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Tuesday 4/27 PhotoBucket day!

Narrative Photo People:  Upload photos to your blog in the order of your story.  ok, you are done! :) 

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PhotoJournalist Paper People:  Finish your paper.  Make sure you write down any websites that you used.  Then, email your paper to ecrouch@access.k12.wv.us  Make your name the SUBJECT! :)  ok, you are done!

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If you are done-----  please take a few minutes and set up a PhotoBucket account.  You can upload all of your photos (if you have them...or get them from your blog) on that site.  Try it out...its pretty nifty.  Once you have your photos uploaded to that site, you can post them to blogger. Click on SHARE and then copy the html code and post it to your blog that way. :)   There is also a way to post directly to blogger, but I've tried it a bunch of times and its only worked once.

Here is an example where I copied the html code and then pasted it into my Post. (Hint: you have to select the tab at the top of your post where it says Edit HTML..then paste the code.  Then click on Compose again to see it.)

ta-da!!  As you can see....it is HUGE!   This is the Original size. You have to click on it to see the whole photo.  BUT...you can resize it by clicking on it while you are typing your post.  You can make it Small, Medium, Large, or X-Large.

   See?  Here I made it small.

   Now its Medium!

  This is Large.

Finally, this is X-Large.  :)   

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Today.....

• Make a PhotoBucket account.
• Upload photos from this class to your PhotoBucket account. 
• Once you have uploaded some photos to PhotoBucket, make a post on your blog. 
• Include a photo where you have copied the HTML code from Photobucket and pasted it into your new post window.
• Resize the image to be small, medium, large, x-large, and original.  I don't care what order you go in. 

You will get 60 points for this post.  (10 pts for each resize, plus 10 points for creating a PhotoBucket account)

Spaced Out DUE by Friday

Make sure you have the Spaced Out assignment posted to your blog by Friday!!! I will be grading them during class on Friday.

REMINDERS for "Spaced Out"

Spaced Out Assignment Reminders:

You must incorporate at least 30 images into your photo collage construction.
You might want to check out the examples that I posted before spring break.

Check out Alex's.  She is already finished.

You may manipulate your images to best reflect the concepts described in this assignment.

You may be creative and adjust colors, etc in your photos.

To begin construction of your photo design, create a new blank page in Paint.NET that is 24" wide by 18" tall at 200 dpi (pixels/inch) resolution. NOTE: You have to change the dpi first and THEN put in the dimensions.  Also, make sure you change the dimensions in INCHES and not PIXELS!

Then, you will paste your image pieces onto this blank canvas to construct your image. Be warned! You will have to reduce the size of each piece-- they will be too large to fit all of them onto the blank page. You may want to shrink the size down before you copy and paste.  It won't take as long.

When you are happy with your collage, flatten all of your layers.  Save your work as a .jpg at the full size (ex: Space.jpg.). Then shrink the file down to 25% of the original size and save again, but make sure you change the title (ex: SpaceSMALL.jpg). Post the small version to your blog.

~welcome back~

Welcome back from Spring Break! I hope you enjoyed the time off. 

Today you will...

1.  Finish up your composite assignments if needed.
2.  Begin working on your "Spaced Out" assignment. Reread the last post before you begin.
3.  If you don't have any photos, you may ask Mrs. Crouch to see if you can go out and take photos today or we may go outside and around the school as a class.  Hopefully you have your camera! :)

sorry!

Hey guys. Sorry that I can't be there today. I'm sick. :( You wouldn't want to see me....I look like Rudolph!

Load your portraits today if you can. Alex can go get the card reader from Mrs. Cole.

I left the USB stick with the sub.

You can play around with your portraits on Paint.NET. You can also work on your "series" assignment as well. Post your work to your blogs!!!

Have a great weekend! See you Monday.

New Photo Taking Assignment! DUE MONDAY!!

If you don't have photos on Monday you will be completing an alternative writing assignment. So, write yourself a note, text yourself, fill your car with post-it notes, set an alarm on your phone....whatever it takes to make sure you have photos AND they are present with you in some way on Monday!!!!



ok, enough of that.



What is a portrait????

http://www.freedictionary.com/ says it is "A likeness of a person, especially one showing the face, that is created by a painter or photographer, for example."



You will be taking lots and lots of portraits for the next assignment.


CHECK OUT ALL OF THESE WEBSITEs!

(your photos will be graded based on how well you used the information found on these sites)

1. Click Here---> 10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits


2. Then Click Here ----> Part 2


3. Last, Click Here---> Digital ShortCourses-Using Lights in Portraits (Be sure you click on all Animations.)

Your assignment is to take Portraits----lots and lots and lots of Portraits. Take Portraits until your friends want to strangle you!!

You need to take a bizillion portraits!! I can't stress that enough.

It will take a LOT of bad portraits to get ONE good one.

Turn off the flash. Flash makes for some yucky, unattractive portraits.

The key to getting some great portraits is to take A LOT...and to CHANGE EVERYTHING and CANGE IT A LOT!

• Photo outdoors.
• Photo indoors (during the day while their is still natural light)
• Use lots of light!
• Try taking some photos with only one bright light on the subject
• If you photo in LOW LIGHT---remember to brace the camera, or set it on something and use the timer function (or use a tripod) so that you avoid camera shake!!
• Experiment with your lighting---take the lampshade off of a lamp, use a piece of white cardboard for a reflector.
  
• Change Camera angles-- look up, look down
  
• Change format -portrait vs. landscape or hold the camera on an angle


• Change your perspective....stand on a stool, lay on the floor


• Take formal portraits & candid portraits.


• Use different backgrounds


• experiment with PROPS


• Try Macro Mode and Landscape Mode


• Fill the whole frame with the person's face.


• Make the person look at the camera---make them look away from the camera


• Take some candid shots (www.meriam-webster.com says that candid means "relating to or being photography of subjects acting naturally or spontaneously without being posed")


• Above all, BE CREATIVE!! This is an art class.

I'm not going to give you a minimum number of portraits to take.... But take as many photos as you can..... trust me, you'll need to take a lot. FILL UP YOUR MEMORY STICK!

~PHOTOS ARE DUE MONDAY~