Andy Warhol/Digital Portraits// Digital Photography

Andy Warhol/Digital Portraits

Title: Andy Warhol/Digital Portraits// Digital Photography

Objective: Students will be introduced to the life and art of Andy Warhol as a way of considering photography as a self-portrait medium. After viewing and discussing other artists’ photographic self-portraits, students will create their own digitally manipulated photos of themselves, family members, or pets.

Questions:
How do you think this self-portrait was made?
Why do you think he included four images of himself rather than one?

Essential Questions: What do you want to communicate about yourself or whoever the portrait is of?

National Art Standards
Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete  artistic work.
Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Resources:

Materials:
  • Smart Board or computer with ability to project images from slideshow
  • Student photograph
  • Computers equipped with digital-imaging software such as Adobe Photoshop
Background
Andy Warhol became fabulously famous for his 1960s pop art. He produced big, bold images of the popular, the famous, and the stuff of our consumer society. His multi-image portraits of famous people—Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Jacqueline Kennedy—and of common products—Campbell's soup cans, Coca Cola bottles—are among the most powerful icons of twentieth-century American art.
Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola, the son of Czechoslovakian immigrants, in 1928. He grew up poor (during the Depression) outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his parents and two brothers. As a child, Warhol (he later dropped the final "a") recalled having a few friends but also feeling "left out." He suffered briefly from a nervous disorder that caused muscle spasms and kept him isolated. He liked spending time on his own, coloring, taking snapshots with a small camera, and even making films with a movie camera given to him by his mother.
After graduating in art from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1949, he moved to New York City, where he would have quick success as a commercial artist. He designed window displays, illustrated magazine articles, and drew record album jackets. In the 1960s, Warhol decided to abandon commercial art to focus on making serious visual art. While he hand-painted his first works, he soon developed a silk-screen process that allowed his staff of assistants to mass-produce the startling images of consumer products and brilliant movie star portraits. These works took the art world and the public by storm. In this self-portrait, he used four photographic images of himself (with his trademark “shocked” hair) and silk-screened them, off-kilter, onto a 6-foot square canvas. The result is four big heads, set in supercharged pink and yellow against a glossy, dense black background. The effect is intense and unsettling. He was also a pioneer in computer-generated art using Amiga computers that were introduced in 1984
Pop Art Inspired Computer Directions:
  1. Open up Adobe Photoshop, New file
  2. US Paper, Letter, size 8X10 inches, 300 Pixels per inch DPI
  3. Next, open up your saved portrait. Crop using the Marquee tool or crop tool to eliminate any areas of the photo you don't want to keep, Image (top bar) Crop.
  4. Image (top bar) resize image to make it bigger or smaller using the Percent option until it is a good size for your Pop Art lesson.
  5. Ctrl A (select all), Ctrl C (copy), then go to the new document and Ctrl V (paste). 
  6. Another option is to use Free Transform which is under Edit (top bar) then drag the corners of image to resize
  7. If too big or too small Ctrl Z (undo)
  8. View (top bar) Rulers 
  9. Click and drag blue guidelines from side and top to find the middle of your page
  10. Once you are happy with the image size. Ctrl V (paste) however many images you want either 4, 6, or 9
  11. Move the different layers with the Move arrow tool, use the eyes in the layers to figure out which layer is active.
  12.  Use the filter tools to change the images so that each image has a different effect or use other options in the Image,  Adjustments (top bar)  to change the color balance, brightness, contrast, invert, etc 
  13. Ctrl + Z (Undo) or the History window (top bar view and click History if the window is not open already) to undo anything. 
    Save As - Photoshop PSD file (saves layers) onto your student H: Drive!!
    Flattened files when you are finished: PDF (for Adobe Reader), JPG (image no layers),TIFF (usually for websites, no layers)

DO NOT SAVE TO YOUR DOWNLOADS FOLDER!




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Digital Photography Lessons

Digital Photography Class Lessons Outline

Introduction:
PowerPoint presentations
Worksheets
Create a Portfolio: Set up https://www.behance.net/ Accounts + follow other classmates OR Create a Google Drive photography folder and share it with me.

COVID Flay Lay - 1 photo

Line- Elements of Art

Using all of your gained skills and techniques, take a series of photographs where line is the emphasis.

Share 3 of your best photos


What is it?
Create 3 abstract photos by doing a close up photo or cropping + critique (comment on other classmates photos) This lesson teaches students how to use manual and automatic focusing
 
Depth of field Lesson:
Take at least 2 different photographs considering composition.
1 photo should have the foreground in focus with background out of focus
1 photo should have the foreground out of focus with background in focus
Student can use the flower setting, aperture priority, or full manual to take photos.

Apple Store Debate Reading

 

Motion Photography -- experiment with the different shutter speeds to capture one image that is Frozen in time and one with Blurred Motion. Canon Rebel Shutter Priority setting is the Tv dial, Nikon is the S setting. Fast shutter speeds make the moving object appear "frozen in time", Slow shutter speeds create a blurred look.


Shadow, light, reflections, and silhouettes
Take 5 photos, You many choose shadow, light, reflections and/or silhouettes  

Portraits:
Watch Videos talking about composition, angle, and lighting
Take at least 5 portraits + 1 Black and White
Click here to read more about the lesson details.

Reflection - quiz grade
 
Seeing from All Angles 

Find an object of interest. 

Pick a location for your photo shoot with good lighting and with little distractions. 

Start shooting and pay attention to where your camera is focusing. Fill your frame and get close to your subject. Your goal is to get every side of the object you chose. 

Shoot at least 6 different angles, but try to get all of them! 

When you edit your images, put all of them into a collage first and then edit the whole thing together, so the images are consistently edited. 

Turn in a collage of 6-9 shots. 


Objects neatly arranged
  • You can use basic office/household supplies, candy, noodles, art supplies, buttons or anything 

    you have a lot of and a simple color paper background to create images that highlight shape, 

    repetition, pattern and symmetry. It would be a good idea to shoot with the 1:1 ratio Square format.

  • Edit one picture to perfection, and then when you open up your next picture to edit, 

    choose "last edits" under the "looks" section of Snapseed, so your pictures are edited all 

    in a consistent way.

  • You will then create a GRID collage of 9 images in PicCollage so that they look like a grid.


All About Me

Tell a visual story about who you are. 

5 photos. 

Things they can take photos of include but can be anything really: 

Pets, family, teachers, music they like, sports, culture, artwork, jewelry, clothes, food, candy, books, 

where you live, things from your childhood, etc. 

Write about why you took each photo - quiz grade

 

 
FINAL PROJECT
Explore all the resources on Art with Layla, Digital Photo, Resources:
Explore Behance.net for inspiration

1. Include at least 5 photographers that inspire you
2. What themes you want to explore for your final project, like portraits, nature, still life, abstract
3. List of specific photos you plan to take pictures of for your final project - my pets, tree branches, rocks stacked

Then once you have done your research and planned out what you're interested in go take 20 photos.

End of the year evaluation/reflection:

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Other Possible Lessons:

Alternative Photography- 4 photos

Abstract Composition - 4 photos that show TEXTURE
 
 

Pop art portrait inspired by Andy Warhol
http://artwithlayla.blogspot.com/2016/11/andy-warholdigital-portraits-digital.html 


Social Justice Advocacy
 

Framing a Subject
Take at least 5 different photographs using framing in the composition. 

SAMPLES BELOW

https://cauchonphotoclass.edublogs.org/photography-assignments/
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