DigiPhoto@Sac

Post two pictures from each photo shoot. NEVER post pictures that are not edited! Do crop, Levels, Curves, Color Balance, Saturation or whatever needed to make it look good.

1.-Point of View 1

2. Point of View 2

3. Composition 1 (Formal or informal). COMPOSITION means deciding what to put in the picture and where to put it.

4. Composition 2 (Formal or informal)

5. Scan picture BEFORE any work is done.

6. Photoshop added blur (either motion or zoom). Pick a picture of your own that you think would look interesting with a zoom blur added. Follow directions from the packet.

7. Frame/Layer scan. Your artwork scanned. This picture is before you add anything to it.

8. Frame/Layer finished project. You select a picture of your own that would look better with your border added. Merge both pictures in Photoshop. Use the Blend Modes… menu

9. Restored, adjusted scan picture. Your scanned picture looking its best! Restored, retouched.

10. One new favorite of your own! Your choice, free category.

 11. “SALAD COLLAGE” Photoshop lesson. Only your final one. Make sure you followed all directions! (assigned W11/12)

12. Movement-Blur 1. Assigned W11/12. Create blur with slow shutter speed.

13. Movement-Blur 2.

14. Self Portrait 1

15. Self Portrait 2

16. B&W Film effects with grain and adjustments

17. Perspective

18. Choice 3 (Photo Walk suggested)

19. Choice 4

20. Bokeh (Focus blur) effect with Photoshop.

21. Scan-O-Graph picture made with at least two scans and combined into one finished image.

Click the image and make it BIG. Then right click it and save it as sunrise_2693.jpg to your location so you can work on it!

The file you download should have LOTS of resolution and detail. If it doesn’t, you did not download the 3.16 MB file from the camera. Go thru the steps above again. -Mr. H

THESE ALL DUE by the beginning of class, Wednesday, November 10th. 

Post two pictures from each photo shoot. NEVER post pictures that are not edited! Do crop, Levels, Curves, Color Balance, Saturation or whatever needed to make it look good.

1.-Point of View 1

2. Point of View 2

3. Composition 1 (Formal or informal). COMPOSITION means deciding what to put in the picture and where to put it.

4. Composition 2 (Formal or informal)

5. Scan picture BEFORE any work is done.

6. Photoshop added blur (either motion or zoom). Pick a picture of your own that you think would look interesting with a zoom blur added. Follow directions from the packet.

7. Frame/Layer scan. Your artwork scanned. This picture is before you add anything to it.

8. Frame/Layer finished project. You select a picture of your own that would look better with your border added. Merge both pictures in Photoshop. Use the Blend Modes… menu

9. Restored, adjusted scan picture. Your scanned picture looking its best! Restored, retouched.

10. One new favorite of your own! Your choice, free category.

 11. “SALAD COLLAGE” Photoshop lesson. Only your final one. Make sure you followed all directions! (assigned W11/12)

12. Movement-Blur 1. Assigned W11/12. Create blur with slow shutter speed.

13. Movement-Blur 2.

14. Self Portrait 1

15. Self Portrait 2

down laod this for the picture you are working on this week!

COMPOSITION means deciding what to put in the picture and where to put it.

About your flickr.com account for second semester:

Post two pictures from each photo shoot. NEVER post pictures that are not edited! Do crop, Levels, Curves, Color Balance, Saturation or whatever needed to make it look good.

THESE ALL DUE by the beginning of class, Wednesday, October  27 th.

1.-Point of View 1

2. Point of View 2

3. Composition 1 (Formal or informal)

4. Composition 2 (Formal or informal)

5. Scan picture BEFORE any work is done.

6. Photoshop added blur (either motion or zoom). Pick a picture of your own that you think would look interesting with a zoom blur added. Follow directions from the packet.

7. Frame/Layer scan. Your artwork scanned. This picture is before you add anything to it.

8. Frame/Layer finished project. You select a picture of your own that would look better with your border added. Merge both pictures in Photoshop. Use the Blend Modes… menu

9. Restored, adjusted scan picture. Your scanned picture looking its best! Restored, retouched.

10. One new favorite of your own!

 

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Properties of Shutter Speed

1. How does the shutter control the amount of light to the sensor inside the camera?
2. A: By how long the shutter stays open, measured in fractions of a second.
3. Standard shutter speeds are: (Complete missing number)

 

1. What shutter speed is missing from above? A: 1/15^th
2. Put into word-form what   means:____________________. A: One One-hundred and twenty -fifth of a second.
3. Put into word-form the slowest shutter speed on the chart above: __A: One second.
4. Label the range of shutter speeds that can freeze a soccer player in motion: A: 1/500 and above.

 

1. Label the range of shutter speeds that can come into danger of causing blurry pictures:
2. In the picture from the Canon EOS instruction manual, what is the name of the dial being described in figure 1?  A: MODE
3. What setting do we use for most pictures? _____A: Program.

4. Figure 1

   What is the dial set to and how do you use it when taking pictures? A:It is set to Time Value here to select the shutter speed, like when we took action photos.

Aperture

1. What is the job of the aperture? A: Dim the light entering the camera.
2. Where is the aperture in/on the camera? A: Aperture is inside the lens. You can see it when the lens is up to the light.
3. What are the standard aperture settings on most cameras?

 

1. What opening is the smallest “hole?” A: f/ 64

ISO (Sensitivity rating)

1. What is the job of the Film or Sensor Sensitivity in the exposure triangle?
2. What  standard ISO number is missing? : 100               200         400         800         1600       3200
3. What is the most “versatile” number? __400__________.
4. What is needed for low light conditions? ___high ISO number, like 1600______________.
5. What number gives the best quality? ___LOW ISO number, like 200____________________
6. What gives the lowest quality? ___High ISO, like 1600__________________.
7. What is a characteristic of the lowest quality ISO setting? (What does it look like? )  ____It has digital noise, kind of looks “grainy”___________________.
8. What are the three variables of exposure that the photographer must adjust?

A:Time (Shutter Speed),                               Aperture,                            ISO (Sensitivity.

Criticism

“Photography is a facile medium which is made difficult by its ease. Once one learns the secret of taking a picture, and is able to coordinate one’s hands with the shutter, the image, and the mind, one is still only at the beginning.”    
 –Roy DeCarava, about 1976  

Photos

1. In the picture below, explain why some things are blurry and some things are sharp. Make sure you explain what part of the camera exposure caused this. A: This was taken at a slow shutter speed AND the photographer “panned” the camera to follow the subject.

 

         

     

 

1. Explain how the photographer adjusted the camera to make the subject look like it is not moving, but it really is. Make sure you explain what part of the camera exposure caused this. 

A: This camera was taken at a FAST shutter speed, like 1/1000 of a second to give a FREEZE.

 

Criticism and History of Photography

 

 

 

 

Composition: Be able to describe Formal and Informal balance

 

What is the rule of thirds?

PART 1: Download the file and follow your instructions.

PART 2: Also note that you have to pick a picture of your own to do this to!

Photo for #1: Click here.

You will use this blog to find out information on assignments! Take a look at some of the old assignments and links before I delete them.

For Week 1/2, you do several things at the computer.

1. Research what Camera Obscura is and what one does.

2. Complete your account at Flickr.com (worksheet in syllabus packet)

3. Investigate the Elements of Art and what they mean in photography.

 Go to my Flickr page link and look for Galleries, then look at the pictures I’ve selected under Elements of Art. http://www.flickr.com/photos/15757872@N07/

The Elements of Art are: Line, Value, Shape, Form, Texture, Space, and Color.

Here is the list of fifteen required photographs for your final portrolio. You have shot a lot of pictures since the beginning of this class in August, so go back through your work to select things you may have over looked OR … SHOOT MORE! Some students have not done their photo shoot outside the class period, due at the end of week 16 (Dec. 4th).

1. Favorite element
2. Abstraction
3. Self-portrait (not studio)
4. Outside of school day
5. Studio portrait
6. Still life
7. School pride: event or campus life
8. Favorite Photoshop modification/DiSK
9. B&W choice
10. B&W choice
11. B&W choice
12. Choice
13. Choice
14. Choice
15. Choice

Think QUALITY, not QUANTITY! No picture can be used more than once.

The criteria for grading these pictures is:

1. Creativity, Impact
1.1. The picture shows creativity and it is original.
1.2. The picture has impact on the viewer—you want to keep looking at it.
1.3. Composition is effective, interesting and appropriate for the subject.
2. Focus/Sharpness
2.1. The picture has sharpness on the subject. What is in focus and what is out of focus appears intentional.
2.2. If there is any blur caused by movement, is controlled and is not distracting from the quality of the image.
3. Value, Contrast, Color
3.1. Has good contrast; is not muddy. Contrast helps show the subject.
3.2. B&W: There is a good range of values.
3.3. Highlights don’t burn out, but hold detail
3.4. Shadows are appropriate, not frustrating to the viewer by hiding detail.   
3.5. Color: is adjusted correctly. Does not distract.

Assignment: Enter pictures and / attend/help @ event, Dec 8-11. Closing ceremony Thursday night 4:30-6:30. School pride for attending and comm. serv. for helping.