Week 4 | Fun Work

Hello gals and guys. Sorry I'm getting you your assignment today (friday). Let me know if you have any questions at all!

Five Images of Fall

This week you are going to head outside and take some photographs. You are more than welcome and encouraged to take as many pictures as you possibly want. In fact, you should probably be taking anywhere in the 50-200 range. Most professional photographers live by this concept in some form or another: For every 250-300 images they shoot, they will only keep and use 3-5 of them. In other words, people want to see your BEST work, not ALL of your work. So keeping this in mind, go outside and shoot for a good 45-60 min. Your theme/focus for your shoot is accentuating the fall season. How can you effectively capture and showcase the changing season of fall in a specific, interesting, and unique way? Here's the shots I'd like for you to get:

1. One must be a closeup (CU)

2. One must be a medium shot (MS)

3. One must be a longshot (LS)

4. The remaining two are your choice.

5. Particular things to pay attention to: textures, color, lines, and reflections.

6. No portraits of people.

After you've taken your pictures here is what I want from you next.

1. Upload your images onto your computer and into a specific folder titled Week 4 - Fall.

2. Go through the photographs you shot.

3. Decide which five (no more, no less) you are going to keep.

4. Name those five, using the following naming convention: the file name of each photograph you're keeping should be YouLastName + the subject + the type of shot.

FOR EXAMPLE: if one of my images was a closeup of a pumpkin, I would name it

Long - pumpkin CU.jpg

5. Open each of those images in Pixelmator. Is it in focus? Does it have enough light? What would you do different next time? Remember to duplicate your master layer when you first open it up. You should never be working on the master layer, remember?

Go through the Basic Image Correction process. This would be things like cropping or rotating the image, modifying tonal values using adjustment layers (look on google or youtube for tutorials or find it in Pixelmator). Experiment! Keywords for you as you try to figure out what you might want to change. Highlights, mid tones, blacks, color balance, etc.

7. Make a folder on your desktop entitled Computer Class - Portfolio, and save each of your images using the above name to this folder. Make sure you save both a raw pixelmator file as well as a .jpeg file.

8. Upload each of your jpeg images to your blog with a 2-4 sentence summary for each image of your process from start to finish (shooting to editing), and what features you particularly like about each one.

Have a terrific time and let me know if you need help or want to let me know how mean you think I am. This should be FUN!