- A contact sheet of 40+ new spring pics
- 5 spring images edited with actions
- contact sheet of 25 spring pics (from in class)
- 5 edits form tutorials on blog
Monday, April 30, 2012
To Turn in Today
Photoshop Action
Friday, April 20, 2012
Spring Break Homework!
YES, you do have homework over break. Due the Monday after Spring Break you will need an additional 40 spring pictures from at least 5 different locations. Get creative, think out of the box, and take a boat load of spring themed pics!
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Editing Spring Images
You should have 25+ amazing, interesting, unique and captivating spring themed images by today. Now it is time to edit them.
Here are a few ways to edit your spring pics. Please
choose at least THREE techniques from of the following list and edit your best 5 images.
(When you save your pics, please label them as the technique used)
You are not bound solely to the techniques below, but each image should be edited using one of the techniques demonstrated:
Cross processed photographs are recognisable from the unusual colours and tones in the final shot. The effect was originally produced from developing the photographic film using the wrong mix of chemicals. Nowadays, a cross processed style can be simply achieved in just a few steps. Photoshop Support shows us how.
One of the most recognisable street photography shots is ‘Homeless Mike’ by Leroy Skalstad. The gritty, high contrast style of the image really emphasises the nature of street life. Recreate a similar image with this Dramatic Gritty Effect by Photoshop Frenzy.
The Russian made Lomo LC-A camera was manufactured a cheap alternative to the higher quality Japanese rivals. It was poorly made and the photographs it produced were just as bad, however as time passed popular culture brought the mis-coloured shots from the Lomo camera into a whole new light, which is now a very sought after effect. Not everyone has the opportunity of trying out the original camera model, but Digital Photography School has some great tips on mimicking the effect in Photoshop.
With limited technology the early colour photographs often had poor colour reproduction, with shots having an obvious colour casts and inaccurate tones. Today the effect can transform a photograph, instantly sending it back in time to give the impression of an aged effect. Veerle takes us through some techniques for producing a vintage style photo using a few simple Photoshop tweaks.
Tilt Shift is a photographic technique where the image plane is rotated, giving a very shallow depth of field but maintaining sharpness in a specific area of the shot. One of the popular post processing effects related to tilt shift photography is known as miniature faking, where the depth of field manually added to a shot gives the illusion of tiny model figures and sceneries. TiltShiftPhotography.net has this fantastic overview of creating the effect yourself.
Fujifilm Velvia film created highly saturated, largely contrasting and extremely sharp images, which made it particularly popular with nature and landscape photographers. PSHero takes a look at using modern day Photoshop techniques to recreate the Velvia effect.
The term grunge has evolved from the music genre also known as Seattle Sound, characterized by stripped down sounds and heavily distorted guitars. The term grunge also made its way into photo post processing, where the key features are muted colours and large areas of texture and grain. PSHero has this excellent tutorial for creating your own dark grunge photo effect.
http://still-scripts.com/photoshop/faking-the-hdr-effect-using-only-one-photo-and-photoshop/
High Dynamic Range Imaging is a photography technique that produces an image with a much larger range of luminance between the darkest and lightest areas, making it much closer to the spectrum seen by the human eye. More recently the effect has been pushed to the max, with heavy tone mapping producing an abstract and highly stylised photo effect. The genuine effect is created with various RAW images and processing software, but the Nill Photoalbum has this great tutorial for producing a similar style directly in Photoshop.
Alongside post processing, the video filming of movies often involves a range of camera filters. Ebin has this fantastic tutorial for creating a polished movie-like effect complete with diffusion glow and temperature tweaks in Photoshop.
You are not bound solely to the techniques below, but each image should be edited using one of the techniques demonstrated:
Cross Processing
Cross processed photographs are recognisable from the unusual colours and tones in the final shot. The effect was originally produced from developing the photographic film using the wrong mix of chemicals. Nowadays, a cross processed style can be simply achieved in just a few steps. Photoshop Support shows us how.
Street Photography
One of the most recognisable street photography shots is ‘Homeless Mike’ by Leroy Skalstad. The gritty, high contrast style of the image really emphasises the nature of street life. Recreate a similar image with this Dramatic Gritty Effect by Photoshop Frenzy.
Lomo Photography
The Russian made Lomo LC-A camera was manufactured a cheap alternative to the higher quality Japanese rivals. It was poorly made and the photographs it produced were just as bad, however as time passed popular culture brought the mis-coloured shots from the Lomo camera into a whole new light, which is now a very sought after effect. Not everyone has the opportunity of trying out the original camera model, but Digital Photography School has some great tips on mimicking the effect in Photoshop.
Vintage Photo Effect
With limited technology the early colour photographs often had poor colour reproduction, with shots having an obvious colour casts and inaccurate tones. Today the effect can transform a photograph, instantly sending it back in time to give the impression of an aged effect. Veerle takes us through some techniques for producing a vintage style photo using a few simple Photoshop tweaks.
Tilt Shift Photography
Tilt Shift is a photographic technique where the image plane is rotated, giving a very shallow depth of field but maintaining sharpness in a specific area of the shot. One of the popular post processing effects related to tilt shift photography is known as miniature faking, where the depth of field manually added to a shot gives the illusion of tiny model figures and sceneries. TiltShiftPhotography.net has this fantastic overview of creating the effect yourself.
The Velvia Effect
Fujifilm Velvia film created highly saturated, largely contrasting and extremely sharp images, which made it particularly popular with nature and landscape photographers. PSHero takes a look at using modern day Photoshop techniques to recreate the Velvia effect.
Dark Grunge Photo Effect
The term grunge has evolved from the music genre also known as Seattle Sound, characterized by stripped down sounds and heavily distorted guitars. The term grunge also made its way into photo post processing, where the key features are muted colours and large areas of texture and grain. PSHero has this excellent tutorial for creating your own dark grunge photo effect.
HDR Photography
http://still-scripts.com/photoshop/faking-the-hdr-effect-using-only-one-photo-and-photoshop/High Dynamic Range Imaging is a photography technique that produces an image with a much larger range of luminance between the darkest and lightest areas, making it much closer to the spectrum seen by the human eye. More recently the effect has been pushed to the max, with heavy tone mapping producing an abstract and highly stylised photo effect. The genuine effect is created with various RAW images and processing software, but the Nill Photoalbum has this great tutorial for producing a similar style directly in Photoshop.
Movie Photo Effect
Alongside post processing, the video filming of movies often involves a range of camera filters. Ebin has this fantastic tutorial for creating a polished movie-like effect complete with diffusion glow and temperature tweaks in Photoshop.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Spring Time Pics
Spring is one of the four temperate seasons, the transition period between winter and summer. Spring and "springtime" refer to the season, and broadly to ideas of rebirth, renewal and regrowth. The specific definition of "spring" as a season differs, however, the phenological definition of spring relates to indicators, the blossoming of a range of plant species, and the activities of animals, or the special smell of soil that has reached the temperature for micro flora to flourish. It therefore varies according to the climate and according to the specific weather of a particular year.
Our assignment: SPRING IN SHORELINE (or Seattle, or WA, or your spring)...
How can you represent spring in an image? What are spring colors? What happens in the spring?
Think about what you do in the spring, events, sports, places to go, activities, things you eat, flowers or fruit in season, etc.
Monday, April 16, 2012
GRADES!
Your quarter grades are coming out very soon. The gradebook will be finalized on Wednesday 4/18/2011. Anything turned in after that will not be represented in your Q3 grade report. Please check and make sure you have no missing work.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Shadow assignment
- 20 different subjects
- 50 different images/compositions
- all including great contrast &/or shadows
- we will convert these to black and white next week
This is your first assignment where there are NO parameters on subject matter, shoot abstract, portrait, landscape, or anything else. The only requirement is that you seek out shadows and/or contrast so your images will be vivid and interesting in black and white. Images that do not contain contrast and shadows end up dull and grey when black and white. Our goal if for your images to be vibrant, even in the absence of color, this is done with contrast, shadows, and creative compositions!
consider your subject, background, and lighting for each pic. Anything not completed in class is homework.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Shadows
Friday is the time to start shooting for our next assignment!!!
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, the shadows can be created or natural, but should add to the image. Find at least 20 different subjects to shoot! Due Mon.
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, the shadows can be created or natural, but should add to the image. Find at least 20 different subjects to shoot! Due Mon.
Editing:
Don't forget shadows, if you leave out the shadow your sequence will look odd:
Much better with shadows:
Much better with shadows:
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Action Sequence
- Each sequence should have 3+ images.
- Be sure the camera does NOT move between shots
- Use a tripod
- Shoot with the camera on ACTION mode
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
AS Steps
- File > Scripts > Load Files to Stack...
- Select ALL Layers
- Edit > Auto Align Layers
- Crop
- Select top layer
- Layer > Layer Mask > Hide All
- Paint Brush w/ White ink
- paint to reveal subject
- no mask on bottom layer
Monday, April 2, 2012
Puppet Warp
- Flatten Image
- Convert > Smart Object
- Edit > Puppet Warp
- drop pins along horizon
- move the waypoints to make level/straight
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