Assignment #2: DOF and Motion

8 Images:

• 4 images experimenting with interesting effects of depth of field (DOF)
• 4 images experimenting with blurring or freezing motion.

These photographs will be edited  in color.  Therefore, use the skills, tools, and filters you will learn in the next two weeks to create strong color effects in each image.

CRITIQUE: FEBRUARY 22

Posting:

• Before 9:00 PM Tuesday, February 21:
• Upload your eight edited photos.
• Divide them into separate "DOF" and "Motion" categories.
• Tell us a little bit about what you think of each photo.
• After 9:00 PM:
• Go to the blogs of each of your peers (a link to the main blog is attached) and leave comments about their work.
• What have they done well? What could be done differently? Do you see them struggling with or succeeding at something that you tried in your own work? Etc.

Student Examples:

Motion

D.O.F

Color Balance Settings for Sepia and Cooltone

SEPIA

Assignment # 1: Black & White

Five Different Versions of One Composition in Black & White

• Shoot 36 exposures with your camera's settings on automatic. (We will do this in class on Wednesday.)
• Choose one exposure to submit for the assignment.
• Using the tools and filters that we will cover in class, edit this composition in 5 different ways.
• Critique: Monday, February 6

• Posting:
• Before 9:00 PM Sunday, February 5:
• Upload your five edited photos and the original color photo for comparison into a new post
• Tell us which one you feel looks “perfect” and why.
• Tell us a little bit about what you were trying to accomplish and/or which tools you used to accomplish each version of the photo.
• * After 9:00 PM:
• Go to the blogs of each of your peers (a link to the main blog is attached) and leave comments about their work.
• What have they done well? What could be done differently? Do you see them struggling with or succeeding at something that you tried in your own work? Etc.

About Me

Since I am asking all of you to share some information about yourselves on your blog, I figured it would only be fair that I share a little as well.

My name is Jason Cole.  I attended Bethel (College) back in the 1990s, graduating with a student-initiated major combining Art and Literature.  I then moved to Memphis, TN, and worked for Youth Villages for several years.  I earned my MFA in 2008 from Memphis College of Art and proceeded to teach as an adjunct instructor at a number of colleges and universities until I learned that Bethel University had instituted an art major and needed to hire a faculty member with an MFA!  I immediately applied for the position and was fortunate enough to be hired 2011.

In 2004, I was married to the love of my life, Megan:

After over 18 years, a lot more gray at my temples and in my beard, considerably longer hair on my head, and one late-arrival daughter, our family looks a bit different:

Our daughter, Augustana, is almost 7 years old and a bundle of energy.  I have passed along to her my love of Star Wars (as evidenced by my digitally manipulated photo of her with a lightsaber) and is obsessed with The Nightmare Before Christmas and unicorns.  She also never stops talking.  Never.

 

 

When it comes to art, I dabble in a little of it all: painting, drawing, photography, digital, and video.  If you are curious about my work, My website is jasonwilliamcole.com  Of particular relevance to this class would be my album of digital art.

I am looking forward to an interesting semester filled with unique work from all of you!  Here we go!

Course Syllabus

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