Students have been learning to use an online photo editing program called Pixlr to enhance their images and have just started to learn how to put more than one image together to create a composite photo. In class, we discussed good design elements and looked at various magazine covers. Students were challeneged with creating their own magazine the idea and layout had to be original and it had to include: A title, an image, a barcode, two short sentences about what is inside of the magazine, a date and a price. We then looked at the covers together and critiqued each others work.
Students learned about the Japanese aesthetic called "Wabi Sabi". Wabi Sabi is all about the impermanence of life and nature, everything is impermanent, imperfect and incomplete. Students were challenged to find typically ugly things outside in nature and zoom in to try to capture texture and unity to make them seem "beautiful" or at least more interesting to look at. Students could not photograph anything that was further than an arms length away from their cameras, they were challenged to get close, to look at things typically overlooked.
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June 2019
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