Shooting Project #2: Home

PHD101

Introduction to Photography & Design

Shooting Project#2: Home

Due Week 3, after Lab period

Home.  We photograph our houses, our yards, our families, our friends, our celebrations, our anxieties. We also grow to move beyond ourselves to photograph homes of others--strangers, as well as people we know.  Home is where the camera is, and we use it to record our lives and the lives of others.

What represents “home” to you? Is it the space you live in? The objects you surround yourself with? The people you’re closest to? If you are new to the area, how do you find home here? Do you establish a routine, create familiarity somehow in the midst of the unknown?

During the course of the week, set out to make at least 50 images capturing a sense of the place (or psychological space) that defines home for you.  Work on moving beyond the literal and making the familiar new through the way you photograph it.  For instance, instead of a straight-on shot of your room, try to capture a new perspective and convey your mood and feeling about the place through the way you use composition and light.

Requirements

·       These images must be shot specifically for this assignment and previously shot photographs will not be accepted.   Make sure your date/time function in your camera menu is set properly.

·       Shoot in the exposure mode that’s comfortable to you and will yield the best results.  If you’re not comfortable shooting manually, use the program mode to get proper exposure.

·       Take care to avoid camera shake by shooting in brighter natural light so that slow shutter speeds aren’t necessary (or use a tripod in low light if you know how to do so)

·       Shoot in RAW + high fine jpeg

·       Use only available light – no flash

Submission standards

In class, we’ll review the Lightroom import/export workflow we performed for project one.  You’ll choose 5 - 10 images from the 50 that best convey the theme, and which work well together.  Process & organize them through LR, and remember the following parameters:

·       Add contact info, copyright, and keywords to the IPTC metadata of all images

·       Resize to 150 ppi, 10” for the longest dimension

·       Rename as LastName_ProjectName_sequence#

·       File Format = jpeg

·       Color Space = Adobe RGB

·       Output Sharpening = Screen

Grading

All shooting projects are worth 30 points and are graded according to the following criteria:

·       Image management (following assignment specifications outlined during lab period)

·       Creativity of approach to concept (effort and thought demonstrated)

·       Visual impact (use of photographic seeing, basic mastery of technique)