Pinkmeister, Charles Pinkney, Art Lesson, Analyzing a Picture

YOU CAN USE A VIEWFINDER TO SEE WHAT IS CAPTURED INSIDE OF IT

Content Unit - Ideas
What Stuff do you want to include In your picture?

Part 2
First you will notice it most likely has a theme or subject:

Next, you will also notice that camera photos have realistic (3-dimensional) space.
Sometimes the space will be deep, showing a great distance and more depth content in its space; sometimes it will be shallow, such as a close up view in such cases less content:

        a) List the main objects which make up the content of a photo
      b) Describe these objects with visual terms, color, line, shape, texture, size, etc.
        c) Describe where is the object positioned in space?
        also notice proportion and scale of objects to each

Object 1, __________,Visual qualities of object ____________, __________, Positioning__________, __________, __________,

Object 2, __________,Visual qualities of object ____________, __________, Positioning__________, __________, __________,

Object 3, __________, Visual qualities of object ____________, __________, Positioning__________, __________, __________,

Object 4, __________, Visual qualities of object ____________, __________, Positioning__________, __________, __________,

Object 5, __________, Visual qualities of object ____________, __________, Positioning__________, __________, __________,

Object 6, __________, Visual qualities of object ____________, __________, Positioning__________, __________, __________,

Object 7, __________, Visual qualities of object ____________, __________, Positioning__________, __________, __________,

Object 8, __________, Visual qualities of object ____________, __________, Positioning__________, __________, __________,

Object 9, __________, Visual qualities of object ____________, __________, Positioning__________, __________, __________,

Etcetera

For practice in this exercise find a picture or photo that is visually interesting to you. Take time to actually look at and analyze the forms which are in this picture. Everything that you see has an identity. You can name it or if you can not name it you can describe it in visual terms. (Like saying it is 'a long pale yellow area or shape'.)