Photo Competition

When we return from break you will all be required to enter the Washington State Photo Competition.
There are four categories for digital imaging: landscape/cityscape, people, color, and digital manipulation.

Entry Form:
http://www.rainierphoto.com/PDF/2007WSHSPCRULES.pdf

Pixel 2 Life

http://www.pixel2life.com/

Look up synonyms to help pick a creative B-Movie Title

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

B-Movie Poster

Steps for B-Movie Poster

1. Brainstorm and sketch ideas on paper. Show Mr. Mitchell your four ideas and pick one to work on.
2. Spend time to get any background/landscape pictures that you need. Pick a place that you could potentially have monsters climb on/destroy/reappear from/or live. Your poster must have at least one digital image taken with a camera.
3. Import your background photos to your computer.
4. Create a new document in Photoshop at 8.5 *11 inches with the same resolution as your pictures you take.
5. Add background photo to new document.
6. Manipulate photos to work within your poster. Use free transform to adjust sizes. Hold down the shift key to constrain proportions. Don't forget you need victims and a monster.
7. Go to pixel2life.com and pick a text to create that is appropriate for your poster. Text with blood, fire, or multiple colors also seem to work best. You will make text for your movie name as well as tag-lines and movie stars. The text should go well together.
7b. Check in with Mr. Mitchell to make sure everything is OK.
8. Once you have completed all of your poster you will need to merge layers and convert your picture to grayscale.
9. You will now paint your picture at approximately 23%-30% opacity. Pick colors that stand out.
10. Check in with Mr. Mitchell again and print.

Grading will be based on the following:
Creative movie title
Creative use of text effects for title and tag lines
Interesting/scary monster or villian
Use of digital image
Color Coordination
Realism of poster (does it look like something we would see in a theater)
Logo included
Movie details included in small print (directed by,starring, rating etc.)

Take your time on this project! Most likely this project will take us up to spring break.
Tuesday/Wednesday will be all day shooting days to gather background and villian images. Whatever you don't shoot during class is homework.

Wed and Thursday Photo Work

• Use the entire period to manipulate four of your best portrait pictures.
• Use the clone stamp, patch too, and gaussian blur effect to airbrush the subject's face.
• Use brightness/contrast, shafor/exposure/, and color balance etc. to get the perfect color.
• Crop as needed.
• You may draw on your pictures or add text.
• You may NOT use any image that you did not take a picture of yourself.
• This picture CAN look manipulated.
• Experiment with Photoshop. Be original and creative. Have fun.

The Best Landscape Picture: Tiffany Ku

Wednesday/Thursday Work For Photo

• Finish your grayscale pics during class.
• Create two 4*6 pictures and put them on one document.
• One of the pictures will be a shadow, one will be a pattern.
• Save this document.
• Next, look at Getty Images for Portrait ideas. Brainstorm four portrait ideas, sketch them out on one sheet of paper, and turn these four sketches in. Under each picture briefly describe the idea.
• Your portraits are due next Monday, which means you have homework.
• Email me with any questions.

Portrait Assignment: pictures due on Monday

1. Find an interesting human subject. The person you choose should WANT to be in the picture and they should be willing to cooperate.
2. Talk to your subject. Use colors or lighting to create a concept for your portrait. Costumes or uniforms work great. Imaginary ideas are OK. Choose an interesting setting based on your concept.
3. Change angles between shots. Shoot at least 24 pictures of the SAME subject.
4. Use props if they will help the audience learn something about the subject.
5. Vary the lighting. Use filters, flashlights, lamps, or multiple lights to enhance your picture.
6. Encourage different emotional looks. Pretend you are Austin Powers taking pictures. Tell your subject they are "groovy".
7. Having your subjects "pose" in action is just fine.
8. Most importantly for this assignment don't forget your compostion rules. Use framing, leading lines, rule of thirds, color contrast etc. to enhance your photo. Fill the frame.

Portrait Assignment Examples

Brightness/Contrast, Shadows, and Patterns

Your next assignment will focus on Brightness/Contrast, Shadows, and Patterns with Black and White Photos.

You will create albums in IPhoto for the following categories:
natural light shadows, man-made light shadows, and patterns.

You should have at least 24 quality photos in each album. However, you will probably shoot 100-150 pictures.
For your lighting pictures you should have at least four different subjects. I would recommend shooting five to six angles for each shot. Also, experimenting withe the F-Stop is a great idea.

Tuesday/Wednesday will be an all-day shooting period. You may leave during TAP or lunch as long as you sign out first. You need to be back to import your photos 15 minutes before the end of class.

You will be graded on both your pictures in the albums as well as the pictures you print.

You must have at least a C- and your out-of-class permission form in to leave class Tuesday/Wednesday.

Weekend Homework

Shoot 24 shadow shots.
You should have at least four main subjects.
Remember to use proper composition in each shot and fill the frame.

Photo Tutorial

http://www.pstut.com/tutorial-photo-montage-wallpaper.html

F-Stop Shutter Speed Assignment

10 shots with different F-Stop Adjustments
10- shots with different shutter speed adjustments
10 shots adjusting both

Make your adjustments in sequence so when you import to IPhoto you can see the subtle, but noticable changes.

It will be normal to have some pictures be very dark or bright.

Shutter Speed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_speed

Gettt Images

http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/homeCreative.aspx

A great place to look at examples of composition.

Importing

To import pictures please do the following:

1. Plug in camera with USB chord or plug in Card Reader.
2. If you are importing ALL your pictures, open up IPhoto and select import. Your pictures will automatically go into the IPhoto library. (skip step three)
3. If you are only importing some of your pictures then open up Image Capture from the Applications folder. Once you are there select the 'download some' option. The select the pictures you want to download. The pictures should end up in your pictures folder on the hard drive. You will need to drag these pictures into IPhoto.
4. When you have all of your photos in IPhoto, you can drag each photo into the proper Photo album.

Lab Fees

Please bring the $20 lab fees Monday.
Thanks!

Reading Lessons

Good afternoon. I am out sick again. The reading assignments are listed below. Please take notes as you go along, as there will be a test on the information. When you are done with each section take the quiz. You will need to know the material, so don't even think about tking the quiz first.
http://cybercollege.com/tvp012.htm
http://cybercollege.com/tvp023.htm
http://cybercollege.com/tvp024.htm
(Look at further examples at bottom of page, http://cybercollege.com/comp_ex.htm)
http://cybercollege.com/tvp025.htm
http://cybercollege.com/comp_ex2.htm

This should take you about an hour to read all of these and take the quizes. You may need to read the section of F-Stops and Shutter Speed twice. Any reading not completed today is homework.

When you are done please open IPhoto and create new folders for the following composition examples: framing, leading lines, rule of thirds, color contrast, leading the subject, and conveying meaning through colors and tone.

Use the remainder of the period to shoot examples for the above compositions using your cameras. You may work quietly around the school. Your homework will be to get 5 shots for each composition section listed above.

Please email me if you have questions.
I should be around to answer any questions in near real-time.

Mr. Mitchell

Homework

Please bring your camera, instructions, and USB chord tomorrow.

First Day Second Semester

Email me your responsses at trent.mitchell@shorelineschools.org

(use complete sentences)

1. Why did you sign up for this course?
2. What experience do you have with digital cameras
3. Have you taken regular photography?
4. What experience do you have with computers?
5. Are you familiar with Photoshop at all?
6. What kind of music do you listen to?
7. What kind of camera do you have? Do you have the instructions and USB chord?
8. List two or three things I should know about you so I can help ensure you do well in this class.