First Check In

Thursday, Oct. 28th will be the first chick in date for the new project.

You should have a minimum of 25-30 photographs that are batch renamed and on a contact sheet.
Please create a folder named after the portion of the assignment, and use that same title - abbreviated, of course - for the batch rename.
For example, your folder might be called Abstract_NonObjective and the photos, after batch rename, would be called, AbstNonObj_01, AbstNonObj_02, etc.

Make sure to match the idea/subject matter from the left column of your handout with one of the technical skills from the right hand column.
So if I'm using Abstract/Non-Objective from the left column, I may choose to pair that with B/W Conversion on the right.

And all of the photographs from this assignment should be taken in either Aperture Priority, Shutter Speed Priority, or Manual mode - yes, I know we haven't discussed Manual Mode yet, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't play around with it.

If you don't remember the categories, and your photo book is here at school, no worries, that handout can be found on my teacher page on the lghs.net website.

Happy weekend and happy photographing!

Photo Book Notes

To be up to date on the current photo book notes for the second grading period, you should have:

Contact Sheet Notes
(with 4 dbl. page spreads before cropping for the photo book activities)
Cropping Notes
Green 1/2 sheet rough draft of amex questions
Custom Canvas/Image Size Notes
Venn Diagram Compare/Contrast
(this was of Francesca Woodman and Graham Nash)
B/W Conversion Notes
Cropping Exercise 1
(this is your two 4x6" prints - one that is 4x5" with 1/2" white border on two sides)
Goldenrod 1/2 sheet handout from multi-part assignment

If you do not have all of these in your photo book by the end of the week because of absence(s), etc., please make sure to utilize tutorial - or your friend's notes - to get caught up.

Notes on the Current/Ongoing "Multi-Assignment"

For the series of project choices coming up, some reminders:
Do a Batch Rename for each set of images;
Make an Electronic Contact Sheet for each set of images;
Create a MINIMUM of 25-30 different photographs for each set of images;

There should be variety within the sets of images;
You will be randomly posting these photos and discussing them;
There will be periodic "check-in" due dates for the contact sheets;
You will be turning in a series of 8"x10" prints at the end of the process.

HW for Fri., Oct. 22

Your selected vertical self portrait from your contact sheet should be cropped, printed, and ready to use in class.
You may opt to convert it to black & white using the method shown in class today (Monday), or you may leave it as a color image.
Make sure to Prep and Print early in case there are tech problems!!!!

HW for Mon., Oct. 18th

Prints that need to be turned in:

8x10" contact sheet from amex self portrait assignment (remember, these should be batch renamed in br/ph)

2 @ 4x6" prints - choose a photograph from your self port. or pers. impact or other assignment (but if it comes from another assignment it needs to be a really strong image); the first should be a "regular" 4x6, the second should be the same image, but cropped to 4x5" and centered on a 4x6" print

Settings and Reminders

USB Due Date Tues., Oct. 12th.
You need to have your contact sheets from the Personal Impact and Photobank assignments in your Digiphoto folder - and rename them in the form of:
ContactSheet_PersonalImpact, or ContSheet_PersImpact, or something like that.
And you NEED to use the drop down box to change it from a .psd file to a .jpg file as well.

For the self portrait assignment, remember:
vertical
self timer is ideal
take MANY images with slight differences
and try different "set ups" as well
you don't have to be mugging for the camera but
you do need to be the focal point

Aperture Exercise Details

Aperture Exercise 1
Photograph, with classmates, using as many different apertures on your camera as possible

Aperture Exercise 2
Set up at least 3 "scenes" (that don't change) and photograph at all available apertures from
your notes (for ex.: f/4, f/5.6, f8, f11, f16, etc.)
Rename files: Title_f#_lastname.jpg

Aperture Exercise 3
Photograph a portrait or personal object using both wide open and fully stopped down
apertures.
Remember to consider composition - rule of thirds, leading lines - as well as the e.o.a./p.o.d.
Rename files: title_f#_lastname.jpg

USB Reminders

As we come upon the second due date for the usb drive, I thought I'd take the time to remind you of what you should have on that drive before you turn it in - with some reminders of how it should be organized as well.

I need to see sub-folders set up like:
DigiPhoto
Main Bldg.
Elem. of Art
Balance
(may have separate folders for symmetrical and asymmetrical)
Eggs
Aperture Exercise 1
Aperture Exercise 2 (with renamed files)
Aperture Exercise 3 (with renamed files)
Personal Impact
PhotoBANK
Contact Sheet* (Personal Impact Assingment)
Contact Sheet* (PhotoBANK)

* We will be going over the contact sheets in class this week, but you will need to make two of them for next week