#12-MOSAIC PORTRAITS

DIRECTIONS IN CLASS:

1. Make enough photographs (9+) of your subject to assemble a grid -or- mosaic portrait of that person.

Play with changes in distance of the camera to your subject subject....change the focus of the subject slightly...

2. Load photos to your computer, and assemble/develop in Photoshop

DIRECTIONS FOR HOME:
Make a set of images for assembling 3+ mosaic images next week. (Human face, and interesting landscape, an interesting object, your pet, etc... 

MINIMUM DUE:

Assemble (in Photoshop) THREE grid/mosaic portraits - each comprised of at least NINE images each. 

Your choice if you would like to do freeform or grid.

*We will print your final best mosaic/grid portrait.

INSPIRATIONS:
Mark Guglielmo. CLICK HERE.
David Hockney. CLICK HERE.
More Hockney Collage. CLICK HERE.

GRID MOSAIC EXAMPLES:

FREEFORM MOSAIC EXAMPLE:

OTHER POSSIBILITIES to get you thinking:
 

#11: SABATTIER (5+)

DIRECTIONS FOR DEVELOPING YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS:

For each photo...
1. Take photo to BLACK & WHITE.
2. Adjust the BRIGHTNESS + CONTRAST to enhance (deepen and brighten) the values in the photograph.
3. "SAVE AS" the image, and add "BW" to the end of the file name so you do not save over the original. 
4.  Post all images.

NOW...
1. Choose five of your photos that have the HIGHEST CONTRAST.
2. For each photo, OPEN the photo.
3. Create a DUPLICATE LAYER of the background image (Layers palette).
4. Change BLENDING MODE to "EXCLUSION"
5. Open CURVES and adjust the histogram line to a "W" or an "M" to produce a SOLARIZED/SABATTIER image with MACKIE LINES.

You need to post...
5+ photos processed into Sabattier.
Post the original next to the processed image.
(That is 10+ photos total that are posted)

SABATTIER EFFECT.
Sometimes known as "solarization."

Mackie Lines. CLICK HERE.

How to. CLICK HERE.

#9: MULTIPLE EXPOSURE IMAGES (8+)

MULTIPLE EXPOSURE

DIRECTIONS: Using your silhouettes & direct side-light photos, and other photos, combine your photos into various multiple exposures. Use BLEND MODE in the Layers Palette, to blend the various images in your layers. Erase or cut away parts of photos if needed...The beauty is in the unexpected.

Make EIGHT+ multiple exposure images.

More will earn extra credit. 

********************************
Sara Byrne. CLICK HERE.
Christoffer Relander. CLICK HERE.
Dan Mountford. CLICK HERE.
Matt Wisniewski. CLICK HERE.
Nacho Oraechea. CLICK HERE.


Annie Kornberg


Nina Coleman


Hyesung Yu


Erik Radzik

Stefan moses.
Duane Michaels
Arturo Bragaglia
Student Work
Student work.
Student work.
Student work.
Student work.
Student work.

 Hohman.

#8: REMBRANDT & CHIAROSCURO Portraiture

chi·a·ro·scu·ro

/kyärəˈsk(y)o͝orō/

noun

1. • an effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something.
   • *****************************************************************************************************************

DIRECTIONS.

1. Make 5 exposures of a person, or people, using the Rembrandt lighting technique (that is, with the small triangle of highlight on the shadowed side of the face).

2. Make 5 additional exposures using the chiaroscuro technique (does not necessarily need the triangle that is specific to Rembrandt light)

RATIONALE.

To explore intentional light, and exert a bit of control in the way the light illuminates the subject.

NOTE.

All 10+ images must be portraits of people.

 

Chiaroscuro (Italian for light-dark) in art is characterized by strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. More HERE.

Rembrandt lighting is a lighting technique that is sometimes used in studio portrait photography. It can be achieved using one light and a reflector, or two lights, and is popular because it is capable of producing images which appear both natural and compelling with a minimum of equipment. Rembrandt lighting is characterised by an illuminated triangle under the eye of the subject, on the less illuminated side of the face. It is named for the Dutch painter Rembrandt, known for his use of light. More HERE.

In order to achieve the beautiful contrast between light and dark, known as chiaroscuro, there is a method employed by photographers -Rembrandt Lighting.

 

Decoding Chiaroscuro. CLICK HERE.
Click HERE to see and read how it is done.
An Aper(cul)ture article on Rembrandt lighting technique HERE.
Click HERE to see a few more lighting techniques (as well as more on Rembrandt lighting)
Examples. (CLICK HERE).

How to Create Rembrandt Lighting

PROJECT #7: LIGHT & SHADOW (15+ Intentional Images)

#7: LIGHT & SHADOW (15+ Intentional Images)

DIRECTIONS: 
15+ photographs of distinct & dramatic LIGHT and SHADOW in your daily life over the next four days.

THE CHALLENGE:

Make images that have beautiful...striking...sublime...gentle...nuanced...stark...etc...light and shadow. 

Subject matter is of your own choosing 

TO CONSIDER:

-Approach the project as a project of observing. 
-Use the RULE OF THIRDS compositional if possible...but other compositional arrangements are fine.
-Place the LIGHT OR SHADOW you want to be the main focal point in one of the intersections.

-Identify the direction of your light source.

-Silhouettes?

-Side light / direct light portraits?

-Something else you discover...

Robin Broadbent

Olavo Azevedo

EXPOSURE TRIANGLE

  

 

#5: BLUR, Revisited (Shutter Priority)

#5: BLUR, Revisited (Shutter Priority)
 

DIRECTIONS.
1. Set camera to S (shutter priority) -or- Use the Slow Shutter app on your phone.
2. Make 8+ well-intentioned deliberate images of intentional motion blur.
3. For at least FOUR of your subjects, photograph the subject that is moving TWICE, at different shutter speeds. We will create diptychs (like the above examples). The other images you make might be one-off motion blur images.

• Make a range of photos that show fast & slow shutter speeds. 
• Subject matter is your own choosing. 

NOTE.
*Mind your ISO in relation to your shutter speed.
**Your total number of images will be 12 (since you are photographing four of your ideas twice, at different shutter speeds)

4 one time photos = 4

4 subjects, photographed twice = 8

4 + 8 = 12

(Spelling it out like this is not meant to be condescending, just helpful...I hope)

LINK.
Shutter Speed Project Ideas

RATIONALE.
To continue exploration and mastery of manipulating shutter speed in your camera. 

PROJECT #4: SURFACES (after Aaron Siskind, 1903-1991)

Aaron Siskind. Peeling paint (Jerome, Arizona) c.1950

This  close range photo by Aaron Siskind shows peeling paint, displaying a cold dark surface underneath. It's an interesting photo due to the way the flakes of paint point out in different directions, giving it an interesting, rough and rustic texture. The rough texture is also shown through the cracks running around the surface of paint. The central darkness of the peeling paint is the focus of the composition drawing the viewers eye into the depths of the textured cracked surface.  The black and white gives it a depth and contrast between the paint and under surface, creating an abstract image.

San Luis Potosi 16 (Mexico) 1961

RATIONALE: To exercise your artistic/creative seeing eye, and make photographs that are abstracted pieces of the wider view.

DIRECTIONS: Look at the surfaces around you. Notice how light falling on those surfaces creates light, shadow, and ultimately a visual texture. 
Photograph 18+ of these surfaces and bring to next class. 
Note: The philosophy of "less is more" does not apply to us now. If you see & do more, all the better. :)

AARON SISKIND.
Although he started his career as a documentary photographer, Aaron Siskind (American, 1903–1991) quickly became known for his abstract photographs. Socially and professionally close with many of the Abstract Expressionist painters in his native New York, Siskind created photographs in dialogue with painting, attempting to find a new language for photographic depiction that could transform an object into an image, a description into an idea. Across a decades-long career, his work explored what he called “the drama of objects,” imbuing forms with animism and rhythm. (From Art Institute of Chicago website)

LINKS:
Image Search
ArtNet.com
International Center for Photography
Wiki Bio.
Etherton Gallery
Siskind's Peeling Paint at MoMA. CLICK HERE.
Siskind's Wiki Bio. CLICK HERE.
Aaron Siskind Foundation. CLICK HERE.
RISD bio. CLICK HERE.