Project #10 - Elements & Principles/6 Rules/ Photoshop Refresher

Here is the list of items that you will need to take photographs of, have edited in Lightroom or Photoshop, and turned in on a contact sheet by the end of class today.
Capture these Subjects/Objects using the corresponding Element and Principle of Design in/or Rule of Photographic Composition and then edit them in accordingly:

1. Capture a Subject on a Rule of Thirds line as the Emphasis, editing the photo to Black and White.
2. Capture an Object of any vivid Color in Simplicity, select it accurately in Photoshop without any fringe, and change the background to black and white. (See instructions below.)
3. Capture an Object that has Shape in the Color Contrast using any of the Photoshop Action Scripts available to you.
4. Capture a pair of Objects or Subjects using Balance, then filter the photo using High Dynamic Range.
5. Capture Light using Leading Lines to an Object or Subject and then filter with any of the Photoshop Action Scripts available to you.
6. Capture a Form with the rule of Framing and Mask a Textured Surface onto the Form  (See instructions below.).
7. Capture Rhythm in Balance and Saturate the photo.
8. Capture Pattern and add a Photoshop Action Script filter.
9. Capture Contrast and enhance this Contrast in Lightroom or Photoshop.
10. Capture Texture and add any of the Photoshop Action Scripts available to you.

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How to Select using a Selection Tool in Photoshop:

1. Drag each these photos from Lightroom into Photoshop and use any of the Magnetic Lasso Tool, Quick Selection, or Magic Wand tool to select the "One Thing" of Emphasis.

2. Now go up to "Layer", "New", "Layer Via Copy", to copy that selection onto it's own layer.

3. Now you can either choose that layer, or the background layer to manipulate.

4. Whichever one you choose, go up to either "Image-Adjustments-Hue/Saturation", or up to "Filter-Filter Gallery" on your Photoshop Menu to change the look of the layer you're currently manipulating.
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How to Mask:

Click here to link to refresh your masking skills.

Details: Capture the photos using the E&P or Rule of Composition, edit these photos in Lightroom and/or Photoshop.

Contact Sheet: Set your settings to 8" Width x 11" Height, 2 Columns and 5 Rows.  You will label each photo on this Contact Sheet with the number of the photograph that corresponds with list above.

Naming Convention: _refresher

Date Date: End of Class on Thursday, March 5th.

Your grade for this assignment will be based on several factors:

• Completion of each image using the correct composition and edited in the correct style, turned in on a contact sheet.
• Turned in on time (formative)
• The quality and creativity of your 10 best images
• Your choice of which photos to possibly use for your portfolio (summative).

I'm Still Out Sick, Here's a Quick Reading Supplement to Your Film Today

AP - Please check Canvas to see what your grade is for your "One Idea" assignment.  Also check the Comments for this assignment to see if Punkt was added, or not.  We'll be discussing and sharing these photos with one another next week when Digi Photo 1 & 2 are out shooting.

Please follow along with the other two classes the reading assignment posted below, to refresh your memory on how the Manual Functions on the DSLR camera work.

You'll be staying in today to watch this documentary with the other two classes.

Today you'll be watching the Netflix film, "Night on Earth", using state-of-the-art digital camera technology that turns night, into day, through the lens of the camera. There are many ways this technology works, but one of the ways is directly related to a not-so-distant-future lesson plans that we'll be diving into later this semester, that relate to the Manual Exposure Functions on the DSLR cameras you'll be using in class.  Consider the information below as a primer to those lesson plans.
Read this information below, and then click on the link at the very bottom to read a short article that relates to one of the main technologies used in today's film.

(NOTE: The footage in this documentary that looks like a negative image, is a different thermal technology, that doesn't relate to these manual functions below.  The footage that looks like it was take during the day, uses advanced ISO technology, which DOES relate to the manual functions you'll be learning about in this class.)

There are 3 ways that a DSLR camera captures light when you hold the shutter button down to take a photograph.  To control the look of a photograph, these 3 manual functions are Aperture, Shutter Speed, and Film Speed (ISO). All images capture on a DSLR are capture on the CMOS sensor.  This is the digital version of analog film.

1.       Aperture – Like the iris of our eyes, the Aperture is a round opening that expands and contracts to control the AMOUNT OF LIGHT that enters the camera. The Aperture is housed in the lens.

2.       Shutter Speed – Setting the speed of the shutter determines the TIME THAT THE LIGHT is exposed to the CMOS sensor, where the image is capture in the DSLR Camera.

3.       Film Speed (ISO) – This determines how quickly the LIGHT IS ABSOREBED in the sensitivity of the CMOS sensor on the camera.  When you are in low light situations and your Aperture is opened as far as it can be, and can’t let in anymore light, setting the ISO to a higher (faster) number will allow you to properly expose your image.  The trade off is that the higher (faster) the ISO, the quicker light is absorbed, and this sacrifices the quality of the image.  ISO of 100-800 (slower) will give you a crisper, higher quality image. ISO of 1600 -12,800 will give you a grainy image.

Here's a useful chart for all of you visual learners out there:

Please read this short article that further explains more about how ISO works.  These digital film cameras in the documentary you'll watch today, use ISO the same way that digital photography cameras use them.  We'll discuss this further when I'm back from being sick.

https://digital-photography-school.com/iso-settings/

Project #9: Landscape Photography

Landscape photography is the art of capturing the natural world around you with as much enchanting detail as possible. The idea is to present the beauty and unique elements of the location, that are more visible to the naked eye, in photographic form.

Digital Journal 9:

• Go online and find 5 landscape photos that you find appealing from 5 different landscape photographers.   
• Label each photo with the name of the photographer who took it.
• At the bottom of your Digital Journal, write out 5 different locations out in nature that you could possibly travel to take photos for this assignment. (These locations MUST be out in nature.)

Your Digital Journal is due by the beginning of class on Wednesday, February 5th.
Naming Convention: _dj9

Project:

Your new assignment is to shoot 10 landscape pictures from at least 10 separate locations.
You may shoot horizontal and vertical landscape pictures.
All 10 photos MUST be out in nature, which means that you will likely have to travel to areas that have natural landscapes.  Suggestion: (The Arboretum in the Montlake neighborhood of Seattle, just south of the UW Stadium is filled with multiple great locations to shoot for this project.)
I am giving you 4 weeks to complete 10 images because my expectation is that you will need to arrange a way of getting out to various locations out in nature to take these photographs.
I will NOT accept any photos with suburban or urban backgrounds!!!

You will be required to demonstrate clear photographic examples of ANY of the following 13 Landscaping Tips that you can read about by clicking HERE.

1. Maximize your Depth of Field (Use a higher f/stop #)

2. Use a Tripod

3. Look for a Focal Point

4. Think Foregrounds

5. Consider the Sky

6. Lines

7. Capture Movement

8. Work with the Weather

9. Work the Golden Hours

10. Think about Horizons

11. Change your Point of View

12. Use Slower Shutter Speeds with a Tripod

13. Paint Your Landscapes at Night with Light

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Due: At the end of class on Monday, February 24th.

2 Columns and 5 Rows

Naming Convention: _landscape

Your grade for this assignment will be based on several factors:

• Completion of each image turned in on a contact sheet.
• Turned in on time (formative)
• The quality and creativity of your 10 best images
• Your choice of which photos to possibly use for your portfolio (summative).

Project #8 - Masking, Adjustment Layers, New Tools and Combining Images Seamlessly

If you don't have headphones, you can borrow some that are in the camera closet for the duration of the class period.  Please return them at the end of class.
If you don't have any portrait photos, you will need to take some (2 or 3 should do).  Try to frame the subject in a Close Up (from the shoulders, up).
You will also need a photo of textured surfaces.  (You can use your own, or one you find online).

What is Masking?  You can add a mask to a layer and use the mask to hide portions of the layer and reveal the layers below.  Masking layers is a valuable compositing technique for combining multiple photos into a single image or for removing a person or object from a photo.

Below you will be watching the following video tutorials using your own photos, or photos you find online, as examples to follow along with.  

1 - Beginning in Layer Masks and using Adjustment Layers

• You will only need 1 photo of a cityscape to use as an example, and you can download. Name this "Mask1".

2 - Combining Photos Seamlessly with Layer Masks

• You will need 1 Portrait photo (that you've taken) and 1 Landscape photo (you can use your own, or one you find online) to use as an example. Name this "Mask2"

Getting More In Depth with Masking and Using the Liquify Tool:

3 - Adding Cracks to a Face Part 1

4 - Adding Cracks to a Face Part 2

• You will need 1 Close Up Portrait photo and 1 Textured (or Cracked) Surface photo to use as an example. Name this "Mask3"

You will be turning in all 3 photographic examples that you completed above onto a Contact Sheet 1 Column and 3 Rows and using the naming convention "_masking"

This assignment is due by the end of class on Thursday, December 19th.

If you want to learn more, go to some other free tutorials on phlearn.com:

https://phlearn.com/free-tutorials

Project #7 – Series/Narrative based on One Image/One Idea Assignment

Digital Journal 7:

Come up with 3 potential artist statements.  Don't over think these.  This is an exercise to prepare you for your final artist statement for your portfolio (if you're in AP for the rest of the year).  Use whatever ideation process works best for you to generate ideas.  (For me, I listen to music to get inspired, or meditate and focus on the things I'm grateful for.)
For each Artist Statement, write a brief description of what we might see in your 12 photographic works.

These 3 artist statements are due by the end of class on Thursday, November 21st.
Naming Convention: _dj7

Project:

Your series should explore one idea/artist statement more in depth than in the 10 Photos a Day for a Week project.

You will have 1 Month to shoot and edit at least 12 Photographs that reflect ONE of your personal artist statements.

Friday, January 16th:  Submit ALL 12 works of art for this assignment on an 8" x 11"document with 3 Columns and 4 Rows in Photoshop with the ONE IDEA (your Artist Statement) titled at the top of this document, with your artist statement underneath, followed by your 12 images and the defense of your artist statement at the bottom of this document.  

Websites to look at:
https://www.lightspacetime.com/newsletter/how-to-write-the-perfect-artist-statement/ - How to Write an Artist Statement
http://studioartportfolios.collegeboard.org/category/2014-2d-concentration/ - Examples of AP Artist Statements (Concentrations)

http://www.runeguneriussen.no/wallno01/01_01.html - “A Natural Selection”

http://www.lucassimoes.com.br/# - Cut Out Portraits

http://www.mattcusick.com/paintings-collage/map-works/1 - Collage

http://www.colettefu.com/pop-ups/ - Pop up Books

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/04/sarah-anne-johnson-arctic-wonderland.html - Arctic Wonderland

Due: At the end of class on Tuesday,  January 21st.

Naming Convention: _oneidea

Your grade for this assignment will be based on several factors:

• Completion of each image turned in on a contact sheet.
• Turned in on time (formative)
• The quality and creativity of your 12 best images
• Your choice of which photos to possibly use for your portfolio (summative).

Project #6: Abstract Photography

Digital Journal 6:

Create an 8" X 11" Photoshop document:
Google "Abstract Photography Definition".
Write out this definition on your Digital Journal.

Find 10 images that you find interesting and represent Abstract photography, and incorporate them onto this document.

Next, think about 10 objects, subjects, or places that you could use to create an abstract photograph.
Include these on your Digital Journal.

Name it _dj6

Project #6

When creating Abstract photography.....

Use your imagination when creating your photos. The only rule is that they have to look totally, absolutely, unforgettably creative and awesome. This is an exercise in reducing the photo to basic elements. Simplicity is very important when composing abstracts. Abstracts are about eliminating unwanted details.  Think in terms of the concepts we’ve discussed in class.  Put the objects in beautiful light with dramatic shadows and use interesting compositions.  Experiment with your camera angle until the scene shows the elements in the most pleasing balance. REMEMBER -WITH ABSTRACT PHOTOS, "LESS IS MORE.

Read the following article by Ron Bigelow and click on some of the examples of his work.

https://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/abstract-photography-tips-and-techniques/

You will be taking 20 photographic examples of Abstract photography, and editing them using Tone Curves in Lightroom or Photoshop, to increase your Dynamic Range on ALL of your Photographic Works for this assignment.

This project will be due by the end of class on Thursday, Nov. 14h
4 Columns and 5 Rows Naming convention _abstract

Your grade for this assignment will be based on several factors:

• Completion of each image turned in on a contact sheet.
• Turned in on time (formative)
• The quality and creativity of your 20 best Abstract images