Photography
www.lhsart.org/pho.html
Mr. Kulzer
In Photography students learn the basics of black and white film developing in our small dark room. Digital cameras are used as well and students get extensive experience using the industry standard image editing tool, Adobe Photoshop. Correcting photographs is covered as well as creative use of digital images. Topics covered are:
- Using Adobe Photoshop's tools and Layers
- Using Adobe Photoshop's advanced capabilities and filters
- Using digital cameras
- Photo retouching
- Photo correcting/restoring
- Photo enhancing
- Creative manipulation of photographs
- Using 35 mm cameras
- Aperture experiments
- Shutter speed experiments
- Portrait photography
- Fashion Photography
- Creative self portraits
- Developing film in the darkroom
- Printing black and white photographs
Parents and students are encouraged to visit the LHS Art department web site at the address above to see more project examples. I usually choose a couple really cool projects from each class to add to the web site. Maybe, if you make some fantastic work of art in this class itll be posted on the web for the world to see! (Our school, however, has a policy of not showing student faces on the internet so youll notice some faces are blanked out.)
Also, check out the Current section of the web site (www.lhsart.org/current.html) to show your parents and friends what projects youre working on. Evaluation sheets and examples of former student work are posted for each project that we do.
Grades are based on a percentage, 90% and up is an A, 80-89% is a B, 70-79% is a C and so on. Students get an evaluation form before the start of each project. The evaluation form states how the project is graded. Grades are never based on how hard students try. An in-depth discussion of this can be found at: www.kulzerdesign.com/lhs/philos.html. Cheating is extremely difficult to do in an art class, however, if one is caught copying other's artwork or doing the work for someone else, those students will not recieve credit for that assignment.
Class rules (The three Rs):
1. Respect Others
2. Respect Materials
3. Be Responsible
Now lets have some fun and make some art