1. Search for 3 images from one of the following sites and answer the following: (Include the image with each.)

2. What stands out most when you first look at the picture?

3. Explain why it stands out.

4. Look again, what else seems important and more?

5. What leads your eye from place to place?

6. What feelings and mood does this picture have and how does the artist show it?

7. What is the main idea of this picture and what details give you a clue to the main idea?

8. What title would you give this picture and why?

9. Which photographic elements do you notice the most in this picture?

10. What do you already know about the objects, people, animals, shapes in this picture that helped you to understand the picture.

11. What is the style of this picture? (realistic/photographic, abstract/not realistic, fantastic/real, but impossible as in a dream, expressive/less realistic with lots of feeling.

12. What memories and new thoughts do you have that connect to your own life when you look at this photograph?

13. If you could be somewhere or something in the picture, what would it be and why?

14. Using auto mode on one of the digital cameras, create an image that your peers can identify the above elements.

Instructions       

Search for 3 images from one of the following sites provided below and answer the questions on the word document. Include the image with each.

Daily News Photos

http://news.yahoo.com

The National Archives, Photographs and Graphic Works

https://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/college-park/photographs-dc.html

LIFE Magazine Archives

http://images.google.com/hosted/life