Welcome!• Sit at/gather at a tables

in groups of 3 to 5.• Please skim through

the two pages at the beginning of your packet: Elements of Art and/or Principles of Design!

• Jot down any/up to 5 new concepts you have just learned inside the cover sheet.

Welcome!Learning Goals: we will be able to • identify and describe AI elements of

photographic composition that can be integrated into a lesson and used in taking photographs.

• Identify curriculum opportunities to use digital cameras in the classroom.

End of Lesson Question: How will you incorporate the use of digital cameras and the art of photography in a future lesson? Today’s Journey•Warm up – Art elements + principles

• Brainstorming•Review: Elements of Art

• Tree map activity•Review: Principles of Design

• Matching•Intro to Rules of Photography

• Viewfinder activity•Brainstorm curriculum connections•Take photos to illustrate the use of elements, principles and/or rules.

AI Lessons + Digital Cameras: It’s easier than it looks!

1. It’s a perfect match!

2. It takes planning!

3. It takes structure!

4. Start small and build!

Human Erosion in California (Migrant Mother)

Dorothea Lange American, Nipomo, California, 1936 Gelatin silver print

CLAIMMake a claim about the artwork or the topic.

SUPPORTIdentify support for your claim

QUESTIONAsk a question related to your claim.

The POWER of Photographic

Images

TEACHING with CAMERAS:the ART of Photographic Composition

WithThe Elements of Art

The Principles of DesignThe Rules of Photography

PlusIntegrated Technology Standards

Andy Goldsworthy

3.0 Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to organize knowledge and ideas for expression in the production of art.

3.2. Investigate a variety of ways that artists develop ideas and organize the elements of art in response to what they see, know, and feel.

3.2.b Identify and describe color, line, shape, texture, form, space, and selected principles of design, such as pattern, repetition, contrast, and balance in artworks that convey what they see, know, and feel.

Tools + Ideas = Cameras in your Classroom!Digital Camera ACTIVITY

Curriculum Connections (Brainstorm)

Art/Camera Connections

Use digital cameras to photograph images representing content vocabulary (antonym/synonym pairs, similes, weather, angles).

Elements of Art (shapes, lines, form, space, color, texture, value)

Principles of Design (balance, pattern, repetition, repetition, movement, variety, unity, proportion, emphasis etc.)

Balance Symmetry and Pattern Creating Depth Simplicity Leading lines/path or direction of

viewer’s eye Framing, cropping to accentuate the

image Viewpoint (birds eye etc) Zoom and perspective Lighting conditions

Use digital cameras to photograph portraits to (illustrate character traits, identify stereotypes, biographies, autobiographies).

Elements of Art (shapes, lines, form, space, color, texture, value)

Principles of Design (balance, pattern, repetition, repetition, movement, variety, unity, proportion, emphasis etc.)

Balance Symmetry and Pattern Creating Depth Simplicity Leading lines/path or direction of

viewer’s eye Framing, cropping to accentuate the

image Viewpoint (birds eye etc) Zoom and perspective Lighting conditions

Use digital cameras to photograph objects or scenes for the purpose of illustrating concepts (mood, economic system, cause & effect, point of view/perspective).

Elements of Art (shapes, lines, form, space, color, texture, value)

Principles of Design (balance, pattern, repetition, repetition, movement, variety, unity, proportion, emphasis etc.)

Balance Symmetry and Pattern Creating Depth Simplicity Leading lines/path or direction of

viewer’s eye Framing, cropping to accentuate the

image Viewpoint (birds eye etc) Zoom and perspective Lighting conditions

•Identifycontent connections for one or more activities•Determine which art connection you will incorporate

MATH Students reviewed math concepts for the unit test by creating photo stories

Social StudiesAI Review Station activity: Created tableau and captured it with a camera to illustrate the economies!

Click on image to see video

Create a storyboard with photos

The elements of art = ingredients (individual parts). The principles of design = the recipe (organizing ideas).

Composition

Elements of Arthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pigFSxi25qc

VALUE COLORContrast Analogous

Shading Complementary

Tints Warm/cool

Lightness/Darkness Monochromatic

LINE SHAPEDiagonal Geometric

Contour Organic

Thin/Thick Enclosed space

Continuous mark 2 dimensional

TEXTURE SPACESurface quality Overlap

Impasto depth

Real/implied Foreground/background

Rough/smooth Positive/Negative

Elements of ArtWith your table mates create a tree map by organizing the descriptors into categories of the 6 elements of art: Value, Color, Line, Shape, Texture, Space! Use your handout for reference…

LINE•A mark made by a moving, continuous point.•Has greater length than width.•Directs the eye – horizontal, vertical, diagonal, curvy, zig-zag, etc.•Can be thin, thick and includes the contour or the borders/edges of shapes.

SHAPE•Enclosed space•Can be GEOMETRIC (man-made) ex. Square, triangle, circle, etc.•Can be ORGANIC (natural) ex. Leaves, humans, puddles, etc.•Shapes are 2-Dimensional and flat. (circle)

FORM•3-Dimensional with height, width and depth. (sphere)•Used to create a sense of space and substance.

SPACE•The area used or unused in a composition.•Positive space – the area the objects/subject takes up and negative space – the area around, under, through and between.•Gives the photo a 3-dimensional feeling. (Depth) •Provides the Foreground (closest), Middle ground, and Background (farthest).•Can be open, crowded, near, far, •Distant shapes are higher; near shapes are lower in the composition.

VALUE•Tints, shades, tones•Lightness or darkness•Can add drama, contrast, and impact•Can give a sense of timelessness

TEXTURE•The surface quality. •How an object feels, or how it looks like it feels.•Rough, smooth, bumpy, gooey, sharp, etc.•Adds interest! Sense of sight and sense of touch involved.

COLOR •Artistic term is HUE•Need light to see color.•Primary, Secondary, Tertiary.•Use color schemes to enhance appeal or make impact: analogous vs. complementary colors (where located on color wheel).

Andy Goldsworthy

Principles of Designhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBZ7dlr4aE8

Principles of Design A Must for Good Photography

EmphasisFocal Point

BalanceSymmetrical

AsymmetricalRadial

ContrastOpposites

Differences

Rhythm/ Repetition

Repeating shapes and colors

Proportion Pattern

Unity

Harm

ony Variety

Movement

MovementSuggests action

or direction

EmphasisFocal Point Balance

SymmetricalAsymmetrical

Radial

ContrastOpposites

Differences

Rhythm/ RepetitionRepeating shapes and colors

MovementProviding a path for eyes to follow

Can you match the

Principle to the photo?

EMPHASIS or Focal PointEmphasis in a composition refers to developing points of interest to pull the viewer's eye to important parts of the body of the work. This can be achieved with element of simplicity.

Balance Balance is a sense of stability in the body of work. Balance can be created by repeating same shapes and by creating a feeling of equal weight.

SymmetricalAsymmetricalRadial

CONTRAST

Contrast refers to the opposites and differences in the work. You can achieve variety by using different shapes, textures, colors and values in your work.  

Repetition and RhythmRhythm is a type of movement in drawing and painting. It is seen in repeating of shapes and colors. Alternating lights and darks also give a sense of rhythm.

MovementMovement  adds excitement to your work by suggesting action or direction (providing a path, a line for our eyes to follow) when we look at a work of art.

CAMERA + VIEWPOINTThe ART of Photographic COMPOSITION

POINT OF VIEWCamera Angle

• The camera angle marks the specific location at which a camera is placed to take a shot. A scene may be shot from several camera angles. This will give different experience and sometimes emotion.

High- Angle Shot- aka Bird’s Eye View

Low-Angle Shotaka Worm’s Eye view

• A low-angle shot, is a shot from a camera positioned low on the vertical axis, often at knee height, looking up.

Dutch AngleA Dutch angle is achieved by tilting the camera off to the side so that the shot is composed with the horizon at an angle to the bottom of the frame.

Straight Angle

• Any photograph taken straight on- many of the Points Of View can be combined to make even more interesting techniques.

• Alfred Stieglitz

Front ViewSide View

Close up

Matthew Brady

THE RULES OF PHOTOGRAPHY The ART of PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION

Photographs are not simply randomly 'taken' but are in fact, 'crafted' using skills of exposure and light selection as well as compositional skills. Images are, therefore, composed in order to tell a story.

10 “Rules” of Photography

• Balance• Simplicity• Rule of Thirds• Leading Lines• Symmetry and Pattern• Create Depth• Framing• Cropping• Viewpoint• Break the rules!

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for Video

Practicing the Rules:View Finder Activity

• Use the paper viewfinder to find the following rules in compositions you see here in this room! Be prepared to share.

Rule of Thirds

Leading Lines

Simplicity

Symmetry/pattern

Using Video to Improve

Practice: Video 101

Your Turn!

• Given an assigned component (green card), collaborate with a colleague to create a series of photographic compositions demonstrating the component.

• Criteria for success– Identify images in and around the area that

meet the criteria of the assigned components.– Take lots of photographs illustrating these in

your images/compositions. – Narrow them down to 3-4 for each component

(card) by deleting unwanted shots. – Be prepared to share them to your colleagues

and explain your artistic decisions!

AI Lessons + Digital Cameras: It’s easier than it looks!

1. Find connections to curriculum.

2. Plan it out.

Document living and non living in a PPT

Photo Essay: how to prevent flu

Tools + Ideas = Cameras in your Classroom!Digital Camera ACTIVITY

Curriculum Connections (Brainstorm)

Art/Camera Connections

Use digital cameras to photograph images representing content vocabulary (antonym/synonym pairs, similes, weather, angles).

Elements of Art (shapes, lines, form, space, color, texture, value)

Principles of Design (balance, pattern, repetition, repetition, movement, variety, unity, proportion, emphasis etc.)

Balance Symmetry and Pattern Creating Depth Simplicity Leading lines/path or direction of

viewer’s eye Framing, cropping to accentuate the

image Viewpoint (birds eye etc) Zoom and perspective Lighting conditions

Use digital cameras to photograph portraits to (illustrate character traits, identify stereotypes, biographies, autobiographies).

Elements of Art (shapes, lines, form, space, color, texture, value)

Principles of Design (balance, pattern, repetition, repetition, movement, variety, unity, proportion, emphasis etc.)

Balance Symmetry and Pattern Creating Depth Simplicity Leading lines/path or direction of

viewer’s eye Framing, cropping to accentuate the

image Viewpoint (birds eye etc) Zoom and perspective Lighting conditions

Use digital cameras to photograph objects or scenes for the purpose of illustrating concepts (mood, economic system, cause & effect, point of view/perspective).

Elements of Art (shapes, lines, form, space, color, texture, value)

Principles of Design (balance, pattern, repetition, repetition, movement, variety, unity, proportion, emphasis etc.)

Balance Symmetry and Pattern Creating Depth Simplicity Leading lines/path or direction of

viewer’s eye Framing, cropping to accentuate the

image Viewpoint (birds eye etc) Zoom and perspective Lighting conditions

•Identifycontent connections for one or more activities•Determine which art connection you will incorporate

Exit Ticket

• End of Lesson Question: How will you incorporate the use of digital cameras and the art of photography in a future lesson?