Assignment #1 - Deep Depth of Field

Color Photography
Assignment # 2 - Coded Color

Please hand in this sheet together with your print packed in an archival clear sleeve with museum board backing. Your print can be whatever size you deem appropriate. Include a CD with unflattened adjustment layers, and contact sheets of your RAW files. If working hybrid (scanned negatives or transparencies), include a small 4 x 6 contact sheet provided by a commercial lab, or your original transparencies in plastic sheets. If any of the above elements are missing the assignment will be marked "incomplete."

Assignment Description:
Work with color as a metaphor or symbol for something other than itself. Understand that the audience of your photograph will only understand your intended meaning if they can access the code you are employing.

Assignment Objective:
The purpose of this assignment is to become aware of how color can function as a social sign, relative to a particular culture. This analysis leads one to consider a cross-cultural "pattern language" of color.

Suggestions:
Take one color and see how its meaning changes when coded in different contexts. Investigate the use of language in relation to colors. For example: being green with envy; a green party member; pretty green at doing something; or having a green thumb, etc.

Evaluation Criteria:
Craftsmanship - Sharpness
Exposure
Contrast
Value (appropriate lightness / darkness)
Needs dodging and / or burning
Cleanness

Aesthetic / Conceptual refinement (accomplishes assignment description and meets objective)

Grade ___________

Student Name_______________________________

Teacher Comments:

Color Photography Assignment # 2 - Coded Color Please hand in this sheet together with your print packed in an archival clear sleeve with museum board backing. Your print can be whatever size you deem appropriate. Include a CD with unflattened adjustment layers, and contact sheets of your RAW files. If working hybrid (scanned negatives or transparencies), include a small 4 x 6 contact sheet provided by a commercial lab, or your original transparencies in plastic sheets. If any of the above elements are missing the assignment will be marked "incomplete." Assignment Description: Work with color as a metaphor or symbol for something other than itself. Understand that the audience of your photograph will only understand your intended meaning if they can access the code you are employing. Assignment Objective: The purpose of this assignment is to become aware of how color can function as a social sign, relative to a particular culture. This analysis leads one to consider a cross-cultural "pattern language" of color. Suggestions: Take one color and see how its meaning changes when coded in different contexts. Investigate the use of language in relation to colors. For example: being green with envy; a green party member; pretty green at doing something; or having a green thumb, etc. Evaluation Criteria: Craftsmanship - Sharpness Exposure Contrast Value (appropriate lightness / darkness) Needs dodging and / or burning Cleanness Aesthetic / Conceptual refinement (accomplishes assignment description and meets objective) Grade ___________ Student Name_______________________________ Teacher Comments:
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