Tiffany Williams
Tashjian Farrel
Tashane Walters
Tamika Jenkins
Takerra Purnell
Shantel Gayle
Shaday Gaston
Natalie Ruff
Nashae Morgan
Michael Campbell
Keyanna Pettiway
Keshana Osbourne
Julio Cruz
Jaquan Chandler
Jada Carr
Brandon Robertson
Betty Joiner
Audley Willocks
As usual, my students have been hard at work with their cameras and computers, this time learning about how to create emphasis with spot color. We talked about different ways to emphasize, or how to make something more important. Students learned what it means to emphasize in writing - using adverbs as intensifiers: this room is extremely hot or my students work really hard. They also learned that when we modify fonts, such as making a word bold, italic, CAPITALIZED or a different color, it creates emphasis on that word. So how can we create emphasis in photography?
There are many ways to create visual emphasis, but we focused on using the Spot Color Process. This means that only one "spot" in the photo is in color, making it the most important part of the image. Students took a variety of photos around the school, and then used Adobe Photoshop to turn the image black and white, isolating color to one area in order to emphasize what they thought was most important to them.
We will be continuing our theme of using color to convey ideas when we return from Spring Break. Our next assignment will work with Color Symbolism, as students re-interpret a work of literature into photography, and use color to convey a sense of mood in a photograph.
