March projects for Advanced Photography

In the advanced class, students are just about finished with the Words>Images assignment. This was an assignment designed primarily to get students thinking about concepts more and pushing them to try something new with their photography. Some interesting work came out of this. I will get some of the images uploaded in the next couple weeks. The students who are shooting digital primarily are going to start working on how to do HDR images. This is the hot new thing in digital photography. You can get some pretty amazing images with this technique. Film students will just be working on perfecting printing with fiberbase papers. Towards the end of March we will start work around an emulation and bookmaking project. Look for the links about HDR images in the sidebar on interesting links.

Projects for March-Beginning Photography

Spring has arrived! It is an excellent time to be out shooting photographs. I love spring light, especially in the early morning hours and the late afternoon. In the beginning photo classes we are just finishing up the portrait assignment. Some really beautiful work was made. Students worked with natural and studio lights. Black velvet backgrounds were a favorite with many. The group portraits didn't quite turn out how I wanted them to. We are going to be redoing that part of the assignment a bit later in the month. For now, though, students will be shooting a roll of double exposures. They can work with someone else or go it alone. I think the best way to go about this assignment is with a little planning. Think about having some of the first set of exposures being textures, clouds, water, backgrounds, etc. The second time the film goes through concentrate on shooting faces, hands, still life objects, etc. Who knows what will happen!
Here's a slideshow with some of the portraits that are finished. I will add more a bit later.