Photography

*also, Adobe is offering the "home" version of cloud for free to those schools that have Adobe CC. We unfortunately do not have the CC version, we have CS6. Therefore we do not fall into that benefit.

Creative Cloud tutorials | Learn how to use Creative Cloud

GIMPGIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program: The Free and Open Source Image Editor

https://www.gimp.org/

FREE open source "Photoshop" Image manipulation and Digital painting.

Save every 20 minutes.

Looks familiar to Photoshop and skills transfer well.

Tons of Gimp tutorial sites.

Free Mood Board Maker with Online Templates | Adobe SparkAdobe Spark’s free online mood board maker helps you easily create custom mood boards in minutes, no design skills needed.

Adobe SPARK is free (or was?). You can use it to create lots of different things! Check it out. You can create webpages, Facebook or IG banners and layouts, integrate text and photos, create inspiring posters, cards, youtube banners! Here is a web PAGE I made using it.

ShakshukaSee the story

Basic Photography Tips to improve. Here is a place to start.

These very short tip videos can help you improve your composition, your use of lighting, and your use of framing.

They can also be found here in this Youtube Playlist.

*made by Getty Museum

A Photography App For Teens

Getty Unshuttered is a free photo sharing app developed by the Getty Museum. It provides a positive community for teen artists to be inspired, create, and raise their voices for social good. Instructional content is available to sharpen photographic skills.

Photo Shoot Ideas and Tutorials- General

Andy Goldsworthy Photo/Environmental Sculpture project.

Andy Goldsworthy Rivers and Tides (on Amazon Prime)

Andy Goldsworthy Leaning into the Wind (Hulu)

Andy Goldsworthy is one of my favorite photographers. He is an environmental Sculptor and Photographer.

Watch one of his films and go out and create an inspired nature piece and photograph through the passage of time or weather or light or destruction.

Andy Goldsworthy.ppt

David Hockney PhotoMontage Project

DavidHockneyInspiredPhotointro

David Hockney | Digital Photography Slides

Story Telling Photo Project

Storytelling with a Sequence ~

Based on the ideas of Portland Photographer Holly Andres, take at least 3 well-composed photos (edited to show mood) that will tell a story. Make it good. The Fall of Spring Hill is one of my favorite Photo Stories. Look through it more than once and see what foreshadowing you can pick up on. How can you implement that into your story?

Sometimes I think about...well what happened before this or after this photo...How did they get here? etc.

Put the Jpg.s into a Google slide show with a TITLE page.

Be safe, but be creative in real life.

Storytelling Through Photographs | ContrastlyStorytelling using photographs is a little like telling a story through film. There are certain elements that you need to consider. There are tips and tricks to help you create a moving story.

The Process of Storytelling With Photography

When something catches your eye and calls out to you to create a photograph, your subconscious has already identified a story element. That’s why you have an interest in capturing whatever it is that you’re looking at. Step one is accomplished. Some story is there.

You want to communicate a message from your mind out to viewers of your photograph – that decision puts your photographic process into the loosely defined category of storytelling. Now it becomes a three-part process.

Step two, you must figure out what it is you’re trying to say with your photograph. That’s called developing the story. Thirdly, you must make the technical choices to transform the story into the photographic medium. That’s being a photographer and not simply a snap shooter.

That’s something to keep in mind when you are photographing and want your photo to tell a story.

You can read more about it on page 15 of the Effective Storytelling guide by Kent DuFault. It will help you dive deeper into the subject of storytelling with photography and teach you how to instill the ‘story element’ into your photos.