Transitioning

Tuesday

Obligations:
$5 lab fee needs to be in by Friday!!! I will be sending all 
outstanding obligations to Mrs. Keller
 Friday after class.

Breakdown of today, Wednesday and Thursday:

Today: Work time.  Work on the Uelsmann assignment. Load 
pictures into your 'H' drive, if you have them.

Wednesday: 

• Contact Sheet Printing Steps.  
• Uelsmann assignment Due by Friday-Save in H drive  
• Mutants save the PSD and the Backstory in N-drive.  Last day is Friday.
• Title doc with your name and the assignment name.
• complete and print out the mutant rubric and the mutant turn in together.

Thursday: Contact Sheets and Contact Sheet Rubric Printed 
and handed in.  
Lets get things pulled together

Photo-montage examples 

Tutorials

Tutorials

For your first tutorial there are some images in the tutorial helper 

folder in the N-drive.  It is due by Oct 10th.
These images will correlate with the TEXTURE APPLICATION tut #2.
We also call this displacement.
This tutorial can also be found on your digital imaging tutorial tab... there 

are others... I give you options.
OH, THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF CHOICES!
Exercise #1 is due by this Friday.

Hopefully you are doing well with your first shooting assignment.  

Remember to bring them in as soon as possible, but no later than Wednesday.  They
can be brought in using either a flash drive, memory card or disk.

These pictures will be used on your next project.  All the images used for your next 

assignment will be taken by YOU!.  And ONLY you :)

Equipment waivers!
Lab Fee.

NOW.....

DRUM ROLL PLEASE...

JERRY!

Welcome to the wonderful world of Jerry Uelsmann.

Worksheet found in N-drive.

Get It Done.

Will be done online and can be saved in your 'H' drive, and emailed to me.

Uelsmann Inspiration

Tired of Talking

Thursday

Mutants are due today!

How do you turn them in?

1. Create a folder with your name on it in the Mutant Turn-in folder
2. Place a copy of the Mutant complete with 4 plus layer background into the H drive Mutant turn in folder.
3. Place the story in your turn-in folder as well
4. Print your Mutant in color to the 135 color printer
5. Complete the rubric and print it out in here.
6. Staple the rubric to the Mutant and turn it in.

Camera Quiz on Monday!

Study:

White Balance

Zoom

Camera Mode Dial

Shutter

Aperture

Lab Day-Keep up the great work. The mutant and the story are due tomorrow.

Camera Quiz on Monday!

Combining the files

The final mutant composition is due Thursday with the story.

The backgrounds and mutants look great! We are ready to bring them together.

More Camera Time

Such a beautiful weekend! I hope everyone started to take pictures for the first shooting assignment.  We will be turning them in soon.

Today we will look more closely at Shutter and Aperture.

The remaining time can be used to work on your mutant, background and story.

Field trip reminder:
-The bus will be leaving at 7:15 am.
-Bring lunch money or cold lunch
-We will return by 12:30.

THE digital camera

THE digital camera

The Ins and Outs of the Digital Camera...

A general introduction.
-go to the 'N' drive reference guides folder
-read camera function 1
-read camera functions-1

A knowledge based deep enough for you to utilize
what is necessary in order 
to take quality pictures that will be manipulated/distorted/controlled in PS.

 And the camera...

Monday we will get to.... A/S/P/M and some of the personalized settings

BUT TODAY...

Aside from the dial you may find these symbols together:

Macro- flower

Landscape- mountain

MF- manual focus

The macro mode will be used for close-ups.

These close-ups can be anything within 10cm.

Say we are taking pictures of a flower.

When you start to use macro mode you'll notice a few things. First 

it's harder to focus. Your camera may struggle especially when 

you've just taken a shot at infinity, because the focusing system 

has to work out that the really blurred object is actually what you 

want to shoot. This is worse when you've moved too close and the 

camera then couldn't focus on the subject even if it wanted to. So 

don't expect to see a bee and get an instant shot before it buzzes 

off. In such instances it's safer to focus up on another similar distance 

subject such as your hand close up or nearby flower then at least 

you'll have the camera prepared. Also the amount of focus is 

reduced, so when you look at a flower the front petals may be in focus, 

but the back won't be. This is known as depth-of-field. The more of the 

subject that's in focus, the greater the depth-of-field. Depth-of-field 

is controlled by the camera's aperture. Most digital cameras are fully 

automatic and you cannot change this. If your camera has an 

aperture-priority mode (look at the dial above.. does yours have 

this?) you can switch to that and select a smaller aperture, and 

on many cameras you'll notice the LCD view change so that the subject 

appears sharper from front to back. 

In the 'N' Drive under Jerry Uelsmann. Print it out and be ready to go!

In the 'N' Drive under Jerry Uelsmann.  Print it out and be ready to go!

What you are shooting.... TAKE NOTES on your sheet.
Pretty well laid out for you.
This is what you will be graded on... did you follow through with all the images?  you need
 variety... and variety we will get! White balance?  You should be adjusting as needed.

P.S.  I LOVE YOUR MUTANTS!!!  Can't wait to read their stories!  Everything, Mutant, story
and rubric, is due February 21, 2014.

Lets talk a little bit about our burn and dodge tools:

Burn~ darkening edges and shadowing

Dodge~ lightening areas and highlighting

Gradient~any color gradient can be made over a image




Creative Writing for your Mutant:
You are going to be writing a short story about your mutant.

Story should include an introduction, body, and conclusion paragraph.

Simple.

Be dramatic, simple, or totally off the wall.


Work day:

Tomorrow starts tutorial intros and be ready for our first photo shoot assignment!!!

This will begin this week so you have the weekend to work!

Brooke Shaden
An exciting opportunity came up yesterday. Digital artist Brooke Shaden will be at DC Everest next Tuesday. She focuses a great deal on portraiture. She is also one of the artist we study for our portrait unit later in the semester. We have a bus order ordered for this workshop that is open first to traditional or digital photo students first and other art student next. The trip cost $10 and covers the bus and workshop expenses.

Details:
Brooke Shaden Photography Workshop
Tuesday September 23
DC Everest
Bus leaves at 7:15 am
Bus Returns at 12:30
Cost: $10 plus lunch money or cold lunch
Money and permission slip due this Friday.

Working on...

Working on...

• Your mutant-use adjustments to help with your blending.  The cloning stamp can be very helpful as well.
• Start thinking about a background for our Mutant. 
• This could be a photo of your own or a collection of photos from the net (this time only).
• We talked composition on Monday. Start thinking about how you are going to arrange your composition.
• You will be writing a backstory of image, so start thinking about it.

Perfectly Timed Photos-these are really worth checking out!

New for today:

• Backgrounds
• sky
• middle ground
• foreground
• details

COMPOSITION!

COMPOSITION!

Composition...is the placement or arrangement of visual elements or 

ingredients in a work of art

Lets analyze a few examples.

WE ARE LOOKING AT INTERESTING PEOPLE.

S-Curve.

Rule of Thirds.

Perspective. 

Forced Perspective...

Now. Lets make some Magic... happen.

The Mutants are coming!

We have a great collection of tools that we have learned to use.  We are ready to start our Mutant! The assignment can be found in 'N' drive.

Adjustment layers can add a lot of interest to your pieces.  This video explains the difference between using the adjustment menu and creating and adjustment layer.

We are starting to plan out nature photography trip.  In the past, we have go to Hartman Creek.  We are looking at changing it up this year, and going to Devil's Lake instead.  Hartman cost $7 or $8 and $12 for Devil's Lake.  We are looking at Oct 16th or 17th.

a few more tools.... and some work time.

a few more tools.... and some work time.

-healing tools reference

Today is a day to look into a few other tools for the moment...
AND to them JUST have the HouR to WORK!!

Take advantage of this time. 
 I am here to help.. SO LET ME KNOW!

Copyright Quiz
This was due last Friday.  It will be graded by Friday of this week.  Did you turn it in?  If not, it will be only worth 50% credit if it is turn-in after I grade them.
New student?  Look in the 'N' drive for this quiz.  Save a copy into a digital folder in your 'H' drive. Go back to last week's posts to find the link to the reading for this quiz.

Waivers and Lab Fee
Please turn this in ASAP.  Poor memory?  Use your planner.

Mutants & File Types

Photoshop is an image processing program.
It is also considered a pixel management system.
Meaning: it is going to give each pixel an assignment... If 
you zoom in really close you will see the individual pixels.  
Photoshop tells the pixels what to do and controls the pixels.

It is also a file management organizing system.
We are able to save the works you produce in Photoshop as 
various file types that correlate with what you are planning 
on doing with the production.

Save As:
-file name / -format

4 main formats:
1.  Photoshop  (PSD/PDD)
This is a native format to adobe photoshop.. while you are 
working in class you will be saving under this format.
2.  Jpeg
DON'T save as a jpeg while working.
Jpegs are compressed files.. meaning it will have information 
thrown out overtime.  This continuation of the file will lead to 
a production that no longer holds its clarity and value.
You will use a jpeg file format when wanting to have easy and
quick uploads... emailing/facebook.
Use only when completed and Saved As: to have a copy.
3.  Photoshop PDF (portable document file)
This is the format to use to send your productions to staples, photobucket, walgreens... online printing sites.
These companies can open the file but they will not be able to 
alter or change
 the picture & this format is not compressed.
This format is a bigger file but it gives you the best printing!
4.  TIFF  (tag image file format)
This is also a portable, uncompressed format that allows you to get all the data.
They are good for transferring a picture done on an older 
photoshop program or if using photoshop elements.
This format also works well with pagemaker & printshops for 
brochures.

There are so many others... but for our specific use: This is 
enough for you. ;)

Lets talk more tools and Mutants.
-Continue using the teacher pictures until we start the final 
assignment.
-The write-up of the assignment will be in the 'N' drive for 
you on Wednesday.
-healing tools reference

Friday

Tools.

This is you with all your tools....

These help you make what we do in Photoshop happen!!!

Yes, this is A LoT!

It is also your job to know them!!!

Are we going to hit them all today or tomorrow... 

NO, but we will use quite a few this semester and you need to know them!!!

More work with moving pieces and combining images..... 

And a few adjustments.

There are 3 handouts in the 'N' drive about the tools.  Think of them as allowable cheat sheets.

Thursday

Turn in the copyright law quiz by the end of the day Friday.


Lab Fee due...$5
Get your waiver signed!

Next we are going to jump on..

 and work with the PS interface with a couple of easy and effective tools to get you going.... you will be able to explore filters and some manipulating: liquify.

Pictures need to get takes for our Mutant Project.

We will also review a bit of copyright info.

PHOTOSHOP is awesome... but remember, like everything, the more you work with the program the BETTER you become.



Still thinking about copyright and fair use?  Take a look at this video.  How does copyright and fair use apply here?

One more video.  Copyright?  Hhmmm.

Thoughts for the end of the semester

First at little House Keeping and then...

First at little House Keeping and then...

Copyright/Fair Use FUN!

Logging in and review
H-drive set up.
N-drive set up.
and maneuvering through it all..

Next...

We are learning about copyright and fair use... and ways to work with it but also the 
realization of how to simply avoid it in our work.

Plagiarism 
is theft of another person's writings or ideas 

Stealing is wrong.


A video....  because it makes the point.

Another video...because fair use is connected to copy right.

It deals with video a bit more and uploading online... but we associate it with digital 
work since that is WHAT WE DO.

A reading because I want to know you understand it by filling out this worksheet... that
will be the "N" drive for you.

I will also have a funny for some of you that will make you end on a smile....  this may
be a rerun for few of you, but you will still smile!

Eyebrows.  Too funny!

WELCOME!
Happy First Day of second semester....
and to DIGITAL IMAGING!



Today is a get it all together and give you some information, me some information, a tour, and
what to expect this week.

Picture Day:  Friday.

Prezi


Use the Blog.

a BIG week ahead of copyright/netiquette and of course...ADOBE Photoshop!