photo-2-3-assignments

Tips on Selecting your best Photographs

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Extra Credit Assignment!!

150 points

Watch the Hasselblad webinar. Take notes, then write at least three paragraphs about the story of the Hasselblad and NASA collaboration on documenting the Space program.

Use Google docs, name your file with your name, period and hasselblad as the file name.

Share the Google doc with me at my APS email.

Due Date: May 8th.

Seeing in Sixes

Due: 4/26

500 points, 50 points per images plus 200 points for the group

NM Fine Arts Standards 1, 2, 3, 4

Objective: To conceptualize ideas and turn them into visual creations. Make a coherent presentation of a visual concept.

Photograph a subject or idea and turn in six well-made photographs that tell a visual story or idea. All six photographs have to have a visual connection. All photographs should show a similar photographic style or treatment. Your subject can be a person, place or thing. It can be an abstract idea, but if abstract, it needs to show a strong visual connectedness.

When making the photographs think about how each photograph interacts with the others in the group. Use a variety of camera angles, perspectives and scale. Make sure your lens is clean!!!

Name your files pjh_image_1.jpg, pjh_image_2.jpg, etc. Your 1st image should establish your idea/subject/theme.

Name your folder "1st Sixes".

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Attend the Metro Art Show

Due March 16th

50 or 100 extra credit points

NM Fine Arts Standard Four

Objective: to see great student art!

Go to Metro look at all the student art work. Pay attention to the photography. Make a selfie of you at the show for 50 points. For an extra 50 points write at least a paragraph about the show.

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Photoshop Cropping assignment

Objective: To know and understand how to use the crop tool for specific end uses.

Due 02/10/20

125 points, 25 point per cropped photo plus original

NM Fine Arts Standard One

Select one of your best photographs. Photoshop it and make it look the best that you can. Save it as a Photoshop file and make a copy and place the copy in a folder named “photoshop cropping.” Name it xxx_ zzzz_original.psd, (xxx are YOUR Initials, zzzz is the original file number.)

In Photoshop press the command+option+i keys to get to the image size panel. Make sure the resolution is set to 300. If it is not uncheck the resample button then change the resolution to 300ppi. This is important!!! So make sure you check. When importing cellphone photos they usually come in at 72 ppi. You need to start with 300ppi.

Using the Photoshop crop tool (W x H x Resolution in the drop-down menu) crop the image for the web: set the resolution to 72 ppi with the height and width to 4x6 inches. Adjust the crop box to where you want it, then press the return key to actually make the crop. Be sure to have the delete cropped pixels unchecked. Save the image with the name xxx_zzzz_4x6x72.jpg, (xxx are your initials, zzzz means the original file number.) Note: 72 ppi is the standard resolution for images on the Internet.

All your cropped photos will be saved as jpg files as most printing services want jpg files. Only your original will be a psd or tif file.

Now open the same original (NOT the image you just saved!!!) and crop it to 5x7 inches at 300ppi and save it with the name xxx_zzzz_5x7x300.jpg. 300 ppi’s the resolution for making inkjet or commercial prints. DO NOT use the photo you just cropped as a starting point, start with your original! Again, make sure you get the crop box to where you want it, then press the return key to actually make the crop.

Now do the same for a 8x10 inches at 300ppi photo crop. Rename it xxx_zzzz_8x10x300.jpg.

Next resize the image for your smartphone wallpaper. Check your model’s screen specs (on the Internet). And crop for your screen. More than likely it will be in pixel dimensions i.e., 640x1136x326, Make sure you set the W & H as Pixels (px) not inches (in)! Phones have different resolutions so be sure to set the resolution to your cell phone. If you do not have a cell phone use the dimensions for the iPhone 5s. Cell phones are vertical so if you chose a horizontal photo to start with it will be an extreme vertical crop, which is OK. Save this file as: xxx_5123_(size & resolution in pixels).jpg i.e. pjh_5123_1135x640x326.jpg

Always start with the original image file each time to prevent image quality issues. Make sure the resolution is set properly. Place all cropped photos plus the original in a folder named "photoshop cropping" in your assignments folder on your computer. You will have 5 photos in your folder, the original Photoshopped file plus the 4x6, 5x7, 8x10 and the cellphone photo.

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Photo Collage Assignment

Due: 1st Collage Due: 1/24; 2nd Collage Due 1/31/15; 3rd Collage due 2/7; 4th Collage due 2/17; 5th is due 2/19.

NM Core Arts Standard: Creating

500 points – 100 points for each photo collage

Objective: Understand how to use Photoshop layers & layer masking to create photo collages.

Create five (5) photo collages from your original photographs. You cannot use images that you have not personally taken. The newly collaged image must be created with two or more photographs. Combine the photographs creatively following the principles and elements of art. The most interesting photo collages are ones that have a theme or message, or tell a story. You have to have/use at least one layer mask for this assignment.

Basic procedures: In Photoshop open a new file with the following settings: 8x10 or 10x8 inches or larger, resolution 300ppi, color mode RGB 8 bit, background: white or transparent. Name your image: initials_photocollage_1.psd, i.e., pjh_photocollage_1.psd. Save the images to a folder named photo collage in your assignments folder. Also, put a copy of the originals that you used for the collage in the same folder.

You should have a folder for each collage with a copy of the originals and the collage. Now open the two or three photos that you want to combine. Do a "command A" to select all, "command C" to copy, and "command V" to paste the photo into the other photograph or new file. NOTE: Unless all the images are the same resolution you may have issues with pixelation. Once a new layer is added you may need to scale the layer bigger or smaller. Go to edit => transform=> scale, press and hold the shift key to keep the layer in correct proportion. You can use the move tool to move layers around. You need to use layer masks to cut out areas of a photograph that you don’t want to show. I will demonstrate in class or go to Adobe TV to view the video tutorial. This technique allows you to make infinite adjustments to the photograph layer later, if needed.

DO NOT use the eraser tool to erase parts of your image!! You can use the "layer opacity" to get the desired visual interaction between the layers. You can use the adjustment layers at any time to enhance the new image. Make sure you save your new file as a Photoshop .psd file, NOT A .JPG FILE. You want to be able to make adjustments later. If your jpeg the image you will lose your layers forever.

Click on this link to get background info on Layer masking: Compositing Tutorial video .

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Best 5 Photos

Due 1/8/2020

250 Points

NM Visual Arts Standards 1 & 4

Objective: Understand how to select/edit your best photographs.

Create an new folder named: "Your Name Best 5". Select five of your best photographs that you made during the 1st semester or took over Winter Break. If you are using photos that you've already turned in, duplicate the photo then move it to you 2nd semester assignments folder. If you are using a new photograph, duplicate it, then move it to your assignments folder.

Photoshop both images to make them look great. Save your photos as Photoshop files - .psd. Don't just type in psd!!!! Do a file -> save as -> select photoshop (it's the top selection).

Name your photos First Name Last Name B1-B5 original #.psd, example: Jane Doe_B1_2367.psd; Jane Doe_B2_1234.psd.

Your photos should be in focus, well composed, interesting! I will be grading by the photo grading rubric.

This assignment is for selecting entries for the APS Fine Arts' Metro Show. I have to make selections this week as the deadline is next week. Late assignments will be graded of course, but won't be eligible for entry into the show. Not all students will have work selected, most won't. Only the best images will be selected.Best 5 Photos

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Composition Project

Due: 1st 6 photos due 11/6

2nd 6 due: 11/13

3rd 6 due: 11/18

Last 6 due 11/25

960 points, (40 points per image x 24 images)

Standards: NM Visual Arts Standard Three; NM Visual Arts Standard One

CCSSI ELA Standards: RI 9-12: 1, 2. 3. 4; WHST 9-12: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

After reviewing the Ps&Es and photography concepts in chapters 8 & 9 in the Digital Photography Short Course book make the following photographs. When photographing each image remember to pause and look in the viewfinder and make a concerted effort to carefully compose your scene. Crop in the camera, either move closer/farther away to your subject, or use the zoom on your lens to get the best composition for the strongest image. Use Photoshop to improve your photographs. But don't just add a filter to make it different! Photoshop it to make it a better photograph. You must photograph new images, no more than five photographs taken before the start of the school year. Reminder: name your files as shown below, where xxx are your initials, then what it is pwl (painting with light) 2365 (original file number) and save as a .psd OR .tif . DO NOT TYPE .psd or .tif!!! Make sure you are doing a "save as" and make sure show file extension is on!

Turn in a total of 24 images of the following:

1. Shadows: yours, friends, action or interesting (two images). Name like this: xxx_shad_1&2_2367.psd

2. Time and Motion (two images). Name: xxx_tm_1&2_2312.psd

3. Painting with Light (two images). Name: xxx_pwl_1&2_7654.psd

4. Abstract photographs (two images). Name: xxx_abs_1&2_3289.psd

5. Reflections/Mirrors/Glass (two images). Name: xxx_ref_1&2_2314.psd

6. Textures (two images). Name: xxx_tex_1&2_9876.psd

7. Interesting Light (two images). Name: xxx_il_1&2_8787.psd Make sure it’s interesting light ON the Subject!!!! NOT a photo of the Light Source!!!! NO SUNSETS!!!

8. Night photography (two images). Name: xxx_np_1&2_8765.psd

9. People – Informal portraits, faces, close-ups of faces. (four images). Name: xxx_peeps_1-4_0876.psd

10. Your choice (four images). Name: xxx_yc_1-4_3652.psd

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Photographing and Processing in RAW

Due: 10/9

250 points, 50 points per image (5 RAW photos)

NM Visual Arts Standard Seven CCSS: SL 9-12; 4 & 5, (Speaking & Listening),

RST; 7, 9-12 (Integration of Knowledge), WHST 9-12, 1.A-E, 4

Objective: Understand photographing and processing RAW photos using Photoshop. Be able to answer this question: Why would you want to photograph in Raw mode?

After reading the RAW section in the Digital Photography Book (Chapter 4 page 79) and reviewing the "Raw Processing PDF" go out and photograph using the RAW setting on your camera. Make sure all photos turned in are well composed, in focus, properly exposed.

Procedure: Set your camera to RAW. This is in the “quality” setting on your camera. Click on the (i) button twice then toggle to the quality mode, then toggle to RAW only, always photograph with the large file size setting. Make your photographs paying attention to subject, composition, exposure, proper shutter speed, etc.

Place your photos in your photo archive. Each photo will have a file extension of .NEF if you use Nikon cameras or .ARW for Sony, .CR2 or .CRW for Canon and .ORF for Olympus cameras.

Select the best 5 photos, duplicate them and place them in a new folder named RAW assignment before you start to process the photographs. RENAME the PHOTO BEFORE you open it up!!! Example: pjh_RAW1_3423.NEF.

Open the 1st photo in Photoshop. It will open in Photoshop’s RAW processor. You have to make adjustments in this processor and then click on open image. You are now in the regular Photoshop work space. Make any adjustments that you want in Photoshop then save (save as) the photo as a PSD. You will have a total of ten photos plus the .xmp files in your folder: 5 NEF files and the corresponding PSD files, plus the XMP sidecar files from the RAW processing. The RAW file should look like this: pjh_RAW1_3423.NEF, the corresponding Photoshop file will look like this: pjh_RAW1_3423.psd. Remember you do not type in the file extension, you have to do a file->save as-> select Photoshop file format. I want the photographs to be well composed, have interesting subject and properly exposed and in the proper file format. You will have three files for each photo and they should be named correctly, example for the first photo: pjh_RAW1_3423.NEF, pjh_RAW1_3423.psd, pjh_RAW1_3423.xmp

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Manual Camera Operation

Assigned 9/22/2015

Objective: To understand how to make well-exposed photographs

Due: Sep. 30th

125 points, 25 points per photograph, 5 photographs

NM Visual Arts Standard One

CCSSI ELA Standards: RI 9-12: 1, 2. 3. 4

Using the class cameras, go out and photograph the school using "manual" exposure mode on the camera. You may use auto focus or manual focus. Remember you need to set and adjust three things to get a good exposure: ISO, aperture (f/stop), and the shutter. Make sure to check/set the camera image quality setting to FINE-LARGE. You should set the ISO first to the appropriate sensitivity for the light conditions, then the shutter and f/stop for the subject. A successfully exposed photograph should have detailed highlights, good contrast in the mid tones and some solid blacks. You should photograph more images than you need. Select the best-exposed photographs.

After making your photographs place the photos in your photo archive in a folder named by the date you photographed them: 9/23 for example. Select the best 5 and duplicate them (command d). Move the duplicates into your assignments folder and create a folder named manual camera op. Rename the 5 like this: "your initials_manual_(1-5)_original#.jpg So if I photographed the assignment my file names would look like this: pjh_manual_1_3245.jpg, pjh_manual_2_3255.jpg, and so on. DO NOT delete the original file # or file extension when you rename! DO NOT TYPE .jpg!!!! DO NOT use Photoshop to correct/crop the photograph. Turn in only un-manipulated photographs.

Although I am primarily grading for proper exposure — use of correct ISO/shutter/aperture, I will also look at proper focus.

Remember: Follow all school rules when out on a photo pass! You must have your ID out and showing. Do not disturb other classes. You have a 30-minute time limit, And you must be back in class 10 minutes before the end of class!

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Best 5 Assignment

Due 9/11

250 points

Select your Best 5 photographs taken for class or on your own. If you haven't yet Photoshopped them that is OK. We have a little time to Photoshop and print if selected for the APS Display.

Place them in a folder named Best 5. They can be jpegs, tiff or psd files.

Name your files: First name_last name_B5_1-5.

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Photography Research Paper

Assigned 08/26/2019

Photographer Profile/Biography

Objective: To understand photographic history and to incorporate literacy into our photography class

Due: Sep 9th, 2019

300 points

Your paper will be graded by this rubric.

NM Visual Arts Standard Three;

CCSSI ELA Standards: RI 9-12: 1, 2. 3. 4; WHST 9-12: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Write a 8-paragraph research paper on a photographer. The photographer must be selected from the list below.

The paper must include the person’s vital statistics like date of birth and death (if dead), where born, nationality, etc. Include personal information like their family, schooling, travels, etc., but no more than one paragraph for this information.

The bulk of the paper should be on the type of photography they shot/shoot; i.e., photojournalism, news, fine art, nature, sports, etc. Include one or two photographs produced by photographer (not of the photographer), embed the photograph into the Word or Google document.

At the end of the paper include (cite) your sources (bibliography): links (copy the url) for Internet sources. There has to be at least one non-internet source (a BOOK) used for this paper. Information for the non-internet source: Title of book/magazine, author, publisher and date, if a magazine article, add the title of article and pages. For internet resources you need to copy the url, type the name of the website and then the owner of the website.

Example for citing a book resource:

Title of the Book: The Life of a Photograph, Author: Sam Abell, Publisher: National Geographic/Focal Point, Year or Date: 2008

Example for citing an Internet resource:

URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/243936/first-drafts-how-sam-abell-makes-a-photograph/. Title/Name of the page: First Drafts: How Sam Abell Makes a Photograph. Website Publisher: The Atlantic. Date: 8/25/2017

DO NOT Plagiarize material (copy -> paste from your resources)! The writing must be in your own words. If you plagiarize you will be given an F for the assignment and have to select a different photographer and redo the assignment. You will also be referred to school administration, as plagiarism is against school rules.

Use the 8-paragraph paper format ­— Intro paragraph, six body paragraphs and one summary paragraph. Each paragraph should be five-to-eight sentences long. Set up your document with 1” margins all around and use 12-point type. Use Times Roman or Times New Roman for the font. Place your name, Photo I, period, grade level and “Research Paper – Photographers name” in the header on the right side (right justified). Need help understanding how to write a good paragraph click here.

Example:

Perry Heimer

Photo I

P5

10th Grade

Research Paper – Ansel Adams

Name your research paper file like this:

P5_last name_first name_photographer’s last name.docx

Example:

P5_heimer_perry_leibovitz.docx

When setting up your document make sure you use a regular font like Times Roman or Helvetica or similar fonts. Do Not use script style fonts. Use 11 or 12 point font size. Make sure you use left justify, do not center or right justify for the paragraph layout!

Do not just type in the file extension when doing a save, make sure the hide file extension box is unchecked when saving the document.

You may select one of the photographers from the following list:

Sam Abell

Ansel Adams

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Jodi Cobb

William Claxton

Imogen Cunningham

Edward Curtis

Walker Evans

Miguel Gandert

Betty Hahn

Yousuf Karsh

Annie Leibovitz

Eugene Smith

Dorothea Lange

Walter Iooss - Sports photographer

Neil Leifer - Sports photographer

Gordon Parks

Alfred Stieglitz

Edward Weston

Joyce Tennyson

Mary Ellen Mark

You may choose other other photographers if you can locate non-internet resources for their information. There are classroom-only books located on the bookshelf in the back of the class are for your use. The Books do not leave the classroom!! Please put the books back in alphabetical order. Thanks.

Students with IEP modifications please talk with me about your specific modifications for this assignment.

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Photo History

Due: Aug. 26

Standards: NM Visual Arts Standard Seven:

100 points

Objective: Learn and understand some history of photography.

Read, Study and take notes : Chapter 10, A Short Course in Digital Photography, pages 172-203. I will give you a PDF of the chapter and you may use the textbook in class. Textbooks do not leave the classroom and must be put back in correct order every day.

Create one test question for each section that you would ask on a test to check understanding of the information.

You will be tested on this chapter, so take notes.

Make a separate document for your notes and test questions. Save your test questions to your assignments folder. You must type this on your computer — No hand written papers will be accepted. Name it your last name_first name_Ch10_test_Qs.docx.

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Set up Your Desktop

Due Aug 12th

1st:

Log in using your student ID and password. Try your password from last year if you were here or at an APS school.

2nd:

Open your Internet browser. Google manzanohighphoto2. Click on manzanohighphoto2. Now bookmark this page and make it your homepage.

3rd: Go to the launchpad and drag Word, Photoshop and Bridge to your dock.

4th: Create a folder with your first and last name Photo 1.

Inside that folder create four folders named: assignments, photo archive, photo resources, photo research paper.