Digital photography is a form of photography that uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors to capture images focused by a lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic film.
Course Description This course will help the students become well rounded in the fundamentals of digital photography. Four areas of instruction will be emphasized: How cameras work, how composition works, how lighting works, how to use photo editing software. Students will, generally, receive basic instruction, demonstration, and see samples of the desired outcomes, at the beginning of each period. They will be allowed to go outside and shoot assignments, based on what they are learning. Perhaps the most useful part of classroom instruction will be daily reviews of photos students have shot the previous day(s). They will see what makes a successful photo and what does not.
At the end of this course, you will: Know how to use various features of the camera to have creative control of your photographs. Be able to decide what type of lighting to use in a given situation to produce optimum results. See how photographic composition can make or break a photograph Understand how to use photo editing software to improve the overall appearance of images
Assignments Most all assignments will be done on the computer you have been assigned to. Some flexibilty can be given if your computer is down. Storage It is up to you to SAVE all work that you do on USB thumb Drives (minimum 4 Gigs) Use the theme Save Often Student while working on assignments because computers can have a mind of their own. It also a smart idea to back-up all your work into a USB thumb drive that you provide.
An E-Portfolio of your favorite pieces Close to the end of the first semester I will ask you to save & keep your favorite 12 first semester assignments for the use of building your e-portfolio for future publication. I suggest weebly.com or wix.com to use as templates for putting all your info together.
Course Work Assignments and projects are all assigned a due date. An assignment is due at the end of the period that due date. Due dates are posted on the white board and on the ABI or PowerTeacher websites. Late work gets deducted each day it is turned it late. Work more than 2 days will not be accepted. Please account for your responsibility to have your USB drive and to complete your work on time.
Evaluation / Grading My grading for each project is based on the following:
Product:Understanding of the problem, ORIGINALITY, appropriateness of the solution, applying design principles, ability to follow assignment instructions given in class. Craftsmanship: Appropriate materials and techniques used, technical proficiency, neatness, precision, and final presentation quality. Product Presentation: Poised articulation of the development process,purpose and rationale for the final product and the organization of the presentation. Participation: Listening and contributing to the class discussions, presentations, and critique sessions. Satisfactory completion of assigned projects, quizzes, tests, and portfolio checks will receive a least a "C" letter grade. Assignments missing will affect your grade and render mediocre and not guarantee a good grade. The letter grade of "A" will given to all work done and in an exceptional effort on your part. All accumulated work points will be added and divided into the number of points possible to determine your percentage. Grades are based on the following
Making up Work Most all of the work is done in class and there is rarely homework. I use specific computers and software for the class. Adobe Photoshop. You can make opportunities to make up your work if you have EXCUSED absences and you can arrange with me a schedule to do that. You could use a lunch time or an after school time if you arrange it with me.
Vandalism of Property It is your responsibility to uphold all rules that concern school property. If your are pin-pointed as the one who damaged school property, you will be appropriately punished according to school rules and administration.
Academic Honesty Any student dishonestly detected in this course will result in that student receiving NO credit and receive a withdrawn F. Suspension or dismissal from the class. A violation of academic honesty includes but is not limited to: Cheating on exams, quizzes and other original written work Plagiarism, which is defined as the use of anthers written or printed work without recognition and citation, the use of another students work, the purchase and /or use of a paper that has already been prepared, the "borrowing" of an idea or phrase or paraphrasing and / or summarizing of an idea without proper documentation. Giving or receiving assistance during an exam or test Falsification, forgery, or alteration of an academic record Classroom Rules and Expectations
Respect all people, materials, and equipment in the classroom Follow directions, be a good LISTENER Come in ready (not tardy) and willing to learn No food or drinks (water ok) are allowed in the classroom Music will be allowed personally by using the "ONE EAR" policy. One in your ear & one out for hearing if your called on, instructions, and an emergencies that could come up. Show politeness and respect toward those sitting next to you, Do not shout out loud to someone across the room Do not use inappropriate language in the classroom Treat furniture, chairs, computers, and personal belongings with a mature attitude Be willing to explore and experiment with your creativity.
YOUR ATTRIBUTES attribute -·uted, -·ut·ingto set down or think of as belonging to, produced by, resulting from, or originating in; assign or ascribe (to): the play is attributed to Shakespeareto ascribe as a quality or characteristic Origin of attribute; from Classical Latin attributus, past participle of attribuere, to assign ; from ad-, to + tribuere, to assign ; from tribus: see tribe a characteristic or quality of a person or thing an object used in literature or art as a symbol for a person, office, etc.: winged feet are the attribute of MercuryGRAM. a word or phrase used adjectivally
Positive Attributes Achiever Active Adaptable Ambitious Balanced Candid Cheerful Communicative Compassionate Competitive Consistent Cooperative Courageous Curious Devoted Diplomatic Easy going Emotional Enterprising Enthusiastic Entrepreneurial Exciting Facilitator Fast Flexible Focused Forgiving Generous Genuine Good listener Helpful Imaginative Incredible Independent Industrious Initiator Insightful Interesting Inventive Knowledgeable Leader Literate Logical Meditative Mediator Modest Open Minded Organized Original Outgoing Particular Patient Perceptive Personable Persuasive Pleasant Political Positive Powerful Practical Proactive Productive Professional Quality Quick Quirky Quixotic Racy Rebellious Responsible Results-driven Results-oriented Self-reliant Sense of Humor Sensible Sensitive Sensuous Sincere Skilled Social Consciousness Solid Sporty Thoughtful Trustworthy Understanding Warm Wise Negative Attributes Aggressive Aloof Arrogant Belligerent Big-headed Bitchy Boastful Bone-idle Boring Bossy Callous Cantankerous Careless Changeable Clinging Compulsive Conservative Cowardly Cruel Cunning Cynical Deceitful Detached Dishonest Dogmatic Domineering Finicky Flirtatious Foolish Foolhardy Fussy Greedy Grumpy Gullible Garish Impatient Impolite Impulsive Inconsiderate Inconsistent Indecisive Indiscreet Inflexible Interfering Intolerant Irresponsible Jealous Lazy Machiavellian Materialistic Mean Miserly Moody Narrow-minded Nasty Naughty Nervous Obsessive Obstinate Overcritical Overemotional Parsimonious Patronizing Perverse Pessimistic Pompous Possessive Pusillanimous Quarrelsome Quick-tempered Resentful Rude Ruthless Sarcastic Secretive Selfish Self-centered Self-indulgent Silly Sneaky Stingy Stubborn Stupid Superficial Tactless Timid Touchy Thoughtless Truculent Unkind Unpredictable Unreliable Untidy Untrustworthy Vague Vain Vengeful Vulgar Weak-willed Assignment Objective: 10 points 1.On a sheet of lined or plain white paper list 10 of your prominent attributes that describe you and your personality and traits. Remember: you'll want as many positive attributes as possible 2. Circle your top (favorite) 3 attributes from your list. 3. Turn in with name & period number on the top of sheet.
Camera Lense Definitions 1. Light Meter - Knowing how your digital camera meters light is critical for achieving consistent and accurate exposures. Metering is the brains behind how your camera determines the shutter speed and aperture, based on lighting conditions and ISO speed. 2. White Balance - (WB) is the process of removing unrealistic color casts, so that objects which appear white in person are rendered white in your photo. Proper camera white balance has to take into account the "color temperature" of a light source, which refers to the relative warmth or coolness of white light. 3. ISO - In Digital Photography ISO measures the sensitivity of the image sensor. The same principles apply as in film photography – the lower the number the less sensitive your camera is to light and the finer the grain. Higher ISO settings are generally used in darker situations to get faster shutter speeds. 4. Pixels -In digital imaging, a pixel, pel, dots or picture element is a physical point in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in an all points addressable display device; so it is the smallest controllable element of a picture represented on the screen. 5. Exposure -A photograph's exposure determines how light or dark an image will appear when it's been captured by your camera. Believe it or not, this is determined by just three camera settings: aperture, ISO and shutter speed (the "exposure triangle"). a. UNDER exposed - In photography, exposure is the amount of light per unit area (the image plane illuminance times the exposure time) reaching a photographic film or electronic image sensor, as determined by shutter speed, lens aperture and scene luminance. b. OVER exposed - In traditional photography, overexposure is a term used to describe the process of exposing film to too much light, which results in the photograph being too bright. In digital photography, where there is no film, overexposure refers to a white-looking or washed-out image (overexposed image). 6. Negative - In photography, a negative is an image, usually on a strip or sheet of transparent plastic film, in which the lightest areas of the photographed subject appear darkest and the darkest areas appear lightest. 7. Aperture - In photography, aperture is expressed in f-numbers (for example f/5.6). These f-numbers that are known as “f-stops” are a way of describing the size of the aperture, or how open or closed the aperture is. A smaller f-stop means a larger aperture, while a larger f-stop means a smaller aperture. 8. F-stops - In optics, the f-number (sometimes called focal ratio, f-ratio, f-stop, or relative aperture) of an optical system is the ratio of the lens's focal length to the diameter of the entrance pupil. It is a dimensionless number that is a quantitative measure of lens speed, and an important concept in photography. 9. Lens: (Please check out the “images” for each lens. See what it creates.) a.Standard lens - For a 35mm film camera or a full-frame DSLR, the 50mm lens is considered standard. At higher focal lengths (85mm or 100mm) you have an ideal lens for portraiture, because when coupled with a wide aperture they thoroughly soften any background detail, thus making it less likely to distract from the main subject. 2. b.Telephoto Lens -A collection of telephoto lenses. In photography and cinematography, a telephoto lens is a specific type of a long-focus lens in which the physical length of the lens is shorter than the focal length. c.Macro Lens -The official definition of a macro lens is that it should be able to reproduce a life-sized image of an object on the recording medium - in this case the image sensor. True macro lenses offer a magnification factor of 1.0x or 1:1 at its closest focus setting. d.Wide angle Lens - A lens is generally considered to be "wide angle" when its focal length is less than around 35 mm (on a full frame; see camera lenses: focal length & aperture). This translates into an angle of view which is greater than about 55° across your photo's widest dimension. e.Panoramic - Panoramic photography, also known as wide format photography, is a special technique that stitches multiple images from the same camera together to form a single, wide photograph (vertical or horizontal). f. Tilt -shift Lens - Tilt–shift photography is the use of camera movements on small and medium format cameras, and sometimes specifically refers to the use of tilt for selective focus, often for simulating a miniature scene. g. Fish eye lens Unlike wide angle and ultra wide angle lenses, a fish eye is an uncorrected lens so images produced with them have a characteristic convex non-rectilinear appearance. For beginners it is easier to remember it this way; while using fish eye lenses; lines going around the center point are going to curve. And the further they are from the center point the more that they curve.
Adding Focus to an Image with Color in Photoshop In this Photoshop photo effects tutorial, we're going to look at an effect that's very popular with sports and wedding photography, as well as in advertising. We're going to learn how to bring focus and attention to part of an image by making the rest of the image black and white while leaving the main subject in full color. Click on Link: http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/color/
Selective Coloring Effect Find a picture involving Easter eggs for this assignment
Clipping Masks And Type- Placing An Image in Text http://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/clipping-masks-and-type/
More Photo Effects in Photoshop
Add a Realistic Rainbow to a photo http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/rainbow/
Mapping A Texture To A Face http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/texture-map/
Out-Lining The Action With Photoshop Find someone in a sports action shot such as soccer, football, baseball, etc. http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/outline/
3D Pop Up Effect http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/3d-pop-up-effect/
Create a High Contrast Mini- Poster - 20 points
You will create a simple clean design featuring an easy technique that will create a high contrast effect. First: Find a photo or graphic that has good contrast in it already. Example picture shown on the left. It should have strong dark and strong light areas in the picture or graphic. Instructions: With picture in Photoshop choose LAYER - then NEW FILL LAYER and choose a bright color e.i.: Lime green, bright orange etc, your choice. Next: open BLENDING OPTIONS and find UNDERLYING LAYER at the bottom right hand side of the dialog box. Then slowing slide the bar to right until you see your image "coming through" the solid color layer. Add the person / musician / actors name on your assignment also. Make all the pieces fit into a 600 px X 400 px (300 Res) for your final completion.
This assignment will help and show you how to use caps,lowercase, and italic in proper settings. Also to use typefaces to feature, accent, or create variety of emphasis in copy. The capital letter was derived from the inscriptions cut in stone on the walls and arches of ancient Roman cities. On buildings today, the capital is used for the same purpose, and anything else looks out of place. Nothing better has been found for titles, headings,and formal printing. When there is a lot of reading matter, it is not a good practice to use capitals alone. This is because caps are not as easy to read as lowercase are. They should be spaced well for better reading. When italic was first designed, it's purpose was to conserve space. Today it is used to accent a certain word or line. In most display work,it is best to use a combination of caps, lowercase, and italic for variety and emphasis. Some designers insist upon using all caps or all lowercase, but they are thinking more of the advertisement's beauty than of it's readability and expressiveness. Designers who use lowercase with a few lines of capitals have not sacrificed beauty or diginity. Combing the two gives variety to the printed piece as well as expressiveness. DIRECTIONS: Make two rough thumbnail ideas of the menu folder showing where art would go and copy to be placed Any style of fold that is appropriate may be used. Have me check for best one.
SPECIFICATIONS FOR A MENU SIZE:10" deep X 6" wide Copy for restaurant name : The Chowder House HEAD: The Best Food In New England SUBHEAD: Clams, Fish, Oyster Bar ART: 1 @ 2" wide x 2" deep, 1@ 2.5 X 2.5, 1@ 3.0 X 2.0 COPY FOR MENU: Include appetizers, main dishes, beverages, desserts. Your choice of variety. Keep in mind it's a mainly seafood restaurant SIGNATURE: The Chowder House Lexington, MA 02173
Postcard Design
The assignment is to design a travel "Wish You Were Here" postcard in the style of souvenir shop postcards. Here is the specs for for the card: 4 Inches wide X 6 Inches deep You will make TWO documents each 4" X 6 " @ 300 resolution. One side is for a full color photo collage' using 5 images grouped together. The second side is for a small description of your vacation location and an area for a stamp and open area for people to write their greeting. Decide your location and include "Wish You Were Here" somewhere in the design.
No thumbnails required for this assignment. but you are being graded on how you follow the instructions and make the correct sizes etc.
Display type to fit the message. Design Tickets - Duotone - 20 points
Main Objectives: Select type fonts that are fitting to the message, Not the type you think that you want, but the client / audience. The ticket will be used for a particular event. Your objective is use the proper type fonts (use two) and create a look for the ticket. Explore ALL the fonts available in the computer programs to create your design. You may explore the website dafont.com for more and just use for the words you need. Specifications: Make FOUR mock-ups (ideas) on the computer on this assignment. Use ONE graphic / photo for each design Do procedure on Photoshop (will get classroom demo) to make a duotone effect for each. Be ready to show me all for designs when done, I will select best one for color printing. Print all four in gray scale, My selected "winner" will be the only one printed in color. See whiteboard for deadline dates. Size of tickets: 5 inches X 2 inches / 300 resolution Use this text: Annual Dinner Dance Citizens For An Honest Government Saturday, June 15, 2013 Admission $45.00 Admit One
EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY Google Scavenger Hunt 25 possible points - Second term only Make a 8" X 10" piece that gives the visual answer to these image titles. Make sure to number the correct number on or near each image. 1) A poster / Billboard advertising a movie 2) A poster / flyer advertising a musical event 3) A provocative advertisement 4) A sign without any words, but give direction 5) A traffic sign 6) A grocery store sign 7) A sign made for the government 8) Public Transportation signage 9) A Business card 10) A political poster 11) Public art in your community (Norwalk) 12) A religious image 13) A T-shirt with a message on it 14) Graffiti on a building 15) Something poorly designed 16) Something well deigned 17) Someone wearing flip=flops 18) Put a needle on it 19) An arched doorway 20) Girls in a rock band 21) A black poodle 22) Los Angeles Trade Technical new building 23) A business at LA Lve 24) A Delicatessen in Long Beach 25) A water ride