Clone - Stamp Tool Review

Select a photo that you have taken and use the Clone Tool to manipulate the photo in some way. You may want to add items, or make them disappear. Post a before and after pic.

AP Images Critique

Today you will choose a photo from AP Images to critique. Follow the example below to do your critique.

1. Use the Snipping tool to upload the photo to your blog.

2. Add the link from the AP site to your blog.

3. Paste the description of the photo from the AP site to your blog.
Description: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray ahead of the Jewish New Year at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem's old city, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. Israelis happily welcomed the Jewish New Year late Wednesday despite uncertainty and turmoil brewing on both its northern and southern borders. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

4. Answer the following:

• Who was the photographer?
• What country and city was the photo taken in?
• What event was photographed?
• Describe the event that was photographed.
• Why is the event newsworthy? Why is it important to us?

5. Write a Critique. Use the Critique Guide in the link above.

Out of Class Assignment - A Day in the Life Photo Essay - 200 points - DUE APRIL 7

Record a day in the life of your subject... a student, teacher, co-worker, shopkeeper, restaurant employee, family, friend,  whoever interests you. Don't "stage" the shots, try to capture the moments naturally. Your goal is to capture the feeling of part of a person's life, in the person's natural environment.

You should upload at least 5 pictures with captions plus several paragraphs explaining your Photo Essay.

Tips for a successful essay:

• Work as unobtrusively as possible...don't interfere with what is going on.
• Turn off your flash...use high ISO if the lighting is low. You may need to use a tripod
• Use a large aperture to avoid background details distracting from the subject.
• Get close! Include details that help tell the story. 
• Cover all aspects of your subject's day. Driving to work, studying, cleaning up, anything that you feel would add to the story
• Use multiple camera angles and distances from your subject...Be creative!

Here are some great examples of photography in this style:

Dorothea Lange
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/

Valery Mosley

http://www.valeriemosleyphoto.com/

Ami Vitale

http://www.amivitale.com/blog/

Lauren Greenfield

http://www.laurengreenfield.com/

W. Eugene Smith

http://life.time.com/w-eugene-smith/

Laena Wilder
http://www.wildervision.com/

Randy Bacon
http://www.randybacon.com/home#0

Composing Your Photo - Using Perspective to Add Interest

Perspective

When taking pictures, don't just shoot at Eye level. Take a look at the examples at the site below.

http://digital-photography-school.com/perspective-photography-dont-just-stand-move-feet/

Assignment: Capture 2 Images of each of the following perspectives and Post them to your blog:

Birds eye Perspective

Bugs eye

Eye Level

Horizontal

Vertical

Diagonal

Combination of 2 of the various perspectives.

In your post briefly describe how each picture fulfills the required perspective.

Composing Your Photo - Rule of Thirds

Rule of Thirds - Review

Assignment: You will need to post 1 example of the Rule of Thirds and 1 example of Breaking the Rule of Thirds to your blog. For each example write an explanation of how the rule of thirds was used in each picture.

The rule of thirds is probably the most often referenced photography rule of composition.  It is all about subject placement within the frame.

Imagine that your picture space is divided into thirds both horizontally and vertically, like a tic tac toe grid.

The photography rule of thirds tells us to align our subject with one of the points where those lines cross. That means our subject is one third of the way “into” the picture space – from either the top or bottom, and from either the left or right. And that means it’s not in the middle.



Here is an example of the rule of thirds for a landscape photo. The focus is on the land area rather than the sky so the bottom two-thirds of the photograph are filled with land and the top third is sky.

Here are additional links explaining and demonstrating the Rule of thirds.
http://digital-photography-school.com/rule-of-thirds
http://learnprophotography.com/rule-of-thirds
http://www.ultimate-photo-tips.com/photography-rule-of-thirds.html

http://www.photographymad.com/pages/view/rule-of-thirds

Perspective

Catch-Up day

We have not seen each other for a while. Here is a list of the exercises that I expect to be posted to your blog.

In Class Exercise  - Lights and Darks- Feb 12

Still Life - Include Exposure Settings -   Feb 19

Photo Show Critique - Feb 23

Snow Images - February 25

Photography Ethics - February 27

Finding Correct Exposure - Overcast Snowy day - March 3