Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Backing up data
Formatting your external hard drive for backup on Mac (warning: it will erase everything).
Monday, October 25, 2010
Check out this "365" (a photo a day) photo set. On some of the shots he explains how he did the lighting.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Motion Speed Time
Motion Speed Time 25 points
7 photos, Due November 2
Camera settings:
ISO: 200
Camera mode: Shutter priority
File Size: RAW
Tripod
This assignment is actually two: Virtual Volume and Blurred Motion
Virtual Volume
The objective of this assignment is to explore the effect of slow shutter speeds. Namely, showing the passage of time through blur. We're interested in:
The character or personality of the blur,
and the shape of the blur.
You'll want to photograph in low light (otherwise your slow shutter speeds will be overexposed). If you shoot in bright light, use a polarizing or neutral density filter to cut down the amount of light.
Pick your two best. Edit: black and white, cropped 8x10. Upload to Flickr,
Title: Virtual Volume.
Blurred Motion
Take a series of images of a moving object. Vary your shutter speeds from 1/1000 down, to slow enough that the object blurs.
Use a background darker than the subject so the subject, not the background, is being exposed.
Pick five photos (color or black and white… cropped to square, 5x7 or 8x10, your choice) that show an increase in blur (from static, no motion all the way to very blurry and lots of motion). Upload to Flickr. Title: Blurred Motion.
Painting with light
Painting with Light 30 points
4 photos, Due November 2
Camera settings:
ISO: 100-400 (your choice -- recommend low ISO for less noise)
Camera mode: Manual
Shutter speed: 1-30 seconds (probably)
Aperture: Will vary, probably something relatively wide open like f4.5
File Size: RAW
Tripod
Flashlight, (color) LED light, or penlight
• Find a dark setting.
• Set camera on tripod.
• Using a long exposure (shutter speeds will vary depending on your setup), photograph a scene using a handheld light to "paint" with.
You'll shoot four shots:
Product shot • Pretend it's for a magazine ad
Location shot • Paint an object with light at an interesting location
Portrait • They'll have to sit very still!
Environmental Graffiti • Your message? Up to you
Color. Cropped to 8x10 or 5x7. Handed in via Flickr. Title: Product shot, etc.
Other tips:
• You may want to use a nice dark studio for the product and portrait shot
• Google "Painting with light" for inspiration and examples
• If you are "in" the frame while painting, wear something all black as to not show up in the photograph.
This assignment is adapted from DIY Photography. A link can be found on our class website (http://art186.blogspot.com) under "Tutorials."
Monday, October 18, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Mid-term study guide
Digital Photography mid-term study guide
Questions on the exam MAY include but are not limited to the following topics from the book and lecture:---
Calculating shutter speed withe shutter/aperture/ISO
ISO
Pixels, resolution, noise p. 54-55
Histogram p. 58
Exposure p. 61, 62, 66-67
Using a gray card p. 71
File formats p. 77
Pixel luminance values p. 78
CMYK color vs RGB color
Non-destructive editing, p. 83
Selections, p. 94
Layers, p. 96
Sharpening (p. 100) -- can it save an out of focus photo?
"Unsharpen mask" p. 100
Lecture 2: "Expose for the" what?
Copyright exceptions, p. 107
Data backup options
Ethics p. 106-107
Metadata
What is HDR?
Using a higher ISO in dim lighting p. 132
p. 134 .. what "creates" lighting?
Sync speed
Bounce flash
About light p. 142
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
Photoshop Exercise
Photoshop Practice
Start here
1. Visit Andy's Flickr page (http://www.flickr.com/photos/andylangager) and do the following for photos "Practice 1" "Practice 2" and "Practice 3":
1. Click on the photo
2. Click on the magnifying glass icon to the top right of the photo
3. Click "View all sizes" in the upper right
4. Click "Original" size
5. Control-Click "Download the Original size of this photo"
6. Change the save location ("Where") to Desktop
Click back on "andylangager" to find the rest of the photos
For Practice 1:
• Open Adobe Bridge
• Navigate to the Desktop
• Control-click on Practice 1 file and choose Open in Camera Raw
• Fix photo in Camera Raw. Try to make it as true-to-life as you can. Save straightening for Photoshop
• When you are ready to straighten, click "Open Image"
• Find the eyedropper tool (6th down on the tool bar). Hold mouse button down over it. Choose Ruler
• Zoom in (Command•+) if you need to. Draw a line with the ruler, following a line that should be straight horizontally.
• Click the "Straighten" button (it will only be highlighted after you've drawn your ruler line)
• To make sure it is straight, click Command•R for your ruler guides. Hover your mouse in the top ruler guide, click and drag down the screen. A line should appear. Bring the line down to a horizontal line to check straightness. Drag line back up to ruler guide to erase.
• When done, "Save As" -- be sure to pick Format: JPEG (NOT PSD). Quality 8.
For Practice 2:
• Open the Practice 2 image directly in Photoshop CS5 (not Camera Raw)
• Choose Image -> Adjustments -> HDR Toning…
• Try a couple different "Preset" options (it's the top drop-down menu)
• Find an effect you like. Adjust the sliders to see what they do.
• If you need to start over, hit cancel and try again
• Adjust to taste. And "Save As…" just like with Practice 1.
• Open in Camera RAW for further adjustments if needed (if you do this step, Save As.. once more when done)
For Practice 3:
• Open in Camera Raw
• Make adjustments as needed (exposure, contrast, etc.)
• Don't try to fix the spots on the white paper -- we'll do it in Photoshop
• When finished, click Open Image.
• To heal part of the image, try using the spot healing tool. (Hover the mouse over the tools on the left until you find it -- it looks like a band-aid)
• Also try using the Rectangle Marquee selection tool (second from the top) -- then,
• Select part of the image you want to fix and hit the delete key. Use "Content Aware" (the default) and hit OK.
• Try using the Quick Selection tool (third from the top -- you might have to hold the mouse down) to select only the apple. If you make a mistakes, use the same tool but hold down the option key to erase the selection.
• Once you have the apple selected, copy it by pressing Command•C
• Paste it into a new layer by hitting Command•V
• Hide the previous layer by clicking on the "eyeball" next to the background layer in the layers window
• Click "Set Foreground Color" -- toward the bottom of your tools (it is probably a black rectangle)
• Select blue -- it's up to you what tint/shade
• Go to Layers -> New Fill Layer…
• Choose Gradient…
• For Color: choose Blue (click OK)
• Change Style to Radial, click the Reverse button and click OK
• In your layers window on the right, drag your gradient layer below your 2nd layer so the blue gradient appears underneath the apple
• Save As… JPEG
Finally,
Upload all three to Flickr! Make up a great title for each.
Start here
1. Visit Andy's Flickr page (http://www.flickr.com/photos/andylangager) and do the following for photos "Practice 1" "Practice 2" and "Practice 3":
1. Click on the photo
2. Click on the magnifying glass icon to the top right of the photo
3. Click "View all sizes" in the upper right
4. Click "Original" size
5. Control-Click "Download the Original size of this photo"
6. Change the save location ("Where") to Desktop
Click back on "andylangager" to find the rest of the photos
For Practice 1:
• Open Adobe Bridge
• Navigate to the Desktop
• Control-click on Practice 1 file and choose Open in Camera Raw
• Fix photo in Camera Raw. Try to make it as true-to-life as you can. Save straightening for Photoshop
• When you are ready to straighten, click "Open Image"
• Find the eyedropper tool (6th down on the tool bar). Hold mouse button down over it. Choose Ruler
• Zoom in (Command•+) if you need to. Draw a line with the ruler, following a line that should be straight horizontally.
• Click the "Straighten" button (it will only be highlighted after you've drawn your ruler line)
• To make sure it is straight, click Command•R for your ruler guides. Hover your mouse in the top ruler guide, click and drag down the screen. A line should appear. Bring the line down to a horizontal line to check straightness. Drag line back up to ruler guide to erase.
• When done, "Save As" -- be sure to pick Format: JPEG (NOT PSD). Quality 8.
For Practice 2:
• Open the Practice 2 image directly in Photoshop CS5 (not Camera Raw)
• Choose Image -> Adjustments -> HDR Toning…
• Try a couple different "Preset" options (it's the top drop-down menu)
• Find an effect you like. Adjust the sliders to see what they do.
• If you need to start over, hit cancel and try again
• Adjust to taste. And "Save As…" just like with Practice 1.
• Open in Camera RAW for further adjustments if needed (if you do this step, Save As.. once more when done)
For Practice 3:
• Open in Camera Raw
• Make adjustments as needed (exposure, contrast, etc.)
• Don't try to fix the spots on the white paper -- we'll do it in Photoshop
• When finished, click Open Image.
• To heal part of the image, try using the spot healing tool. (Hover the mouse over the tools on the left until you find it -- it looks like a band-aid)
• Also try using the Rectangle Marquee selection tool (second from the top) -- then,
• Select part of the image you want to fix and hit the delete key. Use "Content Aware" (the default) and hit OK.
• Try using the Quick Selection tool (third from the top -- you might have to hold the mouse down) to select only the apple. If you make a mistakes, use the same tool but hold down the option key to erase the selection.
• Once you have the apple selected, copy it by pressing Command•C
• Paste it into a new layer by hitting Command•V
• Hide the previous layer by clicking on the "eyeball" next to the background layer in the layers window
• Click "Set Foreground Color" -- toward the bottom of your tools (it is probably a black rectangle)
• Select blue -- it's up to you what tint/shade
• Go to Layers -> New Fill Layer…
• Choose Gradient…
• For Color: choose Blue (click OK)
• Change Style to Radial, click the Reverse button and click OK
• In your layers window on the right, drag your gradient layer below your 2nd layer so the blue gradient appears underneath the apple
• Save As… JPEG
Finally,
Upload all three to Flickr! Make up a great title for each.
Kitchen Imagination
Kitchen Imagination 25 points
7 Photos, Due October 21
The purpose of this assignment is to exercise your creativity and showing how you can create interesting photographs from everyday objects.
The Clarence H. White School of Photography started the careers of many photographers. One of the assignments was to create a still life made from objects located in a kitchen.
So, for this assignment you will create a 7 still-life images from items found in your kitchen that illustrate an understanding of at least 3 fundamentals such as line, texture, balance, perspective, or depth of field (see Chapter 9 p. 171 for a full list).
Don't overlook the fridge, kitchen drawers, cabinets, etc. You can photograph the items as you find them or make your own arrangement (stacking soup cans, for example).
Remember, besides your still life subjects, great light is key to creating a great photograph.
Camera settings:
ISO anywhere from 100-400
Camera set to Manual
No built-in camera flash
Tripod optional (depending on setup and amount of light) If you don't have a lot of light to work with or want a large f-stop, you may need one.
Series of 7, color or b&w, cropped to 5x7, to be handed in via Flickr.
7 Photos, Due October 21
The purpose of this assignment is to exercise your creativity and showing how you can create interesting photographs from everyday objects.
The Clarence H. White School of Photography started the careers of many photographers. One of the assignments was to create a still life made from objects located in a kitchen.
So, for this assignment you will create a 7 still-life images from items found in your kitchen that illustrate an understanding of at least 3 fundamentals such as line, texture, balance, perspective, or depth of field (see Chapter 9 p. 171 for a full list).
Don't overlook the fridge, kitchen drawers, cabinets, etc. You can photograph the items as you find them or make your own arrangement (stacking soup cans, for example).
Remember, besides your still life subjects, great light is key to creating a great photograph.
Camera settings:
ISO anywhere from 100-400
Camera set to Manual
No built-in camera flash
Tripod optional (depending on setup and amount of light) If you don't have a lot of light to work with or want a large f-stop, you may need one.
Series of 7, color or b&w, cropped to 5x7, to be handed in via Flickr.
Seven Deadly Sins
Seven Deadly Sins 50 points
7 photos, Due October 21
Camera settings:
ISO: 100-400 (your choice)
Camera mode: Manual, Aperture Priority or Shutter Priority
File Quality: RAW
Tripod optional
No built-in camera flash (unless used as a fill flash outside)
Seven Seas, Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Seven Days of the Week, Seven Dwarfs, Seven Sisters, Seven Falls, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, House of Seven Gables, Seven Virtues, Seven Years' War, Seventh Heaven, the number of holes in a Ritz cracker, and the Seven Deadly Sins!
In the sixth century, Pope Gregory the Great reduced the Greek list of the eight offenses to seven items, folding vainglory into pride, acedia into sadness, and adding envy, and came up with this list if sins: pride, envy, anger, sadness, greed, gluttony, and lust. About ten centuries later, the Church replaced the vague sin of sadness with sloth. The list now reads: gluttony, sloth, envy, greed, wrath, pride, and lust.
Make 7 images that illustrate each of the seven deadly sins. These images are to be viewed as a group, so they need to have similar style or some sort of thread that weaves the group together.
Series of 7, cropped to 5x7 or 8x10, color, uploaded to Flickr. Title should be Sin Name.
7 photos, Due October 21
Camera settings:
ISO: 100-400 (your choice)
Camera mode: Manual, Aperture Priority or Shutter Priority
File Quality: RAW
Tripod optional
No built-in camera flash (unless used as a fill flash outside)
Seven Seas, Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Seven Days of the Week, Seven Dwarfs, Seven Sisters, Seven Falls, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, House of Seven Gables, Seven Virtues, Seven Years' War, Seventh Heaven, the number of holes in a Ritz cracker, and the Seven Deadly Sins!
In the sixth century, Pope Gregory the Great reduced the Greek list of the eight offenses to seven items, folding vainglory into pride, acedia into sadness, and adding envy, and came up with this list if sins: pride, envy, anger, sadness, greed, gluttony, and lust. About ten centuries later, the Church replaced the vague sin of sadness with sloth. The list now reads: gluttony, sloth, envy, greed, wrath, pride, and lust.
Make 7 images that illustrate each of the seven deadly sins. These images are to be viewed as a group, so they need to have similar style or some sort of thread that weaves the group together.
Series of 7, cropped to 5x7 or 8x10, color, uploaded to Flickr. Title should be Sin Name.
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