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eDesign Decisions: Photo: Projects: Landscapes

A Photo Landscapes page for your Google Site
- with 3 edited landscape photos
- good lighting, framing, focus
- explain edits and What I Learned
Not close to nature? Urban Landscape Photography works: National Geographic examples
Where do you want to take your landscape photos for this assignment? Safety, permission, interesting features

Remember and use: Photo Composition Strategies
- Rule of Thirds, Center Composition, Leading Lines
- Balancing Elements, Symmetry, Patterns, Foreground Interest
- Viewpoint, Depth, Scale (Placing a Person)
- Cropping, Framing
- visual examples here: 10 Top Photography Composition Rules
- let's identify some strategies in these photos: Google Image Search on urban landscape photography
"How to take AMAZING PHOTOS with your MOBILE PHONE: LANDSCAPE" (first 5:17 of video)
- what is a favorite strategy from the video?
Some fun strategies for finding your shots: 9 Tips for Shooting Urban Landscape Photography
- what is a favorite strategy from the article?
Remember Phone Camera usage strategies!
- Tap for Focus and Exposure, then Adjust (usually lower) Exposure with slider, hold still with 2 hands, try different angles and lighting and positions, get many photos!
- Experiment with Camera app settings, and you can install other camera apps, such as Lightroom

Go to a safe, permitted location and get many more than 3 landscape photos
- use the strategies we reviewed above
Delete photos you obviously don't want before uploading
Upload your photos to a Google Photo album (signed into es-cat.org) at https://photos.google.com
- Add favorites to DMA Classes Share album on Google Photos (access by clicking on Sharing on the left)

Edit 3 of the photos to improve Lighting, Color, Cropping
- use Photopea: https://photopea.com
  1. Use the Layer menu, New Adjustment Layer menu, Levels... + Brightness/Contrast... + Exposure... and maybe Curves... if you want to be advanced about it
  2. Can also do Image menu, Adjustments menu, Shadows/Highlights... and other settings
  3. For all screenshots including File menu, Open... and File menu, Export As menu, JPG see the Slideshow
- or use Google Photos: https://photos.google.com
  1. Link: Lesson on Photographic Editing
  2. Video Tutorial: Editing Photos with Google Photos
  3. Make sure to Make a Copy of each before editing! Expand the Lighting and Color drop-down settings! Pop!
Add 3 original photos paired with the 3 edited versions on your Landscapes Google Site page
Describe the edits of each of the 3 photos - what adjustments did you make to Lighting, Color, Cropping?
In the What I Learned section at the bottom, describe photography techniques, camera techniques, and editing techniques you learned about doing this assignment.
Push Publish and copy the link to the page and add the link to your Google Classroom assignment and turn in.