Assignment 1

 Assignment 1
CPS | Briefs
Fall 2020
Instructor: Peter Berra
To questions or concerns:
 pberra@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
(should respond within 24 to 48 hours)
 
Total amount of time to produce the photo: 2 hours minimum,

To kick off your semester in CPS, inspired by Robert Franks hotel window view (photo in the classroom blog week 1), I want you to take a photograph looking out of your window from home, your photograph should contain foreground elements, such as, a part of the window sash, curtains looking out.  This is your personal view, thus becomes autobiographical in nature, acting as a self-portrait, whereby the style it was taken reflects the person making the photograph. In addition, only you have access to this view and no one else. Even if this was a view shared by two photographers, the photographs would be taken differently based on their own unique style and understanding about a place. 

Things to take in to account when producing this photo

• Composition

• Light

• Angle of view or vantage point

• Aperture, try large depth of field or selective

• Mood, the feeling you get from a photo is usually supported by the way you process the photo, so it's important to imagine the mood you're after before, during and after executing it. That said, the image you produced may challenge your initial perceptions, meaning it may present a new aspect, something that surprises and draws curiosity. We only know what we are doing during the making.  If it doesn't turn out the way you like it, try changing your approach.  Perhaps it has something to do with focal length, aperture, positioning, lighting

• You can use a tripod or take it hand held. If it needs to be high ISO or rather like it to be, then explore this avenue.

• Remember, where you place your main focus point will establish a level of importance and whee you want the viewers gaze to be.  
• The camera influences the outcome, thing about what devise you choose to use, will it be a dSLR, Phone, a polaroid?????

This is an honest representation so your view can be overlooking a street, brick wall, maybe there is something in the foreground, or maybe it's simply minimalistic.  Your job is to bring order to what is otherwise known as a chaotic scene. This scene, a view looking out your window should suggest something about you and by default it does because only you have access to this view and knowone else, thus becomes a self-portrait expressed through a "landscape" scene. 

Are you up to a little challenge?

 

 
5% Reflections | Portrait of the self represented in a scene. Take a photo of a window view in your home that somehow represents you in the context of a self-portrait, This “self-portrait” should not contain your physical self in the photo. The photo will mark the starting ground both for this course and semester.
 
Details: The photograph cannot be a of yourself, it however may contain your reflection through the window or a hand drawing a curtain away, without it becoming the central figure of the picture.  The photo reflects your identity, where you are right now at this time and moment. It should suggest your presence, establish a temperament, describing a humanistic quality shown though a single photo.
 
This exercise will act as a visual for your commitment to this class and a commitment to yourself as a professional photographer.  That you can make art from anywhere with access to any type of technology.
 
While making this photo, you need to consider all the basic fundamental tools and skills a photographer has at their disposal.
 
Submit: as your first post on your blog along with a brief description, not about the photo itself but a self-reflection about what you hope to have achieved with this photo. 

 
Save your image as a jpeg at 1800 pixels on the long edge, sRGB, 240 resolution