Assignment for Friday, December 9, 2011

Your assignment for today is to choose two photoshop tutorials from the website below. Complete the tutorial and include it in your "Portfolio 8" folder.  You may also continue to work on your portfolio 8 pictures if you finish your tutorials. Portfolio 8 is due 12-13-11.

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/

Portfolio 8

Photos required for portfolio 8:
S-curve
Motion Blur
Comic Book Effect
Personal Collage

These are due on Friday, December 9.

Make A Personal Photo Collage

Your last assignment for this class is to create a collage of your favorite photos that you have taken in this class. You may use Photoshop, Picasa or any other application to complete your collage. It should include at least 8-10 of your favorite photos. Save the collage as a jpeg and include it in your last portfolio, portfolio 8.

Downloading Music

To download music from youtube for your photo story, click on the link below. When you get to the download site (http://www.keepvid.com/), copy and paste your music link from youtube into the download bar. Click on the small download button next to the bar. Then click on RUN if necessary and then click download mp3. This takes you to a new screen and you must click download mp3 once again (you may have to click on RUN again). Then save your mp3 to your computer. DO NOT CLICK ON ANY OF THE LARGE COLORFUL DOWNLOAD BUTTONS.

http://www.keepvid.com/

You may also download music from youtube-mp3.org

Assignment: Create A Photo Story

Your assignment is to create a photo story using the "Photo Story 3" program. It should be at least 3 minutes long and include multiple effects. It also must include music. This is due to me by Friday, December 2. Below is a link for more information about making a photo story.

Making a Photo Story

S Curve Photograph

Another dynamic composition tool is to include a “S” curve. As the name suggests, a major element of the composition would be an object such as a stream, path, railing, or other curved object that creates an “S.”
If the S is right facing and starts in the lower left corner and exits the upper right corner – the feeling for most English speaking people is that the picture is moving away from the viewer.
If the “S” is reversed, and starts in the upper left corner coming down to the lower right, the picture seems to be coming towards the viewer. This effect is from, I believe, learning to read left to right.
Portfolio 8, Picture # 3: Go out and find an S Curve to photograph. Explore right facing and left facing curves and see how they feel to you.

S Curve Examples

Photography Portfolio Rubric

A rubric is an assessment tool for communicating expectations of quality. Rubrics support student self-reflection and self-assessment as well as communication between assessor and assessees. A rubric is a set of criteria and standards typically linked to learning objectives that is used to assess or communicate about product, performance, or process tasks.

The rubric below will be used to evaluate your portfolios.

Photography Rubric

How to Capture Motion Blur

Check out this site to learn more about capturing motion blur. This picture will be required in portfolio 8.

Motion Blur

Comic Book Effect

Give your photo the comic book effect by following this Photoshop tutorial. This picture will be required for your last portfolio of this semester (portfolio 8).

Comic Book Effect

How To Photograph A Silhouette

Please visit the link below to learn more about the techniques involved in shooting silhouettes.

http://www.digital-photography-school.com/how-to-photograph-silhouettes

Portfolio 7 Photos

The following photos for portfolio 7 are due November 10, 2011.

Forced Perspective

Group Shot

Stop-Action (sports)

Silhouette

Taking Great Group Photos

http://www.digital-photography-school.com/how-to-take-great-group-photos

Visit the link above to learn how to take great group photos. A group shot will be your second photo requirement in portfolio 7 due on Thursday, November 10.

Newsboy

Please answer the following questions.

1. Using as many details as possible, describe what you see in this image?

2. What reactions do you think the photographer wanted to evoke with this image?

3. Which of the elements and principles of art are most strongly represented here?

Digital Photography - First Assignment

Hi and welcome to this blog. I created this blog for students in my digital photography class. Your first assignment is to create a self-portrait of yourself using a digital camera. Please post this to this blog as soon as possible.