Instructions


These assignments will take you through the past and show you some of the masters of photography over the years. The objective is to start training your eye to see compositional elements in all types of photography (in the first couple weeks talk about things you believe make the photograph appealing).

All photo evaluations will be worth 10 points each week. 2 points will be awarded for each carefully thought out response to the prompts (6 points total for written responses), 2 points for thoughtful presentation, and 2 points for completing everything in the checklist.

All evaluations must be made in photoshop, gimp or pixlr on an 8.5 x 11 document and saved as a .JPG file.

any inappropriate content will result in an automatic zero for the assignment.

All evaluation will be do on the friday following the assignment date.

Semester 1 Eval #1 due Friday, September 25


Click Here to see a short video introduction Ansel Adams and his style of photography

click here to watch a video of the make of the moon and half dome

Your write ups must include:

  1. Describe one thing in detail that Ansel Adams revolutionized for photography.

  2. Describe two elements of art that you see portrayed in Ansel’s “The Moon and Half Dome” Image.

  3. What do you find most interesting about this image. Explain.

all responses must be a minimum of five sentences long


Ansel Adams: The moon and half dome

the moon and half dome.jpg