Sunday 18 November 2018

Rubric - Image techniques

Link to rubric Rubric: Image Techniques

Creative Commons image search




So, at the moment, use:

TASK: Your examples of techniques in images

TASK: YOUR EXAMPLES OF TECHNIQUES
1. Take pictures to complete your collection of pairs:
  • Iconicity/Abstraction
  • Originality/Redundancy
  • Monosemia/Polysemia
  • Denotation/Connotation
  • Simplicity/Complexity
2. Create a video in Adobe Spark Video
3. Publish your task in a new post on your blog
4. Share your video on the padlet

Hecho con Padlet

Adobe Spark Video

https://spark.adobe.com/sp
You can use this program on any web-based device:


This video explores this iOS version of the tool:

Techniques in Images

Techniques for creating messages based on the study of the basic characteristics of the image

Symbolic / Semantics
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE IMAGE
More here

Iconicity / Abstraction
Task: Give abstract photography a try!
Ideas: simplify, get closer, get further, create some motion, look for reflections, unique perspectives...
Picasso
Lichtenstein

Originality / Redundancy

Chema Madoz
Monosemia / Polysemia
Denotation / Connotation
(objective/subjective)
Kevin Carter
Video about Kevin Carter

Simplicity / Complexity
Background-foreground
Sam Abell
Jason Eskenazi
Citizen Kane - Depth of field https://vimeo.com/54162542

Sometimes with subliminal images:

Friday 2 November 2018

TASK: Madozeando

TASK: Create a visual metaphor and take a picture.


Chema Madoz website

An example:
http://www.javiercamacho.es/madozeando/

3 easy methods to create Visual Metaphors:

Visual Metaphors

A visual metaphor is one image or set of images used in place of another to suggest an analogy between them.
To be effective, a visual metaphor must:
  • use familiar material
  • not to complex
"Tan duro como un rinoceronte", Mitshubishi