Bonus Project: A Collective Photograph

 

Take a single photograph of the ceiling of SSH 100 from where you’re sitting.

Shoot straight up, without zooming. Do not edit the photo.

Prepare and submit the largest possible version of the photo as described below. The photo is due at 11:55PM on Sunday, February 26.

Every student who completes this Project will receive one bonus mark added to their Writing grade.

 

David Hockney, Sun on the Pool Los Angeles April 13th 1982

 

The rest is just logistics.

In order for your photograph to be useful for our collective effort, the file you send me needs to be very carefully renamed. Please perform the following conversion.

Step 1: Write down your seat letter and number, as shown on the diagram below. If you’re at the table, count forwards from J20.

Step 2: Convert your seat letter into a new two-digit number, according to the following table:

  • A = 01
  • B = 02
  • C = 03
  • D= 04
  • E = 05
  • F = 06
  • G = 07
  • H = 08
  • J = 09
  • K = 10

Step 3: Convert your seat number into a new three-digit number, according the following table:

  • 1 = 001
  • 2 = 002
  • 3 = 003
  • …
  • 25 = 025
  • 26 = 026
  • 27 = 027

Step 4: Assemble your conversions into a single five-digit number: the two-digit number followed by the three digit number. For example, if your seat is A10, it converts to 01010. If your seat is D5, it converts to 04005. If your seat is H27, it converts to 08027.

Step 5: Rename your photograph with this number. For example, 01010.jpg.

Step 6: Email your file directly to me. If you don’t email it to me, your photograph won’t be included in the collective result.

Step 7: Also upload it to the appropriate EEE DropBox folder. If you don’t upload it to EEE, you won’t receive a bonus mark.

 

Previous collective photographs

2014

2015

2016

 

The Results

Here’s everyone shooting the image.

 

Here are some typical photos from around the room.

 

I brightened and straightened them, and cropped them into squares. Wherever a seat was missing, I replaced it with a white square.

 

The final image consists of the first nine rows of seats, as represented by a square photograph of the ceiling above.

 

I created a variation with tighter crops, but I didn’t like it as much.