Photography 2nd Semester: Assignment #2

For this week's blog assignment, please post a picture by a professional photographer that exemplifies all of the concepts of a strong composition as per your reading and class discussion.  After posting the picture and citing the artist and the website where you found it, analyze the photo according to the key composition concepts: rule of thirds; leading the eye; negative space; foreground, middleground, background.  To end your analysis, briefly state what it is about the picture that you like, and what you don't like.   

Photography 2nd Semester: Assignment #1

Photographers!  Welcome back to the 2nd semester!  For our first blog assignment, please upload your favorite photo from a professional photographer and describe why it is that this particular photo caught your attention and is your favorite.  Is it the subject matter, the lighting, the contrast?  Be detailed and specific in your response.  Make sure to also give credit where credit is due: cite the artist as well as the title of the piece if known!

Ansel Adams

Photography Blog Assignment: Week #7 (Due Wednesday, Nov. 23rd)

Photographers!  In anticipation of our upcoming assignment, this week's blog has to do with Photojournalism.  Write about what you think the term "photojournalism" means.  What does a photojournalist do?  Be as descriptive as you possibly can be.  After you state your definitions, post a picture that you think exemplifies the term and career.  Make sure to cite your source and give credit to the artist photographer.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com

Artist: Steve McCurry

Photography Blog Assignment: Week #6 (Due Friday, Nov. 4th)

Hello fellow photographers!  For this week's photo assignment we are taking close-ups of images in nature.  Our assignment will be to turn in one photograph that is in color, and one that is in black and white.  For this blog, discuss which format (either color photography, or black and white) that you like the best and why.  Make sure to support your conclusions with evidence citing the work of

 professional photographers as examples. Discuss which format you feel is the most artistic - meaning allows for the most effective use of the elements and principles of design.  Finally, discuss what you feel are the strengths and weaknesses of both formats and
what challenges you might meet when taking your own photographs.  Happy blogging!

Graphic Design Blog Assignment: Week #7 (due Friday, Nov. 4th)

Graphic Designers!  For this week's blog assignment post your completed logo design (you may have to save it as a PDF file first).  After posting the picture, describe your company in detail as well as the products you intend to sell.  Discuss your targeted audience and how you plan to capture their attention, and eventually their buying power through your logo design.  Finally, discuss your process in creating the final design.  What did you enjoy, what was challenging?  If you could do the design over again, what would you change?  Happy blogging!

Photography Blog Assignment: Week 5 (Due Friday, Oct. 28th)

Photographers!  Welcome back to blogging from an extended break!  For our upcoming project we will be taking photographs of extreme closeups of objects in nature.  For this week's blog assignment, post a photograph, by a professional photographer either living or dead, that is a photograph of a closeup of an object in nature.  After posting the image, analyze it for the elements and principles of design, the composition, and then what you think the artist's intended message was for the piece.  Make sure to cite your sources and give credit to the photographer.

Photograph by: Ansel Adams

Graphic Design Blog Assignment: Week #6 (due Friday, Oct. 21st)

For this week's blog assignment, please post a finished jpeg image of your Typography assignment!  After posting the picture give a brief explanation of the text that you used (it's lyrics and meaning) and how your image connects to that text.  After this explanation, talk about what it is in your image that you think is very successful.  Then discuss what you would change about your typography design were you to do it over again.  Happy blogging!