Last Day of Class

Today is our last day of class. It is a lab day for you to finish up your final projects.

Our scheduled final is Dec 11. 7-9:50am but we will be meeting at 8am in our regular classroom.

In Class Assignment - Export PDF Portfolio

Today's in class assignment will be to learn how to export a collection of images as a PDF portfolio using Adobe Lightroom. We will be doing this together in class.

This must be done in class and shown to me to receive 25 points.
This is also required for your final project, so if you miss this class, please get with me so I can show you how to do it.

Final Project - Boo-Yeah!!!

For your final project you must:

• pick a theme, subject, or idea
• write a 1-2 paragraph explaination of your idea
• post the paragraph to your blog
• take at least 50 photographs of your theme
• edit them down to the 20 best
• color, contrast, white balance correct, crop, etc
• post the 20 to your blog
• export them as a website
• export them as a PDF

Use all new photographs

These should be your best work

22nd Nov - no class - happy thanksgiving day

27, 29, 4, 6 - work days for your final project

Final project due Dec 11, 8:00am - failure to turn this in will result in a failure of the class

Assignment 11 - Open

Open Assignment -
Pick your theme, subject, or idea and photograph it. Shoot at least 50 images, then edit them down to your best 10. Color correct, crop, resize, etc. and post them to your blog.

Lab Nov. 15

Due Nov. 20

Assignment 10 - Unclutter

Using what you've learned so far this semester, take at least 50 photographs. Import them into Adobe Lightroom, edit them down to your 10 best. Color correct, crop, touch-up, resize etc. and post them to your blog.

The theme is Unclutter. your subjects should be a simple and uncluttered. Pick scenes with a consistant background and lighting.

lab day: Nov. 8

Due date: Nov. 13

Assignment 9 - Long Exposures

This assignment will land you a hefty 25pts extra - which will make up any points lost on a late assignment. Post 10 images to your blog that have exposures of 1 sec or longer. - have fun!

Lab Nov. 1

Due Nov. 6

In Class assignment - Print setup

New Assignment - Photographers

Find 5 photos from at least 3 different photographers and post them to your blog. Write the photographer's name below each of the photos.

These photographs should be interesting or inspirational to you

Due Oct. 30th

Michael Kahn

Assignment 8 - Halloween - Creepy, Scary, Spooky

For the halloween assignment you must shoot at least 50 images, import them into lightroom, and edit them down to your best 10. Those 10 images should be:

• color corrected
• cropped
• adjusted for Saturation, color temperature, exposure, etc
• exported and resized @ about 8" on the long edge @ 72ppi
• posted to your blog

The exact subject matter is up to you but you must convey feelings of creepy, scary, and/or spooky

Be creative - use make up, props, dramatic lighting etc. to get the look you want

Due: Oct 30
lab day: Oct 25

Alaskan Wolf - very scary...

In Class Assignment Today - Lab

There will be an in-class assignment today
Download this image

• color correct it
• fix the horizon
• add a very subtle vingette
• make it look acceptable for the client
• resize to be 8" on the long edge
• post it to your blog

due by the end of class (oct 18) - this assignment cannot be turned in late

Assignment 7 - Rule of Thirds

To help reinforce composition, your next assignment is to employ the use of the 'Rule of Thirds' in each photograph. This will require you to photograph subjects that facilitate this.

Take at least 50 photographs using your digital camera. Import the images into Adobe Lightroom, edit, color correct, crop etc. Choose your 10 best for this assignment and post them to your blog.

Do not reuse images you've taken previously.

Lab Day: Oct 18th

Due Date: Oct 23rd

Fall Break

Fall Break Oct 11 - 13th
Don't come to class, stay home and sleep.

Attention Photo Majors!!!

There will be a photo area meeting for all photo majors on Wednesday at 10:30-11:30 in room GT 530. This is to go over the photo programs happenings and changes.
If you are not planning on graduating with a degree in photography, then you do not need to attend.

Assignment 6 - Portraits

Portrait Assignment

Shoot around 50 shot of portraits. When I say portrait, I mean photos of humans. They can be traditional head-shots, candid, group of people etc. Be creative. Don't photograph animals. Make the people in the image the subject. During the lab, edit your 50 images down to the best 10. Color correct, adjust, crop, etc those 10 and export them at 72 ppi and post them on your blog.

Lab Oct 4

Due Oct 9

Extra credit if you photograph someone you don't know.

Assignment 5 - Light and Shadows

Using Light and Shadows

For this assignment concentrate on photographing Light and Shadows. The intensity and quality of light is always changing and reacting differently with different subjects. The absence of light, shadows, can change the mood and emotion of an image. Over cast days are not the ideal lighting condition for this assignment.

Lab day: Sept 27
Due date: Oct 2

Assignment Due Today! - Photo Walk

Assignment No. 4 - Getting Up Close

Your next assignment is "Getting Up Close". Basically I want to you photograph your subjects as close as you can. So if you were photographing a flower, you'd zoom in on it and move as close to it as you can while still being able to focus on it.

Close up photography is called "Macro" photography. Special lenses and filters are made to enable you to get even closer to your subject. You are not required to use these for this assignment.

The closer you are to your subject the more shallow your depth of field will become. Also the longer the focal length of your lens, the more shallow your depth of field will be.

Pick any subject matter to photograph. You should make at least 50 exposures. During the lab day, you will edit your collection to your 10 best, export them from Lightroom and post them on your blog.

All images should be color corrected, white balanced, cropped (if desired), and adjusted correctly in Adobe Lightroom.

You will be graded on:

• Turned in on time
• Resized correctly
• Color Corrected
• My Subjective assessment

Lab Day: Thurs Sept 20

Due Date: Tues Sept 25

Adding the 'ALT' and 'TITLE' tag to blog posts

By default blogger does not ask for a title of an uploaded image or alt text. You can still put them in to increase the visibility of your images. When google indexes your website or blog and come across an image, the only way to know what the image is by the title or alt tag.

1. Create a new blog post
2. Insert an image by clicking on the image icon
3. After the image up loads, if you haven't already, click on the HTML button to view the code in your post:
   
4. The next step is to locate the image in the code so you can add the 'ALT' and 'TITLE' tags:
   

   (example)
   <img src="myPhoto.jpg" border="0" width="50" height="100" />

5. Now before the closing IMG tag /> you need to add:

   alt="this is my alt text" title="this is my title text"

6. so it should look like this:
   

   <img src="myPhoto.jpg" border="0" width="50" height="100" alt="this is my alt text" title="this is my title text" />

Faculty Photography Show Tonight - Extra Credit

2012 FACULTY SHOW RECEPTION, TONIGHT THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6TH, 7-9 P.M.
It's at the Woodbury Art Museum (in the university mall)

Extra credit if you go

Assignment No. 3 - Photo Walk

Using what you’ve learned so far, and with your digital camera go on a “Photowalk”. Basically you’ll go for a walk (plan on taking at least an hour). Photograph your entire trip, but only photograph thing that “catch your eye”, or that are interesting, unique, inspiring, unusual, etc. BE CREATIVE. At the end of your walk you should have 50+ photographs. During in-class lab time you’ll edit your images down to 10 that should all be color corrected, cropped (if needed), spots removed, resized then posted to your blog. Name the title of this blog entry “Photowalk Assignment”

You will be graded on the following:

• Turned in on time
• Met the assignment criteria
• The image is in focus
• Are the images compelling, interesting, inspiring
• Properly color corrected
• Subjective assessment

Take at least 50 Photographs, post 10 to your blog

Thursday Sept 13 will be a Lab day to work on them in class

Due Date and class critique will be on Tues Sept 18th

Assignment No. 2

Using your digital camera, take at least 20 photographs, bring the digital files in to class Tuesday. As far as subject matter... it's up to you.

We will start playing in Lightroom and we need images to work with, so bring them in on a jump-drive or other portable media device. I'm not sure if we have a card reader here at the school, so plan accordingly.

Assignment No. 1

Your first assignment will be to create a blog, then email me it's URL and your name.