4/11 Off-Campus Shoot: BEGINNING MANUAL PHOTOGRAPHY: "SEATTLE APRIL"

For your next assignment you will shoot at least 48 images and submit your best 24 images that fit the theme of 'Seattle April.'  You will focus on:

• Setting your ISO
• Using the manual setting on a DSLR
• Adjusting your ISO, shutter, and aperture (F-stop) to correctly metering your pictures
• If you are metering your pictures to zero, and they are too dark or too light, add or subtract the amount of light (by adjusting ISO, shutter, or aperture) to get a better exposure.
• SEE THE MANUAL CHEAT SHEETS IN CANVAS & ON THE BLOG FOR ADDITIONAL HELP!

Return 20 minutes before the end of class. When you return, you will submit a contact sheet. 

• Submit your 24 images as 2 contact sheets of 12 images per sheet.
• Title your contact sheet : Manual1_SeattleApril_CS1 
• BEFORE YOU ATTACH YOUR BE SURE TO HIGHLIGHT THE NUMBERS OF YOUR BEST 1-3 IMAGES!! 
• THEN UPLOAD YOUR CONTACT SHEET IN CANVAS.

4/10: HOMEWORK: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF YOUR SPRING BREAK. DUE: 4/25

DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY Homework DUE 4/25

• 24 pictures documenting your life (over spring break)
• Titled: Springbreak_CS1 
• HIGHLIGHT THE NUMBERS OF YOUR BEST 1-3 IMAGES!! 

Over spring break you will be a documentary photographer of your own life. You will take a series of at least 48 quality photos over a period of time that documents your life. You can either take a series of pictures over the course of one day or over the week. The pictures should show various aspects of you life from when you wake up to when you go to bed. All pictures should be school appropriate.
Photojournalism is kind of journalism that tells a story through photographs. Documentary photography records history and everyday life through photography. Professional photojournalists travel the world documenting world events, sometimes risking their lives to show what is happening in the world.

Henri Bresson, French photographer

Migrant Mother, by Dorothea Lange 
She documented the Great Depression.
















Other photojournalists:
Robert Doisneau, French photographer
Robert Capa,
Kenji Nagai, Japanese photojournalist
Matthew Brady documented the American Civil War.
Walker Evans documented the Great Depression.

4/4: MID-TERM (on 4/6) REVIEW & ART WOLFE'S PHOTO SUGGESTIONS

Photographer Art Wolfe's suggestions for taking good pictures are in the link below
http://iconicimagesinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/Art-Wolfe-Presentation-Summary-Notes.pdf

Review the following:

1. Repetition
2. Rule of Thirds
3. Selective Focus
4. Depth of Field, DoF
5. Aperture
6. F-stop
7. Shutter
8. Changing to Grayscale
9. Layout - lanscape (horizontal), or portrait (vertical)
10. Frame within a frame
11. Mergers
12. Emphasis
13. Contrast
14. Value
15. Balance: Symmetry/Asymmetry
16. Composition
17. Landscapes: Horizon in the upper or lower third
18. Fill the Frame
19. Different angles
20. Correct Exposure
21. ISO 
22. Manual Photo 'Triangle' = ISO, Aperture, Shutter

4/4: UNDERSTANDING MANUAL CAMERA WORK READING

Manual Adjustments:Aperture and Shutter Speed

Please take detailed notes in your own words on the top two reading assignment. You will using the material you learn this week on the cameras. 

Manual Adjustments:Aperture and Shutter Speed 
http://cybercollege.com/tvp012.htm

http://www.picturecorrect.com/photographytips/208/aperture_fstops_camera_settings.htm
 

4/4: MANUAL CAMERA SIMULATOR

Use the cameras simulators below when you are done.

Camera simulator:
http://www.photonhead.com/simcam/shutteraperture.php

http://www.kamerasimulator.se/eng/?page_id=2

http://dryreading.com/camera/index.html

htthttp://camerasim.com/camera-simulator/

3/23: GRAYSCALE: LIGHT, TEXTURE, MOVEMENT/RHYTHM, & CONTRAST HOMEWORK DUE: 3/27

*NOTE: f you have not made a new folder on your desktop for your GRAYSCALE picture, please do so!

You will take another 50+ photos and turn in your best 24 focusing on the below items. You will take your pictures in COLOR and we will convert them into GRAYSCALE. 

• 12 pics = NATURAL LIGHT & SHADOWS (sun and moon)
• 12 pics =MANMADE LIGHT & SHADOWS (lamps, flashlights, etc.)
• At least 6 pics should show TEXTURE
• At least 6 pics should show MOVEMENT &/or RHYTHM
• ALL PICS SHOULD HAVE CONTRAST
• Please turn in 24 pictures (2 contact sheets of 12 images each) and title them Naming Convention + Grayscale_LIGHT_CS (These will be in color still!)
• HIGHLIGHT THE NUMBERS OF YOUR BEST 1-3 IMAGES!! 
• DUE 3/27

3/23: CONVERTING TO BLACK & WHITE IN PHOTOSHOP - NOTES due 3/23

Take notes (you will upload them in Canvas) as we go over the following techniques for converting images to black and white in Photoshop CS6. For your notes, it may be easiest to copy & paste from the article.

The techniques are:
1. Black and White Adjustment Layer
2. Converting to grayscale
3. Hue/Saturation adjustment layer
4. LAB Color Method
5. Gradient Map
6. Channel Mixer

You are required to utilize and know all of the above mentioned adjustments for converting an image from color to black and white. All black and white adjustments are covered in this article: http://photo.tutsplus.com/tutorials/post-processing/7-black-and-white-photoshop-conv ersion-techniques/