Finals!

Final Camera Shoot

Finals!

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?

Friday, 2/19/16 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’s	Don’ts
·         Your 20 best images as follows- ·         4 Candids, 4 Posed, 2 Landscapes                10 Camera Control- 2 from each category, w/2                 freebies. ·         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.

Last Portrait Editing Project!

1. Split Faces/Famous Couples


Alrighty then, time to get weird. With all of the good work we've done with portraits and faces and surrealism, let's put our editing skills to the absolute profile/portrait/personality test!

Start with a "famous couple". Whether in history (King Richard the 8th and pick a wife, any wife), the movies (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Notebook) or Celebrities/Politicians (Brad and Angie, Prince Edwards and Kate) our goal is to find a couple that we can then merge their faces.


Let's start by finding the images of the duo and making a new file at 180 PPI, and a height and width of 8x10" whatever way you deem necessary. Do your FIVE edits you do to every image and then immediately right click on the layer and duplicate it. From there you will use your layers and erasers, blur tool, clone stamp, spot-healing, patch tool, etc. etc. to "combine" the faces.


















2. Two Faces, One Head


Weird? Yeah, but this is a studio art class and this collage effect has been used in movie posters, graphic design, digital art, etc. and is a worthwhile one to explore.


Let's start by finding an image of a person (Celebrity, Social Media, you, etc...school appropriate) and making a new file at 180 PPI, and a height and width of 8x10" whatever way you deem necessary. Do your FIVE edits you do to every image and then immediately right click on the layer and duplicate it. From there....

Portrait Photography, Photo Shoot #2

Your next shots will be portrait/candid photographs. You will shoot and edit 10 portraits and 10 candids. Remember our class discussions about the difference between a candid and a portrait. Keep in mind the top 10 Do's and Don'ts when shooting portraits. You may edit the shot as you see fit for a total of 20 photos.

In the meantime... While we take the time to shoot our portraits and edit our pictures, we will also be doing more research into the wonderful world of Digital Photography and learning more about our editing software. We will work on this Project concurrently with project #2.

Project 3: In class editing, Re-Writing History

For your next project you will be editing an existing photograph/image and placing yourself into the existing shot. You will need to find a famous or recognizable shot on Google Images and (must be at least 500x500 pixel size) place yourself into it. You must place at least your face, but you can use your entire body. Your grade for this project will be based on the quality of your editing not on your ideas (though cleverness does indeed count). This is a chance for you to show me your Photoshopping and editing skills.

Start by looking for the image you want to use.  Strategize - If it's your face you're inserting, you want an image that has the same direction and hopefully lighting as your image...  Any image source of your face will work, (personal hotos, social media, etc.) just remember that quality counts - If it's a bad image to begin with, it will probably still be a bad image, though there are plenty of things we can do to work around that and/or fix it.

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