Turn in B&W

Please turn in one contact sheet with 24 amazing B&W images on it. Also turn in your one very best image. Save both as .jpeg files and place them in the staff server, classes folder.

Weekend Homework!!!

Shoot pictures of whatever your adventures are this weekend. Monday we will edit these and submit your best to the Seattle Times "Weekend Photo" section.

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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.