DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Imaging Partnership

LESSON TWO

Fine Art Photography

• Something of the work of fine art photographers

• Common features of fine art photography

• That artistic effects can be applied in camera

• The three focal lengths

What you will learn:

• Demonstrate how to operate camera using correct techniques required

• Apply appropriate artistic effects to their work

• Demonstrate images at the three focal lengths

• Identify suitable subject matter

• Take photograph using correct techniques as required

What you should be able to do:

Fine Art Photography

• In Fine Art photography, the photographer is more concerned with pursuing his or her artistic vision than reproducing an exact likeness of the subject.

• Fine Art photographs are often characterised by the use of:

• Black and White

• Vintage look

• Emotion

• Abstract

Fine Art – Black & White

Fine Art – Vintage Look

Fine Art - Emotion

Fine Art - Abstract

• Most modern cameras and tablets enable us to render our photographs with a variety of effects

• It is important to use settings carefully, to enhance the quality of the photograph, rather than use them just because they are there

• Effects can be set up before the image is captured OR the photograph can be manipulated after it is taken

Artistic Settings

• The same subject, taken from the same spot will give hugely differing results, depending on whether your lens is in wide angle, full zoom, or somewhere in between.

Focal Lengths

• Students to identify objects of interest around the classroom and take pictures featuring all three focal lengths

Focal Length Activity

• Show the students three suggestions for pictures of objects around the room

• Pupils to identify objects of interest around the classroom and take pictures, thinking about light/shade, composition, background, fill the frame.

Fine Art Activity 1

• Something of the work of fine art photographers

• Common features of fine art photography

• That artistic effects can be applied in camera

• The three focal lengths

So what have we learned?