AP Photography

Text Instructions

Study this information below before doing any writing for your portfolio

For all Writing Parts of Portfolio

Before you start writing anything for this submission read this:

Written Parts of AP Studio Art Portfolio

Remember

Write all text in a Google or Word Doc and check your character count as you write and then copy and paste your text into the College Board website. Keep your personal text doc saved as you will need to create a slide portfolio to turn into Mr. Lindroth at the end of the class and you do not want to have to rewrite all this text again

Text – Sustained Investigation

Text PART 1: Explanation of Materials and Processes

(this is the text that goes along the side of each you submit including Sustained Investigation)

Each image submitted must have a short explanation of the materials and processes used (100 characters maximum each).

Materials used for photography is often:

DSLR or Film SLR

If your image is from a phone or tablet I would say “digital camera” not iPhone, Samsung Phone, etc.

Software used: Photoshop (even if you used Photopea), Lightroom or any others you used.

Darkroom

Special lenses, filters, lighting equipment

Anything else you think appropriate

Processes used for photography:

Techinques used in Photoshop, Lightroom, or other software (layer masks, adjustment layers, transform tools, gradients, filters, etc.)

Lighting Techniques during shoot

Camera settings (like shutter speed, ISO and aperture settings) that are integral to the outcome of image (for example: for a bulb exposure, how long was the shutter open? For depth of field, what was the f/stop, etc.)

To find the camera settings, go to this webpage for an explanation:

How to Find Camera Settings (f/stop, shutter speed, ISO)

Anything else you think that would be helpful in helping understand how your image was created

Here is an example From Enola Lagrave’s Portfolio of the text she used for this part of the portfolio (Score: 5).

(click on images to see larger):

Please note that because of COVID-19 emergency school campus closures in 2020 only 10 images were submitted instead of 15. You will be turning in 15 this year.

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Text PART 2: Written Evidence (artist statement)

Here is the link to the College Board Website that explains the the Written Evidence:

College Board Explanation of Written Evidence

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You must give a written statement responding to this prompt. Your response cannot exceed 600 characters.

Identify the question(s) or inquiry that guided your sustained investigation.

Describe how your sustained investigation shows evidence of practice, experimentation, and revision guided by your question(s) or inquiry.

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Text – Selected Works

Each image submitted must have a short explanation of ideas conveyed, the materials used, and processes used (100 characters maximum each).

Idea(s)

What concept, theme, technique, message, etc. is the image conveying?