Intro
Self
Student
Camera/System
Previous Experience
Motivation/Objectives
Previous Work - (Following session review)
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Best Practices
Original Files
Working Files
Lab Procedures
File Naming conventions
Storage drives
Temporary Drives
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Regarding working files from disk
Lecture:
Camera (*Digital)
- CCD/Super CCD/CMOS
Change couple device - Individual sensors / samples
Pixel / grain
Bit Depth
Shutter speed
Apeture
Film Speed - Sensitivity (iso) equivalent to grain /noise in lower light
situations
White Balance
- Lens
Focal Length - Shorter focal length - 50mm become 72/105
Sensory sizes vary although typically smaller than 35mm
Greater Depth of field,
- LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
Transport / Storage
- USB
- Firewire/ iLink / IEEE1394
- Serial
- SCSI
- Thunderbolt
- Flash Card
- Memory Stick
- CD
- DVD
- Memory/Storage
DVD/CD/INTERNET
- Cloud - networked
Core File Issues
Adobe Bridge/Photoshop/Lightroom
Best Practices (Reviewed)
Transport and Organization
File Browser
File Info
CD/DVD
Web Gallery
Contact Sheet II
Selection, Manipulation and Repair
Selections
Croping
Magic Wand
Color Range
Burn / Dodge
Clone
Healing
History
Color/tonal Correction
Levels
Curves
Auto
Color Modes
Conversion (black and white)
Compositing
Layers
Channels
Masks
Scanning
Printing
Color Management
Resolution
Pre-Press File Preparation
File Types
Web Presentation
Image Ready
Optimization
Automation Techniques
Legal / Copyright Issues
Protecting your images
Respecting the work of others
Two Forked Workflow :
Camera RAW
Bridge --> Camera RAW Plugin - Output
Processed - JPEG
Bridge --> Adobe Photoshop -> Layered Workflow - Output
Assignments
Shooting in Low Light without a flash.
Feel free to experiment, try to find the lowest level of light possible
to render a readable image.
Depending on what you may or may not know regarding ISO, experiment
with this setting in your camera as well.
Bracketing Exposures -
3 Subjects - 3-5 exposures for each with alternate exposure.
1st exposure according to meter reading.
2nd + .5 half step greater aperture/shutter selection or more exposure (over)
3rd + 1 whole step (full stop) greater aperture/shutter selection (over)
4th .5 half step smaller aperture/shutter selection or less exposure (under)
5th - 1 whole step smaller aperture/shutter selection or less exposure (under)
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Experiment with White Balance Bracketing.
Depth of Field
3-5 Images which illustrate the side effects of aperture selections.
Motion / Blur
3-5 Images which illustrate the side effects of shutter speed / time
value selections.
Shooting for Black and White Conversion - Composing with considerations for enhanced focus upon grayscale tonality, enhanced graphic contrast.
Subject explorations /
Framing exercise. Shoot a minimum of 20 images of a single subject from every
angle and a variety of compositional arrangements. explore
position/ balance/ background/ etc...
3-5 images of light. Where light is the central subject
or primary focus of the image. Consider both ambient or existing natural and
artificial light sources and utiliting the flash. Be
sure to also experiment with the flash in daylight. What impact does it have
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At the edges of light and shadow - Create a series of images exploring the contrast at edges between shadow and light. Experiment with exposure latitude, extremes between 10 and 2 with direct natural light.
Alternate Assignments:
The Selfie - Create a series of 6 images of your self presented in the front of significant locations from your life. Try to create an overall sense of context for the sequence.
- Work, Home, Hobby, Nationality?
Aperture, Self Portraiture in the First-Person Age, http://aperture.org/blog/self-portraiture-first-person-age/
Cropping 5-n-1 - Take an existing file and
crop to create 5 different image files. Focus is on re-framing and composing.
Not compositing.
Composite - 1
in 5 - Create one image file from the components or pieces of
minimum 5 image files. Create multiple variations on the composition
at will.
Bokeh- Create a series of like images of the same subject with various lenses @ largest to smallest aperture bracketed to test bokeh results for all.
Flare / Glare - Create a series of images exploring the selective use of glare /flare with alternate light sources (*sunlight, streetlights (sodium vapor), car lights(halogen).
Tilt Shift - Create a series of landscape images exploring tilt shift or the post focus effect simulating tilt shift. (an optical system (such as a camera) when the lens plane is not parallel to the image plane produces an effect of selective focus. Originally developed to correct for converging parallel lines in aerial photography.
Captioned - Submit 3 images with a brief textual description. Explore the challenges of describing an image to someone with a visual impairement or someone lacking visual acess to the image.
Arial Almost - shoot from the highest point in any given scene/landscape you choose to photograph.