Portraits and Self-portraits preview. Assigned 11/13, due 11/16 - Minor

 Self Portrait and Portraits Intro

Since I am not here today, and you guys aren't ready to meet for the mural project without me there, we will have to move ahead with another preview assignment for another photo shoot that you will do after the mural projects are completed. We shouldn't be here, but because you guys couldn't handle a day when I was gone, this is what has to happen. 

For this assignment, there is NO reason for you to move from your desk, and you can do this without me there. So stay in your seats and complete this task. Know that you will be asked to take both a portrait and a self-portrait in the future and they need to be well done. So take the time to do this assignment and think hard about what kind of portrait and self-portrait you might want to take. Be creative and plan ahead. At some point you will get a camera to take these photos AT HOME away from the campus.

Go take a look at these FOUR websites. Make sure to create a new Google Site subpage called Portraits and Self-portraits Preview and do all of the tasks below. Don't forget to do a screenshot, you need to press Shift-Command-F4 and then draw the cursor over the image you want to take a screenshot of.

http://digital-photography-school.com/10-ways-to-take-stunning-portraits

and

http://digital-photography-school.com/tips-portrait-photography

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-tips/portrait-photography-tips/

http://shutterbug.com/refreshercourse/portrait_tips/197/

After looking at these, find what you think are the best 2 or 3 tips and copy and paste them into a new post on your Google Site (I don’t need 2-3 tips from each site, but 2-3 total, but please look at all four sites).

When you go out to shoot these types of photos, there are three main types of portraits, the environmental portrait, a self-portrait and a casual portrait. Lets go find some examples of these types of images.

Google image search “Environmental portrait” and pick out 2 that you really like and post them on your Google Site. Tell me what you liked about the photo and why you picked it.

Google image search “photography self portrait” and pick out 2 that you really like and post them on your Google Site. Tell me what you liked about the photo and why you picked it.

Google image search “casual portrait” and pick out 2 that you really like and post them on your Google Site. Tell me what you liked about the photo and why you picked it.

Please write at least a paragraph telling me your plan for your portrait assignment. Answer the following questions: who will you shoot, where will you shoot, and what will you do to make the shot successful.

Be specific on all three answers. When I read it I should know who and where you will take the photos and I should know exactly what your plan is to make sure you get a quality photo.  Think about composition when you are planning these. I really want your self-portrait to be a more than just a selfie. I want to see insight into you. Who are you? What defines you? How can you give me a little insight into what makes you tick or something that you get up to do every day? What is your passion? These thoughts should come out in your work.

Top-100 photos. Assigned 11/11, due 11/13 - Minor

Top-100 Photos

Let's take a look at some famous photos. Below you will find a link to the top-100 photos according to Time Magazine.

Spend at least 20 minutes scrolling to the bottom. Make note of a few that you think are really great.

https://2.boredpanda.com/top-100-world-photos-influential-all-time/

Pick FOUR of the top-100 images. Click them individually and read the short excerpt about the photo. Take a screen shot of each image (Command+Shift+4 and use the cursor to draw a box around the image). Create a new subpage on your Google Site called Top-100 Photos, put the three images on that page (they will be in your download folder or on your desktop) and answer the following questions:

1. Why did you pick this image? What caught your eye?
2. Summarize what you read. How about 1-2 sentences explaining the photo.
3. Look up the photographer. Post their famous image of theirs PLUS one more of theirs that catches your eye. (This means I should see at least 2 photos per photographer and you will be looking at FOUR for a total of 8 images today.
4. Find a biography of the photographer and provide the following information:

Name
Birth and death year (if applicable)
Born where
School attended (college or photo school)

Please complete this assignment on a single Google Site subpage called Top-100 Photos

BACK-UP POTENTIAL

https://issuhub.com/view/index/18860?fbclid=IwAR0GTu_39LKNtyr4DIg7VaeNClcXpvpA7HF6va6fkF-ZvjB61Gr4xph47BI_aem_AY3R-cv9xRS2-XaiIRS_BJKh4F4VNgnPM0nKooK_Lovy4UKMt8pZFo3c-z7np9GIsPU

Composition part 2. Assigned 11/9 - due 11/11 - Minor

 Composition 2

Earlier this year you learned the 6 basic composition rules of photography. Those included:

Rule of Thirds
Balance/Balancing Elements
Lines/Leading Lines
Simplicity/Background
Framing
Avoiding Mergers

Today we are going to add 4 more rules for you to think about as you continue to shoot for this class. They are:

Symmetry and Patterns (repetition)
Viewpoint
Create Depth
Cropping

We are also more clearly defining the first six rules, so their names are changing slightly, be aware of those changes.

Check out the new rules here, you can ignore the one at the end called Experiment and sub in Avoiding Mergers:

http://www.photographymad.com/pages/view/10-top-photography-composition-rules

Please pick a theme, I don't care what theme you choose: football, guitars, Justin Beiber, whatever.
Then use Google search and find photos relating to your theme.

Find photos that show good examples of the following photo composition rules. Show me that you understand these rules. Make sure to tell me which photo = which rule, i.e. label your photos with the proper rule title. Create a new subpage on your Google Site called Composition 2.

Here are the rules again, in case you forgot in the last 2 minutes:
1. Rule of thirds
2. Balancing Elements
3. Leading Lines
4. Symmetry and Patterns (repetition)
5. Viewpoint
6. Background
7. Create depth
8. Framing
9. Cropping
10. Mergers and avoiding them - here I want you to find me a COOL merger photo. These are often called FORCED PERSPECTIVE - do a Google search for that description and see what you can find.

Nov. 4 - Posted 11/4 - Work Day

When you come in today, if you have a camera, you should download your photos. Make a new folder on your desktop and call it Mural Project. Download your photos there. If you need help ASK. Don't break my equipment trying to shove an SD card into the camera incorrectly.

You will have time to work with your team to get those photos shared next week.

If you had a camera and you didn't take photos, why? I will do my best to get another camera to you next week but no promises. There are multiple grades associated with this project and not having photos = NOT GOOD.

I will check out cameras later in the period for the weekend. Anyone who hasn't gotten one will have priority!! NO CONTRACT = NO CAMERA

What now:

Check grades and get to work on something for me. Lots of people didn't do Mural Project Preview. Lots of others are missing something, including Photo Manipulation and Ethics.

Make sure you have three funny captions written. We are going to practice more captions later in the class period.

Some of you will go Shoot Prompt Shoot #2 (Smith, Reese in 3rd).

If you have everything turned in and you are done with 3 captions, you have about 45 minutes to do what you want to do.

Prompt Shoot #2 Photoshop & Funny Captions. Assigned 10/30, due 11/4 - Minor and Minor

 Last class you learned how to do levels to color manage your photos. You also learned how to crop and turn photos into B/W images. I have given you written instructions on another post located below this assignment. 

Today, please take the first 20 minutes to do that process for all of your Prompt Shoot #2 photos. Then make a new Google Site subpage called Prompt Shoot using Photoshop and share those newly color managed images. You can make them color or black and white and you can crop them however you want to practice.

When you are done PUBLISHING those images, please work on the following assignment:

Funny Captions

I call this assignment: FUNNY CAPTIONS. Make sure you follow the rules at the bottom, and get in the habit of doing this because from now on you will be asked to write a captions on photos you take and post on your blog, where appropriate. I expect you to learn how to do it correctly and following the rules listed below. 

Go to the following site and find the three funniest photos that capture some kind of action or emotion, do NOT pick a MEME with words on it - just photos.

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=crazy+old+people

or

https://pixabay.com/images/search/funny%20person/

Save your three favorite photos in your drive, put them on your google site. Under each photo write a funny, two sentence, caption that follows these rules:

Caption Rules:

1. First sentence includes major information about the photo (who, what, where, when, why, how). You may make up the information for this assignment.

2. First sentence should be written in present tense as if the action of the photo is still happening.

3. Second sentence should be past tense, and should include background information.

4. Information in the second sentence should not be obvious by looking at the photo.

5. If there are three or fewer recognizable people in the photo, you must give all of their names (you can make them up for this assignment).

6. Use strong action verbs whenever possible.

7. Make sure to write a short headline. These should be 3-5 words long and go along with the photo itself. You have lots of options here so just write something for now.

8. Make these funny.

Basic Photoshop (Levels). Assigned in-class only 10/28 - no grade associated

This is a quick tutorial on how to edit photos in Photoshop in case you missed the presentation in class or were not here today. If you need help to do these steps, please ask and I will help you. Missing this class was though so you need to get this done ASAP so you know what to do. 

If you are not in class today, I have created step-by-step instructions for what we will be doing in class, but it will be best if you come to a FIT or to tutoring before school (anytime), or after school (by appointment ONLY), to get additional support. You will not be able to do this without access to Photoshop. I will go over how you can access it at home, IF you have the appropriate computer to do so.

Color

Color changes take a little longer and can be much more evident to the eye.

1. Open the photo in Photoshop (there are multiple ways to do this, use whichever way you remember)

2. The first thing we want to do every time is to SAVE AS and rename your photo and save it in the correct folder. For right now that folder is your folder on the  desktop.

3. Go to – Image>Adjustments>Levels

A box should pop up on your screen. In that box is a drop down box that has RGB in it. Use the drop down box and go to >BLUE

Move the black and white slider tools (the hershey kisses) and move them as needed to be underneath the mountain.

go to >GREEN
repeat

go to >RED
repeat

go to >RGB

On this step you move ONLY the middle one which is brown (do not move the black or white slider) just slightly where the photo appears a little lighter than perfect.

Now - here are some new instructions - I will show you this quickly today, but I wanted to give you the instructions here as well.

4. The final step, go to >Filter>Sharpen>Sharpen

You should only do this one time

5. Crop and make sure you have the correct resolution as requested.

6. To change the photo to black and white go to: Image>Mode>Grayscale

When the pop up appears asking if you want to discard the color information, hit yes or okay. 

7. Save and close the file - MAKE SURE IT IS A .JPEG, not a .PSD file. I will show you how to correct this.

Mural Project planning. Assigned 10/26, due 10/28 - Minor

Mural Project

This will be the first day to plan your project. I expect a detailed plan from your team. 

1. Meet with your team to decide upon a theme. Be very detailed. Every person on your team will need to take multiple photos and the more you help each other plan that out, the better your project will be. For example, if you decide to do a "rainbow" theme. Make sure you assign colors to every member. And then brainstorm actual objects for your team to go take pictures of. Do you want to have similar objects, or different? The more details the better. It needs to be cohesive and make sense. You are free to choose what you want. This theme must be something you can accomplish at school. All photos will be taken during class next week.

HERE ARE SOME SIMPLE IDEAS: Shapes, colors, nature, food, architecture. Here is a link with lots more: https://www.theatreofnoise.com/2008/05/250-photography-themes.html

2.  Every member of the team must FULLY plan how they will organize the photos to best show them off. To do this each member will create the following on a sheet of paper:

    A drawing that shows me where the photos will go on their mural.

    A label showing me who will take each specific photo

    A sketch OR words that describe what each image will look like.

3. You can have different ideas on how to show off your photos. You are also all allowed to have a similar plan if you wish. You will be using Canva to layout your designs, so you have lots of flexibility to design your project the way you want. The only common element MUST be that you use all of the photos that each team member provides.

Here are the requirements:

1. There must be 28 photos submitted with your project, which means each person must provide 7 photos in 3rd period. In 4th period since there are mixed sized teams, teams with 3 people must have 24 total photos (8 each) or teams with 4 people must have 28 photos (7 photos each).

2. You must have a coherent theme that I can see in the photos.

Here are the deadlines:

All photos must be taken by Monday, Nov. 16

You will have that week to actually finish the project in Canva and turn it in. The project is DUE on Wednesday, Nov. 18 by the end of the period. You will turn in your Canva product on your Google Site. I will share more information next week on how to do this correctly.

There will be multiple grades for this assignment:

1. A self-grade - grading your own efforts
2. A group grade -grading the efforts of the rest of your team
3. A deadline grade - achieving the multiple deadlines associated with this project
4. A completed task grade - your final grade, I will use a rubric for this and you will have it in advance

5. A peer review grade - you grading another teams project - you will actually grade 3 other projects and you will get a grade for accomplishing this on time

Here are some examples - REMEMBER YOURS WILL NOT BE PHYSICALLY MADE, YOU WILL USE CANVA TO CREATE YOUR MURAL:

Here are the groups for each class:

3rd - 7 teams of 4 (28 people)

1. Emma, Paige, Luci, Rubi

2. Isabella, Lu, Leah, Leila

3. Paige, Renee, Aubrie, Zoe

4. Sky, Erin, Ava, Remy

5. Ben, Sebastian, Ryan, Brayden

6. Zoe, Reese, Abdullah, Noah

7. Theo, Smith, Drew, Rodrigo

4th - 5 total teams - 2x3, and 3x4 (18 people)

1. Sophia, Kaitlyn, Addison

2. Ella, Ovelia, Ava

3. Olivia, Clesi, Kriz, Tucker

4. Oakley, Easton, Jaiden, Luke

5. Michaelangelo, Ben, Nathan, Kani