Final Open Assignment
Students are challenged to take the lessons and knowledge they've acquired to create personally meaningful art projects of their own choosing.
Commercial Photography
Using the skills from the semester and applying them to a "Money Forward" commercial image. Students could do anything from advertising, portraiture, headshots, or their own ideas.
Triptych Images
Students demonstrate the ability to tell a story or make a compelling artistic statement with a series of photographs. A series of three photographs is common (hence the name triptych), but you can use any number of photographs in your series as long as the grouping is aesthetically pleasing and helps to tell your story and make your statement.
Non Literal Portrait
Create a portrait of another person that goes beyond the literal “this is a picture of…” and into the more conceptual portrait that reveals something human about your subject and captures the “essence” or soul of the person.
Non Literal Self Portraits
A self portrait that goes beyond the literal “this is a picture of me” and into the realm of self portrait as signature, projection, self-study, or fantasy. Signature shows us what everyone knows about you, a Self Study tells us something about you that only you know, Projection shows us you as someone else, Fantasy pushes you beyond what reality keeps you from being.
Surrealism
Students create a "dream like state that we want to interpret". Photoshop isn't needed but may be used to forward your idea.
Personal Still Life
A still life image that tells us about who you are. Commitments, culture, responsibilities, hobbies, passions and past-times are windows into the student's life. This should be more than a picture of the things you own... materials should be evidence not mere possessions. Arrangement should be artistic and a way to show something about you too.
Adjectives
You will demonstrate your ability to photograph ideas and concepts with three photographs that embody three different adjectives (one photograph for each word). Your final photograph for each word should communicate the concept without being too literal. It's a new challenge to try to communicate through your images.
Time and Motion
Students demonstrate an understanding of how to artistically display time and motion with photography (using ambient light/low light conditions to record motion, Muybridge's idea of sequential photographs to study motion, or Cartier-Bresson’s idea of the “decisive moment”).
Abstract
Students concentrate on the elements of art, principles of design, color theory, composition and framing to produce an aesthetically-pleasing abstract photograph. When you spend more time on the elements and less on the subject... That's Abstract Photography.