Ansel Adams Photography Project
Using the iPod touch cameras, students will create their own versions of these famous Ansel Adams photos. Students are to use the following angles, ants eye view, birds eye view, portrait, close up, and shooting upward. Enjoy!
- Use the picture from the board or from the handout to re-create the following photograph angles. ____/5
- Take a close up photograph which has composition using the 4 corners as illustrated in the handout below. ___/5
- Take a portrait photograph which has composition using the 4 corners as illustrated in the handout below. ___/5
- Take a ants eye view photograph which has composition using the 4 corners as illustrated in the handout below. ___/5
-Take a birds eye view photograph which has composition using the 4 corners as illustrated in the handout below. ___/5
-Take "shooting upward"photograph which has composition using the 4 corners as illustrated in the handout below. ____/5
- I can statement:
- I can identify and illustrate a contour line.
- I can identify and illustrate a wet on dry water color painting.
- I can explain who Georgia O'Keeffe is and the kind of paintings she created.
Standards/Objectives
Perceiving/Knowing (PE) Observe, listen, attend, Discriminate
1PE Notice and point out details and respond to expressive features in artworks.
2PE Distinguish the subject matter and artistic style of two or more visual artists.
7PE Generate artmaking ideas from their daily experiences and the environment.
Producing/Performing (PR)
1PR Demonstrate increasing skill and craft in the use of art tools and materials with attention to their diverse qualities.
3PR Create artworks based on imagination and observation of familiar objects and scenes.
4PR Demonstrate flexibility in their creative processes and use of art materials.
5PR Identify, select and use art and design elements and principles to express emotions and produce a variety of visual effects (e.g., nuances of surface, contour, pattern and tone).
Responding/Reflecting (RE)
1RE Use basic self-assessment strategies to improve their artworks.
Vocabulary
Elements:
Line
Color
Shape
Form
Space
Value
Principles:
Emphasis
Movement
Balance