Text and Images ProjectIntroduction to Photography

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Fine Art – Robert Indiana style paintingPhotography -

ReminderExpectations• All class work and Homework is used as

coursework and goes towards your final GCSE grades – 60% Coursework & 40% Exam

All work needs to be produced to a high standard.

• Homework is set once a week – in sketchbook and written in homework dairy.

• Every lesson you need to bring sketchbook and a USB to save your work and photographs on.

• You must have access to a digital camera at home.( not a phone camera)

What is Photography?

Definitions

• Photography is the process of forming stable or permanent visible images directly or indirectly by the action.

• Photography is one of the most important tools in scientific and technical fields. It extends the range of vision, allowing records to be made of things or events.

What does Photography mean to you?• In your life• In your world• What do you use it for ?• When do you use it ?• What different types of Photography do you

use?• Why do you use it?

In groups create a spider diagram of your ideas

PHOTOGRAPHY

What other things can you do with Photography that you would like to learn

about?

• Techniques• Equipment• Images• Styles• History

Add your ideas to your spider diagram

Task: In your sketchbook create your own spider diagram about

photography using the ideas from the group

What is a Digital SLR camera?

SLR cameraDSLR camera

• Single lense Reflex -SLR• Digital Single Lense reflex -DSLR

Task:

• Using the sheet provided – write a summary of what you understand about what a DSLR or DSL camera is.

• You can present you summary with a title and drawings from the sheet.

Homework task• Research you need to find out what a point and shoot

camera is.• In your sketchbook present some writing and images

about what a point and shoot camera is• Compare and contrast this to the DSLR and SLR

cameras – you may need to do some more research on these cameras.

• Your homework can be written in book or presented on computer and printed out and stuck in book.

• Homework needs to be written in diary and on homework schedule in sketchbook.

What is a Still Life?

• How would you create a still life using Photography?

• What would you need to create the Still Life?

• Create a spider diagram to present your ideas

How are you going to set up your Still life?

Jan Groover