WEEK 5 DAY 4 - MODIFY and MERGE LAYERS with STOCK PHOTO IMAGES

WEEK 5 DAY 4 - MODIFY and MERGE LAYERS with STOCK PHOTO IMAGES

STEP 1: DOWNLOAD IMAGES
Go to Getty Images or some other stock image site and save to your hard drive 2 perspective images that you want to merge together, see sample in the AQW3M folder. oYou should have 2 new images saved in the Pictures Library on your laptop.

STEP 2: MERGE IMAGES
Open both saved stock photo images and using the MAGIC WAND, CLONE STAMP TOOL you will remove the background from one of the images and remove the watermark from the other.
Drag second image layer into the first image.
Take a screen snapshot of your image.

STEP 3: ADD TO SLIDE SHOW
Paste your modified stock image to a new slide of your WEEK 5.2 ADDITIONS
Title the slide CULMINATING TASK.

WEEK 5 DAY 3 - ADD COMPONENTS TO AN IMAGE

WEEK 5 DAY 3 - ADD COMPONENTS TO AN IMAGE

STEP 1: DOWNLOAD IMAGES
Go to photography folded in shared google drive. Download skull image and one other image from Friday's photo shoot. You should have 2 new images saved in the Pictures Library on your laptop.

STEP 2: MERGE IMAGES
Open skull image and using the MAGIC WAND TOOL you will remove the blue background from the skull image.
Open your second image and drag the skull layer into this image.
Save for web in your picture library.

STEP 3: ADD TO SLIDE SHOW
Add your modified image to a new slide show called WEEK 5.2 ADDITIONS
Add your yesterdays modified Getty Image to the slide show.

WEEK 5 - DAY 2 - Perspective Slide Show

Continue with yesterdays slide show and add one more slide with the following details:

NEW SLIDE:
- access GETTY IMAGES and select an image that represents one perspective, save image on hard drive
- open the Getty image in Photoshop and remove the trade mark

WEEK 5 - DAY 1 - Photographic Perspectives and Clone Stamping

WEEK 5 - DAY 1 - Photographic Perspectives and Clone Stamping

Using the images that were taken on Friday's photo shoot, perform the following activities.

LESSON:  An in class demonstration will be shown on how to use the clone stamp tool.


ACTIVITY 1: You are going to identify 4 different perspective images in the AWQ3M Week 5 folder.

STEP 1: Download your 4 chosen perspective images onto your laptop.

STEP 2: Create a slide show in your shared folder, include a title slide and your 4 perspective images, title each slide with the appropriate perspective descriptor.


ACTIVITY 2: You will be modifying your selected images using the clone stamping tool in Photoshop, you are going to remove at least 2 aspect of the each image.

STEP 1: Open your chosen image and using the MAGNIFIER, CLONE STAMP and POINTER tool you will be remove 2 aspects of your image.

STEP 2: Save your image using SAVE FOR WEB and upload it to your slide show on the appropriate slide. Include a description of what you removed on the slide.

EXEMPLAR: A sample of the slide show can be seen in AWQ3M folder.

WEEK 4 - DAY 5 - Photo Shoot Perspectives

WEEK 4 - DAY 5 - Photo Shoot Perspectives

To prepare for next weeks lesson you will be taking photos using as many photographic perspectives as possible.

Once you are satisfied with your images you can upload them to your google drive.

WEEK 4 - DAY 4 - Photographic Perspective

WEEK 4 - DAY 4 - Photographic Perspective

Today we are going to begin talking about photographic perspective. Click the following link to view examples of the following photographic perspectives.

• Linear
• Rectilinear
• False Perspective
• Vanishing Point Perspective
• Height Perspective
• Overlap Perspective
• Dwindling Size 
• Volume 
• Atmospheric 
• Birds Eye
• Worms Eye
• Forced Perspective

Photographic Perspective Blog

Tomorrow's photo shoot will be focusing on perspective.

ACTIVITY 1:

Create a slide show with 3 slides, 1 title, 1 descriptive slide and 1 sample, see example in shared folder.

WEEK 4 - DAY 3 - MASKS and COOKIE CUTTER TOOLS

WEEK 4 - DAY 3 - MASKS and COOKIE CUTTER TOOLS

ACTIVITY 1: Modifying Backgrounds using Mask

STEP 1: Use yesterday's Week 4 - Photographic Angles - Modifying Backgrounds slide show.

STEP 2: Create 2 new slides and title for each slide 1. MASK - Smart Tool - Mask 2. MASK - Cookie Cutter

STEP 3: Follow the in class demonstration to create the results shown in WEEK 4 slide show example in the shared Photography folder.

WEEK 4 - DAY 2 - ANGLES AND BACKGROUNDS

WEEK 4 - DAY 2 - ANGLES AND BACKGROUNDS

ACTIVITY 1: Modifying Backgrounds

STEP 1: Create a new Google Slide show, name it Week 4 - Photographic Angles - Modifying Backgrounds. Create a title slide and paste the 3 images from the photos you took of the class yesterday, one image per slide. You should have 4 slides.

STEP 2: The title for each image should reflect the Photoshop modification you will be making. 1. Soften Background - 2. Harden Background - 3. Blur Background


STEP 3: Open each of the images in Photoshop Elements - convert the background to a layer - duplicate the layer. You should have 2 layers per image.

STEP 4: On the top layer use the EFFECTS menu to create a soften affect to the layer.

STEP 5: With the top layer active, use the ERASER tool to erase the person in your image so that the bottom layer is showing through.

NEW SKILL: Eraser tool

STEP 6: Do a SAVE FOR WEB version of the image, then include it in your slide show along with the original image. See sample in shared photography folder.

STEP 7 etc.: Perform steps 4 to 6 for the remaining 2 images, one image should have a harden affect the other a blurred effect.

WEEK 4 - DAY 1 - Photo Shoot - Mood-emotion-angles

WEEK 4 - DAY 1 - Photo Shoot - Mood-Emotion-Angles

Today we will be visiting classrooms to take photos of students concentrating on their studies.

Once we arrive back at the classroom upload the images to your Google drive in your folder.

WEEK 3 - DAY 5 - Work Period

Work Period

Complete your 2 week 3 slide show and save to shared folder.

WEEK 3 - DAY 4 - Emotional Imagery

WEEK 3 - DAY 4  - Emotional Imagery

ACTIVITY 2:

STEP 1: In today’s saturated media world, photographs capture how our mind’s freeze a significant moment, we can make an emotional connection to an image. Go to the following site and select 3 images you feel tell a story, save the images on your hard drive.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/14/40-captivating-photos-that-depict-human-emotion/

STEP 1: Insert them in a new Google Slide show, name it Week 3 - Photo Emotion. Create a title slide and paste the 3 images, one image per slide, you selected in the slide show. You should have 4 slides.

STEP 2: The title for each image should reflect the emotion conveyed and a description of what you suspect the subject is thinking.


STEP 3: Open each of the images in Photoshop Elements and use the [CNTL] U and [CNTL] L to change the image to exaggerate some of the features of the image. 

STEP 4: Use the TEXT tool in Photoshop to include a description of image.

WEEK 3 - DAY 3 - Power of the Image

ACTIVITY 1 - Photoshop Elements Modify LEVELS 

STEP 1 - SLIDE 5 (WEEK 3 Slide Show): Open one of the images you took during the rebirth photoshop, it should be an image with one major colour and muted background.

STEP 2 - Screen Snap: In Photoshop Elements press [CNTL] L to modify the images tonal levels. Take a screen snapshot of the Photoshop levels you changed. Paste the screen snap into the Slide 5 files.

STEP 3 Original Image: Include the original image in Slide 5 as well.

POWER OF IMAGES

The photo director for National Geographic, David Griffin speaks in this Ted Talk about the power of photography to connect us to our world. In a talk filled with glorious images, he talks about how we all use photos to tell our stories.

Click the following link to watch and listen to David Griffin’s photo essay of storytelling and connection.

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_griffin_on_how_photography_connects?language=en

WEEK 3 - DAY 2 Tonal Photography

WEEK 3 - DAY 2 Tonal Photography

Refer to the handout in class or yesterday's blog post to continue the WEEK 3 Activity on Tonal Photography.

WEEK 3 - DAY 1 - CONTRAST - LIGHT and SHADOW

WEEK 3 - DAY 1 - CONTRAST - LIGHT and SHADOW

Removing colour from a photograph or shooting a black and white can give the photograph the following affects:

-          Allow the eye to “read” black and white

-          Add drama and impact to a composition

-          Give a sense of timelessness

-          Simply the subject

Contrast in photographic composition focuses the viewer's attention to the center of interest. Positioning of subject elements to create contrast gives them added emphasis and directs the viewer's attention.

TONAL CONTRAST:

In black-and-white photography, contrast is the difference in subject tones from white-to-gray-to-black or from the lightest tone to the darkest tone. In color photography different colors can create contrast, that is another lesson.

HIGH and LOW CONTRAST: In black-and-white photography, high contrast (few mid-tones) conveys a hard edge and delivers a more severe message. Low contrast (mostly mid-tones) conveys a softer and gentler message.

Activity 1 WEEK 3 SLIDE SHOW: (see AWQ4M folder for sample)

Using 3 photographs you took on the Friday re-birth photoshoot. Focus on images with high tonal contrast. Include 1 image of tonal photography from the Internet.

STEP 1: Create a slide show and rename it WEEK 3 – TONE and CONTRAST. Create the Title slide with a tonal image you downloaded from the Internet.

STEP 2: Open the 3 images you selected from Friday’s photoshoot. Open them in Photoshop Elements.

STEP 3: IMAGE 1 - ADJUST COLOUR HIGH CONTRAST – Press [CNTL] U to adjust the HUE – SATURATION – LIGHTNESS  of your image until you have a high contrast photograph. Take a screen snapshot of the HUE Photoshop levels you changed. 

SKILL 1: Use Photoshop’s colour adjustment – CNTL U

STEP 4: SLIDE 2- Paste your HUE/SATURATION window snapshot into SLIDE 2 of your Week 3 slideshow. Make sure your snapshot includes the modified image. Insert the original image on the slide as well.

STEP 5: IMAGE 2 - ADJUST COLOUR LOW CONTRAST – Press [CNTL] U to adjust the HUE – SATURATION – LIGHTNESS  of your image until you have a low contrast photograph. Take a screen snapshot of the HUE Photoshop levels you changed.

STEP 6: SLIDE 3 - Paste your HUE/SATURATION window snapshot into SLIDE 3 of your Week 3 slideshow. Make sure your snapshot includes the modified image. Insert the original image on the slide as well.

STEP 7: IMAGE 3 - USE EFFECTS Panel to the right top of the page to create a high contrast image.

SKILL 2: Use “Effects” panel to modify image. Save image under a different name and put both images in SLIDE .

STEP 8: SLIDE 4 - Paste your USE EFFECTS modified image into slide 4, also include original image.

WEEK 2 - DAY 4

WEEK 2 - DAY 4

Field Trip Location: Theater Aquarius meet at the Fertility Sculpture, then down Ferguson Street

Content Theme: Rebirth

Photographic Theme: Light and Shadow - High Contrast Subject

WEEK 2 - DAY 3 Colour

COLOUR CONTINUED... Describing Colors

HSB

Even though we can see colors accurately, it is very difficult to describe them without a reference point to relate them to. That is what color measurement is designed to do

To accurately describe colors for color matching, especially when we delve into the world of digital imaging and color management, we need a more reliable method. In order to describe a specific color, we need to break it down into three elements:

• Hue is the actual color. It is measured in angular degrees counter-clockwise around the cone starting and ending at red = 0 or 360 (so yellow = 60, green = 120, etc.).

• Saturation is the purity of the color, measured in percent from the center of the cone (0) to the surface (100). At 0% saturation, hue is meaningless.

• Brightness is measured in percent from black (0) to white (100). At 0% brightness, both hue and saturation are meaningless.

By using these three measurements, any color can be described so that it can then be recreated accurately throughout an imaging system. An understanding of these measurements will help you to understand the relationships between the colors in the scene that you are photographing and how these will be reproduced in the final image.

RBG

This is the scheme that you will use most often when you are dealing with colors on a computer monitor—in graphics packages, in programming, or in Web pages. RGB describes colored light which is viewed coming from its source (colored light bulbs in a theater, the colors of a video display, or reflection from a white object). It is called an additive color system, since you add light from the primary colors to make new colors.

The values for red, green, and blue commonly use a scale or measurement from 0–255. All modern video cards, which are capable of 16M colors, use one byte each (per pixel) for the R, G, and B values, so the 0–255, higher numbers mean more of each color of light. 

ACTIVITY 1

STEP 1: Using the photographs you took on your Hamilton Market field trip, select 3 images, each image should:
- feature one main chromatic colour
- establish the rate of saturation in the colour, i.e. how much black, gray or white is in the mix
- establish the colour luminance, i.e. how much light is emitted from the colour 
- establish the RGB values from 0 to 255

STEP 2: GET COLOUR VALUES: You will do this by opening your image in Photoshop Element and using the eyedropper tool to get a colour read. 
SKILL 1: OPEN PHOTOSHOP FILE: Select Photoshop Elements option from the START menu, use the EDIT option to open a image.
SKILL 2: PHOTOSHOP EYE DROPPER TOOL: One the left hand side of the Photopshop workspace, you will a tool bar,
SKILL 3: SCREEN SNAPSHOT: You can take a snaphot of the Photoshop colour chart, you can do this by [Alt] + [PrtSc] then paste into your slide show.
SKILL 4: CROP TOOL in GOOGLE SLIDES: You will need to use the CROP tool in Google Slides as well to remove parts of your screen snapshot.

STEP 3: Using the WEEK 2 Google slide show you created yesterday add 3 new pages. On each page include the image you selected with the RGB and HSB colour features described, feel free to use your screen snapshots to do this.

WEEK 2 - DAY 2 - Colour and Light

WEEK 2 - DAY 2 - Colour and Light

Light

Much of our knowledge about light derives from experiments that the scientist Sir Isaac Newton (1643–1727) carried out in the 17th century.

He demonstrated that daylight can be split into a series of colors. This sequence of colors—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet—is known as the chromatic color sequence. Colors that are not part of this sequence, such as beige or burgundy, are known as nonchromatic colors.

CHROMATIC COLOUR SEQUENCE: ROYGBIV

Why Objects Appear  Colored

When we see an object lit by white light, its color is due to the object absorbing some colors and reflecting (or transmitting) others. For example, green foliage appears to be green because it contains pigments that absorb blue and red light and reflect only green light. It is a similar story when the light is viewed through an object, such as a photographic filter. You only see the part of the spectrum that is allowed through. For example, a blue filter blocks red and green light, and allows only the blue part of the spectrum through.

Measuring Colors

Human vision is very good at recognizing the differences between two colors seen side by side. However, it is a different story when it comes to accurately describing individual colors to someone else.

While our eyes cannot see ultraviolet or infrared radiation, these can have an effect on the image produced by both digital sensors and film. In most circumstances, it is undesirable for the image to register radiation outside of the visible spectrum.



The nature of light itself is still the subject of much speculation. Current theories explain light by giving it the properties of both waves and particles. We will deal primarily with the wave theory; this explains the aspects of light, such as wavelength and frequency, that concern us in color photography.

Light Waves

Light waves are the visible part of a much larger group of waves known as the electromagnetic spectrum, which includes X-rays and radio waves. The  range that is present in daylight is shown below. This ranges from the short-wavelength ultraviolet to the longer-wavelength infrared, with the visible portion in between.

ACTIVITY 1

STEP 1: Using the crystal and a light source take at least 3 images of the chromatic colour, i.e rainbow that you get when you sign a flashlight into the crystal.

STEP 2: Create a Google slide show titled WEEK 2 - Colour, and create your first slide with the image you took of the chroma colour light split and a description of the image. 

SUGGESTION: Access the you tube video using "mandelbrot set" as a search to show light images, you can take images of the screen as a substitution for the crystal images. 

WEEK 2 - DAY 1 - Creative Process Summary

WEEK 1 - REVIEW

ACTIVITY 1

Using the Google slide file you created last week in your school email Google drive account, add the following slides:

SLIDE 1:
Title - Workings of the Brain    
Content - Answers from the "Jill Bolte Taylor" Ted Talk
Image - One of the brain image's from the AWQ4M folder

SLIDE 2:
Title - What Can Creativity Do
Content - Include 5 items from the list of 13 that were covered in the OCAD short film
Image - Search the Internet for at least 2 images that you think are visually representative of the 5 items you selected.

SLIDE 3:
Title - WHAT DO I THINK?
Content - Include at least 2 comments on what you thought of the subject matter last week.
Image - include at least 1 image that visually represents your thoughts, search the Internet for an appropriate image.

HAND IN: Once complete drag your slide into the folder you shared with me. I will check to make certain I can see it in my shared folder. 

WEEK 1 - DAY 4 - Field Trip

WEEK 1 - DAY 4 - Field Trip

FIELD TRIP - The subject focus for today's field trip is Easter. The photographic focus for today's field trip is colour.

PHOTOS - You will be taking at least 5 good quality photos you can use in next weeks lessons and assignments on colour.