Advanced Photoshop Techniques - Student Led Teaching

Today we will begin the student led photoshop sessions....who wants to go first?

Edit and Post the Ozark Square Pictures

Download, Edit, and Post the Ozark Square Pictures from the field trip.

De-saturate and Adjust Levels to get the best possible  image. 

Use the Crop and Clone Tools to further improve the images if needed.

Your pictures should include:

3 City Scenes
3 Architectural Details - either Close ups or Textures

If you have good shots of any of the following then you should post them also
Shadows
reflections
People - Environmental portraits
Animals
Plants or Nature

Technical Challenge - Freeze Action with Deep Depth of Field

Challenge your skills by taking a picture that Freezes Action but also has Deep Depth of Field. Do this while not underexposing the image.

Post the picture and write down the settings you used.

SS 1/500

F 22

ISO 800

Hands and Dramatic Lighting

Today you will take a creative photograph of hands.

Use dramatic lighting setup to get lots of close up detail.

Pose the  hands in interesting positions. 

You can have 1, 2, 3, or as many hands in the picture as you want.

The hands can hold something or be doing some activity.

Focus on the hands only! 

Make sure that the background is either black or white..not distracting.

You can use deep or shallow depth of Field.

Free Photo Friday

Its abeautiful day so go out and take pictures.


How much do you remember from Photo 1?

You must have the following

1 Freezing Action - 

1 Motion Blur

1 Shallow Depth of Field

1 Deep Depth of Field

All photos must be in B&W with Levels Adjusted

Exposure Bracketing

To  be confident that tyou have captured the correct exposure in a film camerea, use the following technique:

Exposure Bracketing - Find the settings that you feel would give you the best range of values, shadows, midtones, and highlights.

For example, ASA 400, 1/60,f 8

Then take a picture using f 5.6 and f 11

Take 3 pictures and bracket each one. You will have a total of 9 pictures to post to your blog. Include the settings for each picture.

Find Correct Exposure Settings - Post to your blog

Next week we will begin to work with actual film, but first we need to find the correct settings to use with the new type of camera. 

So today we will go out and take 10 pictures with the digital camera. 

 Using all of the knowledge that you gained from photo 1, choose the correct shutter speed and aperture to take well composed, properly exposed pictures, using ISO 400.

Upload the 10 pictures to your blog with the exposure settings for each picture.

When we start using the film cameras you will take the same pictures using the same settings.

Example:

ISO 400
Shutter Speed 1/60

Aperture f 5.6