January 26th Substitute Lesson

Ok class I'm sorry that I am gone once again. Turns out January is one crazy month. [be very respectful and kind you your sub!] I have the entire assignment listed for you below. Read carefully. I'll be checking it off on Monday along with YOUR SCAVENGER HUNT ASSIGNMENT! [hint hint don't forget]


The first part of class you will be using your sketching talents around the building. We are going to start talking about composition. I want you to get a head start on it. Your assignment is to go around the school, inside our out, [BUT STAY ON CAMPUS] and make a hand camera with your hands. You'll look through your awesome fake camera and find a good compositon, something that you think looks nice. After you find that composition you will need to sketch that composition in your binders [if you don't have your binders yet use your notebooks] You need 10 different compositional sketches. They need to look decent. I should be able to tell what everything is so do not scribble! You will have about 30-45 minutes to go around the school and sketch. You MAY NOT go into any classrooms and you must be quiet in the halls and respectful to other classes by not being loud and annoying. You may sketch people, places, or objects, whatever you think makes a good composition. Examples below.....

 Make a box out of your fingers.

Move your hands around until you find something with a good composition. SOMETHING THAT LOOKS GOOD AND INTERESTING! Then you STOP AND SKETCH. Do this 10 times. You should have 4 sketches per page. Make them take up the entire space. No little 1 inch sketches.

If you finish early come back to class and get started on some photoshop tutorials. I know you are probably sick of those "getting started" videos, but you need to be able to edit your images without using those videos. Next class I will make you edit an image using the techniques from one of these videos and I expect you to be able to do it without any help. If you feel like you remember everything then edit them all without help. Then get the video out if you need help. You should be able to completely edit all the pictures without help. Or at least that is the ending goal.

Photo Scavenger Hunt

Photo Scavenger Hunt

Assignment:

1.   Think about what you are taking a picture of. Set up your photo. Think about composition.

2.   30 NEW pictures

3.   DO NOT take pictures of another picture or drawing.

Set the date on your camera but take the date off your pictures.

No previous taken pictures are acceptable. Take all pictures in color.

Required Pictures:

1.    Feet and/or shoes- 2 different photos

2.    Hands and/or paws- 2 different photos

3.    Something about you. [what you like, hobbies, ect.]- 2 different pictures

4.    Water [one large like a pond or a stream]- 3 pictures

5.    Stairs or staircase- 2 different pictures

6.    Family- 2 pictures

7.    Friends- 2 pictures

8.    Landscapes- [3 different scenes] – 3 pictures

9.    Flower or plant [close up]- 3 photos

10.  Horse, cow, sheep, or goat- 2 different pictures

11.  Inside a building or school- 3 different pictures

12.  Glass jar- 1 picture

13.  Food- 2 pictures

Be creative! Choose different light [time of day] and angles. Show me what you can do!

Friday's Lesson [5th, 6th, 8th]

Class, again I'm super sorry I'm not here today! What you will be doing today is brushing up on your PhotoShop skills. For those of you who have never used PhotoShop or haven't used it for a while, this will be a good change to refresh your memories. For those of you who have been working with PhotoShop at the beginning of the year, you can go on and learn different techinques and tools.

[1st]  I want you all to redo the vintage PS tutorial that you did on the first day. I want you to do the same process to both photos [one of tomatoes, and one of a balloon] It's good to repeat tutorials so you can remember the steps and can repeat them without help on your own pictures. Once you edit both photos, save them in your student drive. I want you to create a PHOTOGRAPHY file in your student drive, and then in your PHOTOGRAPHY  file creat a new file called PS TUTORIALS. Save your pictures here. This will keep your organized.

DO YOU REMEMBER WHERE TO FIND THESE TUTORIALS AT? LET ME REMIND YOU...

Go to the COMPUTER incon on the desktop.
Scroll down to NETWORKS and click on 704 ETC > shaum photography > photo 1 >  PS Tutorial > Retro Tutorial.

[2nd] After you have edited both of the retro photos look down on the post below called BEGINNING PHOTOSHOP TUTORIALS. Read through this post. There will be a link to a website that you need to click on. [it says "this website" in green] This will bring you to a webpage that has names of videos you can watch. YOU NEED TO WATCH THESE IN ORDER! You don't have to watch the very first one. Start on the video called.........

 "Getting started. What is CS5."
Then continue down the list. keep going. Don't stop. If you have time watch until GS-08.

HERE'S THE CATCH...... You are not just watching these videos. You need to open up pictures that I saved in the 704 ETC file and edit your image along with theirs. [computer > 704 ETC > Shaum photography > photo 1 > ps tutorials > getting started images] This should take you a while for each video! You need to make sure you understand these concepts because I will ask you how to do them when I get back. What you will do is have your video up and playing. You will listen, pause the video, go to your photoshop, do exactly what what they did on their photo to the one you have pulled up. Each video should take anywhere from 5-15 minutes.

Please be very respectful and kind to your substitute! Thanks so much!

Beginning Photoshop Tutorials

We are starting to get into photoshop a little more now. First you need to learn about Photoshop tools and how to use them correctly. To get started go to this website and watch some tutorials. Once you get to the website you will see at the top of the page the words "Getting Started." Under Getting Started you will see the words, Setup, Overview, and Tutorials. Under "Tutorials" there will be a link to click on. Click on it.

This will take you to a new page where there will be links to lots of tutorials. You DO NOT have to watch the first 2 tutorials. Start where it says GS-01. After you watch the first tutorial click on the next tutorial and keep watching.

*** While you are watching you should be working with you image in Photoshop! When the tutorial does a step pause the video and complete the exact same step you just saw. Even though the tutorials may only be 1 minute long, you should be watching it and learning with it for at least 5 minutes until you have mastered the skill. If you are watching these at home and you do not have Photoshop take notes instead. That way when you come to class and you need to work on your photo you have step by step intstructions to help you if you forget. Beleive me, it's hard to remember every step. You will need to take notes!

Good luck and have fun!

New semester

New beginnings

Welcome to Photography



How to Save your Color Portrait Assignment

For those of you who didn't get your color portrait picture printed and handed out need to resave your image on my jump drive. Because of the way you image was saved, it wouldn't let me open up all the color layers. Follow these steps to save correctly.

1. Make sure your artboad is an 11x17 or an 11x11
2. Arrange your images however you would like on your artboard. You may use only one picture, or all 4, or even create a pattern. Make sure to leave a little white on the sides of your artboard so if you frame you picture you won't cut any part of the image off.
3. When your image is just the way you want it go to File > Save As > change the Format from Adobe Illustrator to ADOBE PDF. Also make sure to save your image with with First AND Last name PLUS your class period. ex. JohnSmith3
4. Once it is saved in adobe pdf format come up and get a flash drive from me and save your image to the flash drive.
5. After you have saved to the jump drive properly eject it by clicking on the fash drive icon in the bottom right of your screen. Click eject, WAIT FOR THE LIGHTS TO STOP BLINKING  and then take it out. Please bring the flash drive back to me as soon as  you are finished.

What to do in Visual Design on Thursday...

Today in class you will be able to work on your logo and business cards. Most of the class had gotten their images scanned. If they are open them up in Illustrator and get to work on tracing your image to create your logo. You may use fonts on the computer instead of tracing your handwriting if you would like. When you finish your logo then move on to design your business card. Most business cards are 3x2. You only have 2 more work days left to complete this assignment and any others that are not done. Make the time count and stay on task!

If you have no gotten your image scanned you need to draw your logo our PERFECTLY on a piece of paper. This is not a 2 minute sketch, this in a 45 minute drawing at least. When I get back I will expect you to hand me your prefect drawing of your logo and a perfect drawing of your business card. Again, the business card need to be done with a ruler and look good enough to hand out.

I'm sorry I am not here to scan and help. Thanks for working so hard!

Photography 1 FINAL.... finally

This is your last photo 1 assignment! Wow it's finally over right. Here is all the info/peramiters for your one and only last assignment.

Your assignment is to pick any photographer your heart desires. Make sure that you pick someone that you think is interesting and that you would want to use as inspiration for your own photography. Not only will you study out a certain photographer and their style, but then you will take 4 great photos representing their style.

Everything you need to know about the assignment...

*Pick one photgrapher to research

*Take 4 great photos replicating or representing your photogreaphers style.

         [your photos are due Monday or Tuesday January 9th or 10th]

* Write one page double spaced or one half page single spaced about your photograepher.

           DO NOT change the margine

           DO NOT create a huge heading with your name and title to take up space

           MAKE SURE to write in complete sentences, have correct spelling, grammer, and punctuation.

*Create a Power Point to present in class. [presentation must be 5 minutes]

    2-3 slides of information on photorapher. [their life, style, anything you actually think is interesting]

    1-2 slides on why you personally like this photographer. What you would like to take from their style and add to yours.

    5-7 slides of examples of their photography

    2-4 slides of all 4 photos you took representing your photographers style.

Remember you will only have this week to work on these in class so use your time wisely! You will be assigned a day to present next Monday-Thursday January 9th-12th. If you are not prepared or present in class the day you are assigned you will receive a ZERO on the final. [Unless you are school excused or have a doctors note. Other than that, NO EXCEPTIONS] We only have a small amount of time to get these presentations finished and cannot have everyone present the last day.

Photoshop tutorial

Head to this link for your new photoshop tutorial.

http://www.photoshopstar.com/basics/create-lines-different-shapes/