Editorial profile piece:

Hey Gang,

I hope you all enjoyed your mellow week of limited homework. Did any of you take any pictures for no other reason than to just take them? Please post to your blog if yes.

We spent last week taking creative portraits of each other. You were in pairs trying to capture anything and everything about your partner in images. We are going to use those images in our assignment for this week.

Here's what I'd like to see from you:

1. Upload the images you shot to your computer.

2. Once uploaded take 60 seconds to cycle through your images and immediately delete the pictures that you know you don't want to use.

3. Once you have your keeper shots, go through and narrow it down and edit your 6 best shots.

4. Now that you have 6 edited images, choose your best 3.

5. Utilizing these images and the information you gathered in class about your partner, write a one page profile piece on your partner. If you need help with learning more about what a profile piece is, there's this new thing that you've probably never heard of called Google where you can probably get more help.

6. Once you've finished your paper, upload your three images along with the text to your blog.

7. Please title your blog post Profile Assignment.

As always, if you have any questions or need any help at all please don't hesitate to email or call!

Action/Motion Assignment

My friends,

It's been a long week. Tiring and eventful, but good. We spent Wednesday talking and learning how to capture motion and action. I haven't really looked through any of the images you guys took yet because I want to give you an opportunity to edit your favorite images so we can look at them at their very best. Here's what I'd like to see:

1. I sent you a .Zip folder with all the images shot on Wed. Please download the folder.

2. Choose your 5 favorite images that you shot to edit.

3. In pixelmator I want you to do basic image edits/adjustments on four of your images. This could include things like, color correcting, exposure, contrast, levels, etc.

4. With your last image I want you to get creative and create a composited (multiple images stacked on top of each other using blend modes, opacity changes, etc.) piece. I'm leaving this wide open for interpretation so have fun and start to get comfortable with the blend modes in Pixelmator. This is where you would probably start bringing in some of those images in your folders that you started combining several weeks ago.

5. Upload your 5 images to your blog.

6. Do a short write-up on what you learned about blending modes and how you think you might be able to use them in the future. What type of projects would you like to do utilizing blend modes?

Travel Assignment:

You are all going to be having adventures here in the next few weeks. Here's what I'd like to have from you as you prepare:

LS - Long shot

MS - Medium shot

CU - Close up

MCU - Medium close up

ECU - Extreme close up

1. Shot List:

List at least 20 ideas for specific shots you can shoot in the places that you are traveling. For example. If I'm shooting a village in Ruwanda I might say "LS Village hut." Post to blog.

2. Places:

Make a list of the places you'll be traveling and post to blog.

3. People:

Make a shot list for each of the people you'll be traveling with

More to come...

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