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Project - Identity Mapping

= Two Projects/completed photos.

  • Double Exposure 1 Silhouette = A cityscape, landscape or seascape overlaying an image of a silhouette.

  • Double Exposure 2 Self Portrait = A cityscape/landscape of the city you live in or are from double exposed with a self portrait.

 

 

 

Overview Project 1: Double Exposure Silhouette

 

This project is about showing where you came from or where you live as well but doesn’t have to include a self portrait.  This one needs to show a silhouette image and a city, sea or landscape overlapping.

Requirements:

  • Take a Silhouette photo that includes a subject as well as some element of environment (you should have a sense of location).  The subject can be a a person, a flower, a dog ects.... but needs to be meaningful to you and our life.

  • Use a City, Sea or Landscape of the area around where you live (anywhere in San Diego).

  • Combine the two images to make a dynamic and strong image.

  • You will have a written element that tells the meanings of these to images to your live now and how it connects to where you currently live.

 

Photo Samples (First two in each row show how it comes together in the third image in that row) - Click on image to see larger view:

 

This is a cross curricular project with  Mrs. Olsen from Human Georgraphy. 

Teacher Collaboration: Mrs. Olsen and Mrs. Helton-Conner along with the Museum of Contemporary Art and the HT/IT programs.

Overview Project 2: Double Exposure Self Portrait

 

This project is about showing where you came from or where you live with one image by combining two photos. One a portrait of you and the other a cityscape/landscape of the area you either grew up in or live in now.

Requirements:

  • Find a partner in class to take your portrait.  You will be making the area around you white in Photoshop, so it is best to take it with a white background. You can be looking at the camera, a profile or other creative angles but it is NOT a silhouette and we must be able to see your eyes (but they can be closed for effect)

  • Use either one of the photos we took on the fieldtrip downtown of the city of San Diego, or take a new one if you want to use Chula Vista or you can use one from another city that you may have come from.  YOU MUST have taken the photo yourself though.  It can be a cityscape or a landscape showing the area.  The one you use must show/tell something about you though.

  • You will learn in class how to use Photoshop to combine the images.

  • You will have a written element with this that describes part of your journey as to the relevance of the images and your story of how you came to be where you live.

 

Photo Samples:

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