What have you learned over the course of this semester/year?

-What do you feel you were most successful with? Why?

-What did you struggle with most? why?

-How or where could you improve in the future?

-What have been some of your influences?
-Where have you seen growth and improvement?

-Anything else you would like to say about your artwork.

Personal Metaphor "Insert your metaphor here"

UPLOAD your metaphor LARGE and CENTER

State your Metaphor: (A Fish in a pool with no where to go)

Explain why you chose the metaphor you did. (Length should be a solid paragraph that is all inclusive)

Critique your work. What have you done well? What could you have done better? What was difficult? How do you feel about your final product?

Shutter Speed

Upload your "perfect picture" and at least one of your others.

Explain the setting. Explain what you had to set your camera too. Describe your experiences. Tell me about Shutterspeed, and how it interacted with aperture and iso.

ISO: Film Speed

Upload the following pictures: Iso 5000, Iso 400, Iso 50, FLASH (auto iso)

Explain ISO to someone who has never heard of it before.
Explain the difference in your photos when you used the flash as opposed to the ISO.

Why would you choose to use and change your ISO over just using flash?

What do you have to be careful of when you use a fast ISO?

Fill in Flash Experiment

Upload ALL 4 Fill in flash photos.

(Hopefully they are clear examples of what fill in flash does.)

Explain what fill in flash is.

Explain WHY and WHEN you would use fill in flash.

Explain how your photos are examples of this if they are.

Metering

Upload your 2 metering photos

Explain in your own words what a light meter does.

Explain the two pictures, what is happening in them? Why are they different?

How can spot metering help you in the future?

Surrealism: "your title here"

UPLOAD YOUR SURREALISM CENTER AND LARGE

Choose ONE of the following.

Type it in WORD first, then copy and paste when you are done.

1. Tell the story: Your surrealism project is an illustration of a story. I want you to tell the story of your picture. Show us how all the pieces connect, and why it is the way it is. Perhaps there will be parts to your story that are not shown in the picture. Be creative!

2. Interpret the dream: You are a psychiatrist who specializes in interpreting dreams to explain the way a person is feeling or how they see life. Using the symbols in this artwork, creatively interpret what it might mean. This is a creative writing assignment, there is no right or wrong answer as long as you are intelligently expressing yourself.

3. Critique: If your creative mind is lacking for words you may write a critique for your project. Remember our critiques for "The Gaurdian" you will need to DESCRIBE, ANALYZE, INTERPRET & JUDGE. Reread your gaurdian post and mine to refresh your memory.

Graduation Program

Upload your Graduation Program Large and Center

After looking at the other students program covers and designs, what do you think you did well?

After looking at the other students program covers and designs, what do you think you could have done differently or better?

Was graphic design harder or easier then you thought it would be and why?

What do you think are the most important parts or aspects of Graphic Design and why?

If you could suggest some advice for me to give to my next year's students, what would it be?

Alternate Program: Name of your program HERE

Upload your Alternate Program Large and Center

Make sure your title includes the title of YOUR program.

After looking at the other students program covers and designs, what do you think you did well?

After looking at the other students program covers and designs, what do you think you could have done differently or better?

What did you struggle with the most and why?

Which program do you think you did better on and why?

Effects

Upload Cross Process

Upload Glow

Upload Emphasis

Which effect do you like the best and why? Tell me anything else you think about them.

Frames

Upload BOTH frame pictures. They should be in black and white.

Which one do you like better and why? What makes your photograph artistic? What could you do to make it more artistic?

Color!

Upload both of your color shots.

Do you like your color shots? Why or why not?

What could you do better or different in the future?

Balance: Asymmetrical vs Symmetrical

Upload the TWO balance photos you are in.
These should be BLACK & WHITE.

Explain clearly what symmetrical balance is.

Explain clearly what asymmetrical balance is.

Why do you think visual balance is important in art?

Group Collaboration

Upload one of the large group photos that you were in. (THESE ARE NOT THE BALANCE PHOTOS) if you like both of your photos you can upload both. (one was in color, one was in black and white)

Respond to the following:

What did you find most difficult about taking these shots? What would you do differently if you had to do large group shots over again?

Artist Statement

This will be written in essay form. 3-5 paragraphs. This means that you will have an introduction and a concluding paragraph.

Answer all of the following in an order you choose.

-Overview of what will be found in the portfolio.

-How do you feel about your portfolio?

-What have you learned over the course of this semester?

-What do you feel you were most successful with? Why?

(This could be a specific project, OR, it could refer to a specific skill like Photoshop, camera work, creative ideas etc.)

-What did you struggle with most? why?

(This could be a specific project, OR, it could refer to a specific skill like Photoshop, camera work, creative ideas etc.)

-How or where could you improve in the future?

-Where have you seen improvement?

-Please write anything else you would like to say about your artwork, your experiences, or what you have learned.

Lyrics

UPLOAD LYRIC PHOTO: Large and Center

The lyrics I chose for this project are ____________ by _____________.

"then write the main portion of your lyrics that you would like to include in an easy to read to read format here. Using quotes and also italicizing. Making the font a little smaller then the rest of your post so that it is distinguishable as a quote"

In a paragraph I would like you to discuss or explain why you chose the lyrics you did and what they mean to you. (The following prompts are clearly very similiar and just different ways to answer the same question. so NO you do not need to answer each prompt individually... just make sure you give a strong explanation of yourself)

Address the following:

I chose these lyrics because...

I relate to these lyrics because...

These lyrics mean to me.....

These lyrics make me feel...

Social Issue

UPLOAD YOUR SOCIAL ISSUE: Large and Center

Write an intelligent paragraph describing what your social issue is, and how it effects you, or those close to you.

In your second paragraph explain why you chose the statement and photo that you did.

Haunted Chavez

UPLOAD YOUR HAUNTED CHAVEZ PHOTO: LARGE-CENTER

This will be a Reflection. You will need to cover the following questions, but I expect you to discuss further in depth your experience with this project.

Within your reflection answer the following questions:

1. Explain the project.
2. What was your initial idea? Did it change by the end? If so, how?
3. What were some of the most difficult decisions you had to make?
4. What were some of the problems you faced and how did you solve them?
5. What do you think you did well on?
6. Your overall thoughts on the project, how you did etc.

Critique: Parkeharrison's "Guardian"

Upload this Picture from the outfolder - LARGE and CENTER.

Copy and paste your Critique you wrote during class from your word document to here. Make sure to spell check before copy and pasting.

Remember:

Describe

Analyze

Interpret

Judge

Scary Expressions

Upload your 3 tutorials: Scary Face, Ghosts, and Zombie

Answer the following question for each image:

When I look at this picture it makes me think of...

Your answers should each be at least a paragraph in length. Be descriptive in your writing. WRITE WELL. I am interested in your answer.

The Scream: My interpretation

You will upload "The Scream" by Edvard Munch.

It should be in the OUTFOLDER for you.

Then , copy and paste your interpretation.

Your interpretation should be well written, creative, and should have ties to the actual picture.

Creative Me

UPLOAD the jpeg of your CREATIVE ME project.

Copy the following paragraph:
This project was an opportunity for us to put the tools we have learned to use. We were to take one of our portraits, and change it creatively using the following: selection tools, layers, adjustment layers, layer styles, blending options, paint brushes and opacity.


Then answer the following questions:
What do you like about your image?
Which tool or method do you like the most? Why?
How confident do you feel in your Photoshop knowledge so far?

Feel free to add anything else you would like to discuss.

Adjustment Layers

UPLOAD your adjustment layer image.

Copy and Paste the following paragraph:
In this exercise we learned about Adjustment layers. Adjustment layers allow you to add adjustments to your image on separate layers instead of directly to the image itself. This comes in handy during long complicated projects. In Photoshop every tool is specifically designed to help improve your photo. However, here we took some artistic liberties and explored adjustments creatively.

Self Portraits

Upload your 3 portraits in the following order:
rule of thirds,
leading lines,
extreme angle.

Copy and Paste the following paragraph:
For our Self-Portrait project we were to take three self-portraits. They were all to be in black and white, and they were all to capture a mood of some sort. We were also challenged to be as artistic as possible, and stay as far away from normal, cliche portraits that we see on personal pages etc. as possible.
One had to use the rule of thirds as the base for the composition; One had to incorporate leading lines, and one had to be taken from a more extreme angle.

Following this paragraph I would like you to reflect on this project. Your reflection should be at least a solid paragraph in length. Discuss the process, the ideas, the difficulties, the successes, which ever aspects stand out to you as being most important to share.
Please include in your reflection:

• which portrait you think is most successful and why,
• what you would do better or different next time
• How you felt you did overall.

Contact Sheet

UPLOAD CONTACT SHEET JPEG

Answer the following questions in paragraph form with complete sentences.

Overall how do you feel your contact sheet turned out?
What did you do well?
What could you do better, or different next time?

Out of all the compositional tricks, which Photo of yours turned out the best?
Which trick did you like the most (even if it wasn't your best photo-which one do you enjoy using?) Why?

Compositional Trick #5 Cropping

UPLOAD the JPEG of your crop.

Copy and Paste the following paragraph into your post.
Cropping is a trick that photographers do all the time, even if they don't realize it. Every time a photographer chooses to cut something out of his/her frame, before they snap the photo, that is in essence cropping. We also have learned tools on Photoshop that allow us to crop an image after we have taken it. When cropping in Photoshop it is possible to improve our composition or change it completely.

Now answer the questions below in complete sentences, and with a paragraph structure.

How did you change your composition, from your original photo to this one?

Which do you like better? Why?

Explain the 2 different ways you used the crop tool to create this image.

Compositional Trick #4 Extreme Angles

UPLOAD YOUR EXTREME ANGLE PHOTO

Using complete sentences, in paragraph form, answer the questions listed below.

Assuming you succeeded in taking a photograph from an extreme angle, explain what you did to get your angle.

What do you like about your picture? Be very specific.

What could you have done better?

How do you think photographing from extreme positions effects your photographs? Why would you choose to do it?

Compositional Trick #3: Macro

UPLOAD BOTH MACRO PHOTOS YOU TURNED IN. TEXTURE & DEPTH OF FIELD

Describe what the macro function does on a camera.

Explain what depth of field is. (what does it mean to have a deep or shallow depth of field?)

In your own words explain when and why macro would be the compositional trick of choice.

Choose the photo you like best and describe how using macro enhanced this picture. Also explain why you like this photo.

Compositional Trick #2: Leading Lines

UPLOAD THE PHOTO YOU TURNED IN FOR LEADING LINES: this should be a black and white photograph.

Explain what leading lines are and what they do. (We have discussed 3 different things)

Describe the leading lines in your image and explain what their purpose in your shot is.

Compositional trick #1: Rule of Thirds

UPLOAD THE PHOTO YOU TURNED IN FOR RULE OF THIRDS
(It may be in color or black and white, which ever is better)

Explain in your own words what the Rule Of Thirds is as if you are telling someone that has never heard of it before.

Explain how you used it in your photograph.