Planner: Photobook and Essay

SPRING TERM – COURSEWORK
DEADLINE MON 11 / TUE 12 FEB – MOCK EXAM

Here is a link to the Personal-Study-Planner-Tracker-2018-19 for the remaining 6 weeks

Week 16: 8  – 14 Jan
Edit images and complete essay introduction

Political Landscape: Lesson time (Mon, Tue, Thurs & Fri)
Bring images from new photo-shoots to lessons and follow these instructions

  • Save shoots in folder and import into Lightroom
  • Organisation: Create a new  Collection from each new shoot inside Collection Set: Political Landscape
  • Editing: select 8-12 images from each shoot.
  • Experimenting: Adjust images in Develop, both as Colour and B&W images appropriate to your intentions
  • Export images as JPGS (1000 pixels) and save in a folder: BLOG
  • Create a Blogpost with edited images and an evaluation; explaining what you focused on in each shoot and how you intend to develop your next photoshoot.
  • Make references to artists references, previous work, experiments, inspiration etc.
  • Prep for photobook design: Make a rough selection of your 40-50 best pictures from all shoots. Make sure you have adjusted and standardised all the pictures in terms of exposure, colour balance.

Further experimentation:

  • Export same set of images from Lightroom as TIFF (4000 pixels)
  • Experimentation: demonstrate further creativity using Photoshop to make composite/ montage/ typology/ grids/ diptych/triptych, text/ typology etc appropriate to your intentions
  • contrast, brightness and produced a duplicate a set in B&W.
  • Make sure you annotate process and techniques used and evaluate each experiment

Essay: Lesson time (Wed)

  • Complete Paragraph 1 and upload to the blog no later than Mon 14 Jan.