Hands-on Project PowerPoint: Photography

Understanding color, light, contrast, and value.

Understanding the technological development of artistic media demonstrated by the selected artworks

20 points (see grading rubric below)

Read assignment entirely. Failure to read and follow instructions results in a lower grade.

Submit assignment to Eagle Online (see schedule in your syllabus for assignment due date. No late work or email accepted)

Warning: Check twice to see if your correct assignment is submitted. Failure to read and follow instructions results in a lower grade. Failure to submit assignment results in a zero (0) grade for the assignment.  Students are responsible for the submission of their work.

Follow instructions for submission or check with the IT department (see syllabus for contact information). Do not contact me if you are having difficulties submitting this assignment, contact IT department for their help.

Do NOT send any assignments to email. All assignments must be submitted to Eagle Online Canvas. Do NOT leave assignment in ‘comments’ section of assignment. This will delay grading.

Look at the schedule to pace yourself for the Hands-on Project due date.

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We do not expect everyone to be an artist, but you will be amazed and surprised by what you experience and see as a result of creating a hands-on project! All Art Appreciation students at HCC are expected to try their hand at making an original work of art.

1. Do not wait until the last minute to photograph your images you want to use in your final artwork.
2. This assignment submission opens during the week stated on the schedule.

Supplies:

1. Digital Camera. Your phone camera, digital camera, film camera, or throw away camera. Any type of camera will do as long as you can take pictures and transfer them onto your computer.
2. Microsoft PowerPoint program (updated)
   1. You may use your Outlook app for PowerPoint program (contact IT for help). If I am unable to read your PowerPoint I will not grade it.

Directions:

For the Impressionists, the changing qualities of light were their primary content.  To understand the fleeting qualities of light and color in the landscape, you will take photographs of one specific landscape during different times of the day/night to capture the changing effects of light, color and mood.

For our assignment and purposes, landscape photograph is defined as an image with the sky and ground (the horizon line) included.  It could be a country scene as well as an image of the city.

The Impressionist Claude Monet serves as a great example.  He worked with the same subject over and over again; from haystacks to lily pads, train stations to cathedrals.  Visit the Metropolitan Museum website below for further information about his Rouen Cathedral Series.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cmon/ho_30.95.250.htm

Assignment:

1. Choose the one specific landscape scene that you will be photographing. (This means pick a landscape that you can photograph over at different times a day and different weather conditions.) Do NOT move the camera. Take the exact same scene over and over again.

Take several photographs of this scene over the course of several days making sure to vary the times of day and weather conditions (if possible) you are photographing (but NOT varying the angle and distance from which you take the photos of your one chosen landscape).  As you take your photographs be sure to note the date, weather conditions (stormy, cloudy, sunny, etc.) and time (early morning, nighttime, afternoon, etc.) of each photograph.  You should have different times of the day especially for your photographs to see how light effects the landscape.  After you have downloaded the photos to a computer choose ten (and only 10) photographs that show the most contrast in lighting, color and mood.

• On your first slide, state your name and CRN number and the title of your entire work of art.
•  Then “mount” your ten chosen images digitally in a PowerPoint presentation. 
• Be sure to label by bullet each of the ten (10) photographs with the date and time and weather conditions the photograph was taken.  Use at least a 12 font for this information. This image should fill the page as much as possible along with the information requested above.

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• Bullet the following on each slide: Use of art fundamentals in your artist’s statement. Check your textbook part 1 of ideas. Use at least five (5) of these fundamentals to describe your work.

Do NOT use others’ photographs since this is not the assignment and is considered plagiarism. This must be your original work.

• Completion
• You should have a total of eleven (11) slides.
• Submit in PowerPoint only in the assignment in-box only.

Do NOT email asking when the assignment is open. This assignment submission will not open until the week listed on your syllabus.

This assignment submission is open during the scheduled week of completion. (See email schedule)

This grading rubric adheres to the above closely. Please read and follow instructions carefully. Failure to follow rubric will result in a zero (0).

These instructions take the subjectivity out of the grading process.

If you feel restricted creatively, create another collage but submit the assignment artwork to receive credit. Since this artwork is done for a grade, I must grade as objectively as possible. A grading rubric assists in the final grade.

*Grading Rubric