Photoshop Practice P2: Critiquing, Romanticism vs. Realism Powerpoint

PRACTICE 2

(2 points)

Romanticism vs. Realism Critique

Purpose: To understand the “atmospheric” differences between romantic imagery versus realist and to demonstrate your ability to identify two styles of photography that communicate different moods. Show your understanding also of raster file type, size, and resolution by downloading photos from the Internet and converting them to the proper tiff format. Finally, practice your critiquing skills for later “critique days” where you will comment on the work of fellow class members.

Instructions: Find the work of two photographers, one of whom seems to work in the realist tradition and the other in the romantic (see the powerpoint explanation provided in class). Provide copies of images (minimum of one example from each photographer) converted to tiff format and at least 800 X 600 pixels in size with a dpi of 300. (Choose your images for their clarity--no pixelating!)

Write a critique (1 - 1.5 page) that addresses the issues given as questions below and walk the class through it (powerpoint presentation) on the day due. (Powerpoint/slide show/bulleted presentation with photos), and you need to answer these questions:

1. Which photo is romantic and what are the characteristics that identify it as such?
2. Which is realist and what are the characteristics that identify it as such?
3. What do you notice about the “mood” of each. (Describe it/contrast them.)
4. What do you see as the strengths (technical or aesthetic) of the photo you chose from among the romantic?
5. What are the strengths (technical or aesthetic) of the photo you chose from the realist?
6. What do you see as weaknesses (technical or aesthetic) of the photo you chose from among the romantic?
7. What are the weaknesses (technical or aesthetic) of the photo you chose from the realist?
8. Come up with a headline to promote a product using each of the two photos:

A (realist):

B (romantic):

9. Who would be the audience for each?
10. If you were to layer these two photographs together into one image how would you treat each? (Equal size? One smaller than the other in the final image? One more transparent than the other? What about eye path?) Justify your choices by providing me with rationale or example composites and talk about the synthesis of the two moods to create a third.

Sample student presentations:

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3