Monday, February 28, 2011

Magazine 2 Adjustments


Turn in your best six pictures on a Contact Sheet called Magazine 2_adjusted.
Please make sure you pick six pictures of a variety of subjects from a variety of locations shot from a variety of angles.
These pictures should get people excited about visiting the city you chose.
Finally, turn in your best picture for printing.


Required Adjustments:

One Grayscale
Selective Focus
Vignette

Suggested adjustments:
One item left in color

Selective Focus

Photo Filter

Brightness/Contrast

Cropping

Portraits: Gaussian Blur, Clone Stamp, and Patch Tool 


Due Tuesday and Wednesday:
Magazine 2 Adjusted CS and Best picture for Printing 

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Digital Photo 2 Mid-Winter Break Assignment: Sell me a neighborhood or city of your choice


Digital Photo 2 Mid-Winter Break Assignment: Sell me a neighborhood or city of your choice.

You are working for a Travel magazine and your job is to sell a city or neighborhood to prospective residents and travelers. Your pictures should show the variety of activities, neighborhoods, scenic locations, and cultural spots.
  • Due at the end of the break is two contact sheets (48 pictures) full of pictures shot using manual adjustment methods.
  • You must have at least one high-action shot, one landscape shot, one macro shot, and one bizarre angle or abstract shot (something arty).
  • You will select 6 of the pictures to adjust and turn in as part of your magazine “photo spread”.
Composition to focus on:
  • Color Contrast
  • Tonal Balance
  • Balance Mass
  • Leading Lines
  • Framing or Frame Within a Frame
  • Interesting Pattern
  • Selective Focus
  • S-Curve
  • Three objects creating a triangle

Animation: SCNN Open Assignment

You are going to create an “Open” for SCNN.

Requirements:
  • 20-30 seconds long
  • motion tween
  • shape tween
  • sound effects,
  • music
  • at least 7 layers
  • move a symbol along a motion path guide
Most importantly this video needs to get kids excited about watching SCNN. Use school colors if you can and even create school locations, teachers, students, clubs, and sports to make the video relevant to other SC students.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Motion Blur Assignment

 
Digital Photo 2 Motion Blur Assignment

In this assignment you will keep one item in sharp focus and have multiple objects in a motion blur behind or around a subject.
You can use people or objects as your subjects.

·      Tuesday and Wednesday are practice days on campus.
·      Thursday and Friday are out of class shooting days. You are encouraged to check out at TAP or lunch so you can get to a highly active and interesting location for your shoot.  
·      You must use the Shutter Priority setting on your camera (usually Tv or S).
·      You CAN shoot entirely in manual mode.
Please shoot at least 18-24 pictures. Try two or three locations within your area. For example, if you are at Pacific Place try three different escalators. Or if you go to Pike Place try three different spots there.

Hints and suggestions:
1. Try a variety of shutter speeds. I would try starting at something as quick as 1/20 and work your way down to a speed as slow as 2-4 seconds. (I am guessing that around 1/20 to 1/2 will work best, but that of course depends on lighting etc.)
2. Use a timer so your hands do not move the camera and cause your main subject to blur.
3. Use a tripod or keep your camera on something steady.
4. Shoot in a really interesting setting away from school. If you are using people as your subjects then shoot in a place that has a large population during your class.
5. Play dress up. Encourage your subject(s) to act as a character to make the picture even more interesting.

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Digital Photography Contest Gallery - Motion Blur Effect30 Impressive Examples of Motion Blur photography




30 Impressive Examples of Motion Blur photography 

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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Shoreline Magazine Assignment

Turn in your best six pictures on a Contact Sheet called Shoreline_adjusted.
Please make sure you pick six pictures of a variety of subjects from a variety of locations.
These pictures should get people excited about visiting Shoreline.
Finally, turn in your best picture for printing.

(Always use the naming convention).

Suggested adjustments:
One item left in color
Various grayscale methods: Ansel Adams, Calculations, Duotone
Selective Focus
Photo Filter
Brightness/Contrast
Cropping
Portraits: Gaussian Blur, Clone Stamp, and Patch Tool 
Vignette



Sunday, February 06, 2011

Monday in Digital Photo 2

Import your pictures to your computer

Create a Contact Sheet and title it Magazine CS 2

Begin editing your pictures. Use the Photo Filter, Brightness/Contrast, and Cropping etc.  Your final project you will have six pictures that are all entirely different from one another. A well done project will have a landscape, a macro shot, an action shot, an abstract shot etc.

Today:
Create a selective focus picture and a one item left in color picture.

Tuesday/Wednesday is your last shooting day.

Friday, February 04, 2011

Flash Animation Project One

  •  5+ layers
      60+ frames
      15+ keyframes
      foreground, mid-ground, and background
      both shape and motion tweens
  •  1 Movie Clip
  • All items on separate layers
  •  




You have Monday and Wednesday to work on this project. All projects should have a beginning, middle, and end.

Wednesday, February 02, 2011

How to create a Contact Sheet



  • Create a new folder on your desktop with your pictures.
  • Open Photoshop CS3.
  • Select File>Automate>Contact Sheet II
  • Select on Folder and choose the folder your created.
  • Make sure the image size is 8*10 inches.
  • The resolution should be 300.
  • Columns and rows will vary: 12 pictures = 3*4 and 24 pictures=5*5
  • Click OK.
  • File>Save as a jpeg

Drop contacts shet into the STAFF server period 3/6and make sure you use the naming convention. Contact sheets and other assignments without the naming convention will not be graded.

Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Digital Photo 2 Composition Review and Pick 5 Assignment

Please review the composition examples below:

http://photoinf.com/General/Geoff_Lawrence/Composition.html


http://cybercollege.com/tvp024.htm


http://cybercollege.com/comp_ex2.htm


Your assignment today is to shoot five compositions from the list below. Please shoot these with the camera in MANUAL mode, adjusting both the F-stop and Shutter Speed each time.
I recommend shooting at least four or five attempts for each composition.


  • Color Contrast
  • Tonal Balance
  • Balance Mass
  • Leading Lines
  • Framing or Frame Within a Frame
  • Interesting Pattern
  • Selective Focus
  • S-Curve
  • Three objects creating a triangle