Final Portfolio

Please submit the following for your final portfolio:

Due: 4/30 (5pm) at the latest. This is Wednesday of Exam Week. Earlier is fine. 

JPEG, DROP-BOX:
1600x1600 pixels, quality:12, sRGB

20 images total, pulled from the following. Examples from all listed below should be represented in your final selection

Various shooting exercises (composition, depth of field, motion, signs, etc.)
Project 1: Subject Matter
Project 2: Photo Extended
Project 3: Uncanny Encounter
Project 4: Open

When making choices, prioritize the strongest images. It is okay to have more images from one project/assignment than another. You may also include images that have not "fit" a specific assignment, provided they were shot for this course. But please make sure that projects and exercises are decently represented.

Optional, extra credit, for free large-format prints:

Files Due on Server: 4/24

2 files to generate 16x20 prints. Should be strongest images from portfolio. Files should be optimized for printing (correct size, resolution, color, brightness, enlargement techniques, sharpening). Please flatten print files! Grade will be based on quality of print files. There will be a folder on the server.

Open Project

Create a group of photographs that is coherent (the images are clearly part of a group) of a consistent theme or idea. The content, idea or concept is completely up to you, but should be ambitious. Another option is to repeat or extend a prior project (with new images) in a substantive way. Seek out instructor for clarification.

Preliminary critique: Thursday, 4/24
Final Image Due: Wednesday 4/30, 5pm on server

An Uncanny Encounter

Due Dates:

• White Screen production shoot: Tuesday 4/8
• Preliminary critique Thursday 4/17
• Final critique Thursday 4/24; Image file for printing due Tuesday 4/22

©Loretta Lux

©Kelli Connell

The Uncanny:

Something that is both familiar and foreign at the same time. The uncanny usually rings in a subtle, psychological way. Some common tropes of the uncanny include: doubles, living dolls, mannequins, wax works, ventriloquists, etc. How is the line between fantasy—reality blurred? How do old hauntings challenge the adult natural order?

For this project, create an image where a character of your own creation faces an uncanny encounter.

Within that theme, anything goes. There's lot's of latitude for creative interpretation. 

Think big for this one... props? costumes? styling?

There are just a few technical ground rules for this project.

1. At least 16" x 20" @300 dpi. All component pieces should be at adequate resolution
2. At least one of the main subjects should be shot with white screen techniques
3. The white screen subject should be masked and appropriately integrated into the new background, with scale, perspective, point of view, light quality and direction convincingly matched.
4. The finished image should present a "believably uncanny" reality. 
5. Turn in files and large format print

Loretta Lux

Wendy McMurdo

Kelli Connell

Cornelia Hediger

Gillian Wearing

Gregory Crewdson
Grace Weston

AES+F

Bill Finger

Patrick Nagatani

Sarah Anne Johnson

Student Work: