Sunday is World Pinhole Day!!!

Perfect timing! Let's test the cameras today and take some pinhole photos on Sunday.
http://www.pinholeday.org/

Anyone, anywhere in the world, who makes a pinhole photograph on the last Sunday in April, can scan it and upload it to this website where it will become part of the annual Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day celebration's online gallery.

Pinhole Day April 24, 2016

Photo 9 Check List

  See specific blog posts relating to each assignment for details and instructions:

1. Summer photo and reflection.
2. Ashli Akins/Mosqoy- Response/Reflection
3. Elements of Design- LINE: Contact sheet 20+, 1 best, and reflection. 
4. Elements of Design- SHAPE: Contact sheet 20+ photos, best, and reflection. 
5. Elements of Design- FORM/PORTRAITS: Contact sheet 10+ best, and reflection.
6. Elements of Design- TEXTURE: Contact sheet 20+, 1 best, and reflection. 
7. Elements of Design- COLOUR: Contact sheet 20+, 3 bests warm/cool/mixed, definition, and reflection. 
8. Cherry Blossoms (Could be included for Colour assignment).
9. Cartoon Portrait- posted to blog.
10. Pin Hole Camera research.

Photo 10 Check List

1. Summer photo and reflection
2. Elements of Design- contact sheet, bests, identification and reflection
3. Breaking the Rules of Horizons- contact sheet, bests, identification and reflection
4. Cartoon Portrait- posted
5. Solarography research and 1st example posted to your blog. 
6.  Cherry Blossoms

Touching-up Portraits Using Photoshop

Use a photo of your self that you have taken already, but if you must, you can go out and take a photo of some one in class.
You are going to learn more basic Photoshop tools:

• Patch Tool
• Clone Tool
• Dodge and Burn Tool
• Eye Dropper and Air Brushing
• Cut and Paste (we are going to change the background)

Check out acouple of tutorials:
How to Brighten Eyes
How to touch up portraits- use the patch tool, clone tool,
Or view a tutorial to make a photo into a studio portrait

Arts Matter: Ashli Akins Reflections

Create a new post on your blog titled "Ashli Akins" and respond to the following questions:

Ashli Akins
1. Who is Ashli, what has she done/accomplished?
2. What part of Ashli's story has resonated with you?
3. Find an image of Ashli's on her website www.mosqoy.org or "Google" that helps tell Ashli's story and post it with your responses.

Making a Contact Sheet with Adobe Bridge

We are going to learn how to use Adobe Bridge to select, rename and organize your photos into a contact sheet. Bridge has many functions such as batch rename and other utilities to help with organization, and supports editing of digital images in Camera Raw format. Organizational features include assigning colored labels or star ratings to images. And can recognize a variety of file types. Here is a tutorial to clarify: http://youtu.be/6m9nBwiskAQ you only need to watch the first 2:20 mins. Don't change the spacing and keep "file name" turned on.

1. Open Adobe Bridge
2. Open the file that holds your photos.
3. Right click RENAME the photos by the technique you used.
4. Select the images you want to add to your contact sheet SHIFT click or CTRL click on the photos.
5. Select "OUTPUT" under the top tool bar.



6. Go to the Output window on the right of your screen (sometimes it will take a minute to appear).
7. Select PDF instead of WEB GALLERY.
8. Under the TEMPLATE option, select CONTACT SHEET (4*5=20 photos or 5*7=35 photos)
9. Scroll to the very bottom of the Output window to where it says SAVE.
10. Before you press save, check the "VIEW PDF AFTER SAVE"
11. Once the PDF opens, FILE>SAVE AS>
12. Type the assignment name i.e "My Line Contact Sheet" or "Element of Design Contact".

 If you want to upload your contact sheet to your blog-

1. Open the PDF, 
2. FILE>"SAVE AS"
3. SAVE AS "TYPE": Select "JPG"
4. Make sure you select where you are going to save it to (your personal saving space your student #).
5. Then press SAVE.
6. Post to your blog as you would post an image.

My Favourite Photo

Mitanya Primary School in Nanyuki Kenya

This is my other favourite photo because...