Photo History Rap

Post the Lyrics to your rap.
Post a link to your stop motion video
It should be 30 seconds long with titles and credits and music!!

Portrait of a classmate

Take a portrait of a class mate that shows the viewer something interesting about that person

Portrait Lighting Trial

Post the 9 images from class that show all of the different lighting that we looked at.

Portrait Research

Portrait Research

Find a photographer who's work that you like.Like the one above by montreal photographer Neil Mota. Post at least one of their images, and explain what it is that you like about their work. It is the light the way that people are posed? is it the composition?

Award winning stop-motion: Do It Again - Stick figure - Video Dailymotion

Award winning stop-motion: Do It Again - Stick figure - Video Dailymotion

Class Today September 23rd!!!

We will meet in the Photo Studio 1G7 today!!

Slow shutter speed with flash

Using a slow shutter speed combined with your flash can create more depth and interest in your background

There should be as little light on your subject as possible. this will make your focus better. Fix your focus on your subject, by pressing half way down on your shutter. make sure that you have some ambient light in your background. Your shutter speed ,if you can control it, should be slow. The speed that you choose will be  dependent on how bright the light is in your background. If you move your camera during the exposure. You can create some interesting streaks and light patterns.

 If the is a subject that is moving through your frame lock your focus on the subject and follow the subject through the frame. This is called Panning your subject should be in focus and your background should be blurred.

Planet Panorama!!

Two different versions of the planet panorama. these are done by using a 360 degree panoramic photo merging all together in photoshop.  The "planet effect is created by first flipping the merged image 180 degrees, then constraining the proportions to make a square. Go to Image, resize the make sure that the constrain proportions box in unchecked. make the width the same as the height. You then go to Filter  in Photoshop Elements go to distort then to rectangular to polar. and there you are!

Panoramic Photography

Panoramic photo of the Olga mountain range in Uluru Central Australia

We will be using at least 10 images to create our panoramic images. Remember when you are shooting you should use your camera vertically instead of horizontally. 10 horizontal images would create an extremely long and narrow image. 10 vertical images will line up better.Remember to first frame the area that is going to be tallest in your frame , so that you don't end up cropping it out of your final image. Remember as you are shooting to overlap your images by at least 30% as Photoshop Elements need this information to merge the final result together.

Speeding Water droplets!!

Capture of a speeding water droplet with a shutter speed of 1/500th of a second
by photo student Ariane

Self Portrait

Self portrait of Photographer Irving Penn

Painting with Light

Painting with Light

To create this image we are using light to make shapes and forms, to paint a picture. in order to capture the motion of the small light sources that we are using, we need to use a slow shutter speed. because we want the shutter speed to be as long as possible, we need to make sure that we choose a low ISO setting as well closed down aperture( large number).

Today we shoot!!

Bring your cameras to class today September 13th!!

Class will meet to do photograms in 1G14 September 6

This will be the last time that we will be meeting to do Photograms so you need to be there!! Also please don't be late when the lights go off you will not be able to enter the room!

Photograms Today!!

Don't forget that we meet for today's class (August 30th) in room 1G-14!!!