Shadows and Light in B&W

This assignment will focus on shadow and light, both natural and man made. We will further emphasize this by manipulating our images in photoshop into black and white.

• Your task is to look for shadows and contrast. Find scenes or images that have great contrast and use shadows to add interest to your photos
  
• you will need 24 GOOD pictures for your contact sheet. Of these 24 here should be a minimum of 9 shadows/contrast that you create yourself and 9 shadows/contrast that are naturally occurring.
• Remember to consider the brightness/contrast relationship. What colors and will be vibrant against one another in black and white?
  

You need 24 GOOD pictures. You will probably shoot 100 pictures over the next five days.

Landscapes Due

Thurs/Fri - Your landscapes are due half way through the period, edited and amazing.

• You will submit your 4 best landscapes as well as a contact sheet containing your 24 best landscapes, saved as .jpeg files.
  
• Be sure to name/label your favorite to be printed.
  
• All images should be placed into a folder named YourName_Landscape and placed into the appropriate Classes folder on the server.

Weekend Landscape Homework!!!

Your task is simple... get out and shoot!!! Get as far from Shorecrest as possible and try to find interesting landscapes following the rule of 1/3 and including for/mid/background. You will need a total of 24 GOOD landscapes for Monday when we begin editing in PhotoShop. Be creative, have fun, and shoot lots!!!

Shutter Speeds and Aperture

http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/camera-shutter-speed-and-aperture-explained-in-simple-english/1715/

http://www.photonhead.com/simcam/shutteraperture.php

http://www.xs4all.nl/~wiskerke/artikelen/tap.html

http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Camera-Shutter-Speeds-explained

http://www.pbase.com/wlhuber/the_basics

Landscapes

Photography has a couple of compositional rules we will work with this semester. First and most notable is the rule of 1/3. This states that an image can be divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines. The four points formed by the intersections of these lines can be used to align features in the photograph. Additionally the horizon line should be placed on either the upper or lower deviding line.

For landscapes there should also be 3 prominant areas in the photograph, for/mid/background. This will add depth to your images and lead the viewer deeper into the photograph.

Your task is to shoot landscapes... lots and lots of interesting landscapes. Consider changing camera andgles, get closer, farther away, squat down, stand on something tall, and follow the rules above to find great success.

Hamlin Park Adventure and Contact Sheet

DUE 9/10-11 @ the beginning of the period

Today you are going to have a majority of the period to shoot pictures in Hamlin Park. Our goal is to use the basics we have learned to take interesting and unique images.

• what to shoot: you will be shooting 3 images of 7 different subjects/objects. Each image should be from a unique angle and all should follow the rule of thirds
• what to do with your images: you will be importing your images and then creating a contact sheet in PhotoShop ( File > Automate >contact sheet II).
• Things to remember:

1. The rule of thirds: an image can be divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines. The four points formed by the intersections of these lines can be used to align features in the image. aligning a photograph with these points creates more tension, energy and interest in the photo than simply centering the feature would.
   

   This photograph of a sunset taken in the Thousand Islands region demonstrates the principles of the rule of thirds
2. Shooting from unique angles: none of your 21+ images should be taken from 5'8" - 6'2". That is, squat down, stand on top of something, crouch behind something, move around to find a different and unique perspective at your subject. Anyone can stand there and take a snap shot, show us your perspective by thinking outside of that box.

• Please turn in a contact sheet saved as YourLastName_Hamlin.jpg (using save as in Photoshop) and turn it into the classes folder on the staff server.