While Andrew was not in the classroom, he had us working on our proposals for our chemistry projects. We came up with independent experiment proposals that we would be working on next week. We coated more photos to finish developing and also got many photos developed, which is part of our first phase. For our second phase, we started discussing the composition of landscapes and planned trips to capture some landscapes. In Chemistry, we discussed how to take landscapes and the different ways we can; drones, camera settings, etc. In Humanities, we began practicing our writing for landscape photography. We ended the week with looking at landscape photos from Ivan Farca that we will be looking at in a gallery next week.
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This week, we worked on slowly moving on to our next phase of the semester! We are finishing up our "Picture Says a Thousand Words" project by developing our photos on paper or glass. We are planning trips that we want to go on to capture different landscapes. In Humanities, we began discussing about different types of landscape writing and reading pieces about landscapes. We also did socratic seminars to finish up Steinbeck's novels, they were based on people's responsibilities in society. Our prompts were: "People are responsible for their own American Dream. Agree or disagree?" and "The wealthy have the responsibility to help the poor people. Agree or disagree?" Andrew introduced that we would be guiding ourselves in our Chemistry learning, we will be creating our own experiments deciding what will . We are working on the aspects of proposing what experiments we want to try. We focused on questioning while we did a hydrogen balloon lab. This week, our teachers also stressed about starting to work on our own personal projects and we came up with many ideas. I began by taking the next step with photo emulsion and will try to develop a photo on a canvas.
Coming back from a four-day weekend, we started off the week by looking at photos that represented our past week worldwide. This week we focused on finishing up our first phase of the semester. All of our "Picture Says a Thousand Words" final drafts are done for Dorothea Lange's photography. We are now in the process of working on the same project, but with our own photographs. In Humanities, we finished our writing pieces for that project and finished reading Of Mice and Men. In Chemistry, we coated more papers with emulsion, printed out some of the negatives of the pictures we took for our "Picture Says a Thousand Words", and actually started developing our own photos. We came across some difficulties with the papers, lighting, and emulsion and the photos did not really turn out the way we wanted. Andrew tested different variations of making these photographs and finally figured that the photos look smooth and visible on smooth paper and on glass. We now have different options on how we will develop our photographs, but are still going through the learning process.
Like every other week, we started off by looking at photos from the past week. We planned out photos we were going to take on our field trip to Balboa Park and went there on Tuesday. We visited the Museum of Photographic Arts and walked around the area to take some photos. Our goal was to capture humanity for our next "Picture Says a Thousand Words" project. In Humanities, we started writing our pieces for our own photography and continued reading Of Mice and Men. We continued coating our photo paper during Chemistry to prepare a paper for each person in our class. Here are my finished assignments!
The Super Bowl was this weekend, so we began by looking at photos taken during the game. This week we had a photoshop workshop to learn how to enhance the photos we have already taken. We also worked on creating a class Instagram to share our photos and show what we are working on. We were also introduced to our "Human Struggle" project, which would be capturing a representation of humanity and ourselves. We brainstormed locations of places we wanted to capture meaningful photos. In Humanities, we finished our first draft of "Picture Says a Thousand Words" for Dorothea Lange's photography and continued to chapter two of Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. We discussed chapter two as a class and identified the characters. In Chemistry, we started making our photo paper that we would be using to develop our photos by coating our paper with emulsion and Andrew told us that we would be experimenting more with light other than developing pictures. Here are my assignments from this week!
Per usual, we started Monday by analyzing photos that summarized the past week worldwide, this time they were focused on portraits. This week, we experimented with taking even more photos outside and worked on their composition; the subject, surroundings, and positioning. In humanities, we started our "Picture Says a Thousand Words" writing pieces for one of Dorothea Lange's photographs and critiqued each other's writing pieces. We are writing five 200-word perspectives that show the significance of the photo through many different meanings. We also started reading Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, who was introduced as one of the best authors by Mike. During Chemistry, we started forming our darkroom in Andrew's classroom and began building our apparatus we would use to make photo emulsion. Read below to see what we have gotten done this week!
We started the week by looking through worldwide photos from the past week and going outside to do another photo lighting challenge. In chemistry, we discussed Neil Degrasse's theories about school and played Jeopardy in replace of a lab safety assessment. We discussed President Trump's new executive orders and started learning about the Great Depression by looking through photos and documents from the time in Humanities. We experimented with taking portraits of each other using lights that we made and equipment from home. You can look at all the pictures I have taken so far on my Project Page and here are my assignments from this week!
During our first week of the semester, we were introduced to our project based on photography and learned about different photography skills. We got to go outside and experiment with taking photos using different techniques. In humanities, we discussed what makes a good photo subject and started analyzing pictures to find the story behind the photo. In chemistry, we talked about people's opinions when given a theory and went over our safety when working in the lab. Here are the assignments we worked on this week.
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