First Photoshop Practice

Yearbook :

 Newspaper :

 Web :

Photoshop Notes

Save as- Rename your image, make sure the image is saved as a .jpg at the highest (maximum) image quality
Save:
Nestle: Tools are stacked on each other- to access those tools you have to left lick and hold

USE COMMAND KEYS!

Command + = zoom in
Command - = zoom out
Command o = open
Command c = copy
Command v = paste
Command z = undo
Command, option, z = step backward
Command s = save
Command p = print
Command I = levels

To turn an image go to

>Image>Image Rotation
CW and CCW

Adjusting Contrast
Channel RGB-

How to crop
Select the cropping tool and then click and drag the area you want to crop. Before you crop, you must enter the resolution you want your image to be saved to.
Resolution Guidelines:
Yearbook = 300
Newspaper = 150
Web = 72

To make an image black and white
Use Grayscale
Image > Mode > Grayscale

My Best Portrait

Best magazine covers 2013

Favorite:

(April 30, 1965)

The fetus became widely recognized after LIFE published Linnart Nilsson's photograph of an 18-week-old fetus inside the womb on its April 30, 1965 cover. Swedish photographer Nilsson used an endoscope with an electronic flash to capture both the cover picture and pictures appearing inside the magazine to chronicle the beginning of human life. These pictures are part of Nilsson's book, "A Child Is Born," which sold eight million copies in the first four days after publication.

I like this picture because it has to do with babies and its amazing how they are created. When I think how an egg and sperm make a human it is unbelievable because it becomes a human and it grows pretty big in a womb and after they are born they don't stop growing. The exposure in this image is pretty dark but at the same time you can still see the image. 

Magazine Essential Parts #1

Masthead (logo) - Name of the magazine
Dateline- Month of cover magazine released
Main image- the picture of the person or object
Model credit- Complements of the main image
Coverlines- Lines that are on the cover
Main cover line- Words that are very large and take some cover space
Left third- Other comments about other stores
Bar code- Used by retailers
Selling line- Titles main marketing point

Fixed Portrait Shoot

ISO: 100

Aperture: 5.0

Shutter Speed: 1/100

ISO:400

Aperture: 3.2

Shutter Speed: 1/8

 ISO:800
Aperture: 6.0
Shutter Speed:1/00

 ISO: 1600
Aperture: 5.0
Shutter Speed: 1/00

 ISO:3200
Aperture: 5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/30

1. The best ISO setting for my portraits was 100.
2. My best picture would have to be my first one because its clear and you can see the model even though its dark.
3. Yes I was able to create equivalent exposure by changing the aperture and shutter speed.
4. When the ISO's are different I can still take a clear picture by changing aperture and shutter speed.

Year in Review: 2013

 The emotion seems very powerful even though you can't see the person face.

Its rules for this is simplicity because the person stands out in the middle.

The exposure quality of this image is a little bit dark.

 There is a lot of emotion with the kid and the people who are cleaning the windows.

The rules for this picture is balance because of the three people.

In this picture there isn't bright lighting.

There isn't any emotion to this image because there isn't any people.

The rules for this image would be lines.

The exposure quality is really good because you can see everything clearly.

Pt. 2

1. My favorite song was Mine by Beyonce 

2. The best movie was The Impossible 

3. The booming in Boston

4. My niece Ellie that was born December 21. 2013

Pt.3 

1. Something that happened during my holiday was my niece coming into this world.

2. Loosing weight and making better decisions

3. In 2014 I'm looking forward to turn 18!

Self Portrait and Portraits

Step 1: "Place a mirror just behind the camera, and do your final posing in the mirror." 
            "A mirror or some other reflective surface offers an even easier way to take a self-portrait."

Step 2: Environmental Portrait
            I picked these images because they are both like a sepia color.

Step 3: Casual Portrait

            I picked these pictures because they are casual

Step 4: Formal Portrait

           I picked these images because they were formal

Step 5: Photography Self Portrait

           I picked these pictures because they are good pictures of a single person

Plan: I will be taking pictures of Josef. I will be shooting in school, and maybe outdoors. I will practice at school.

Rules of Photography Part 2

1. Rule of thirds

2. Balancing Elements

3. Leading Lines

4. Symmetry and Patterns

5. Viewpoint

6. Background

7. Create depth

8. Framing

9. Cropping

10. Mergers and avoiding them

Aperture, ISO, Shutter Speed

F2.8

F16

1. The human eye
2. The smaller the Aperture the larger f-stop, the higher Aperture the smaller the f-stop is
3. It shows the images sharpness.

High shutter speed

Slow shutter speed

a.)the dunking booth

   fast

b.)the food eating contest

   medium

c.)the rock climbing wall 

   slow

d.)someone working at a booth

   slow

e.)the DJ/MC working at the middle of the circle

   medium

f.)the Diamonds performance

  fast

a.)the dunking booth

   slow

b.)the food eating contest

   fast

c.)the rock climbing wall

   fast 

d.)someone working at a booth 

   medium

e.)the DJ/MC working at the middle of the circle

   slow
f.)the Diamonds performance
   slow

2. Aperture Priority, Shutter priority, and Manual

ISO 200

ISO 6400

1.  The light that will be around
2. When there is enough light use low ISO because it retains the most detail and to have the highest image quality.
3. Use high ISO when there isn't enough light

• F4- 1/125 sec
• F5.6- 1/60 sec
• F8- 1/60 sec
• F11- 1/60 sec
• F16- 1/30 sec
• F22- 1/8 sec

Caption Writing 5 Ws and H

1. Joey Gray kisses Beth Gonzalez on Fridy at 2:30 p.m. in Times Square in New York City. Gray excitedly grabbed Gonzalez when the news was announced that the allies had defeated the Nazis, ending World War II.
2. Four US troops raised the American flag on 1945 in the top of Mount Suribachi. They picked the flag up powerfully with their strong arms because of World War II.
3. Mary Ann Vecchio screams as Jeffrey Millers body is on the ground in Kent State University on 1970. 
4. Bill Iffrig was knocked down near the finish line on April 15. There was a bombing at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and over 100 people.
5. Children running from the site of napalm attack during Vietnamese war in 1972. The image is informing how bad the war was.

Africa and Mural

It is my favorite photo because of the background and it looks like there is a mother and baby giraffe. The trees are so beautiful around them. In my opinion the rule for this photo is framing. The trees is what is framing the giraffes.

1. The kind of camera that he used was a Pentax 67 with only two fixed lenses.
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3. His hopes for taking photos is to record a last testament to the wild animals and places there before they are destroyed by the hands of a man.
4. "Many pictures convey a rare sense of intimacy, as if Brandt knew the animals, had invited them to sit for his camera, and had a prime portraitist's intuition of character...as elegant as any arranged by Arnold Newman for his human high achievers"

1. I would include science experiments
2. Its very detailed, other students would probably care mostly about the editing
3. The advantages are that you can get good angels. The disadvantages are that you can zoom in as much.
4. The advantages are that the pictures can come out very clear and disadvantages are that you can't edit immediately
5. SLR cameras because they are more clear

Academic Shoot Reflection

1. Having a good background
2. Most likely focus, I just made sure that it was clear before I captured 
3. Probably get more students working on my pictures
4. Keeping my pictures clear
5. Lines would be the easiest 
6. Simplicity would be the hardest
7. The rule of third

Academics Shoot.

Framing

1. Somewhat good

2. Framing because of the wall

3. Yes it is clear

4. Get a better background

The Rule of Thirds 

1. Good

2. The rules of third

3. Kinda not the background

4. Made light better

Avoiding Mergers

1. It was okay

2. Avoiding Mergers

3. Yes its clear

4. The movement of the person

Balance

1. Good

2. Balance

3.Yes its clear

4. Be more far from the people

Simplicity

1. Really good

2. Simplicity

3. Yes its clear

4. Try to take the person the left off

Lines

1. Good

2. Lines

3. Yes its clear

4. Better focus

Academics Shoot Preview.

The Story
I think the story is that there are students working hard and together in a assignment that has to do with science.

Action and Emotion
The action and emotion in this image are two boys thinking hard in consrtuction.

Filling the frame
The frame is filled by outdoor stuff such as dirt and grass.

1. I picked this photo because its a nice capture of the girl getting ready to kick the ball.

2. Lines because there are lines on the stairs and on the field.

1. I could take photos like the ones I looked probably outside.

2. I would like to visit and take photos in science classrooms.

3. Make sure I'm taking pictures at good angels and make sure the focus right.

Elements of Art and Principles of Design

Line

Lines are marks made by a pointed tool: brush, pencil, pen, etc. Lines can vary in width, direction, curvature, length, or color.

I choose this image because the line on the ceiling are clear.

I picked this image because you can clearly see the lines.

Shape

Shapes are formed wherever the ends of a continuous line meet. Geometric shapes such as circles, triangles or squares have perfect, uniform measurements and don't often appear in nature. Organic shapes are associated with things from the natural world, like plants and animals.

I choose this picture because the shape of the place the people are in.

I picked this photo because it has a good shape on the rock.

Color 

Color wheels show the primary colors, secondary colors, and the tertiary (intermediate) colors. They also show the relationships between complementary colors across from each other, such as blue and orange; and analogous (similar or related) colors next to each other such as yellow, green, and blue. Black and white may be thought of as colors but, in fact, they are not. White light is the presence of all color; black is the absence of reflected light and therefore the absence of color.

I picked this photo because there are different colors on the painting.

I choose this image because it has different green colors.

Value (Tone) 

Value, or tone, refers to dark and light; the value scale refers to black and white with all gradations of gray in between. Value contrasts help us to see and understand a two-dimensional work of art.

I choose this image because it has dark colors.

I picked this photo because its black and white.

Form

Form describes objects that are three-dimensional, having length, width, and height.

I picked this picture because the people seem 3-D.

I choose this image because the green things are popping out.

Texture

Texture can be rough, bumpy, slick, scratchy, smooth, silky, soft, prickly--the list is endless. Texture refers to the surface quality, both simulated and actual, of artwork.

I choose this image because it seems very smooth.

I picked this picture because it looks bumpy.

Space

Space refers to distances or areas around, between, or within components of a piece. Space can be positive (white or light) or negative (black or dark), open or closed,shallow or deep, and two-dimensional or three-dimensional.

 I picked this image because there is space between all cans.

I choose this picture because the toothpicks are separated.

Balance

Balance is the comfortable or pleasing arrangement of things in art. There are three different types of balance: symmetrical, asymmetrical, and radial. The human figure is symmetrically balanced; the same on the left and right side. The tree is asymmetrically balanced; its branches are not distributed equally on each side, but their total weight is balanced left and right. The sun is an example of radial balance; all its rays are equal in length from the center.

I picked this image because it will still be the same if you fold it.

I choose this picture 

Contrast

Contrast is created by using elements that conflict with one another. Often, contrast is created using complementary colors or extremely light and dark values. Contrast creates interest in a piece and often draws the eye to certain areas. It is used to make a painting look interesting.

I picked this image because it has light and dark colors

I choose this photo because it draws attention in a certain place

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Emphasis

Emphasis in the focal area of an artwork gives it importance. An artist may stress some elements of the design over others. The eye of the viewer will focus on the area of emphasis or center of interest first, then take in the rest of the composition.

I picked this photo because the eye viewer is focused on the man

Movement

Movement in an artwork means the artist is taking viewers on a trip through the work by means of lines, edges, shapes, and colors often leading to the focal area. Movement is a visual flow through the composition. It can be the suggestion of motion in a design as you move from object to object by way of placement and position. Directional movement can be created with a value pattern. It is with the placement of dark and light areas that you can move your attention through the format.

I choose this photo because it has different shapes

I picked this photo because it has different colors and shapes

Pattern

Patterns are made in art when the same shapes or elements are repeated again and again. Pattern uses the elements of art in planned or random repetitions to enhance surfaces of paintings or sculptures.

I choose this image because it has patterns

I picked this picture because it has black and white patterns

Rhythm

Rhythm is the repetition of shapes, lines, and forms. Rhythm is a movement in which some elements recurs regularly. Like a dance, it will have a flow of objects that will seem to be like the beat of music.

I choose this image because the paint can look like it has a rhythm 

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Unity

Unity means that all elements in an artwork are in harmony. Unity brings together a composition with similar units. For example, if your composition was using wavy lines and organic shapes you would stay with those types of lines and not put in even one geometric shape.

I picked this image because it has different lines 

I choose this image because it has different lines on the sculptures