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/