Best Image from the Semester

Best Image Fall Semester

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What was your intention when creating this photo?

How would a viewer interpret your photo? Think about the different perspectives of various viewers)

What is the dominant art element in this photograph? How does this element strengthen the composition and content of this photo?

What are this photograph's expressive features and how do they enhance the meaning of this photograph?

What techniques did you use when talking the photo and what did you do in Photoshop?

How do these techniques enhance and strengthen the content?

Critique - Color

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Name your post "Critique - Color"

Take a screenshot of your best image (Command Shift 4) and insert it here:

How did you use color to create expressive photos?

How did you use the creative process to complete your photos?

How did the use color create meaning and mood in your best photo?

How did color strengthen the content and composition of your best photo?

What would you do differently next time you take color photos?

Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates critique blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Goal Setting/Planning - Color

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Name your post "Goal Setting/Planning - Color"

*Apply what you learned from your Inquiry Activities to do your goal setting and planning.


Considering the knowledge you already have, where do you need to focus your learning? What are your learning goals for the project?

How will you use what you learned about the essential questions in your photography for this project?

What did you learn from the last projects that you will use in this project?

What additional questions will you need to ask yourself to focus your learning?



Brainstorm ideas for... (Remember to focus on your role and essential questions in your planning)

Content/context: subject matter, theme, story, message, place, time - (who, what, why, where, and when)

Composition/Dynamics: elements of art/principles of design. What kind of elements will you focus on? How will you arranging those elements?

Technical: camera settings, shooting techniques, quality lighting, equipment.

How will content, composition, and technique work as a unified whole in your photographs?


Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates goal setting planning blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your post.

Critique - Things

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Name your post "Critique - Things"

Take a screenshot of your best image (Command Shift 4) and insert it here:


1. What were your learning goals for the project?


2. How did you take extraordinary photos of ordinary objects?


3. Who was Edward Weston and how did he take photos that were extraordinary? How did you apply this information to your own photos?


4. What is the process for getting chosen to show your work at an art gallery?

5. Why would a gallery choose to display your photo? What art qualities does your image possess?

6. What do you still need to work on to improve your photos enough to be gallery quality?

Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates critique blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Goal Setting/Planning - Things

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Name your post "Goal Setting/Planning - Things"

*Apply what you learned from your Inquiry Activities to do your goal setting and planning.

Considering the knowledge you already have, where do you need to focus your learning? What are your learning goals for the project?

How will you use what you learned about the essential questions in your photography for this project?

What did you learn from the last projects that you will use in this project?

What additional questions will you need to ask yourself to focus your learning?



Brainstorm ideas for "Things - Elevating Ordinary into Extra Ordinary"... (Remember to focus on your role and essential questions in your planning)

Content/context: subject matter, theme, story, message, place, time - (who, what, why, where, and when)

Composition/Dynamics: elements of art/principles of design. What kind of elements will you focus on? How will you arranging those elements?

Technical: camera settings, shooting techniques, quality lighting!!!!, equipment.

How will content, composition, and technique work as a unified whole in your photographs?


Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates goal setting planning blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Critique - PTSA Reflections "The World Would be A Better Place if...."

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Name your post "Critique - PTSA Reflections "The World Would be A Better Place if...."

Take a screenshot of your best image (Command Shift 4) and insert it here:

How is personal content and your perspective important to this image?

How can art influence change?

How do content, composition, and technique work together to create an expressive image that warrants a second look by the viewer?

How does self regulation and self reflection impact the results of an image that warrants a second look by the viewer?

From what you learned from this project, what would you do differently next time to improve your photography?

Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates critique blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Goal Setting/Planning PTSA Reflections: The World Would be a Better Place If...

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Name your post "Goal Setting/Planning - PTSA Reflections: The World would be a better place if..."


How will you use what you learned about the essential questions in your photography for this project?

What did you learn from the last projects that you will use in this project?(Creative Process and Expressive Qualities/Perspective)

Considering the knowledge you already have, where do you need to focus your learning (this will be you learning goal for the project)?

What additional questions will you need to ask yourself to focus your learning to meet your goal?

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Brainstorm ideas for... (Remember to focus on your role and essential questions in your planning)

Content/context: subject matter, theme, story, message, place, time - (who, what, why, where, and when)

Composition/Dynamics: elements of art/principles of design. What kind of elements will you focus on? How will you arranging those elements?

Technical: camera settings, shooting techniques, quality lighting, equipment.

How will content, composition, and technique work as a unified whole in your photographs?


Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates goal setting planning blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Critique - Landscape

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Name your post "Critique - Landscape"

Take a screenshot of your best image (Command Shift 4) and insert it here:

How did your planning and goal setting impact your final landscape image?

What composition tips did you follow when taking the photos of landscapes? How did the tips impact the success of your best photo?

Evaluate the quality of light in your landscape photograph. What type of light did you take the photo in? Would a different type of light improve your photo?

What would you do differently next time you take landscape photos?

Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates critique blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Goal Setting/Planning Landscape

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Name your post "Goal Setting/Planning - Landscape"

*Apply what you learned from your Inquiry Activities to do your goal setting and planning.


Considering the knowledge you already have, where do you need to focus your learning? What are your learning goals for the project?

How will you use what you learned about the essential questions in your photography for this project?

What did you learn from the last projects that you will use in this project?

What additional questions will you need to ask yourself to focus your learning?



Brainstorm ideas for... (Remember to focus on your role and essential questions in your planning)

Content/context: subject matter, theme, story, message, place, time - (who, what, why, where, and when)

Composition/Dynamics: elements of art/principles of design. What kind of elements will you focus on? How will you arranging those elements?

Technical: camera settings, shooting techniques, quality lighting, equipment.

How will content, composition, and technique work as a unified whole in your photographs?


Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates goal setting planning blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Critique Motion

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Name your post "Critique - Motion"

Take a screenshot of your best image (Command Shift 4)


1. What were your learning goals for the project?

2. What type of motion is this photo and what kind of shutter speed did you use. How does this technique contribute to the meaning of the photo?

3.What expressive qualities (Explain using Elements of Art & Principles of Design Vocabulary) does your motion image possess? How do the expressive qualities contribute to the meaning of the photo?

4. For what purposes could this motion image serve in local and global society?


Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates critique blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Goal Setting/Planning Blog

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Name your post "Goal Setting/Planning - Motion"


How will you use what you learned about the essential questions in your photography for this project?

What did you learn from the last projects that you will use in this project?(Creative Process and Expressive Qualities/Perspective)

Considering the knowledge you already have, where do you need to focus your learning (this will be you learning goal for the project)?

What additional questions will you need to ask yourself to focus your learning to meet your goal?

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Brainstorm ideas for... (Remember to focus on your role and essential questions in your planning)

Content/context: subject matter, theme, story, message, place, time - (who, what, why, where, and when)

Composition/Dynamics: elements of art/principles of design. What kind of elements will you focus on? How will you arranging those elements?

Technical: camera settings, shooting techniques, quality lighting, equipment.

How will content, composition, and technique work as a unified whole in your photographs?


Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates goal setting planning blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Critique - Art Portrait

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Name your post "Critique - Art Portrait"

Take a screenshot of your best image (Command Shift 4) and insert it here:


1. What were your learning goals for the project?


2. What expressive qualities does your photograph possess to consider it fine art?


3. What is the difference in expressive qualities and perspective between your photograph and a snapshot?


4. How does it’s expressive features (elements of art/principles of design) create meaning?

Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates critique blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Photography 1: Art Portrait Blog - Annie Leibovitz

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Goal Setting/Planning - Art Portrait

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Name your post "Goal Setting/Planning - Art Portrait"

What are your learning goals for the project?

How will you use what you learned about the essential questions in your photography?

What did you learn from the last project that you will use in this project?(Creative Process)

Considering the knowledge you already have, where do you need to focus your learning?

What additional questions will you need to ask yourself to focus your learning?



Brainstorm ideas for... (Remember to focus on your role and essential questions in your planning)

Content/context: subject matter, theme, story, message, place, time - (who, what, why, where, and when)

Composition/Dynamics: elements of art/principles of design. What kind of elements (line, shape, color, etc) will you focus on? How will you arrange (repetition, asymmetrical balance, movement, etc.) those elements?

Technical: camera settings, shooting techniques, quality lighting, equipment.

How will content, composition, and technique work as a unified whole in your photographs?


Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates goal setting planning blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Critique - Inside the Box

Critique - Inside the Box

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Name your post "Critique - Inside the Box"

Take a screenshot of your best image (Command Shift 4) and insert image here:

Answer the following questions:

1. What were your learning goals for the project? How did you meet your learning goals? What do you need to improve for next time?

2. How did you use all aspects of content, technique, and composition (Elements of art & Principles of Design) to impact the expressive qualities in your image?

3. What is the creative process in photography and how did you use this process in your project?

Collaboration/Communication:
You will look at classmates critique blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Planning/Goal Setting - Inside the Box

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Name your post "Goal Setting/Planning - Inside the Box"

*Apply what you learned from your Inquiry Activities to do your goal setting and planning for the project.

Goal Setting:

1. Considering the knowledge you already have, where do you need to focus your learning? What are your learning goals for the project?


2. Answer the following questions:

What part of the creative process is goal setting/planning?

What part of the creative process is taking the photos?

What part of the creative process is editing(finalizing) in Photoshop?

What part of the creative process is posting your final image to your blog?


Planning:

Brainstorm ideas for... (Remember to focus on your role and essential questions in your planning)

Content - What objects you are going to focus on in your 10x10 area and why you chose those particular objects? What is your theme or mood you are going to convey in your photos?

Composition - Elements/Principles: What art elements (line, shape, color, etc.) will you focus on? How will they strengthen your content?

Technique - What type of light will you shoot in, what shooting modes will you set your camera on? If you have aperture or shutter priority what f-stops will you use to affect depth of field? Will you use a tripod? What types of vantage point/angles will you take photos from?

Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates goal setting planning blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Final Blog Post

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Insert a screenshot of the first photo you took for this class here:

1. Explain how this is a good photo in terms of content, composition, and technique.

2. How could this photo be better in terms of content, composition, and technique?


Insert a screenshot of the best photo you took for this class here:


1. Explain how this is a good photo in terms of content, composition, and technique.

2. How could this photo be better in terms of content, composition, and technique?

3. How did your learning from this semesters inquiry activities impact the quality of this photo?

4. How do setting learning goals and planning impact your photos?

5. What do you still need to learn to take better quality photos?

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Critique - Color

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Name your post "Critique - Color"

Take a screenshot of your best image (Command Shift 4) and insert it here:

How did you use color to create expressive photos?

How did you use the creative process to complete your photos?

How did the use color create meaning and mood in your best photo?

How did color strengthen the content and composition of your best photo?

What would you do differently next time you take color photos?

Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates critique blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Goal Setting/Planning - Pattern & Texture

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Name your post "Goal Setting/Planning - Pattern & Texture"

*Apply what you learned from your Inquiry Activities to do your goal setting and planning.


Considering the knowledge you already have, where do you need to focus your learning? What are your learning goals for the project?

How will you use what you learned about the essential questions in your photography for this project?

What did you learn from the last projects that you will use in this project?

What additional questions will you need to ask yourself to focus your learning?



Brainstorm ideas for... (Remember to focus on your role and essential questions in your planning)

Content/context: subject matter, theme, story, message, place, time - (who, what, why, where, and when)

Composition/Dynamics: elements of art/principles of design. What kind of elements will you focus on? How will you arranging those elements?

Technical: camera settings, shooting techniques, quality lighting, equipment.

How will content, composition, and technique work as a unified whole in your photographs?


Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates goal setting planning blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your post.

Goal Setting/Planning - Color

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Name your post "Goal Setting/Planning - Color"

*Apply what you learned from your Inquiry Activities to do your goal setting and planning.


Considering the knowledge you already have, where do you need to focus your learning? What are your learning goals for the project?

How will you use what you learned about the essential questions in your photography for this project?

What did you learn from the last projects that you will use in this project?

What additional questions will you need to ask yourself to focus your learning?



Brainstorm ideas for... (Remember to focus on your role and essential questions in your planning)

Content/context: subject matter, theme, story, message, place, time - (who, what, why, where, and when)

Composition/Dynamics: elements of art/principles of design. What kind of elements will you focus on? How will you arranging those elements?

Technical: camera settings, shooting techniques, quality lighting, equipment.

How will content, composition, and technique work as a unified whole in your photographs?


Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates goal setting planning blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your post.

Goal Setting/Planning - Depth of Field

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Name your post "Goal Setting/Planning - Depth of Field"

*Apply what you learned from your Inquiry Activities to do your goal setting and planning.


Considering the knowledge you already have, where do you need to focus your learning? What are your learning goals for the project?

How will you use what you learned about the essential questions in your photography for this project?

What did you learn from the last projects that you will use in this project?

What additional questions will you need to ask yourself to focus your learning?



Brainstorm ideas for... (Remember to focus on your role and essential questions in your planning)

Content/context: The objects you are going to be bring from home and why you chose those particular objects?

Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates goal setting planning blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Critique - Landscape

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Name your post "Critique - Landscape"

Take a screenshot of your best image (Command Shift 4) and insert it here:

How did your planning and goal setting impact your final landscape image?

What composition tips did you follow when taking the photos of landscapes? How did the tips impact the success of your best photo?

Evaluate the quality of light in your landscape photograph. What type of light did you take the photo in? Would a different type of light improve your photo?

What would you do differently next time you take landscape photos?

Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates critique blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Goal Setting Planning - Landscape

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Name your post "Goal Setting/Planning - Landscape"

*Apply what you learned from your Inquiry Activities to do your goal setting and planning.


Considering the knowledge you already have, where do you need to focus your learning? What are your learning goals for the project?

How will you use what you learned about the essential questions in your photography for this project?

What did you learn from the last projects that you will use in this project?

What additional questions will you need to ask yourself to focus your learning?



Brainstorm ideas for... (Remember to focus on your role and essential questions in your planning)

Content/context: subject matter, theme, story, message, place, time - (who, what, why, where, and when)

Composition/Dynamics: elements of art/principles of design. What kind of elements will you focus on? How will you arranging those elements?

Technical: camera settings, shooting techniques, quality lighting, equipment.

How will content, composition, and technique work as a unified whole in your photographs?


Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates goal setting planning blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Critique - Things

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Name your post "Critique - Things"

Take a screenshot of your best image (Command Shift 4) and insert it here:


1. What were your learning goals for the project?


2. How did you take extraordinary photos of ordinary objects?


3. Who was Edward Weston and how did he take photos that were extraordinary? How did you apply this information to your own photos?


4. What is the process for getting chosen to show your work at an art gallery? 

5. Why would a gallery choose to display your photo? What art qualities does your image possess? 

6. What do you still need to work on to improve your photos enough to be gallery quality?

Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates critique blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Goal Setting/Planning - Things

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Name your post "Goal Setting/Planning - Motion"

*Apply what you learned from your Inquiry Activities to do your goal setting and planning.

Considering the knowledge you already have, where do you need to focus your learning? What are your learning goals for the project?

How will you use what you learned about the essential questions in your photography for this project?

What did you learn from the last projects that you will use in this project?

What additional questions will you need to ask yourself to focus your learning?



Brainstorm ideas for... (Remember to focus on your role and essential questions in your planning)

Content/context: subject matter, theme, story, message, place, time - (who, what, why, where, and when)

Composition/Dynamics: elements of art/principles of design. What kind of elements will you focus on? How will you arranging those elements?

Technical: camera settings, shooting techniques, quality lighting, equipment.

How will content, composition, and technique work as a unified whole in your photographs?


Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates goal setting planning blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

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Critique - Motion

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Name your post "Critique - Art Portrait"

Take a screenshot of your best image (Command Shift 4)


1. What were your learning goals for the project?

2. What type of motion is this photo and what kind of shutter speed did you use. How does this type of motion contribute to the meaning of the photo?

3.What aesthetic qualities does your motion image possess?

4. For what purposes could this motion image serve in local and global society?


Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates critique blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Goal Setting/Planning - Motion

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Name your post "Goal Setting/Planning - Motion"

What are your learning goals for the project?

How will you use what you learned about the essential questions in your photography for this project?



What did you learn from the last projects that you will use in this project?(Creative Process and Expressive Qualities/Perspective)

Considering the knowledge you already have, where do you need to focus your learning?

What additional questions will you need to ask yourself to focus your learning?



Brainstorm ideas for... (Remember to focus on your role and essential questions in your planning)

Content/context: subject matter, theme, story, message, place, time - (who, what, why, where, and when)

Composition/Dynamics: elements of art/principles of design. What kind of elements will you focus on? How will you arranging those elements?

Technical: camera settings, shooting techniques, quality lighting, equipment.

How will content, composition, and technique work as a unified whole in your photographs?


Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates goal setting planning blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.

Critique - Art Portrait

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Name your post "Critique - Art Portrait"

Take a screenshot of your best image (Command Shift 4)


1. What were your learning goals for the project?


2. What expressive qualities does your photograph possess to consider it fine art?


3. What is the difference in expressive qualities and perspective between your photograph and a snapshot?


4. How does it’s expressive features (elements of art/principles of design) create meaning?

Collaboration/Communication: You will look at classmates critique blogs and make insightful supportive comments, questions, and/or suggestions to help them increase learning. You will respond back to any comments made to your blog.