Photographers Portfolio

THE CHALLENGE: Practice your photography skills by creating your own portfolio of a series of photographs. Take photos around the school, of your friends, of nature, of the small things. Edit them and put them together to create a story in an original portfolio to show off your skills.

THE DETAILS:

Begin by becoming familiar with the Affinity workspace. A tutorial is below.
Come up with a theme for your portfolio of pictures. It could be anything you are interested in or simply a technique or style you plan to use.
Take the pictures that you would like to have included in your portfolio with a digital camera.
Import those pictures into Affinity Photo
Edit the pictures/images
Be sure to mention the editing tools used from Affinity Photo in your presentation.
Once you complete each picture, be sure to export your pictures as a jpeg so that they can be included in your presentation slides and in your google drive.

Learn Affinity Photo with video tutorials!!!!

Learn Affinity Photo 2 with their video tutorials

All the tutorials for all the tools you'll ever need are here:
- - Affinity Photo 2 Video Tutorials

STEAM U Levels:

GREEN CIRCLE (1 PT.)

- Presentation is completed but communicates no information about how the image editing was done, the tools used or of the skills needed in order to complete the project.
- Project is completed but done on a limited basis. Very few tools used in the image editing in order to make the final image. For example: It looks like one image was just layered on top of another image

BLUE CIRCLE (2 PTS.) IN ADDITION TO ALL IN THE GREEN CIRCLE....

Presentation communicates at least 4 tools used from Affinity to edit your image.
Presentation does a nice job communicating the steps you took in order to complete your image.
Final project is well executed and has the feeling of 'looking real'.
At least 2 images are completed in a 10 day project.
The resources and tutorials below are viewed. The learning of the Affinity or image editing application is done without first asking Mr. Wolfe. Your problem solving skills are apparent.

BLACK DIAMOND (3PTS) IN ADDITION TO ALL IN THE GREEN CIRCLE AND BLUE SQUARE...

Numerous images (at least 5) are completed in your time showing an advanced knowledge and skill of the tools available and ability to use them.
There is a theme to your images. There is a connection from one image to another that represents a purpose of your work.
Your 'portfolio' of work has a title that helps communicate the purpose of your work.
Your presentation includes screenshots that help communicate at least 10 tools used in affinity that you used to help make your final images 'look real'.
Use at least 1 very seldom used tool and tell us what it is in your presentation.