get creative!

For Thursday

You will need 40+ good interesting, unique, creative, fall themed images. We will be learning some new PS techniques to edit these images.

Fall can be creepy, gloomy, or spirited too...

Take pictures of a haunted house, a creepy costume, an amazing jack-o-lantern, or a foggy pond... There are lots of 'colors' to fall in addition to the changing of the trees. Also, don't forget it is homecoming week, and what says fall more than school spirit, class competitions, and more school spirit? Remember every image should still follow our compositional rules, looks for leading lines, frames within a frame, balance, and ALWAYS think rule of 1/3!!!

Fall into Fall...

It's officially fall, and with that comes some great opportunities to take epic pictures!! Fall colors are amazing, flowers are still in bloom, trees are changing color, harvest moons, pumpkin patches, homecoming week, and soooo much more!

We have leaned MANY compositional techniques for taking great images and you have shot landscapes and abstracts, two very different subject matter, now takes all those skills and interpret the assignment as you may. YOUR TASK: Fall Colors. Capture the intense colors of this season with your camera, in an interesting way.

SCHEDULE:

THURSDAY: shooting
TUESDAY: editing & shooting
THURSDAY: editing
FRIDAY: due date

Abstracts into black and white...

using Image>Adjust>Black & White please convert at least 6 of your abstract images to black and white.

Today you will turn in 35+ abstract images on a contact sheet (6 of which will be black and white) as well as one full size image.

Abstract editing...

selective focus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSZ_Pqh63dM

vignette:
http://rockysnapper.blogspot.com/2007/12/creating-vignettes-in-photoshop-cs3.html


Thursday is a work day to shoot/edit. Monday these will be due at the end of the period:
35+ Good Abstracts
1 Fullsize amazing interesting abstract image

shutter speeds...

by slowing down the shutter on your camera (allowing things to move while the camera is taking the image) can result in some amazing images... below are some links, full of info and examples. Toady we will be shooting more abstract images, but adding slow shutter speeds into the mix to aid in improving our shooting adventure.

http://digital-photography-school.com/shutter-speed

http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Camera-Shutter-Speeds-explained-4794

http://www.takegreatpictures.com/slow_shutter_speeds.fci

http://coolandspicy.net/2009/04/some-slow-shutter-fun/


http://www.picpot.co.uk/tips-for-abstract-photography-5.html

http://4pphotoblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/shutter-painting.html