Photo 65a Foothill College Kate Jordahl Self Portrait ...

1 Photo 65aFoothill CollegeKate JordahlSelf Portrait AssignmentSince you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time,you are Ueland, American WriterThere is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have tobe taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and Eliot, English WriterWho are you? There are many answers to this question. For our first assignment in thisclass, you will make a digital image with this question as its of assignment :1. Begin to get familiar with some of Photoshop s functions2. Create an interesting and rich self -portrait3.

2 See self -portraits by other artists4. Practice integrating images from different sources including scanning,negative scanning and the digital camera. Begin to collect originalphotographic Match resolutions between your various digital capture a self -portraitStep one: Mull, ponder, pictures do you see in your mind when I ask you to tell me about yourself? Student,inventor, creator, lecturer, builder, compiler, reader, adventurer, researcher, tinkerer,organizer, teacher? Mom, sister, dad, brother, friend? Artist, engineer, scientist, baker, How do you see yourself?

3 Write a paragraphs or two (or more) on who you two: Find inspirationLook at artist's self -portraits. Here are two web resources for this:Artlex Dictionary: self - Artists: self -portraiture and Representations of ~plin/ are also many books on this subject. Choose one as Three: Gather digital resourcesThis project will include a minimum of four different types of input of methods. Choosefrom the following:1. Digital Camera Image2. Film camera image scanned by a Photo service3. An Object you have scanned4. A Negative or Slide you have scanned5.

4 A Print you have scanned6. Text entered in PhotoshopYou will begin with an image of yourself. You must appear in your self - Portrait ! You willalso use objects that are significant to you, negatives with images of you or things important toyou and photographs that are of you or of things important to you. You may also include a quoteor a poem that you like. Our goal will be to create an image in the digital darkroom incorporatingimages/text from different sources. Your imagination is your only other limitation.(If you don t have a scanner, you might take a pictures of an object that you want toincorporate into your self - Portrait .)

5 You might also look around for a place where you can know when it will come in handy!) assignment requirements:You will create an image that can be printed on paper as well asproperly sizing the image to share on the web. You will save all files to beincluded on your final a paragraph about the artist that inspired you as well as about theexperience of making a self - Portrait . Include a link to the artist s work ifappropriate. (You must have an artist that inspired you.)Submit your websized image and your paragraph to assignment #1 in the Discussion Area by the deadline AND post your reflection in theAssignments Area.

6 (both are required to get credit for this assignment .) KEEP ALL FILES FOR YOUR FINAL CD.