Photo 2: Tutorials

Please pick one of your own pictures from each of the following categories:
1. Fashion
2. Shoreline Magazine
3. Magazine 2 (different city)
4. Action
5. Candid

Next, try a different tutorial from this list for each on of your pictures. Eventually you will have five different pictures adjusted. These will be due along with your edited "Homage to a Photographer" at the end of the period next Wednesday.

Examples:

Photo 1: Final Project Editing

·    Start editing your best pictures in Photoshop. Write down ALL Photoshop manipulation for each picture.

·    Write picture descriptions as you go along. Describe the location, photo composition and elements of design, rationale for picking picture, meaning, and Photoshop adjustments.

Another Contact Sheet is due Tuesday the 4th. Tuesday is also a shooting day.

Photo 2: New Photography Masters

New Photography Masters Assignment:
 Use Text Edit to answer the following questions:

1. Look at the various work from ALL of the photographers listed below. This will take at least 30-40 minutes. You may even explore more up and coming photographers on your own.
2. Pick a photographer that you would like to emulate and pay homage. You will eventually re-create an exact picture and also create your own picture in the "style" of this photographer.
3. Tell me about the photographer and why you picked their work.
 In no LESS than one page please explain:
• Who you chose and who they are (i.e. when, where, what etc)
• Describe their photography: What is unique about her/his style and technique? What types of photos do they take? What are the themes or concepts?
•• Why did you choose this photographer? What do you like about their work/style?
 Please reference different photos and use photography terms that we have discussed in class and from the links below.
Rules of Composition
Elements of Design
4. What specific picture are you going to re-create? Why? Please provide a link to this photo. Where will you shoot this photo? Who are what exactly will be your subject? How will you re-create the exact lighting?

Please put this in the STAFF server Period 1.


Note: Do not copy/paste text from web sites. I will check to make sure that everything written is in your own words. Google is a fantastic tool for checking plagiarism.
  Assignment Due Dates:
May 22nd: Written Description Due at end of period
Homework Re-Create a Photo: Shoot at least 24 attempts.
May 24: Website Portfolio work.
May 29 Re-Create a Photo Due, Editing
May 31: Shooting Day for Homage Photo
June 5th: Editing and Homage Picture due
    
Photographers

Veterans:
 Jim Goldberg - documentary, black and white
Christopher Anderson - color portraits and documentary
Chris Jordan - patterns, industrial waste
Cindy Sherman - self portraits, "film stills"
Arthur Tress - staged fish tank images and various stuff
Steve McCurry - landscape, portraiture, photojournalism
Alex Majoli - photojournalism, black and white portraiture
Vik Muniz - photo composites
Loretta Lux - portraits
Julia Fullerton - commercial
Lauren Greenfeld - documentary
Shimpei Takeda - abstract
Walter Ioos - sports

Young and New Photographers:
Chase Jarvis -variety
Rookie Nolan -
Sarah Hoey - surreal 
Paulina Otylie Surys -

Pari Dukovic -impressionism

Jim Mortram- 

Samuel James -activism, realism

Liz West -variety

Zhang Jingna -portrait

Karrah Kobus -surrealism

Nirrimi Hakanson

Futoshi Miyagi  

Seb Janiak

Simon Powell

Marco Martinelli

Kenny Weng

Michael David Adams

Photo 1 Final Project Treatment

1. What is your theme for your final project?Example: My theme project is Old America, Photomerge Seattle, or Man v. Nature.
2. Why did you choose this as your theme? What is interesting about this theme? Be specific. 2-3 sentences
3. What type of locations will you choose to shoot your pictures? Why? Keep in mind that you will need to leave campus and most likely leave Shoreline. Please give three or four examples.
4. What type of pictures do you hope to take? Action, portrait, landscape etc? A good photo essay will have a variety. Give me some specific examples and how they relate to your theme. Yes, I want you to attempt to describe pictures you haven't even taken yet. Visualize...
5a. What kind of composition will you focus on in your pictures? You will need at least five composition elements (not counting rule-of-thirds). Yes, again I want to know what you are attempting before you shoot. What will you try that you haven't done before?
5b. How will your pictures convey emotion, either from your subject or from the viewer of the pictures? Why will an audience really enjoy these pictures?
6. How much work will be done at school and how much away from school?
7. If you don't have a car, how will you make sure you get to your locations? Can your parents help? How about public transit?
8. This project should showcase everything you have learned in Digital Photography. How will you ensure this happens? What Photoshop adjustment techniques will you use? Please give three or four examples.
9. Is there anything you are unclear about in terms of composition or shot styles and angles etc? This is the time to ask.
10. What type of camera or Photoshop experimentation will you try? HDR? Photomerge pictures? Aperture adjustments? Shutter Speed work?
 
Send the treatment to my email account. Please CC at least one of your parents or guardians on the email so they know they extent of this project. They may need to help with transportation etc.

Photo 1 Final Project

Photo Essay Requirements:

• First pick a general theme. For example, you might pick America, Democracy, or Responsibility. You will shoot photographs centered on this central theme.
 This may include camera experimentation like shutter speeds, HDR, aperture adjustments, layering, or photomerges.

You can also explore photography we haven't talked about this semester like surrealism, impressionism, commercial, or environmentally conscience.

• Use what you've learned about photographic composition, lighting, color, lines, texture and use your camera to make a statement. Each individual photo will be graded accordingly. It is imperative you showcase your ability to shoot many angles of shots with many levels of camera composition (Review composition elements and types of shots if necessary).

Rules of Composition
Elements of Design


• Your photographs should make both a visual and emotional/political/critical/intellectual statement. Your photo essay should contain at least 9 photographs. Below each picture you will also describe the composition elements used on each photo, what you did to adjust the picture, the photo settings used, why you picked this picture, and where you took the picture.

• Your photo essay should be something unique, new, and your own view of your selected theme.

A one-page reflection is also required. In this paper you need describe what you learned during your project. What did you learn about your subject, Photoshop, and photography in general. What was easy and difficult about your project? What would you do differently if you did it again? Finally, how far along do you think you have come as a photographer this semester?

• You can shoot B & W, Color, or both. It’s your artistic choice.

• You may digitally alter your photos as necessary in Photoshop. You should use all of the landscape style, portrait style, and Instagram styles as needed.

• Your pictures should be printed out either 3*5 or 4*6, two to three pictures per page with the exception of one photo that will be printed at 8.5 *11.

• Projects should be turned in on poster board or in a binder with written with the written reflection attached. Look at examples at the front of the room.

• You will also be dropping this assignment in the Staff server so that we may view each project in front of the class.

Timeline:
Thursday 23rd: Project Explanation and Treatment
Weekend Homework: Shooting Day 1
Tuesday 28th: Shooting Day 2
Thursday May 30: Adjustment Day
Weekend Homework: Shooting Day 3
Tuesday June 4: Shooting Day 4
Thursday June 6: Adjustment Day
Optional Weekend Homework: Shooting Day 5 (as needed), Seniors Need to Print Pictures on weekend
Tuesday June 11: Projects due for Seniors at 11:30, Adjustment, Writing, and Printing Day
Thursday January 13: Projects due

Fashion Editing For Photo 2

Please use the following adjustment methods on 24 different pictures. Choose a variety of pictures from a variety of angles.

When you save your work, please indicate which adjustment method you used in the name:

Clone Stamp (CS)
Patch Tool (J)
Gaussian Blur (GB)
Whiten Teeth (W)
Removing Hot Spots (HS): Clone Stamp set to darken instead of lighten. This is perfect for shiny faces.
Glamour Skin Softening (GS:

•   Create a copy of the background layer. 

• On the second layer go to effect>blur>Gaussian Blur

• Move the opacity of the 2nd layer to 50%

• Select eraser tool>select a soft edge brush

• Erase around the eyes, nose, ears, and mouth on the 2nd layer

  When you are finished adjusting the 24 pictures please turn in a Contact Sheet called Portraits Adjusted.

  Then pick your best 10 pictures and do the following:

Crop
Adjust Color 
Make Final Adjustments
Make sure all photos look conceptually and thematically similar. In other words, they should all look like they were shot for the same Magazine Fashion Spread.

Turn in your best 10 pictures in a FOLDER on Friday.

Portrait Editing for Photo 1

Please use the following adjustment methods on 24 different pictures. Choose a variety of pictures from a variety of angles.

When you save your work, please indicate which adjustment method you used in the name:

Clone Stamp (CS)
Patch Tool (J)
Gaussian Blur (GB)
Whiten Teeth (W)
Removing Hot Spots (HS): Clone Stamp set to darken instead of lighten. This is perfect for shiny faces.
Glamour Skin Softening (GS:

•   Create a copy of the background layer. 

• On the second layer go to effect>blur>Gaussian Blur

• Move the opacity of the 2nd layer to 50%

• Select eraser tool>select a soft edge brush

• Erase around the eyes, nose, ears, and mouth on the 2nd layer

  When you are finished adjusting the 24 pictures please turn in a Contact Sheet called Portraits Adjusted.

   Then you need to pick your best 12 pictures and do the following:

•  A Vignette Photo
• Three Grayscale Method Photos
• Two One Item Kept in Color Photo
• A selective Focus Photo
• One WHACKY anything goes portrait (change the colors, use the liquefy tool, and make this as unique and interesting as you can)
• One picture where hair color (or another object) is significantly adjusted in a realistic way
• Three pictures adjusted any way you would like

I will tell you how to turn these in on Thursday.

Upodated: After Effects Tutorials

Fireball Tutorials:
https://www.google.com/search?q=fire+hand+after+effects+tutorial&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
You need a ten second video of someones moving their hand(or something else of your choice).

Flames:
 https://www.google.com/search?q=stock+footage+flame+mov&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Use dirpy.com or mediaconverter.org to capture flames.
Or you can grab fire from the "Fire Folder" in the Public Folder on my Staff Server.

Energy Ball Tutorial:
You need a video of someone bouncing a pretend ball.
 
3D Text Tutorials

Lightning
Advanced Lighting
You need a ten second clip of anything that you want to shoot lightening.

Rotoscoping
You need a ten second wide shot to do this tutorial.

Photo 1 Portrait Treatment

Answer the following questions about BOTH of the portrait shoots for each person in the group. If you want you may choose different themes for the different days.

1. What are both of your names?
2. What are the themes for each of your shooting days for each person?
3. What specific clothing will you wear each day? What accessories will you bring to enhance your shoot?
4. Where do you want to shoot outside of school? Why?
5. What kind of emotion will both of you show in each photo shoot?
6. How will you ensure that you give 100% on this project? What can you do to make these pictures the best pictures you've taken in class?
7. How will you use lighting to make your pictures interesting? Be specific.
Bring your cameras Tuesday and Thursday. If you are shooting away from school sign out at TAP.

Photo 2: Fashion Shoot Assignment

Fashion Magazine Assignment

You are working for a fashion magazine that sells clothing to a specific audience. Your job together is to shoot two picture spreads to sell two different styles of clothing and accessories. This includes pants, coats, shirts, scarfs, shoes, socks, belts, dresses, shorts, and anything else a person can wear.

Please look through, watch, and read about the following fashion shoots.

Examples:
Kala Makeup Fashion Portfolio
Joie Magazine
Beyond The Sea
Grey Gardens
In the Trenches
Megan Fox
GQ: Best Suits
Details Magazine: Jeans

True Blood
Jessica Biel
Katy Perry

Lighting
Fashion Setup 


Your pictures should show a variety of composition and also showcase a variety of ways to light your subject. Please review lighting techniques here.
Please review portrait tips here.


Requirements:
You must choose a partner from class.
You will model for each other on Wednesday and Friday.
You will shoot one day outdoors and one day in the studio.
Your location away from school needs to be unique and interesting on it's own.
Get creative. Play dress up. Dress stylishly and/or uniquely.


On Monday you will  get together with your partner  and answer the following questions. You will email me your responses during class time.

1. What are your names?
2. What two magazines are you shooting pictures for? Why? What types of clothing are you trying to sell?
3. What day are you using the studio?
4. What specific clothing will you wear each day? What accessories will you bring to enhance your shoot?
5. Where do you want to shoot outside of school? Why?
6. How will you ensure that you give 100% on this project? What can you do to make these pictures the best pictures you've taken in class?
7. How will you use lighting to make your pictures interesting? Be specific.

Bring your cameras Wednesday and Friday. If you are shooting away from school you can go directly to your shooting location.

Photo 1 Portrait Assignment

Digital Photography: Portrait Assignment

You will shoot portraits over the next week on Tuesday May 7th and Thursday May 9th.

One day you will shoot at school using the lights in the studio and the other day you will shoot off-campus at a predetermined location. 

You will shoot AT LEAST 24 pictures of your subject each day (most of you will shoot between 50 and 75 pictures.

You can, and probably should, take pictures on the weekend as well.

1. Find two interesting human subjects. The people you choose should WANT to be in the picture and they should be willing to cooperate. It's OK to work with people in this class.
2. Talk to your subject. What type of portraits do you want to create? 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 each 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. Use the different lighting techniques that you will read about in class (see above).
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 HintsPart 1
Portrait Hints Part 2

More Hints

Even more hints












Here is a list of the different types of portraits photos you will turn in:

• A Vignette Photo
• A Grayscale Method Photo
• A One Item Kept in Color Photo
• A selective Focus Photo
• A minimally adjusted photo
• One WHACKY anything goes portrait (change the colors, use the liquefy tool, and make this as unique and interesting as you can)

Finally, you will turn in your best picture as well.

Lighting!!!
http://mrstorydigiphoto.blogspot.com/2011/12/different-lighting-techniques.html

• Creating Killer Headshots: The Cheap Way! - David Griffin
• A quick start guide to the one light setup - David Griffin
• Back Lighting - Studio Lighting Setup - StudioLighting.net
• Paramount (Butterfly) Lighting - Studio Lighting Setup - StudioLighting.net
• Multiple Light Portrait Setup Hints - David E. Price
• Short Lighting - Studio Lighting Setup - StudioLighting.net
• Broad Lighting - Studio Lighting Setup - StudioLighting.net

Photo 1 and 2: Turning in HDR Pictures

On Thursday/Friday you will edit/Merge all of your HDR pictures.
You will then turn in your best four HDR pictures:

• 3 Sunset/Sunrise pictures, each from a different location
• 1 Object or Room HDR

Note:
Each Sunset/Sunrise HDR must show a sunset or sunrise. If you still don't have three different locations you can take pictures tonight or tomorrow morning.