David Hockney Assignment

•Compose a David Hockneyish photo with a very strong center of interest. It can be a landscape, portrait of an object or a person.

•If your camera has a Program mode (P) you may use it for this assignment. Be careful to get the correct exposure for each shot. Do not change the aperture or white balance during the shooting. You must also make sure your camera is correctly focused for each shot.

•The idea behind Hockney’s approach is to photograph a large scene by breaking it up into many smaller ones. You must think of your scene as having an invisible grid with overlapping squares placed upon it.

•Begin shooting with only your waist turned three-quarters to the left. Continue to shoot your first horizontal row of photos, remembering to always overlap the photo you just took, until you reach a position where your waist is turned three-quarters to the right.

•Begin to shoot the second row of horizontal photos as you did previously, but you must also overlap the top of this row with the bottom of the last row. Continue to shoot the entire scene always overlapping both vertically and horizontally until you complete the scene. Your goal is to have at least 36 photos of your subject.

•Practice putting the scene together in photoshop, overlapping photos on individual layers. All layers in photoshop  should be labeled.

•Choice:  You may have your images printed as 4x6 and piece them together manually or you can compose in photoshop as a 10x15 final image.

Due Dates:

•October 12, 2012

• Have your image up on the blog if composing in PhotoShop. 

•Print image as a 10x15.  I want to see your printed image before next week so we can make any corrections if needed.  This image will be used for the matting demonstration.

• Have prints ready to compile if you are printing 4x6 images.

•There will be a matting demonstration.

•October 19, 2012

•Final 10x15 prints matted and ready for final critique.

•Final montage of 4x6 images ready for final critique.