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Specifics: This is a simple one light portrait of an artist. You can of course use someone other than a real artist, but they should “represent” an artist. Background should be plain. Not a location shoot, but of course it can be done anywhere. (No, my ultra cropped photo that accompanies this assignment is NOT what we are looking for.) Subject should be holding something that...
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Let’s get close up and personal with your subject. Use details and close focus to show us something about your subject we may not be aware of from normal viewing distance. Coming in close for a shot is more than simply focusing a macro lens. It is isolation on many levels. 1. We are isolating the subject with focus. Most Macro shots have very little depth of field, so subjects are sharp and...
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Check out the post at Essentials for Photographers. Featuring 20 Chocolate and Dessert images from the Flickr assignment pages. Cover Photograph by Bret Doss.
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Specifics: This is a concept shoot. NO specifics on format or size. If you want to shoot it and crop it square – cool. I f you want to make a very wide horizontal panorama, cool. Just tell us why the crop was chosen. If you shoot it to format, you can say: “shot to format…” and that is fine. If it is square, tell us why you did it. Illustrate...
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Assignment Nine: CD Cover Assignment: Joni Mitchell Re-release of “Amelia” (fictitious assignment) CD Cover Assignment: A new artist us doing a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “Amelia” (fictitious assignment) Video Critique of this Assignment Here Audio Critique made before the show is here: Free MP3 download: amelia-crit.mp3 Two images: Both square for use on CD cover....
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Photo by John Kleb. Shoot the ingredients for a salad (your recipe) on a white background. Keep the shot very tightly framed. We need a little white space at the foreground for some type. Regional magazine wants a one page article shot for their upcoming issue. Specifics: magazine is 8×10.5″ tall full bleed image, with recipe text over image prefer to put text on the bottom area of...
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I believe that photography is “jazz with a camera”. Always have. The improvisational function of what we do is so similar to a jazz musician that the allegory works incredibly well. In this post I show you one of my recent “improvs” with a handfull of seashells. The point is to narrow the scope of the project to a confined area / time allocation. This increases focus....
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Assignment Number Seven: A photograph of someone using a cellphone for a local communications company point of purchase display and matching brochure. This is what the art director gave you for the job: Click to make larger. And yeah, this is exactly the kinds of things you can get. I have gotten layouts that looked like gorgeous illustrations and layouts on napkins. This is an example of the...
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