SELF-PORTRAIT
ASSIGNMENT SHEET
Andy Warhol
What are we doing?
- Thinking about how we want to depict ourselves to the world through photography. Then taking self-portraits based on those ideas. Questions to ask yourself:
- What are the distinctive things that make me "me"?
- How do I want people to see me?
- How can I express my many different sides?
- How can I reinvent myself for various purposes or
times in my life?
- How am I changing from day to day or year to year?
- Who do I want to become?*
What should I turn in? Participate in?
- one 5x7 photograph and one 8x10 photograph
- a completed stencil self portrait
- a discussion about why artists make self-portraits
What should I make sure to do?
- Check to see what your minimum focal distance is on your lens.
- Make sure to meter, focus, and consider every object in the frame. Have a friend help you to take the pictures. you should use the friend as a placeholder to check the metering and composition. Then switch places and have your friend press the button (or use a self timer).
- Plan ahead and think about the various things you can communicate about your personality, and who you are inside.
- Be an ACTIVE PHOTOGRAPHER. Think about timing, angles, orientation, mid/fore/background, distance, scope, clutter, compositional issues, framing, depth of field, blurred/frozen motion, and content.
- Try different studio lighting setups, including a key light, a fill light, and a back light.
What should I think about?
- Think about how you can use what you have already learned about shadows and light , and composition, and angles/distance to help to make beautiful and ugly compositions. Think about THE WHOLE FRAME!!!!! Are you using any of the principles and elements of design ? What about the camera angle and the focal length ? Is there clutter in your photograph? Are you being ACTIVE???
- Think about what you are trying to say with the photograph.
What should I do if I need help? ………………………Ask Ms. Epp
*questions from education materials from the National Gallery of Art |
