Nov 1

1) Take a minute to go through your images and sort them into folders. I will be checking at some point during class FOR MARKS.

2) SCHOOL PHOTOS:

• Your photos of anything that is happening at school should be uploaded to the YEARBOOK DRIVE. If you haven't done so in a while, upload your school images now.
• When you are uploading images to the Yearbook drive, you MUST drop them into a named category folder within a category. 
• If it is a sport, go to the sports folder and drop them into the correct folder. If it is not there, make one. If it is a course, go to Academics and drop them into the correct folder. If there isn't one, make one. etc. 

3) PHOTOSHOP AGING ASSIGNMENT DUE TODAY! -> drag and drop to Assignment drive to hand in

4) Alternate Field trip Assignment DUE TODAY --> drag and drop to Assignment drive to hand in

5) 4 Photo assignments from chart in booklet DUE FRIDAY

Oct 31

Happy Halloween!

Continue working on your photoshop aging assignment (due tomorrow)and your 4 photo assignments due on Friday.
If you did not go on the field trip, your photo essay is due tomorrow.

Complete the form below if you went on the field trip.

Opening Activity - Photo Essay

1) Click the link below and view the photo essay.

 Photo Essay

2) Answer the following questions

Fieldtrip Alternate Assignment - Photo Essay

Photo Essays - A photo-essay (or photographic essay) is a set or series of photographs that are intended to tell a story or evoke a series of emotions in the viewer. A photo essay will often show pictures in deep emotional stages. Photo essays range from purely photographic works to photographs with captions or small notes to full text essays with a few or many accompanying photographs. Photo essays can be sequential in nature, intended to be viewed in a particular order, or they may consist of non-ordered photographs which may be viewed all at once or in an order chosen by the viewer
Photo-essay. (2011, August 2). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 9:44pm October 27, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Photo-essay&oldid=442623538


There are 3 parts to this assignment:
1) Photo Essay Questions
2) Create your own photo essay
3) Submission: Drop both your Questions doc and Photo Essay Powerpoint into the Assignments drive


PART 1: Photo Essay Questions


1) Click below and choose a photo essay to view from Time magazine.


Time Magazine Photo Essays


2) Review the essay by answering the following questions in a WORD doc. Also copy and paste the link of your photo essay into your assignment. 
  a) Did the photographer use staged photos, candid photos or both?
   b) Color or B&W? Did it make a difference? 
   c) Find examples of good exposure and composition and point them out. Identify a minimum of 10 components related to exposure and composition. (Eg. Picuture 2 - lines (lead eye to book toward the back of the image, shallow depth of field)
   d) How close does the subject feel in the photo? What kind of emotions are evoked when you view the image?
   e) How much narration and text support the essay?
    f) Do the photos in the essay stand alone or do they need to be seen as a part of the whole?
   g) Describe your reaction to the essay. Do all photo essays illicit a reaction in the viewer?
(18 Marks)
PART 2: Create your own photo essay


Create your own photo essay in Powerpoint using the guidelines below:
1) Choose 10 photos you already have (if you don't have enough for 10, you need to get some)
2) Single theme or "story" for the essay
3) Consider the following in choosing your photographs:
                  - Composition 
                  - Lighting
                  - Angle and distance to subject
                  - Candid or posed photos?
                  - Consider the need for text to accompany each photograph 


Click HERE to see some sample student photo essays
(25 marks)

 PART 3: Submission


Drop both your Questions doc and Photo Essay Powerpoint into the Assignments drive  

Oct 27 - Power of Photoshop Assignment

1) Watch the video below to see what kind of impact Photoshop can have on images in today's society

2) Now we are going to do the opposite! Get a partner and take a close up shot of each other. SMILE! (you will need your smile lines to age your photo).  The image should be just above your shoulders and your head should encompass the majority of the frame. Get in close to take the picture!

3) Download your image and open in Photoshop.

4)  Follow the aging tutorial below and use the tools you've learned so far in Photoshop to age your photo as well as explore the new ones mentioned in the tutorial. You are more than welcome to do any other touch ups to your photo as you like. REMEMBER TO KEEP YOUR PHOTO TO YOUR LIKENESS!

DUE: TUESDAY NOV 1

Photoshop Aging Tutorial

Oct 26

Continue working on your photo assignments or technology if you did not hand it in yet.

REMINDER! Fieldtrip form and money!

Oct 25

Continue working on your Photo Assignments and Investigating New Technologies Assignment.

REMINDER! TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO HAND IN WORK FOR THE REPORT CARD.
FIELDTRIP FORM AND MONEY!

Assignment - Investigating New Technologies

1) Go to Learn Alberta - Photography 1275- Digital Processing 1
(If you are accessing this from home, you will need to login (username: LA06 password: 4105)

2) Click on Project 5--> play button --> on left hand side menu, click #5 - New Technologies

3) Click the assignment below, download as a Word doc.
Investigating New Technologies Assignment

4) Use the tutorial on the Learn Alberta website to complete the assignment

5) Once completed, EMAIL TO ME. (See Contact Me tab)

Oct 24

REMINDER! FIELDTRIP FORM AND MONEY! GET YOUR TEACHER FORM SIGNED! FIELDTRIP FRIDAY!

- Work on sorting through your images (deleting images you don't like, putting images into folders, etc)
- Update your PHOTO LOG - see booklet
- Continue working on your photo assignments.

 REMEMBER! YOU SHOULD NOW BE EDITING YOUR PHOTOS IN PHOTOSHOP TO ENHANCE THEM BEFORE YOU HAND THEM IN!

Oct 21

REMINDER! FIELDTRIP FORM + MONEY!


Work on your 2 photo assignments due today. Be sure to use the Photoshop tools you've learned this week to ENHANCE your image. UPLOAD BOTH YOUR JPG and PSD files to the Submission folder. If you are unsure on how to do this, ASK!

Opening Activity -Photoshop Healing brushes & Paint brush tools

REMINDER! FIELDTRIP FORM + MONEY! 2 PHOTO ASSIGNMENTS DUE FRIDAY!

1) Read the 3 articles linked below and answer the question in the form :

Spot Healing Brush Tool                      Healing Brush Tool                      Patch Tool

2) Read the description of the brush tool in your Photography booklet.

3) TRY IT! Show me your use of the 4 tools IN ACTION on an image using Photoshop at some point in class today.

Opening Activity - Photoshop Spot Burn & Dodging Tools

REMINDER! FIELD TRIP FORM AND MONEY! 2 PHOTO ASSIGNMENTS DUE FRIDAY!

1) Watch the video below for the spot and dodge tools for Photoshop. YOU ONLY NEED TO WATCH TO MINUTE 9:00.

2) Try it out! Open one of your images in Photoshop and enhance your image with the Dodge and Burn tools. SHOW ME. When you're done, you may continue working on your photo assignments

Opening Activity - Photoshop Clone Stamp & Magic Wand Tools

 REMINDER! Fieldtrip form and money! 2 Photo assignments due FRIDAY!

1) Watch the 2 videos below

2) Open an image in Photoshop

3) Use the following tools to change your image:
   a) Layers
   b) Adjust levels
   c) Clone stamp
   d) Magic Wand

4) Show me at some point in class today

Opening Activity - Oct 17 - Photoshop Adjusting Levels

1) In your booklet, read the sections Photoshop Basics #1-11 and Steps and Tools for Manipulating an image in Photoshop #1 -2.

2) Watch the video below

3) Take one of your images  and adjust the levels to improve the image. At some point during class you must show me your manipulated levels image.

REMINDER! 2 Photo Assignments due FRIDAY OCT 21.
BRING YOUR FIELD TRIP FORM AND MONEY!

Oct 14

- 12 Yearbook images +1 Photo assignment DUE TODAY! 


- HAND IN YOUR FIELDTRIP FORM!


-WORK ON YOUR PHOTO ASSIGNMENTS TODAY
At some point during class, you must show me your 12 yearbook images. If you are unable to get the ones you signed up for,  get some of Forest Lawn life. DO NOT DROP THEM INTO THE SUBMISSION  FOLDER - you need to upload them to the Yearbook drive AND yearbookavenue.com and let me know when you're ready to have me look at them on your computer for your mark.

***When you hand in your photo assignment, don't forget the correct way to name your file and change your image to black and white!

Opening Activity - Oct 3

REMINDER! 12 Yearbook images + 1 photo assignment due OCT 14 - TOMORROW!
DON'T FORGET YOUR FIELDTRIP FORM - Due OCT 14 - TOMORROW!

Continue working on your written assignments or see me for a camera.

Opening Activity - Oct 12 - Photoshop Black and White Tutorial

REMINDER! 12 Yearbook images + 1 photo assignment DUE FRIDAY OCT 14.

1) Copy the following rubric into your book where the assignment chart is:

Photo Assignments Rubric - 10 marks total
5 marks Composition (includes Exposure elements and Elements of Composition)
2 marks focus
2 marks noise/distractions
1 mark on time

2) a) Read the tutorial on how to change your pictures from colour to black and white in Photoshop. Only your photo assignments must be submitted in black and white. Your Yearbook images do not need to be converted.

b) Take an image and convert it to black and white - when you are happy with it, raise your hand and show it to me.

Adobe Photoshop Black and White Tutorial

3) Continue working on your assignments or see me for a camera to start

Opening Activity - Oct 11

Welcome back from Tryptophan weekend!

REMINDER! 12 Yearbook images + 1 photo assignmnet DUE FRIDAY OCT 14

1) Download the Assignments Examples slide show. It is a large file and will take a while to finish. Google will ask if you want to "download anyways" even though it's too big to scan and you do. Click download anyways. While you are waiting,  read over your photo assignment descriptions before starting your work. 
IF you need to rewrite your test, study now and you must rewrite this class period.

2) Flip through the slide show to see examples of your photo assignments.

Assignments Examples Slide Show

3) If you are done all your written assignments including your test rewrite, see me for a camera to start your photo assignments

Opening Activity - Oct 6

1) CORRECT YOUR TEST. Look over your test and find the right answers in your booklet. Fill in the correct answer on your test. If you did not receive 21.5/43 or higher on your test, you need to rewrite it today. 

2) Watch the following 2 videos. Answer the questions in the form below.

3) Continue working on assignments you have not handed in or get a camera to start your photo assignments.

REMINDER! 1 photo assignment (your choice) & 12 yearbook images are due OCT 14

Opening Activity - Oct 5

Study for your Composition and ISO test now!

Opening Activity - Oct 4 Framing

 REMINDER! Composition and ISO quiz tomorrow

1) Read the posted article below and answer the questions in the form

Fill Your Frame article

2) Study for your Composition and ISO quiz. We will review later in class.

3) Work on any assignments you have not yet submitted

Opening Activity - Oct 3 - Composition Elements Assignment

REMINDER! Composition Elements TEST WED OCT 5

A) Finish the Zoom Blur assignment if you have not done so

B) Pick 3 photos from the website below:

Photo Republik - Photo of the Day 
(scroll to the bottom of the page to navigate to different pages)

For each image, do the following:

1) Take a screen shot of the enlarged image and paste into a Word doc (hit the print screen button -above insert, left of scroll lock on your keyboard)

2) Below each image in the Word doc,
   a) Name the Elements of Composition are in the image (there may be more than 1, refer to notes)
   b) Answer the following:
        i) Does it keep your eye moving around the whole image or only to parts of it? How?
       ii) How's the placement of the subjects? Which Rule of Thirds, weighting (side, top, bottom), or 9-zone grid placement does it use?
      iii) Is there harmony? Tension? Balance? How? Describe.
      iv)What are the dynamics? Point of view? Describe.
       v) 1 additional factor of the image that makes it interesting
(think depth of field, lighting, negative and positive space, lines, shape, texture)

3) Save and EMAIL TO ME - vyloke@cbe.ab.ca. Be sure to include your name on your assignment!