BIRDS EYE VIEW ROOM PHOTOS

Good one to show when teaching students about angles in photography!

Beautiful Bird's-Eye View Room Portraits

Use Light Stencils To Create Amazing Light Paintings

I would love to do this with students but need to try it out myself - could be quite difficult seeing as we don't see them at night.  Is there enough room in our tiny darkroom?

These images are by Light Stencil artist....

TigTab 


A step by step guide on how to can be found here:
Light stencil how to.

Dust and Dance - Using Powder As a Creative Tool

Photographer Thomas David's latest project Dust And Dance incorporates the freezing of motion using fast shutter speed. A dancer is covered in powder/dust and is shot in front of a black backdrop while making brief dance motions.

Exquisite imagery. See the full photos and BTS video below.

View the photographs from Flickr HERE

VIDEO: [Behind the Scene] Séance "Farine et Danse"

DIY shooting liquid flow

Just found a step by step guide on how to shoot coloured liquid (such as below in Fast Shutter Speed post)


I am SO borrowing my friends remote flashes and doing this with seniors!

How To Shoot A Liquid Flow

p.s. the website this came from has a thousand awesome tutorials and guides on how to shoot using various techniques etc.

Fantasy Photo Shoots / The surreal

I'm exploring the concept of dream/constructed identities with year 11 in photography through a body of work they create on the topic "When I grow up".

A few photographers/artists we have looked at include Cindy Sherman, Yasumasa Morimura and Orlan in terms of concept, but visually/stylistically I want to show them these....

1. The Storybook Fantasies of Dara Scully  (also here)

2. The Surreal Photography of Oleg Oprisco (and here)

Examples of slow (long exposure) and fast shutter speed

Here are a few photographs/ photographers who create unique images through the manipulation of shutter speed. (These are good examples for the Year 9 Photo Challenge)

Long exposures/ slow shutter speed

1. Lincoln Harrison

Star trail long exposures in Australia desert.

2. Joel James Devlin

Capturing the effects of moving light through long exposure photographs.

(Super) fast shutter speed

 1. Alberto Seveso

Underwater ink photographs caught on high speed camera.

 

2. Mark Mawson

Again, capturing ink mixing with water on high speed.

3. Jonathan Robert Willis and Tadao Cern

 Wind (JRW) /  gale force winds (TD) blown directly to the face and frozen with fast shutter speed.

JRW

JRW

TD

Ready, steady, MONTAGE!

Photo montage is a fun and interesting form of photography to teach in all levels of high school.

I teach units on Photomontage in Year 9 and Year 10 PDM focusing on the montage practice of Man Ray and David Hockney (respectively).

In Year 9 students are introduced to this art from by creating composite collage images out of old magazines. Students are encouraged to create images which incorporate juxtaposition, the unexpected and play on scale and proportion.  
(actual student works shown)

 Later they create photograms using objects which symbolise a child hood memory to create a series of images which form a visual narrative.

Digital photo montages are also a part of this unit in the use of Photoshop. A ready made open photoshop image comprising of 12 black & white houses is given to students (they save it on their DER laptops).

Original unedited image given to students

Using the skills they have gained in class, students are to add 3 extra houses to the file (manipulating them to the same style as the original houses) and rearrange, rescale, manipulate, alter, warp etc the individual layers to become an entirely new and unique digital montage.

Below are examples from my year 9 class this year.

Next I think I will print the montages on art quality paper and get my students to colour them using watercolours and/or pencils for the school art exhibition!

 PHOTOMONTAGE YR 10

In Year 10 students create their own David Hockney inspired photo montage portrait or "Joiner". 

This concept of Hockney's of showing a subject and/or scene from multiple perspective is borrowed from the Cubist artists or early 20th century art - Picasso and Braques works are looked at.

Some other images and artists I have found which could be good to look at are:

1. John Stezaker

 2. Photographic Specimens by Michael Mapes

 

Interactive online installation - narrative photos/portraits

And then there is this project/website/resource...

In Search of Identity by Nikolai Cornell