Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Welcome!

Welcome to Class!

Hello Digital photo class, 2nd trimester, 2016.

I am glad you are all here and excited to learn how to begin photo editing. We will start at the beginning with Photoshop CC and learn how to create new files, open and save, layers, unsharp mask, and much more - the basics of photoshop.





Exercises:













Monday, November 7, 2016

Finals!




Final Camera Shoot

























Camera Control - As we finish the trimester, let's set the camera controls manually with the dials to create the effects we want. You will take a total of (at least) 20 pictures that will have five different settings:

4 pictures that show Frozen Motion - Setting:TV with a shutter speed of 1000+

4 pictures that show Blurred Motion - Setting:TV with a shutter speed of 60 or less

4 pictures that show Panning - Setting:TV with a shutter speed of 60 or less, must move with subject.

4 pictures that show Great Depth of Field - Setting:AV with an F-stop of 22+

4 pictures that show Shallow Depth of Field - Setting:AV with an F-stop of 5.6 or less

You will be editing these 20 images for a "Best of" presentation.

This is your final and worth 30% of your grade. Show me what you can do, both with the camera, and in the lab. Good Luck!

























WHAT ELSE?

Tuesday, we will take our Certified Technology test. Be sure to be on time!

Subjects to be covered:

Basic Digital Photography

- Workflow - Digital Camera Setup, image capture and transferring files to a computer.
- Evaluate image quality.
- Demonstrate use of software by editing images appropriately.
- Appropriate file size and type.
- Basic Camera Settings (Sports, Landscape, Macro, Portrait)
- Necessary equipment to download images.
- Basic camera operation and accessories (Tripod, Lighting, Flash).
- Basic composition - Rule of thirds, leading line, mirror images, simplicity, point of view.
- Digital Print for exhibition


DO'SDON'T
· All images are edited for best quality – How much 
or little you edit is up to you.
· Crisp, Clean, Clear
· Good Composition based on the image.
· Opened with Preview for easy viewing. 
· Pixelated, blurry images
· Template background showing, bad crop
· Opened in scattered files/photoshop
· Not finished/edited.
· Pictures taken with cell phone.

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Before the Finals...

Let's get all caught up and check off:


1.Group Portrait Shoots, Lighting and editing

We will be using our NEW Lighting equipment to learn about how to properly light the face for portraits by starting shooting in groups. Using both a stationary camera on a tripod and a floating camera, we will use our three lights, Main, Kicker, and Back light to capture FOUR different images that will show:

1. Correct lighting
2. Too warm
3. Too cool
4. High Contrast


2. Photo Shoot #2: Portrait and Candid


You will checkoff 5 edited portraits and 5 edited candids for a total of 10 pictures.

3. All notes from the Portrait Camera Shoot Page #2