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Week 3 Photography Assignment
Submitted by harrisol on Mon, 01/29/2007 - 5:04pm.
Visualizing Ecology
Week 3: Photography
Due Week 4 by Friday 9 am
Technical Assignment
In preparation for your portrait assignment below, take 10 photographs of the same subject in which you vary the composition, lighting, flash, and exposure. Print these out in black and white in the computer center on cheap paper. Small sizes are fine. Label each photograph to indicate what you varied. Take your best photograph and use the features we learned in Photoshop this week (dodge, burn, blur etc) to change the photograph. Print each change on cheap paper.
Expressive Assignment
This week we will explore the metaphor of “organism” to describe the relationships between plants, animals and conditions in a particular habitat. In chapter 9, Bush discusses different types of relationships between species. These relationships may or may not be mutually beneficial. For example predator-prey relationships benefit individual predators. Prey species develop defensive weapons. Species can also have symbiotic relationships. These include parasitism (the parasite benefits but harms the host), commensalisms (organisms that benefit from the host but don’t harm it) and mutualism (the relationship benefits both).
Make a self-portrait or a portrait of another person that acknowledges your/his/her personal interdependence with specific plants and animals.
For example, I might want to recognize that the oxygen I breathe comes from the campus forest. Or, I might want to express my love for my cat. Or, as a fast-food junkie, I could acknowledge that the beef I eat is raised on corn or the coffee plants are grown in the shade in South America. My cigarettes come from tobacco plants. All of these items are transported to me with oil derived from dinosaurs. I could also develop a portrait of my relationship with my roommate who is a total parasite.
You will have to focus this portrait on a few key or favorite relationships.
Turn in two versions of this photograph. One should be the photograph as shot. The second should be the image you improved in Photoshop. Print each image on good paper in the Digital Imaging Studio. Both images should be at least 8 x 10”.
Week 3: Photography
Due Week 4 by Friday 9 am
Technical Assignment
In preparation for your portrait assignment below, take 10 photographs of the same subject in which you vary the composition, lighting, flash, and exposure. Print these out in black and white in the computer center on cheap paper. Small sizes are fine. Label each photograph to indicate what you varied. Take your best photograph and use the features we learned in Photoshop this week (dodge, burn, blur etc) to change the photograph. Print each change on cheap paper.
Expressive Assignment
This week we will explore the metaphor of “organism” to describe the relationships between plants, animals and conditions in a particular habitat. In chapter 9, Bush discusses different types of relationships between species. These relationships may or may not be mutually beneficial. For example predator-prey relationships benefit individual predators. Prey species develop defensive weapons. Species can also have symbiotic relationships. These include parasitism (the parasite benefits but harms the host), commensalisms (organisms that benefit from the host but don’t harm it) and mutualism (the relationship benefits both).
Make a self-portrait or a portrait of another person that acknowledges your/his/her personal interdependence with specific plants and animals.
For example, I might want to recognize that the oxygen I breathe comes from the campus forest. Or, I might want to express my love for my cat. Or, as a fast-food junkie, I could acknowledge that the beef I eat is raised on corn or the coffee plants are grown in the shade in South America. My cigarettes come from tobacco plants. All of these items are transported to me with oil derived from dinosaurs. I could also develop a portrait of my relationship with my roommate who is a total parasite.
You will have to focus this portrait on a few key or favorite relationships.
Turn in two versions of this photograph. One should be the photograph as shot. The second should be the image you improved in Photoshop. Print each image on good paper in the Digital Imaging Studio. Both images should be at least 8 x 10”.
