Project 3: Night Photography in the Noir City

Objective: You will create 3 portraits of the night or low light environments based on the NOIR cinematic style. What are some of the NOIR city themes & Settings prevalent in film and photography? Abandoned streets, warehouses, fog and smoke, the city as foreboding monster, sci-fi mystery.

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Required:

1. Shoot and process in Lightroom,.
2. We will be using Photoshop adjustment layers, retouching if necessary and burning dodging to create a non destructive and efficient workflow.
3. Digital contact sheets of 100-150 for the first set of contact sheets. Peer review and sit down with me for image review. You will need 3 completely different image attempts for this assignment. 
4. There will be an additional reshoot and peer review.  Please check the dateline on Canvas for due dates.
5. Both mounted prints and digital files will be used in grading.
6. Black and white and color are both permitted.

What is film noir?

1. It is a genre of cinematic film that often uses used a loner detective theme and a dangerous femme fatale. And quite often there was a scandalous murder at the center of the plot.  The lighting was a low key lighting- strong use of shadows and light.

Directors and films include: Lynch, Wilder, Hitchcock, Welles, Scorsese, Burton. American Beauty, Blue Velvet, Dark City, Matrix, Double Indemnity, Touch of Evil, Night of the Hunter, The Birds, Mildred Pierce.