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.