Week 12 Vocabulary: pop art, dadaism, photomontage

pop art: a movement in modern art that imitates the methods, styles, and themes of pop culture and mass media

dadaism: a revolt by certain twentieth century painters and writers in France, Germany, and Switzerland against smugness in traditional art and Western society; their works, illustrating absurdity through paintings of purposeless machines and collages of discarded materials, expressed their cynicism about conventional ideas of form and their rejection of traditional concepts of beauty.

photomontage:the process and result of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining two or more photographs into a new image

spare time

Week 11 Vocabulary: action photography, stop motion, contrast

action photography: a photo featuring the subject in motion or action

stop motion: an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object moves in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. 

contrast: the difference in luminance or color that makes an object distinguishable. In visual perception of the real world, contrast is determined by the difference in the color and brightness of the object and other objects within the same field of view. 

Week 10 Vocabulary: Rule of Thirds, perspective photography, distortion

Rule of Thirds: a "rule of thumb" or guideline that applies to the process of composing visual images such as design, film, paintings, or photographs. It proposes that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally spaced horizontal lines and two equally spaced vertical lines. 

perspective: refers to the relationship of imaged objects in a photograph

distortion: a warping or transformation of an object and its surrounding area that differs significantly from what the object would look like with a normal focal length, due to the relative scale of nearby and distant features.

diorama

original

edited

black and white

triptych - my picture

shadows

Week 9 Vocabulary: large format photography, miniature faking, view camera

large format photography: refers to any imaging format of 4x5 inches or larger. The main advantage of large format photography, film or digital, is higher resolution,. A 4x5 inch image has about 16 times the area, and thus 16x the total resolution, of a 35 mm frame. 

miniature faking: also known as diorama effect or diorama illusion, is a process in which a photograph of a life-size location or object is made to look like a photograph of a miniature scale model.

view camera: a type of camera first developed in the era of the daguerreotype, and still in use today, though with many refinements. It compromises a flexible bellows that forms a light-tight seal between two adjustable standards, one of which holds a lens, and the other a viewfinder or a photographic film holder.