"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Week of January 28 to February 1
- Monday: No School...Semester 1 Project Completion Day
- Tuesday: Start of Semester 2! Course Overview w/ Parent & Student Waiver + FKP Photo Critique #1 & #2
- Wednesday/Thursday: Student Website Creation Guidelines + Inspiration #1 + Most Expensive Photographs
- Friday: Lesson #0 + Netflix - Tales by Light S1:E6 - Tribes
"Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like."
David Allen Harvey
Week of February 4 to February 8
- Monday: Lesson #1 + Photo Critique - The Good, The Bad & Ugly + Taking your first picture
- Tuesday: Lesson #1 Continued + FKP Photo Critique #3 + Assignment #1
- Wednesday/Thursday: Photoshop - editing your First images + Photo Submission DUE For Friday's Critique
- Friday: Peer Photo Critique #1
"You don't take a Photograph, you make it"
Ansel Adams
Week of February 11 to February 15
- Monday: Lesson #2 + Assignment #2
- Tuesday: 5 tips before you start editing photos + Luminar - editing your First images + Editing Assignment #1
- Wednesday/Thursday: ***Quiz: Lessons 0 - 2 + Videos*** + Photo Editing Mistakes
- Friday: Lesson #3 + ***DUE: Assignment #2 + Editing Assignment #1***
“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures."
Don McCullin
Week of February 18 to February 22
- Monday: No School...Family Day
- Tuesday: Lesson #3A Aperture + Assignment #3
- Wednesday/Thursday: Lesson #3B Shutter SPEED + Editing Assignment #2 + Website DUE
- Friday: No School...Pro-D Day ***Photo Contest Entries DUE TODAY***
"Look and think before opening the shutter.
The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera."
Yousuf Karsh
Week of February 25 to March 1
- Monday: Lesson #3C Manual Mode + Lesson #4 Exposure + Lesson #4A ISO + Assignment #4A + Editing Assignment #3
- Tuesday: Lesson #4B Exposure Triangle & Equivalence + Lesson #4C Histogram
- Wednesday/Thursday: Lesson #4D Advanced Exposure + Assignment #4B
- Friday: FKP Photo Critique #4
“The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.”
Scott Lorenzo
Week of March 4 to March 8
- Monday: Transparent Backgrounds + Editing Assignment #4
- Tuesday: Blending Modes Explained + Editing Assignment #5
- Wednesday/Thursday: Editing Assignment #6A & 6B
- Friday: ***Quiz: Lessons 0 - 4 (emphasis on 3 & 4) + Videos***
"What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce"
Karl Lagerfeld
Week of March 11 to March 15
- Monday: Editing Assignment #7
- Tuesday: Editing Assignment #8
- Wednesday/Thursday: Editing Assignment #9 + Editing Assignment #10 + Photo Submission DUE For Friday's Critique
- Friday: Peer Photo Critique #2
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“Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don’t work out, just take another shot.”
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Week of April 1 to April 5
- Monday: One Drive Folder Set-uP + Course Direction Moving Forward
- Tuesday: Work Day *****APRIL 12 DUE date for all Course work*****
- Wednesday/Thursday: FKP - The secret Math of photography + Work Day
- Friday: FKP Photo Critique #5 + Work Day
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
Elliott Erwitt
Week of April 8 to April 12
- Monday: Lesson #6 + Editing Assignment #11 + Photo Assignment #1
- Tuesday: Work Day
- Wednesday/Thursday: Equipment & Gear Show & Tell
- Friday: FKP Photo Critique #6 *****DUE date for all Course work*****
“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the
heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it.
It is, in a word, effective.”
Irving Penn
Week of April 15 to April 19
- Monday: Editing Assignment #12 + Photo Assignment #2
- Tuesday: Work Day + Photo Submission DUE For Thursdays Critique (2 best images + 1 editing image)
- Wednesday/Thursday: ***Guest Presenter - Matthew Timmins*** + Peer Photo Critique #3
- Friday: No School...Good Friday
“You yourself are unique--you have ways of seeing your world that are unlike those of anyone else--so find ways to more faithfully express that, and your style will emerge.”
David Duchemin
Week of April 22 to April 26
- Monday: No School...Easter Monday
- Tuesday: Editing Assignment #13 + Photo Assignment #3
- Wednesday/Thursday: Work Day
- Friday: Work Day
“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.”
Ernst Haas
Week of April 29 to May 3
- Monday: What is a Photo Story + Work Day
- Tuesday: 5 Portrait Lighting setups + Work Day
- Wednesday/Thursday: Work Day
- Friday: Work Day
“I don’t think there’s any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.”
Imogen Cunningham
Week of May 6 to May 10
- Monday: Work Day
- Tuesday: Work Day
- Wednesday/Thursday: Work Day
- Friday: Work Day
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”
Cecil Beaton
Week of May 13 to May 17
- Monday: No School...Pro-D Day
- Tuesday: Work Day
- Wednesday/Thursday: Work Day + Photo Submission DUE For Friday's Critique
- Friday: Peer Photo Critique #4 (3 images Max) ***Include Portfolio images***
“It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.”
David Bailey
Week of May 20 to May 25
- Monday: No School...Victoria Day
- Tuesday: Work Day
- Wednesday/Thursday: Work Day
- Friday: Work Day