2/26: GRAYSCALE: REPETITION, VALUE, AND EMPHASIS ASSIGNMENT

For your next assignment you will shoot images that will be changed into black and white images.  You will focus on:

• REPETITION or PATTERN -repetition of an art element w/some variation for interest
• VALUE - having a range of lights and darks from white to black
• EMPHASIS - creating a center of interest

You will go off campus Tuesday or Wednesday (?) and need to be back 15 minutes before the end of class.  When you return, you will submit a contact sheet. DO NOT CHANGE THEM INTO GRAYSCALE. WE WILL DO THAT NEXT CLASS. 

• Title your contact sheet of 24 images: GrayscaleCS1 (These will be in color still!)
• BEFORE YOU PUT YOUR CONTACT SHEET IN MY SERVER FOLDER, BE SURE TO HIGHLIGHT THE NUMBERS OF YOUR BEST 1-3 IMAGES!! THEN UPLOAD IT TO THE SERVER. 

Please click to look at the work of photographer Douglas Ethridge

The following images are a few examples of his work:

 

 

 

Below are a few more  examples of repetition and emphasis.

2/23: SAVING YOUR IMAGES

When you have finished adjusting your images in Photoshop, do the following to save them:

File -> Save As -> Change Title ->Format (JPEG) -> Save

Under JPEG Options, you can select medium if it isn't a final image.  If it is a final image you plan to print, save as the highest level.

2/23: BASIC PHOTOSHOP TUTORIALS

Here are a few links for basic Adobe Photoshop CS6 tutorials.  There is a lot to Photoshop. You will not need to know all of the tools at once, so do not be overwhelmed.  At the same time, the best way to learn is to do, so give it a go. You will not have enough class time to go through all of these, so you may want to view them outside of class.

After going through tutorials 1-5, try the various tools in your own images:

• 1.  Photoshop CS6 Tutorial: Basic Rundown Of Design Tools and 
• 2.  Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beginner Tutorial 2 
• 3.  Lasso Tool   
• 4.  Clone Stamp Tutorial
• 5.  Layers

For more advanced tutorials, you make want to look at tutorials 6-11.  Before you start these tutorials please make sure you download two different portraits and at least one landscape photo.

• 6. Getting Started With Photoshop: a 40 minute basic tutorial
• 7.  Removing People
• 8. Swapping Faces
• 9. Layer Styles
• 10. Layer Masking
• 11. Using Adjustment Layers

2/23: LANDSCAPE EDITING & UNIT COMPLETION. DUE: 2/26-2/27

FINAL ASSIGNMENT REQUIREMENTS:

• 12 Photoshop Adjusted Landscapes from four various locations. Save as a contact sheet (3 columns & 4 rows) with the naming convention titled LandscapesAdjusted.
• You will save your best landscape as the highest quality JPEG. Be sure that you title it LandscapeBest. You can ask for help, if you need help deciding which is your best.
• Always use the naming convention. Example: 3-KingL-Landscape Adjusted 
• You will be dropping these 2 items in the correct classes folder on my server.
• DUE: (Per4) 2/26 & (Per1) 2/27

Today through Wednesday, you will be editing your Landscape photos in Photoshop. First, pick your best 12 landscapes overall and place them in a folder titled Landscape Adjusted. Next, open up each one and touch them up in Photoshop to make the pictures look even better. For each photo, be sure to File>Save As (JPEG) when you are done editing. Below are some tutorials that will give you ideas on how to adjust landscapes. Please work through each one with a few separate landscape photos.  

• Photoshop Tutorial: Landscape Editing  
• Curves, Curves, Curves! - Photoshop CS6 Tutorial

These next two tutorials are a little advanced. If you would like to try them, you can, but are not required to.

• Landscape Photography Editing Tutorial - Photoshop CS6  
• Tips To Create An Awesome Landscape Photo (Photography Tutorial) 

You can also do any of the following adjustments we talked about in class:

• Get rid of power lines, garbage cans, and other distracting objects using Clone Stamp (S) and Copy/Paste. 
• Adjust the horizon line using Free Transform (Command-T).
• Crop your picture as needed.
• Change the overall color using color balance. 
• Adjust the warmth or coolness of your photo using Image>Adjustments>Photo Filter.

2/12-2/13: LANDSCAPE HOMEWORK OVER BREAK DUE: 2/23

During the break, you will take more landscape pictures from at least two new locations. Please try to keep your camera on you as much as possible. You will turn in your best 48 images (2 contact sheets of 24 images from each location), but many people will take 100+ shots to get 48 good images. 

• DUE: Monday 2/23 
• You will shoot at least 24 pictures at each location. 
• You must shoot at least once during sunrise or sunset.  
• For tips see my blog post for FEB. 10 & 11: OFF CAMPUS LANDSCAPE SHOOT. 
• HIGHLIGHT THE NUMBERS OF YOUR BEST 1-3 IMAGES ON EACH CONTACT SHEET AND THEN UPLOAD IT TO THE SERVER.
• Title the accordingly:
• LandscapeCS3
• LandscapeCS4

 

2/11-2/12: CREATING A 24 IMAGE TEMPLATE & HIGHLIGHTING IMAGES ON CONTACT SHEET

HIGHLIGTING IMAGES ON YOUR CONTACT SHEET:

• After you have saved your contact sheet to the desktop, open it up as a PDF.  Click on the highlight text button at the top of your contact sheet. If you don't have this button, click on the annotate button on the top of your contact sheet. A highlighting icon should show up on the bottom of your sheet. Now highlight your best 1-3 images.

CREATING A 24 IMAGE TEMPLATE:

1. When you are in Adobe Bridge, go to the layout section on the right input 4 columns and 6 rows 
2. Now in the output menu on the right top, create a custom template by selecting the document icon and naming it "24 images." This step is important as you will be using this template for the rest of the semester.

OFF CAMPUS LANDSCAPE PHOTO SHOOT (PER 4: TUES. 2/10) & (PER 1: WED. 2/11)

1. LANDSCAPE HOMEWORK DUE: (PER 4: TUES. 2/10) & (PER 1: WED. 2/11)
2. LANDSCAPE OFF CAMPUS  PHOTO SHOOT (PER 4: TUES. 2/10) & (PER 1: WED. 2/11)

 Pick at least two scenic location where you can take pictures, one for your homework assignment and one for your off-campus photo shoot. This should be a place with water, mountains, trees, or a combination of all of the above. I would recommend Carkeek Park, Kerry Park, or Richmond Beach. For your off-campus photo shoot, know where you are going beforehand, bring your camera and arrange your transportation.

• One of these photography sessions must be during sunset or sunrise.
• You will shoot at least 24 pictures at each location. 
• You will turn in the landscapes as contact sheets at the end of class. They should each have 24 pics (4 columns & 6 rows). Be sure to create a folder on your desktop titled LANDSCAPES.
• BEFORE YOU PUT YOUR CONTACT SHEET IN MY SERVER FOLDER, BE SURE TO HIGHLIGHT THE NUMBERS OF YOUR BEST 1-3 IMAGES!! THEN UPLOAD IT TO THE SERVER.
• Title the accordingly:
• Homework = LandscapeCS1
• Off-campus photos = LandscapeCS2

TIPS:

1. Make sure each shot has a large depth of field. In other words, make sure even the background objects are in focus.
2. In each shot make sure you have foreground, middleground, and background objects.
3. Most Landscape shots will have water, trees, and mountains.
4. Change angles and move all around the location.
5. Shoot horizontal and vertical landscape pictures.
6. Do not center the horizon. Place it in the upper or lower third.
7. Look for lines on the ground or even in the sky.
8. Use tripods as needed.

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