links for everyone's blogs

Please take a look at each other's blogs each week.  Starting this week, I would like you to make one comment per week on one fellow student's blog.  This will help in learning to critique and talk about one another's work and also be a part of the participation for class.

Asia:
asbdigital.blogspot.com

Katelynn:
kdonahue1414.blogspot.com

Kayla:
hfuphotography.blogspot.com

Victoria:
vbispels.blogspot.com

Ed:
ecreamerdigitalphoto.blogspot.com

Tom:
tmandesedp.blogspot.com
http://tmandesedp2.blogspot.com/

http://tmandesedp3.blogspot.com/

http://tmandesedp4.blogspot.com/

http://tmandesedp5.blogspot.com/

Thursday, 10/31 class

1.  Upload all of your portrait photographs to your individual photo class blog.

When finished uploading, please save and "publish" your portraits.

2.  Write a very small "REFLECTIVE PAPER":  CRITIQUE YOUR WORK (add to your blog, please)

Choose you best photo and your worst photo and write a paragraph about each.  Give reasons why it is a good or bad shot and explain what you can remember about how you took the photo.

Note:  A good critique will point out strengths and weaknesses about a photo, incorporate information of how it was taken (camera type and settings if applicable) and personal feelings about the work.  Be sure to name the subject and other elements that are in your photo as you write.

3.  Please take a good look at the following examples of professional self-portraits:

 http://digital-photography-school.com/18-stunning-self-portraits

4. Portraits by famous artists:

 http://www.vintag.es/2012/03/interesting-photos-of-famous.html

5.  And good tips for portraits:

http://digital-photography-school.com/self-portrait-photography-tips

Film questions

On Annie Leibovitz film:

* What type of photographer is Annie Leibovitz?
(what kind do you think she is based on the film and your readings in Ang text book?)

* What was her first job as a photographer?

* Name a famous band she photographed.

* Name 3 other famous people she has worked with?
(other than the band you named in the last question)

* What do you think is important about the type of work/kind of photography Annie Leibovitz does?
(name anything you can think of)

In class exercises

In class, until our guest photographer is ready to speak to us (at about 7:30), please read and work on the following exercises in the Photoshop CS5 book:

*Use your most current homework photos from this week for the exercises (STREET PHOTOGRAPHY).  Choose which ones you will edit and choose a different one (or more) photo for each exercise, and post the before and after to your photo blog.  The point is that I want to see the work done on at least one photo (before and after) for EACH exercise below.

Beginning on page 205 (Chapter 13) in the Photoshop CS5 text book:

Correcting tonal values using a Levels adjustment layer (p. 206)

Applying a Brightness/Contrast adjustment (208)

Applying a Photo Filter adjustment (209)

Correcting over- or underexposure (210)

Dodging and burning small areas (211)

Converting layers to grayscale via a Black & White adjustment (212)

Applying a Vibrance adjustment (214)

Applying a Color Balance (217)

Applying a Hue/Saturation adjustment (219)

Finish and post as many exercises/photo edits as you can in our first hour of class today (10/17).