New Assignments: Thurs. Feb 14/2013

I am away today, and I expect solid on task behaviour from all students especially while you are out taking photos around the school. All students should be back at least 15 minutes prior to the end of class. You should be giving yourselves enough time to upload and organize photos on your L drive. The only shots that should be loaded onto Flickr are your head shots.

Assignments:

• Head shots:  2 shots that you have taken of someone, these are both head and shoulder shots. The shots can be of two different people. These shots should be flattering shots of the individual. Try to capture an essence of the individual in the shots. You are to save the originals on your L Drive under Photography in a sub folder entitled head shots. Next you will use the photo editor Pixlr of which I will include a link after this post to edit each head shot ( use a frame and an effect...do not go crazy in your efforts) Then you should post all 4 shots...your 2 originals and your 2 edited shots in a set on Flickr. Make sure your originals are between 50kb and 2 mb. Marks for this assignment 10

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ALL PURCHASE YOUR 2GB sd cards this weekend. It is essential that you have your own card for class. There will not be access to sd cards after next week. Also a reminder that you MUST use your real name on Flickr (this means you Roy!) and include w2013 afterwards in brackets. Please make sure you have connected with me as a contact on Flickr.

• Still Life: 8 photos in total all compiled into one set on Flickr. Photos should consist of the following:

• 2 Moon snail shell shots, photos edited into black and white
• 2 Flower shots, edited for spot colour
• 4 other still life shots (student choice) Marks 20

Try to mix up your angles and make sure you are getting clear photos and using the compositional elements you have learned so far.

Circles: 10 shots of objects that  are circles or have part of the shot has a circle in it ( you do want your circle to be the focal point.) 

Criteria: clean backgrounds, focal point is the circle, think creatively so photos reflect this, in focus, a variety of shots, keep in mind all of the compositional elements we have learned so far. You may do some editing, but do not overdo with filters, I want to be able to see that you know how to shoot a good photo. Marks 20

Glacier shots 2 shots Marks 10

Link to Pixlr http://pixlr.com