Sample Beauty in a Second Video

Hi Everyone: this video took about an hour to shoot on the weekend and about an hour to edit today. All of the shots were taken on an  iPhone 7 and edited in iMovie.

Flickr Groups to help you find Inspiration

Click on this LINK: Check out these new Flickr Groups to help keep you inspired

Photo: Grace Burgess

The Magenta Photo Program offers up a Great Opportunity

If you, or someone you know aged 14-18, would like to understand the techniques used in professional photography or simply use the camera on your smartphone in more effective ways, please join us for Capture Photography Festival’s online photography course, Learning to Capture: The Fundamentals of Photography. This course, taught by Rachel Topham, is a free, virtual, four-week photography course, designed for individuals aged 14-18

For a detailed course description, please visit our website by clicking this link.

If you would like to register for the course, please email engagement@capturephotofest.com

Term 4 Assignments

Term 4 Assignments





Choose only ONE of the following assignments for 20 marks Due: Friday May 1

1. Theme Shoot: For this assignment, you can take photos of whatever you want but you need to connect them by a theme. Make sure you describe your theme in a few lines under the description of the first photo. Themes can be general or specific, try to be a little creative. Nature is a theme, but not very specific. Examples of a theme could be concepts like love, isolation, my generation, stillness or joy. Or a theme could be more concrete like: black and white, bubbles, music, shadows, cars, coca cola, portraits, boats or the seashore. All shots should be in an album on Flickr.
20 photos= 20 marks
OR
2. Photo Walk: Go for a walk in your neighbourhood with your camera and really look at what is around you. Take photos focusing on angles and lighting. Take photos of the same subject from different perspectives. Take lots of photos, more than you need. Edit and post your best 20 photos to Flickr in an album.
Criteria: I will be looking for photos that are creative, taken from different angles, different from each other, in focus and well composed. 20 photos = 20 marks

Choose only ONE of the following assignments for 30 marks Due: Friday May 15
Make sure you DO NOT shoot vertical only horizontal.

1. "Beauty in a Second" video project  Please see sample assignment links to get an idea as to how this assignment should look. Essentially, you are to go out and shoot 40-60 1 second video clips (you may need shots to be up to 6 seconds to capture the video fully to allow for editing) and then compile to the specified piece of music in a movie program. You can choose whatever music you would like for the video. 

Beauty in a Sec #1

Beauty in a Sec #2

Beauty in a Sec #3

2. Choice Video: Choose to create any video of your choice 40-60 sec. long. It could be a spoken word poem with visuals, a music video, a how to video, a cooking demo, a video of your dog, or a compilation of a day in isolation. Keep it simple and clip your shots together using a video app. You might want to try speeding up or slowing down the footage, just for fun.

Criteria: When shooting video, you still want your shots to be from various angles, make sure they are in focus and the camera is not bouncing around. And the video should stay focused on what you are trying to communicate.
Check out:

Peter McKinnon's 5 ways to make better video: Video on making better videos

Step by step how to shoot a video

Link to VIDEO EDITORS:Video Editing Apps

If you are struggling with ideas to film or how to go about doing this video please email me to discuss.

Send me a link to your video on You Tube or Vimeo or send your video through WE transfer which is free.

Check out the Magenta Photo Program Online Photo Gallery

Some of last semester's photo students were involved with this program and their photos are showcased in this online gallery...check it out.

Magenta Online Photo Gallery for It is a Plastic World

You might be interested: Send in your photos to the Magenta Virtual Gallery Self-Isolation Photo Show 

At Magenta, we hope you are finding ways to stay creative and engaged. As many of us are spending a lot of time on social media, we thought it might be nice to open up our Instagram Account and find a way to communicate through photos. We are extending our Instagram account to all of you! Every couple of weeks, we will come up with a theme, and we will post the work you send us in response. At the end of this pandemic, the photos we collect will be added to our website as a Virtual Gallery.

Starting today, April 14th, please send us one or two photographs that relate to the theme: "What does your social isolation look like?" 

It can mean your work from home desk, what your room looks like, you in your backyard, and so many other things.The last day to submit for this week's theme is Sunday, April 19th at midnight.

Please send your submissions to: info@magentafoundation.org.

Please make sure your name and your school is listed. A brief description that we can include that explains what your image is all about, and any social media handles we can include would be great. We will start posting the Self Isolation images on April 23rd. From there, another theme will be announced.

Update for Photography 11/12 students for Term 3

Update of Term 3 Assignments: DUE FRI APR. 10

1. Flickr set-up (5 marks)
2. Assignment #1 ( 15 shots focus on composition: 15 marks)
3. Product Shoot ( 10 plus 2 final ads with logos: 20 marks) 
4. Gel Portraits (5 experimental shots:10 marks)
5. Plastic Concept map (10 marks)
6. Selfie Portrait ( 1 shot focus on self/editing) (10 marks)
7. Plastic  Shot (fully edited with description of what your photo is about) (20 marks)
or 10 newly taken Macro shots in an album.
8. Work habits in class: 10 marks

If you for whatever reason did not get the above assignments done before you left for break, do the best you can to complete these assignments . If the work is not done by this date, you will only receive marks for the work you have completed.

I will be in touch about term 4 soon, if you are eager to get started,  I would suggest you complete your theme assignment (20 marks) and post it into an album on Flickr.
Also continue working on your Beauty in a Minute video for term 4. I will accept a shortened version of this 40 sec. You can send me your video anytime  by email using WE transfer, it is free. It is the best way to send a large format file. Or you can post your video to Flickr or even You Tube and send me a link.

FREE VIDEO EDITING SOFTWARE
I have posted a link to free video editing programs you can download. Or find an app you can use on your phone. If you are an iPhone user, iMovie is your best and easiest app to use.
Free Video editing software check out his link for software to download for free

PHOTO EDITING AT HOME

Try GIMP for free, very similar to Photoshop https://www.gimp.org/
Try the new Pixlr ( similar to Photoshop) https://pixlr.com/
Also for basic editing do not forget about Flickr.
Check out this link for FREE photo editing apps for your phone.
FREE PHOTO APPS FOR YOUR PHONE

Conceptual Photography

Conceptual photography is a type of photography that illustrates an idea. 

examples of conceptual photography

Featuring Alex Stoddard

It is a plastic world  Literally a plastic world

It is a Plastic World: You need to complete a concept map full of ideas about your conceptual shot centered around the theme of It is a Plastic World. Include a full description of what you are planning to shoot, this should include a sample photo/drawing of your vision.Also include 3 plastic facts. This part of the assignment is worth (10 marks).

You need to fully describe/ understand  the concept you are hoping to shoot. You will then take the photo, edit in Photoshop and post to Flickr. Please make sure you write a description about the meaning of your photo on Flickr.
(20 marks)