Hayley Schaefer

Year 10 - Photography
Unit 1
TASK 1:
Working in small groups, set your camera to black and white
mode (mono). Explore the school grounds and photograph
objects that mimic the look of a letter. Take a checklist with
you to ensure that you do not miss out any letter. Attempt to
take a range of 2-3 images of each letter.
TASK 2:
Edit and crop your individual images. Open your images in
Photoshop and crop it to the desired size/orientation. Decide
if you want to use square or rectangular images. You can
enhance the images by selecting image - adjustments -
curves. This is a very useful tool when working with
monochrome images.
TASK 3:
Create an A3 collage using Photoshop. Your teacher will
demonstrate how to use Photoshop to organise and edit your
alphabet. Save your work as a jpeg upon completion.

Example:

Evaluation:
Reflect on the project and discuss the following topics:
a) What did you enjoy about the project and why?
b) List one feature of this project that you found difficult?
c) What do you think we could do to improve this project.
Why not try the extension task on the next slide...
I enjoyed this project because it is a creative way to look at your
surroundings and it forces you to think creatively about everyday
projects so that you can find the letters in the objects. The most difficult
thing was dealing with lighting. In my letter H, I used the shadow of
cupboard handle to create the second half of the H. Also my letter P
was the shadow from another object that was behind me. It was hard
getting the right angles to be able to create the shapes of the letters as
I was also holding a light to create the shadow. One thing that could
make the project even more interesting would be creating a theme to
the pictures. For example, instead of looking around the whole
school/house and finding letters, we could be restricted to taking
pictures of, for example, objects that have to do with cooking, or sport
and find the letters in them.
Extension task:
Create a 5-6 letter picture word using your found alphabet.