Multiplicity - Creating a photo composite in digital art

Learning Activities:
-Review current composite photos that other artists have created.
-Discuss the importance of shadows, angles, perspective, and lighting when shooting a picture of yourself in multiple positions to combine into one.
-Review examples of multiplicity in photos.
-Show students how to use a tripod and properly attach a camera so that they can successfully not move the camera, only move themselves.
-Review depth of field and using the view finder to frame out the target area for their photo.
- Demonstrate how to compile the top 5 photos by layering the images to create a multiplicity composite photo in Photoshop.

Students will work with a classmate to set up a tripod and plan what they would want to have themselves doing in a photo if there were five of them in one photo. Will they be interacting? Will they be looking at different things? Are they inside or outside? Will their images be in a sequence? Will they be overlapping?
I will show examples of multiplicity that other artists have made. I will point out the importance of shadows, perspective, the angle the camera is pointed at, and lighting.
Students will take turns taking pictures of each other by working in pairs. One person will use the view finder to direct the other student how to move about to capture them in the same scene at least 5 times, as the subject moves about in the frame. They will then flip roles.
Students will then upload the photos of themselves and choose the top 5 images.
Students will import photos into Photoshop. I will demonstrate on the overhead projector how to open files in photoshop and how to use the select tool, mask tool, eraser, and other tools needed to adjust photos to successfully layer them on top of one another so that they are in the same photo, 5 times.
Students will have a composite photo when finished.
We will have a class critique and discuss the success of the composite based on the elements and principles of Art, and the attention paid to details, such as shadows, lighting, and perspective.
Photos may be featured in the yearbook and schools twitter.
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