Scholastic Art Awards

Scholastic Art and Writing Competition

Calling all teen artists and writers: The time is NOW! The 2020 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are open for submissions!

You can start your submission process in three easy steps:

1. Get the info! Learn how to enter and find your Affiliate Partner for your region's guidelines and deadlines.
2. Create an account! Once your masterpiece is complete, create your Scholastic Awards account and upload your work.
3. Submit! Sign your submission form and then mail it off with your submission fee or fee waiver to the address on your form, or upload your signed form to your account and enter your payment information online.

Your BEST images

1. OPEN LIGHTROOM and look through all of the images that you have created so far this year, it may be from our last field trip. 
2. Make a collection with as many BEST images (quality (light/color/focus), technique (composition), subject (original/interesting)) as you can find from your whole library catalog.  Of these move your BEST BEST to the top and discuss with your elbow partner which 10 you should choose.
3. EDIT to either 6"x6" (square) or to 12"x 16"(horizontal or vertical)  please have 5 of each
4. EXPORT it (as a 300dpi high quality . JPG file) to your new documents folder - called 00- Best images to print. NAKE sure to re-name these [Last_first_year_month__subject]
5. CRITIQUE with your peers which images show the best; 
1. quality (light/color/focus)
2. technique (composition)
3. subject (original/interesting)         and choose the best one of each size
6. DROP the best 2 into the FOLDER to print

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uhz00TCm6rOgZt6zxgna2Buqeklnc5is?usp=sharing

Proj. 5 Walking Field Trip Vista Bridge

Today we will be walking to the Vista Bridge and over near Providence Park and back to school.  We are going to try to use our cameras/phones to capture the following:

• Shallow Depth of Field
• Deep Depth of Field
• Frozen Motion
• Blurred Motion

You and your partner should also be scouting for what will literally show a picture of what represents the Lincoln community.  Meet at the corner of SW Vista Ave. and SW Kings Ct. to head back to school:
Period 2:  11:25
Period 3:  1:40
Period 4:  2:50
Period 5:  8:50

Camera Controls== Aperture and Shutter Speed

Making "kaleidoscopes" with Lightroom

Proj. 4 Walking Field Trip: Lovejoy Fountain

Please remember our basic rules for staying safe on our walk.

• Look both ways and follow crossing signs. 
• Look out for cars, street cars, bikes, etc. 
• Be aware of the people and situations around you. 
• Stay off of private property and out of private businesses. 
• Don't climb or jump off of anything. 
• Stay within a two block radius. 
• Stay with at least one person
• Keep shooting! You should have about 100 photos to work with for this project. 
• Return to our meeting point by the designated time. 
• Remember you represent Lincoln. 

The walk is much further than previous walks. 
We will meet at the northeast corner of the Lovejoy Park: 
Period 5: 9:00          
Period 7: 1:30

Period 8: 2:55

proj. 04 Contrast and Balance

COLOR and Grids!

Project 3: Slideshows

Here are step-by-step directions for completing
the two different parts of this project. Here is a video about
color and mood in film.   THE IMPORTANCE OF COLOR IN FILM
https://www.diyphotography.net/50-movie-color-palettes-show-effectively-use-color-film/


We will engage with mood and grids more when you
have a folder of at least 50 images to work with. I recommend taking
one image that you have already taken and go through the steps on the
slide show exactly to get to a 3x3 grid. 

Proj. 3 Walking Field Trip- Farmers Market and...

Please remember:

• Look both ways and follow crossing signs. 
• Look out for cars, street cars, bikes, etc. 
• Be aware of the people and situations around you. 
• Stay off of private property and out of private businesses. 
• Don't climb or jump off of anything. 
• Stay within a two block radius. 
• Stay with at least one person
• Keep shooting! You should have about 100 photos to work with for this project. 
• Return to our meeting point by the designated time. 
• Remember you represent Lincoln. 

To return to school, we will meet at the front entrance to the art museum. Meeting times:
Period 5: 9:00          
Period 7: 1:30

Period 8: 2:55

Proj. 2 Walking Field Trip

Some guidelines:

• Look both ways and follow crossing signs. 
• Look out for cars, street cars, bikes, etc. 
• Be aware of the people and situations around you. 
• Stay off of private property and out of private businesses. 
• Don't climb or jump off of anything. 
• Stay with at least one other person
• Stay within a two block radius. 
• Keep shooting! You should have about 100 photos to work with for this project. 
• Return to our meeting point by the designated time. 
• Remember you represent Lincoln. 

To return to school, we will meet at the front entrance to the art museum. Meeting times:
Period 5: 9:10          
Period 7: 1:10
Period 8: 2:50

Framing and Composition

Artists and photographers employ many of the following basic framing and compositional techniques when creating their work.  Here are some different kinds of composition:

• Rule of Thirds
• Frame within a Frame
• Close up
• Bird’s Eye View
• Bug’s Eye View
• Leading Lines
• Diagonals
• Filling the Frame