Photography

Lens & Light based media

Start
Date:

Week Beginning 12th October 2015

Deadline:

Week Beginning 2nd November 2015

Project
Length:

Weeks 4 (including half term)

Name:

William Eggleston

Portfolio: Location
Your portfolio will be made up of a combination of experimental work and coursework tasks and will be
assessed as below.

Assessment Schedule

25%
25%
25%
25%

Contextual Understanding Showing that you understand modern and historical uses of photography
Creative Making Using a range of methods and ideas to develop images and test new techniques
Reflective recording Use images and text in a personal and imaginative way to show your ideas
Personal Presentation Use a range of techniques to express ideas through photography in an individual way.

To ensure that you meet all the assessment criteria, your first year will be split into several projects to explore
different techniques and skills within photography
A final personal investigation will run over the summer and autumn terms to complete your coursework and you
are expected to submit a PORTFOLIO of work from ALL of the projects after Christmas in your second year.
Your completed portfolio is worth 60% of your final A-Level grade.

http://grobyphotography.weebly.com/location.html

Location: Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

Conrad Hall

Location photography is the process of going outside of a studio to take

images. It can involve people, objects, lighting and composition just as in the
studio but the back drop can be more varied, changing and important to
your final outcome.
Types of Location Photography:
Formal Posed and staged, similar to the studio. Studio lights are taken to a location and used to enhance the images produced.
Commercial the surroundings of the person gives information about them and what the photographers intentions are
Observed photographing someone doing an everyday task, unaware of the camera
Social Realism Snapshot approach, recording intimate and private moments

Key Techniques:
Perspective

This can enhance the three dimensional depth within an image. Perspective can also be used to

direct the viewers eye through the image.

Angle of View

Using a variety of angles can enhance perspective and the 3D quality of your subject

Framing

Make sure you get close enough to your subject matter and use your viewfinder to carefully frame
and select what you want to photograph.

Natural Apertures

Sometimes called a frame within a frame. This is where part of the composition is used to frame and
enhance the subject.

Slow Shutter Speed

Shutter speed is the length of time the shutter remains open. Shutter speed is also referred to as
exposure time. The Shutter speed is measured in seconds and fractions of seconds.

Rule of Thirds

Is all about composition and making the image look visually aesthetic and interesting. All you need to
do is divide the cameras viewfinder into nine equal sections so an imaginary grid is formed.

Wide Angel

One of the most interesting features of wide-angle lens is "the capability to stretch perspective". When
you look through a wide-angle lens, it seems that the distance between objects has extended. The wider
the lens i.e. 24mm the more distortion.

Shallow Depth of Field

You can use a large aperture small (f) number i.e. f2.8/f3.5 to focus on the foreground so only the
foreground is sharp and the background is out of focus.

Large Depth of Field

You can use a small aperture large (f) number i.e. f16/ f22 so that the fore, mid and background are
all in focus.

Fast Shutter Speed

Shutter speed is the length of time the shutter remains open. Shutter speed is also referred to as
exposure time. The Shutter speed is measured in seconds and fractions of seconds

Artists:
William Eggleston
Lewis Baltz
Martin Parr
Marc Riboud

James Nachtwey
Steve McCurry
Hannah Starkey
Stephen Shore

Diane Arbus
Lee Miller
Sally Mann
Andreas Gursky

Tina Barney
Mark Klett
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Lewis Hine

Richard Billingham
Bill Brandt
Joachim Schmid
Fay Godwin

Vivian Maier
Ansel Adams
Joel Sternfeld
Catherine Yass

Portfolio: Assessment Criteria

Assessment criteria:

AO1
25%

Develop ideas through sustained and

focused investigations informed by
contextual and other sources,
demonstrating analytical and critical
understanding.

Range of evidence needed:

Wide ranging research into the work of photographers

and artists analyzed in relation to the development of your
own project.
A varied range of primary and secondary research.
Consistent sketchbook annotation linking your work with
the work of others you have researched.
Experimentation with a range of photographic techniques
that is documented methodically in your sketchbook.

AO2
25%

Explore and select appropriate resources,

media, materials, techniques and
processes, reviewing and refining ideas as
work develops.

Examples of best experimentation presented on a board to

show the journey of how you have developed your ideas.
Consistent annotation in your sketchbook that analysis the
strengths & weakness of your experimentation in relation
to your project ideas and development.
Extensive recording of your ideas and subject matter using
digital processes, supported by other photographic
methods if appropriate.

AO3
25%

Record ideas, observations and insights

relevant to intentions, reflecting critically
on work and progress.

Demonstration of high-level technical skills in taking and

producing photographs using digital processes.
Examples of best observational photographs presented on
a board to show the journey of how you have developed
your ideas.
Evaluation and annotation of ALL photo-shoots with
contact sheets in sketchbook to show the extent of your
recording.

AO4
25%

Present a personal and meaningful

response that realises intentions and,
where appropriate, makes connections
between visual and other elements.

Consistent annotation in your sketchbook that explains

and evaluates your personal ideas in response to the brief.

Regular explanation of the underlying ideas, photographic

concepts, meanings and thoughts behind your work.

Development of a personal interpretation of the project

brief through your practical work.

Best quality presentation of a personal response to the

brief in a final selection of work or piece.

SKETCHBOOK WORK
You should continuously collect visual information in the form of sketches, postcards, pages
from magazines, tickets to exhibitions, photographs, found objects, and anything else
appropriate.

Location
GUIDE SHEET
Activities

Half
Term

Personal Investigation
Half Term

Wk3

Look at the use of lenses in the work of

others.
Consider the use of wide angle and fish eye
lenses and produce outcomes using each.
Analyse your images and consider the effect
the lenses have had.
Look at the differing effects lenses have
when used with people or objects in a
location shoot, remember this can be in the
college or on location shoots in personal
study time.

Use what you have learnt to plan a quick

shoot.
Select a location that you can visit during
the break and select the best techniques
theme for that location.
Show you understand the settings of the
camera by describing why you have chosen
the aperture and shutter speeds you have
used, how have these helped develop your
images.
Consider the way your images could be
used and show that this has been
considered in your planning.

Macro/Depth of Field

Look at the us of objects within a

landscape/location shoot
Choose or collect your own objects and
used to produce your own outcomes. Look
at your links between angle of view and the
objects chosen.

Framing

Consider and write down the settings you

use and the effect these produce.
Analyse your images based on the feeling or
mood they convey.

HW

Wk4

Assessment Point 2 Work to be assessed during lessons in week 4

Presentation of Outcomes

HW

Continue your personal investigation and extend

the themes based on the skills learnt in wk3

Print outcomes in an appropriate format

based on the work of photographers you
have researched.
Consider the type of paper, the size and
the framing, discuss this through a final
evaluation of your outcomes.
Look at the use of narrative and story in
photography.
Find some photographers who interest you
and use the idea or time, story or
sequences

AO1 - CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDING 25%

Lenses/Aperture

Wk2

Use this space to describe what you have done to

personalise each point use purple ink or type please!

AO2 - CREATIVE MAKING 25%

Wk 1

Photography, Lens & Light based media

DEADLINE: Week Beginning 30th October 2015