Photography 1 - 2003-04
Homewood-Flossmoor High School Art Department
           
  The following works were created by students in Photography 1class during 2003-2004. Students in this art class learned traditional photography using the darkroom, and then manipulated many of their projects on the computer using Adobe Photoshop.

(If you click on the small preview graphic, you will get a larger version of the artwork.)

Please note: all images are copyrighted by the individual artist.
 
  The first project we worked on was a photogram. After creating the photogram with found objects, students learned how to make tone reversals. Students put their tone reversals together to make these photogram kaleidoscopes.    
  Each student made a pinhole camera using a Quaker Oats container. After experimenting with images, students selected one image and made a tone reversal.    
  Students took candids of other students around the school. They processed and printed the photos. Then they scanned them into the computer to create duotones. All of the photo students put their images together (using to different color duotones) to create this H-F mural that hangs in the hallway.      
  Students selected a finished print to scan and create a "blurred action" effect using photoshop.    
  Students selected another one of their finished photos to colorize, using Marshall Oils to create a natural appearance. They also colorized photos using Photoshop.    
  Students sandwiched negatives in the darkroom, and replicated the same process on the computer by combining layers with different images that they had scanned.    
  Students used a digital camera to shoot portions of a scene at a time, so that when they combined the images, they would get one coherent scene. Then they replicated the process using one roll of film and creating a contact sheet image.    
  Students solarized their photographs in the darkroom. Afterward, they replicated the process on the computer to compare the process and result.    
  After studying the work of David Hockney, students created a "joiner" collage. They had a choice of using color film (student-supplied) or using the class digital cameras.    
  Thinking about abstraction, students used the close-up feature on the school's digital camera to create these interesting compositions.    
  After studying the work of Jerry Ueslmann and Scott Mutter, students created their own "surrealistic" scenes, combining both traditional and digital photos on the computer and using Photoshop to manipulate individual elements.    
 
  Students experimented with Polaroid 600 film by scratching off some of the emulsion and then layering the images over other images. Students them scanned the images and did some further manipulation.    
  Emily volunteered to show the class how to create a GIF animation using Photoshop. She shot several images of Chrissy pirouetting and combined those images to create this animation.      
  After looking at the work of some current photographers, students purposefully distorted individual images that were parts of a whole image when put together in Photoshop. Students worked to get exaggerate an emotion with this technique.    
 
Please also visit our classes' Flip Face Project.
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