Week of March 1

Students should use their class time to finish up the assignment, and put the photos into a slideshow set to music. There will be a bit of time to work on this assignment on Thurs. But at the end of the day on Thurs. All slideshows should be on the blue drive under Grade102016.

Week of Feb. 9

Your slideshow presentation for your first assignment is due Thurs. March 2.

 shadow: photo aysia

  silhouette photo: mai

pattern:grace

texture: natasha

Link to Digital Photo school

http://digital-photography-school.com/

Welcome to 2016 Semester 2 Intro Photography

Photo Basics

Introduction: In this class you will learn much about how to see from a different perspective, how to improve your ability to take photos and how to edit photos in Photoshop. As your teacher, I am not an expert in all technical aspects of Photography. There is much to know in this field and I am a learner as much as a teacher. In fact, I think we have a lot to learn from one another.

Requirements for success in this course:

• a positive attitude and a willingness to learn and push beyond the level you are at
• your own 4-8gb sd card which you bring to class everyday
• a willingness to take a camera home or use your family's camera on the weekend
• to use your class time effectively
• be a good model for your peers

Experienced Photo Students Assignment #1: We are coming in strong with a 14 day photo challenge. If you have difficulty, feel free to swap out one theme for another, but please do not do this more than twice. The intent for this assignment is to do a new shoot, not to recycle old photos. I want you to challenge yourself.

This assignment should be posted to Flickr, it should also be compiled into a slideshow set to music for presentation. The assignment is worth 25 marks and the slideshow is worth 10 marks.

DUE: Thur MAR 3. in class presentation

1. reflection portrait-1
2. blk and white -3
3. texture-2
4. high angle-1
5. low angle-1
6. silhouette-1
7. shadow-1
8. water -3
9. pattern -3
10. food/drink-2
11. graffiti -2
12. fill the frame -1
13. extreme close-up face -2
14. night -2
15. 2 head shots

Flickr organization: Make Ms Chase a contact, create a buddy icon, put old photos into a separate folder, join and post 3 pics to Isfeld Photo, find two followers other than Ms Chase, join one other photo group.(10 marks)

link to composition

New to Photography Students Assignment #1: 

1. Create a Flickr account, create abuddy icon, make Ms Chase a contact, join the Isfeld Photo group (10 marks)
2. Review the Basics of Photography site 
3. Take 3 head shots of 3 different people, plus have one taken of yourself for a buddy icon on Flickr. Post your head shots to Flickr.
4. Elements of composition, choose 5 elements and shoot an example of each ( example: leading lines, fill the frame, cropping, focal point, rule of thirds, use of angles, framing the shot etc.)
5. Shoot 2 high shots and 2 low shots, and  3 choice shots..anything you want ( 15 marks)

6. Complete a photo story set to music ( need to use you tube to mp3 conversion for music) 
(10 marks)

Criteria: I would like experienced students to attempt manual focus, crisp shots, varying angles, thought put into backgrounds and framing. New students try to shoot using your rules of composition.

Slideshows due before class on June 10

SLIDESHOWS ARE DUE BEFORE CLASS ON WED JUNE 10, anyone handing in past this time will lose 10 presentation marks out of 50. All other assignments are due on Mon. June 15. No exceptions!

Please see the list of assignments below. Your priority should be on your slideshow. If you are having trouble being able to get music on your slideshow try the following.

• use a different you tube to mp3 converter
• try an older song, one that is not super popular
• try a non vevo song, one that has not been posted by the artist
• bring your music from home on a jump drive

Remember the music must be in mp3 format, and if you download, it should be moved into the My Music file.

Remember to render your video, this means moving it to a movie file (wmv) not wp3 which is the working file.

When finished copy and paste to to my blue jump drive under the file that says :

gr10video2015A or gr10video2015B

If finished everything and looking for a challenge, head over to the advanced site and have aloof at the conceptual assignment. Try typing in conceptual photography into google and have a browse at what comes up…throw a couple of these up on to Flickr to WOW me.

Also do not forget to put your top photos ( as many as you like) onto the Blue drive.

gr10wowshots

That is is for today.

Light Photography

In this photo assignment, your task is to play with light. You do not need to take any specific shots but rather 5 shots that showcase some experimentation with light photography. I am including a few links to articles and videos for you to read. As well, I will post the basic manual settings to work with light photography.

Settings: In manual mode
ISO: 100 or the lowest you can get
Exposure between 13-30 sec.
Aperture: start at F11

Awesome how to video
How to shoot light trails

Assignments for term #4

ALL OTHER WORK NEEDS TO BE IN BY Mon June 15 NO EXCEPTIONS


Macros shots: Shots should be in focus, of interesting subject matter, background blurred, have a focal point, be taken of an object close-up. Post to Flickr (10 shots=20 marks)

Water shots:  shots are clear and interesting, make sure you are following the rules of composition.These shots can be anything water...puddles, drips, drops, bodies of water etc. Post to Flickr  (3 shots= 10 marks)

Duplicity: Four shots are taken in the same environment using a tripod. You are then to edit all four shots into one photo using Photoshop. Post to Flickr ( 1 shot = 20 marks)

Light Photography Experimental: You are to take 5 shots using light as a focal point. This might include bokeh, light trails, or long exposure night sky shots. We will go over how to shoot long exposure shots and I will post up the camera settings for this assignment. Post to Flickr (5 shots=20 marks)

Final Slideshow: You will be creating a slideshow set to music. I have reduced down the number of photos required in the slideshow to 40. The shots should be your absolute best work and should reflect a combination of photographs. What not to do...take 40 flower shots or 40 portraits or 40 skate park shots....mix it up and show me variety. ( 50 marks) DUE on JUMP DRIVE WED JUNE 10

This slideshow will be graded based on the following criteria:

• Quality of photography which includes, clarity, composition, choice of subject matter
• A variety of styles of photography, editing work etc
• Choreography which involves timing, transitions, photo order, and connection to music
• Overal impression based on the feeling created from the slideshow, artistic nature of the work, experimentation, and general wow factor