Light, Shadow and Reflection slideshow

Here is the slideshow for the beginning students new assignment on Light, Shadows, and Reflections. Also, check out the winners work from Lincoln's photo department for the Scholastic Art Awards. Meagan Fuchs won a gold portfolio key and has shipped her portfolio to New York for national adjucation and a chance for a 10,000 scholarship. She also won an individual gold key as did Stephen Day for his digital photograph.

Winter Break

"Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful...Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!! Yes, it has been very wintery and so much school time lost. But, what great opportunities for fabulous photos!!! So, over the break I expect you all to capture some great shots. When we return to school in January, everyone will be getting their semester portfolios together. This is a large part of your grade. For beginning students, you should have a minimum of 7, maximum of 15 prints. I will be looking for evidence of effective use of composition techniques, creative camera controls, excellent print quality, and clean presentations. Never, ever turn in work that is not to the best of your abilities. That means you may need to reprint or remat work. You all should get some good new work over break. Print out the "Shooting with Purpose". Remember if you get film at Fred Meyer or someplace like that, make sure it is not a C-41 film. You want a true black and white film such as TMax.
Advanced students should be finishing up registering for the scholastic awards. I will be back on the 6th to help finish up any of the forms, etc. Email me if you have any questions- nancy.abens@gmail.com Hope you all have a really happy, relaxing break.

Cindy Sherman Video

Here is a video showing some of Cindy Sherman's self portraits.

December News

The beginning photography classes are just finishing up with experiments with shutter speed. This tends to be one of the most difficult assignments for students. Everyone starts realizing how much you have to think about with photography. It is not just clicking the button. Lots of interesting work is coming out of this. Some students are ready to move on to the next assignment which is working with depth of field and abstraction.
Advanced photography students are exploring a variety of alternative processes which include polaroid, citrasolv, and acrylic medium transfer techniques, photoshop, hdr, and soon liquid emulsions. They are also working on self portraits. Below is some work that has been done by both beginning and advanced students this year.