Friday, November 13, 2009

Taylor, Grade 7, Eisenhower MS


This is my project the Autumn Tree; I used photo shop elements to edit my photo. I named my project the autumn tree because it shows how the leaves on trees change different colors and how beautiful the colors are and how the change before falling off the trees before the cold snowy winter starts. I used the contrast and made the picture darker and clearer to see. I thought this photo was really cool and interesting to do.

Dionna, Grade 7, Eisenhower MS

I chose this photo, because I thought the picture was pretty and had good lighting. I thought it was a good one, because It showed a nature side, and it wasn’t in the building. I Like how the leaves are on the bench and on the around the bench. It shows how we are in November, and leafs are falling off the trees. I also like the lighting, because it was a sunny day, so it had sunlight in it.

Liam Grade 7 Eisenhower MS


Liam Grade 7 Eisenhower M.S
I chose this picture of one of my fellow students. We were taking random pictures and I laid on the ground and told him to sit on the bench and to pretend to take a picture of me. I had to crop out a school bus. This picture is interesting to me because the angle of the camera.

Aly, Grade 7, Eisenhower MS


My picture is called An Autumn Day. I named it this because the way the leaves on the tree stood out and made me think of the leaves changing colors. This picture is outside in the courtyard. I picked this tree because it was the biggest one and it has the prettiest leaves. On photo shop elements I brightened the picture so it will so all the colors. I liked this picture because I like how the leaves are different colors and it stood out on the brown tree bark. Also it stood out because it looks like a bright fall day.

Dylan, Grade 7, Eisenhower MS


I chose this picture because I thought it was a cool perspective of the stairway in my school. I like how you can see the upstairs and downstairs, and the rust on the corner of the handrail. Also, I like how the angle of the camera makes the picture look unusual, in an artistic way. Lastly, I like how you can look at this picture in various ways.

Sara, Grade 7, Eisenhower MS


My photo is called The Shadowy Staircase. I chose this photo because I liked the dark staircase leading up to the window then how the window had light coming from it. The light coming out of the window made a nice shadow on the wall. I also chose this photo because the image was very sharp. On photoshop elements I brightened the photo so the stairs were more visible then resized and named it. The point of this picture is how a space can be lit up by just a little light.

Matt, Grade 7, Eisenhower MS


I chose this photo because I thought that the angle of this picture was very interesting. When I looked at this picture I felt like I was forced to look again that’s what made me chose this photo. The way the photo captured the library was in this angle was breathe taking.

Daniel, grade 7, Eisenhower MS


I chose this photo, because it was very abstract and I could crop it in a very unique way. This photo seemed very interesting to me, because of its texture, and interesting paint style. I could do many different, and unique things with the picture. This is why I chose it.

David, Grade 7, Eisenhower MS


I chose this photo because it was very sharp and abstract. In my opinion, this was my most clear photo. I also like this because it shows the texture of the grass. It also shows how some of the grass is dead and the rest isn’t. I like how the light is because it makes one side dark and the other side brighter. I called this photo “The Evil Grass” because part of it seemed to be dead but the rest was still alive. The composition was so good that I didn’t need to crop this photo. This is why I chose this photo.

Danielle, Grade 7, Eisenhower MS


The photo I took was of a picture of my friend hanging on a tree. I took this picture in the courtyard. I like it because it looks like his hand is reaching into the light. The colors in the picture are yellow, brown, orange, blue and green. The leaves on the ground make the picture look really pretty and the leaves on the trees brighten the image up. I used the auto contrast and the red eye tool.

Andrew, Grade 7, Eisenhower Middle School


I chose this photo for a few reasons. First of all I thought it was cool to look at as you saw a camera screen in a camera screen. Also I thought it was an innovative way to take a picture. It was a new idea that I thought of on the spot and it is the only one I have seen. I know photographers have created “endless” scenes with mirrors but I came up with a new and “updated” way.

Erika, Grade 7, Eisenhower MS


I choose this picture of a tree with only one leaf. I choose this one because the lighting was good and also the texture. The background wasn’t really a distraction so that was another reason why I choose it. I thought it was really cool because on this tree all of the other leafs fell off besides this one.

Ashley, Grade 7, Eisenhower MS


The photo I took was a picture of fallen leaves in the courtyard. I choose this picture because I liked how you could see the texture in each leaf. Also, I liked how you notice that one dried berry and how it ties up the rest of the picture. In the picture it was a little to dark so I did enhance auto fix to make it look a little bit better. After I was able to fix it the lighting came out very good. This picture is very crisp and clear, you can almost feel the leaves.

David, Grade 7, Eisenhower MS

The reason I chose the Truthful Tree picture was because it isn’t blurry. It shows a tree from a different point of view and the sunlight works with it. In the background you can see a part of the sky and a cloud through the branches. There are a lot of yellow leaves and a couple that haven’t changed colors and are still green. This is an original picture because of the point of view and the background.

John, Grade 7, Eisenhower MS


I chose my picture of the stairwell because I thought it would be cool. This picture has a little bit of a pattern. When I took this picture I zoomed in on the stairwell I left a little bit of the sky and trees. I bent down when I took this picture to make it look like its going up. In iphoto I cropped out some of the wall. I titled my photo stairwell. This is what I did to my photo.

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Instructors and LTP

Instructors:

Harold Olejarz is Art and Technology teacher at Eisenhower Middle School, Wyckoff, New Jersey, U.S.A. He began his career as a sculptor and exhibited in Soho, NYC, in the early 1980s. His work evolved into Performance Art and his living sculptures installed themselves in museums and public spaces in the US and Europe from 1985 to the early 1990s. He has been exploring digital media as both an artist and an educator since 1997. “Capturing the Moving Present,” an essay by Harold Olejarz, is included in Video Art for the Classroom, a National Art Education Association publication. Olejarz has made presentations on the use of digital media at state and national educational conferences.

Tom Chambers is Technology Applications teacher at Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [Junior School], Houston, Texas, U.S.A. He was Visiting Lecturer in Digital/New Media Art for the Fine Arts Department at Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing, China, 2005-2007. He was Executive Committee Member and Juror (2003 - 2005) for the International Digital Art Awards (IDAA), and was instrumental in expanding the content of the IDAA to include New Media Art, and served as on-line New Media Director (2004 - 2005). Chambers has been a documentary photographer and visual artist for over thirty years, and he is currently working with the pixel as Minimal Art (Pixelscapes) which begins to approach a true, abstract, visual language in Digital Art.

Dorian Gillespie is Art teacher at Southmore Intermediate School in Pasadena Texas. Prior to coming to Southmore, he taught at Bailey Elementary. He decided to teach and mentor students in the arts in order to give them an opportunity to learn and advise them of the many career choices an artist has. Although he did not teach art at Bailey, he was able to incorporate many art lessons into the curriculum. He has taught after school art classes for the University of Houston Clear Lake as well. Rather than become a professional artist, he decided to mentor as a teacher.

LTP:

Literacy Through Photography (LTP), the educational component of FotoFest International (Houston, Texas), is a writing program designed to help classroom students achieve better communication skills through the use of digital or film-based photography.

FotoFest has combined with the instructors and schools to pursue a pilot program ... blog approach ... for LTP.

Students increase visual and verbal literacy while building cognitive thinking skills, self-esteem, and awareness of each other. The LTP curriculum provides students with meaningful subject matter to help them write about their own photographs, their own lives, with confidence.