Photography 7
Click here for the Photography 7 syllabus.
Is your iPhone saving your photos as .HEIC instead of .JPG? Change that in your settings or click here for an on-line converter.
Click below for the Photography 7 project sheets:
Project 1 - Share Your Photo File
Project 2 - The Spartan Alphabet
Project 3 - Point of View
Project 4 - Antique Portrait
Project 5 - Focus Control
Project 6 - Ghost Photo
Project 7 - Exposure Control
Project 8 - Avedon
Project 9 - Teacher Makeover
Week of 6-4
M: No class today because of the exam schedule.
T: Make cyanotype prints.
W: Substitute teacher today.
R: Half day. Present your best three cyanotype prints.
F: Half-day and the last day of school.
Week of 5-28
M: No school today
T-R: Make cyanotype prints. Briefly review for the final exam on Thursday. Click here for the final exam study guide.
F: Take the final exam. Bring a book to read or work to do silently after the exam.
Week of 5-21
M: Critique the teacher makeover project.
T-W: Substitute teacher today. Watch the DVD "Ansel Adams," answer the questions, and turn in your responses. Click here for the questions.
R: Class review day.
F: Introduce cyanotype printing.
Week of 5-14
M: Try swapping heads and erasing through a layer in Pixlr.
T: Substitute teacher today. Create Teacher Makeover Photo 1 – Distortion – Use the distortion tools to create a modified portrait.
W: Create Teacher Makeover Photo 2 – Clone Stamp – Use the clone stamp tool to create a modified portrait.
R: Create Teacher Makeover Photo 3 – Parts Swap – Use the selection tools to swap parts from different photos into one final photo.
F: Half-day. Crop and submit your teacher makeover photos.
Week of 5-7
M: Present and critique the Avedon project.
T: Introduce the Teacher Makeover project. Click here for a link to the original staff photos. Copy them to your own folder.
W: Practice using distortion tools (bloat, pinch, smudge) and drawing tools in Pixlr.
R: Practice using the clone stamp tool and layers in Pixlr.
F: Practice using the selection tools and copy/paste in Pixlr.
M: Try swapping heads and erasing through a layer in Pixlr.
Week of 4-30
M: Shoot your Avedon project.
T: Share your recreated pro photos.
W-R: Shoot your Avedon project.
F: Process and submit your Avedon project.
Week of 4-23
M: Social studies field trips are today. Find a photo by a pro photographer and try to recreate it. Each student will have two days in class for this. We'll share them in class on Monday, April 30.
T-R: Watch and reflect on a documentary movie about Richard Avedon.
F: Social studies field trips are today. Find a photo by a pro photographer and try to recreate it. Each student will have two days in class for this. We'll share them in class on Monday, April 30.
Week of 4-16
M: Snow day
T: Finish and submit your exposure control photos.
W: Critique your exposure control photos.
R: Introduce the Avedon project.
F: Social studies field trips are today. Find a photo by a pro photographer and try to recreate it. Each student will have two days in class for this. We'll share them in class on Monday, April 30.
Week of 4-9
M: Critique your ghost photos
T: Introduce the exposure control project.
W-F: Shoot the exposure control project. We'll go for a walk if the weather is nice, so bring your coat and dress for the weather.
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Week of 3-26
M-W: Plan A: If you have projects 1 to 6 completed, use Pixlr to create a second type of ghost photo.
Plan B: If you don't have projects 1 to 6 completed, finish them.
R-F: Spring break. See you April 9.
Week of 3-19
M-T: Sub today. Complete the "Framing and Composition with Wes Anderson and Fantastic Mr. Fox."
W-F: Shoot, process and submit your three best ghost photos.
Week of 3-12
M-T: Finish and submit the focus control project.
W: Critique the focus control project.
R: Introduce the ghost photo project.
F: Shoot ghost photos.
Week of 3-5
M: Introduce the focus control project.
T-F: Shoot, process, and submit the focus control project. (Wednesday was a snow day.)
Week of 2-26
M: Make up missing assignments. Begin shooting your Antique Portrait - Final Portrait.
T-W: Shoot and make color and tint adjustments to your Antique Portrait - Final Portrait and turn it in.
R: Sub today. Watch the National Geographic video "Through the Lens: The Incredible Stories Behind the Best Adventure Photographs" and submit a list of five things you learn from the video that you could use to improve your own photography.
F: Critique the Antique Portrait - Final Portrait.
Week of 2-19
M: Critique the Point of View Project.
T: Review photo file management procedures. Introduce the Antique Portrait Project.
W-R: Complete and submit your Antique Portrait Project - First Attempt.
F: Critique the Antique Portrait - First Attempts.
Week of 2-12
M: Finish the Spartan Alphabet Project.
T: Critique the Spartan Alphabet Project.
W: Introduce the Point of View Project.
R-F: Complete the Point of View Project.
Week of 2-5
M: Plan for the Spartan Alphabet Project. Click here for the planning sheet.
T: Introduce the Spartan Alphabet Project. Focus on framing and composition. Check out these Wes Anderson movie trailers to see examples of excellent framing and composition: Fantastic Mr. Fox - Isle of Dogs
W-R: Complete the Spartan Alphabet Project.
F: Snow day. We were going to finish the Spartan Alphabet Project
Week of 1-29
M-T: Experiment with the class cameras in manual, aperture priority, and shutter priority modes. (Turn off the flash. Note what happens to the image when you adjust the shutter, aperture, and ISO.)
W-F: Project 1 - Share a File. Take a picture, process it to be 5 x 7, name it properly, and submit it.
F: Review and critique Project 1 - Share a File. Students take notes on how to improve their project.
Week of 1-22
M-T: Discuss the syllabus. Make a seating chart. Set up folders, accounts, and apps you will use for this class. Click here for directions.
W: Turn room 6 into a camera obscura.
R-F: Observe and discuss the camera obscura we made in room 6. Assign and set up the class cameras.
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1st Semester is below
Week of 1-15
M: Share and critique the final project photos. Review for the final benchmark exam.
T: Take the final benchmark exam.
W-R: This class does not meet due to exam week schedule. Thursday is a half-day.
F: Half-day of school. Present your best work to the class and complete a class survey.
Week of 1-8
M: Plan your final project and have it approved by Mr. Duyck.
T-F: Complete your final project.
Week of 1-3
W-R: Finish your Teacher Makeover project. Click here for the link to make copies of the staff photos.
F: Snow day
Week of 12-18
M: Try swapping heads and erasing through a layer in Pixlr.
T: School was cancelled today.
W: Start your Teacher Makeover project. Click here for the link to make copies of the staff photos.
R-F: Christmas break. See you on January 3rd. :)
Week of 12-11
M: Critique the Dreams and Folkore project.
T: Introduce the Teacher Makeover project. Practice using distortion tools (bloat, pinch, smudge) and drawing tools in Pixlr.
W: Sub today. Watch National Geographic photography movie and list five things you learn about photography.
R: Practice using the clone stamp tool and layers in Pixlr.
F: Practice using the selection tools and copy/paste in Pixlr.
Week of 12-4
M: Dreams & Folklore - Write Journal 3 - Part 2.
T: Write a story based on your three journal writings.
W-F: Plan and shoot photographs to illustrate your Dreams and Folklore story.
Week of 11-27
M: Dreams & Folklore - Write Journal 1.
T: Dreams & Folklore - Write Journal 2.
W-R: Watch and discuss "What Are Dreams: Inside the Sleeping Brain" from PBS and Nova.
F: Dreams & Folklore - Write journal 3 - Part 1.
Week of 11-20
M-T: Finish and critique the Focus Control Project.
W: No class today
R: Eat turkey.
Week of 11-15
M-R: Continue shooting the Focus Control Project.
F: Process and submit your three Focus Control Project photos.
Week of 11-6
M-W: Research and make a poster about focus and depth of field. Click here for the Focus Control Poster Project.
R-F: Shoot the Focus Control Project.
Week of 10-30
M: Process your ghost photos. (Crop them, name them, and turn them in.)
T-R: Show off your ghost photos. Use Pixlr and layers to fake another ghost photo.
F: Review what we learned this marking period.
Week of 10-23
M: Watch and discuss the Ansel Adams documentary.
T: Use Pixlr to adjust the levels in a photo.
W-F: Fake a ghost photo using slow shutter speed and a tripod.
Week of 10-16
M-W: Work on the Point of View Project.
R: Photo critique
F: Sub today. Watch a movie about Ansel Adams, a great American photographer, and write a reflection.
Week of 10-9
M: Work on the Exposure Control project.
T: Complete and submit the Exposure Control project.
W: Critique the Exposure Control project.
R: Demonstrate and practice rotating images and resetting the cameras to their original settings.
F: Introduce the Point of View project.
Week of 10-2
M: Critique on the Spartan Alphabet project.
T-W: Introduce controlling exposure on your camera.
R-F: Work on the Exposure Control project.
Week of 9-25
M-T: Edit/re-shoot your Spartan Alphabet photos based on your critique notes.
W-R: Take notes as I demonstrate how to combine your Spartan Alphabet photos with text to make your alphabet book pages. Write your text and make your alphabet book pages. Click here for the alphabet book page template, which is also in the class folder.
F: The Spartan Alphabet project is due today. Submit your photos and your completed alphabet book pages to the Photography 7 - Class Folder on Google Drive. Turn in your 2nd photography-related article reflection if you haven't already.
Week of 9-18
M: Introduce the Spartan Alphabet project.
T-R: Work on the Spartan Alphabet project. Read a photography-related article and write a reflection to turn in on Friday.
F: Review your Spartan Alphabet photos in progress and critique them. Ask questions and take notes on how to improve your photos and complete the Spartan Alphabet project by next Friday. Turn in your photography-related article of the week reflection.
Week of 9-11
M-W: To make sure all of your stuff is working, take a picture, process it to be 5 x 7, name it properly, and share it with me. Click here for directions.
R: Read a photography-related article and write a reflection.
F: Make a cyanotype print.
Week of 9-4-17
M: Labor Day
T: Take the pretest and discuss the syllabus.
W: Make a seating chart. Set up accounts and folders for Google Photos, Google Docs, and Pixlr.com. If you're using a smartphone to take pictures, install these apps: Google Drive and Musecam. You might also want to install Pixlr and Photoshop Express.
R: Turn our classroom into a camera obscura.
F: To make sure all of your stuff is working, take a picture, process it to be 5 x 7, name it properly, and share it with me. Click here for directions.
Is your iPhone saving your photos as .HEIC instead of .JPG? Change that in your settings or click here for an on-line converter.
Click below for the Photography 7 project sheets:
Project 1 - Share Your Photo File
Project 2 - The Spartan Alphabet
Project 3 - Point of View
Project 4 - Antique Portrait
Project 5 - Focus Control
Project 6 - Ghost Photo
Project 7 - Exposure Control
Project 8 - Avedon
Project 9 - Teacher Makeover
Week of 6-4
M: No class today because of the exam schedule.
T: Make cyanotype prints.
W: Substitute teacher today.
R: Half day. Present your best three cyanotype prints.
F: Half-day and the last day of school.
Week of 5-28
M: No school today
T-R: Make cyanotype prints. Briefly review for the final exam on Thursday. Click here for the final exam study guide.
F: Take the final exam. Bring a book to read or work to do silently after the exam.
Week of 5-21
M: Critique the teacher makeover project.
T-W: Substitute teacher today. Watch the DVD "Ansel Adams," answer the questions, and turn in your responses. Click here for the questions.
R: Class review day.
F: Introduce cyanotype printing.
Week of 5-14
M: Try swapping heads and erasing through a layer in Pixlr.
T: Substitute teacher today. Create Teacher Makeover Photo 1 – Distortion – Use the distortion tools to create a modified portrait.
W: Create Teacher Makeover Photo 2 – Clone Stamp – Use the clone stamp tool to create a modified portrait.
R: Create Teacher Makeover Photo 3 – Parts Swap – Use the selection tools to swap parts from different photos into one final photo.
F: Half-day. Crop and submit your teacher makeover photos.
Week of 5-7
M: Present and critique the Avedon project.
T: Introduce the Teacher Makeover project. Click here for a link to the original staff photos. Copy them to your own folder.
W: Practice using distortion tools (bloat, pinch, smudge) and drawing tools in Pixlr.
R: Practice using the clone stamp tool and layers in Pixlr.
F: Practice using the selection tools and copy/paste in Pixlr.
M: Try swapping heads and erasing through a layer in Pixlr.
Week of 4-30
M: Shoot your Avedon project.
T: Share your recreated pro photos.
W-R: Shoot your Avedon project.
F: Process and submit your Avedon project.
Week of 4-23
M: Social studies field trips are today. Find a photo by a pro photographer and try to recreate it. Each student will have two days in class for this. We'll share them in class on Monday, April 30.
T-R: Watch and reflect on a documentary movie about Richard Avedon.
F: Social studies field trips are today. Find a photo by a pro photographer and try to recreate it. Each student will have two days in class for this. We'll share them in class on Monday, April 30.
Week of 4-16
M: Snow day
T: Finish and submit your exposure control photos.
W: Critique your exposure control photos.
R: Introduce the Avedon project.
F: Social studies field trips are today. Find a photo by a pro photographer and try to recreate it. Each student will have two days in class for this. We'll share them in class on Monday, April 30.
Week of 4-9
M: Critique your ghost photos
T: Introduce the exposure control project.
W-F: Shoot the exposure control project. We'll go for a walk if the weather is nice, so bring your coat and dress for the weather.
--------------- Spring Break ---------------
Week of 3-26
M-W: Plan A: If you have projects 1 to 6 completed, use Pixlr to create a second type of ghost photo.
Plan B: If you don't have projects 1 to 6 completed, finish them.
R-F: Spring break. See you April 9.
Week of 3-19
M-T: Sub today. Complete the "Framing and Composition with Wes Anderson and Fantastic Mr. Fox."
W-F: Shoot, process and submit your three best ghost photos.
Week of 3-12
M-T: Finish and submit the focus control project.
W: Critique the focus control project.
R: Introduce the ghost photo project.
F: Shoot ghost photos.
Week of 3-5
M: Introduce the focus control project.
T-F: Shoot, process, and submit the focus control project. (Wednesday was a snow day.)
Week of 2-26
M: Make up missing assignments. Begin shooting your Antique Portrait - Final Portrait.
T-W: Shoot and make color and tint adjustments to your Antique Portrait - Final Portrait and turn it in.
R: Sub today. Watch the National Geographic video "Through the Lens: The Incredible Stories Behind the Best Adventure Photographs" and submit a list of five things you learn from the video that you could use to improve your own photography.
F: Critique the Antique Portrait - Final Portrait.
Week of 2-19
M: Critique the Point of View Project.
T: Review photo file management procedures. Introduce the Antique Portrait Project.
W-R: Complete and submit your Antique Portrait Project - First Attempt.
F: Critique the Antique Portrait - First Attempts.
Week of 2-12
M: Finish the Spartan Alphabet Project.
T: Critique the Spartan Alphabet Project.
W: Introduce the Point of View Project.
R-F: Complete the Point of View Project.
Week of 2-5
M: Plan for the Spartan Alphabet Project. Click here for the planning sheet.
T: Introduce the Spartan Alphabet Project. Focus on framing and composition. Check out these Wes Anderson movie trailers to see examples of excellent framing and composition: Fantastic Mr. Fox - Isle of Dogs
W-R: Complete the Spartan Alphabet Project.
F: Snow day. We were going to finish the Spartan Alphabet Project
Week of 1-29
M-T: Experiment with the class cameras in manual, aperture priority, and shutter priority modes. (Turn off the flash. Note what happens to the image when you adjust the shutter, aperture, and ISO.)
W-F: Project 1 - Share a File. Take a picture, process it to be 5 x 7, name it properly, and submit it.
F: Review and critique Project 1 - Share a File. Students take notes on how to improve their project.
Week of 1-22
M-T: Discuss the syllabus. Make a seating chart. Set up folders, accounts, and apps you will use for this class. Click here for directions.
W: Turn room 6 into a camera obscura.
R-F: Observe and discuss the camera obscura we made in room 6. Assign and set up the class cameras.
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1st Semester is below
- Due each week by Friday: Read a photography-related article (or watch a video) each week. Take notes about things you can use in class and questions you have. Write a five-minute (at least 1/2 page) reflection on what you learned from the article.
- Click here for links to articles and videos you can use.
Week of 1-15
M: Share and critique the final project photos. Review for the final benchmark exam.
T: Take the final benchmark exam.
W-R: This class does not meet due to exam week schedule. Thursday is a half-day.
F: Half-day of school. Present your best work to the class and complete a class survey.
Week of 1-8
M: Plan your final project and have it approved by Mr. Duyck.
T-F: Complete your final project.
Week of 1-3
W-R: Finish your Teacher Makeover project. Click here for the link to make copies of the staff photos.
F: Snow day
Week of 12-18
M: Try swapping heads and erasing through a layer in Pixlr.
T: School was cancelled today.
W: Start your Teacher Makeover project. Click here for the link to make copies of the staff photos.
R-F: Christmas break. See you on January 3rd. :)
Week of 12-11
M: Critique the Dreams and Folkore project.
T: Introduce the Teacher Makeover project. Practice using distortion tools (bloat, pinch, smudge) and drawing tools in Pixlr.
W: Sub today. Watch National Geographic photography movie and list five things you learn about photography.
R: Practice using the clone stamp tool and layers in Pixlr.
F: Practice using the selection tools and copy/paste in Pixlr.
Week of 12-4
M: Dreams & Folklore - Write Journal 3 - Part 2.
T: Write a story based on your three journal writings.
W-F: Plan and shoot photographs to illustrate your Dreams and Folklore story.
Week of 11-27
M: Dreams & Folklore - Write Journal 1.
T: Dreams & Folklore - Write Journal 2.
W-R: Watch and discuss "What Are Dreams: Inside the Sleeping Brain" from PBS and Nova.
F: Dreams & Folklore - Write journal 3 - Part 1.
Week of 11-20
M-T: Finish and critique the Focus Control Project.
W: No class today
R: Eat turkey.
Week of 11-15
M-R: Continue shooting the Focus Control Project.
F: Process and submit your three Focus Control Project photos.
Week of 11-6
M-W: Research and make a poster about focus and depth of field. Click here for the Focus Control Poster Project.
R-F: Shoot the Focus Control Project.
Week of 10-30
M: Process your ghost photos. (Crop them, name them, and turn them in.)
T-R: Show off your ghost photos. Use Pixlr and layers to fake another ghost photo.
F: Review what we learned this marking period.
Week of 10-23
M: Watch and discuss the Ansel Adams documentary.
T: Use Pixlr to adjust the levels in a photo.
W-F: Fake a ghost photo using slow shutter speed and a tripod.
Week of 10-16
M-W: Work on the Point of View Project.
R: Photo critique
F: Sub today. Watch a movie about Ansel Adams, a great American photographer, and write a reflection.
Week of 10-9
M: Work on the Exposure Control project.
T: Complete and submit the Exposure Control project.
W: Critique the Exposure Control project.
R: Demonstrate and practice rotating images and resetting the cameras to their original settings.
F: Introduce the Point of View project.
Week of 10-2
M: Critique on the Spartan Alphabet project.
T-W: Introduce controlling exposure on your camera.
R-F: Work on the Exposure Control project.
Week of 9-25
M-T: Edit/re-shoot your Spartan Alphabet photos based on your critique notes.
W-R: Take notes as I demonstrate how to combine your Spartan Alphabet photos with text to make your alphabet book pages. Write your text and make your alphabet book pages. Click here for the alphabet book page template, which is also in the class folder.
F: The Spartan Alphabet project is due today. Submit your photos and your completed alphabet book pages to the Photography 7 - Class Folder on Google Drive. Turn in your 2nd photography-related article reflection if you haven't already.
Week of 9-18
M: Introduce the Spartan Alphabet project.
T-R: Work on the Spartan Alphabet project. Read a photography-related article and write a reflection to turn in on Friday.
F: Review your Spartan Alphabet photos in progress and critique them. Ask questions and take notes on how to improve your photos and complete the Spartan Alphabet project by next Friday. Turn in your photography-related article of the week reflection.
Week of 9-11
M-W: To make sure all of your stuff is working, take a picture, process it to be 5 x 7, name it properly, and share it with me. Click here for directions.
R: Read a photography-related article and write a reflection.
F: Make a cyanotype print.
Week of 9-4-17
M: Labor Day
T: Take the pretest and discuss the syllabus.
W: Make a seating chart. Set up accounts and folders for Google Photos, Google Docs, and Pixlr.com. If you're using a smartphone to take pictures, install these apps: Google Drive and Musecam. You might also want to install Pixlr and Photoshop Express.
R: Turn our classroom into a camera obscura.
F: To make sure all of your stuff is working, take a picture, process it to be 5 x 7, name it properly, and share it with me. Click here for directions.