Assignment #5 - Exploring the Vernacular Landscape

Intermediae Photography
Assignment #5 - Vernacular Landscape

Please hand in this sheet in a protective plastic sleeve together with your proof sheet(s) taped to the back of your mounted fiber-base prints. Slide your unmounted prints into a polyethylene or polypropylene storage bag together with a piece of conservation board, proof sheet(s) and this sheet.

Assignment Description:
Go to the edge of nature and culture and trespass that space with your camera. Make two 11 x 14 inch prints on fiber-base paper of the same image. One should be untoned, the other should be selenium toned.

Related Reading Assignment:
Two Landscapes by Robert Adams

Assignment Objective:
We will endeavor to understand how for the past thirty years landscape photography has focused on the human use and abuse of the earth. The point of this assignment is to use the camera to explore the boundaries of what you interpret to be natural and cultural. This will involve engaging the landscape with a spacious mind, fully aware of the details that present themselves. On a technical level, this assignment will familiarize us with toning and advanced exposure and development techniques.

Suggestions:
If possible, use a medium or large format camera (optional). Do not photograph a cityscape with no indication of unpopulated land, or a classical landscape with no sign of humanity. Avoid stereotypes. If you can, use a wide-angle lens to increase depth of field and enhance the sense of vastness. Take time to genuinely explore and enter unknown territory.

Evaluation Criteria:
Craftsmanship - Sharpness
Exposure (full shadow and highlight detail)
Contrast (a solid black, a bright white, and a full range of gray values)
Value (appropriate lightness / darkness)
Toning
Needs dodging and/or burning
Cleanness (no dust, water spots, scratches)
Mounting (clean and straight edges parallel to board, well adhered, no heat damage)
Print damage

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

Grade ___________

Student Name_______________________________

Teacher Comments:

Intermediae Photography Assignment #5 - Vernacular Landscape Please hand in this sheet in a protective plastic sleeve together with your proof sheet(s) taped to the back of your mounted fiber-base prints. Slide your unmounted prints into a polyethylene or polypropylene storage bag together with a piece of conservation board, proof sheet(s) and this sheet. Assignment Description: Go to the edge of nature and culture and trespass that space with your camera. Make two 11 x 14 inch prints on fiber-base paper of the same image. One should be untoned, the other should be selenium toned. Related Reading Assignment: Two Landscapes by Robert Adams Assignment Objective: We will endeavor to understand how for the past thirty years landscape photography has focused on the human use and abuse of the earth. The point of this assignment is to use the camera to explore the boundaries of what you interpret to be natural and cultural. This will involve engaging the landscape with a spacious mind, fully aware of the details that present themselves. On a technical level, this assignment will familiarize us with toning and advanced exposure and development techniques. Suggestions: If possible, use a medium or large format camera (optional). Do not photograph a cityscape with no indication of unpopulated land, or a classical landscape with no sign of humanity. Avoid stereotypes. If you can, use a wide-angle lens to increase depth of field and enhance the sense of vastness. Take time to genuinely explore and enter unknown territory. Evaluation Criteria: Craftsmanship - Sharpness Exposure (full shadow and highlight detail) Contrast (a solid black, a bright white, and a full range of gray values) Value (appropriate lightness / darkness) Toning Needs dodging and/or burning Cleanness (no dust, water spots, scratches) Mounting (clean and straight edges parallel to board, well adhered, no heat damage) Print damage Aesthetic / Conceptual refinement (accomplishes assignment description and meets objective) Grade ___________ Student Name_______________________________ Teacher Comments:
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