Prayer

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D Block: Expectations quiz

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A and B blocks: Writing assignment #1: Punctum

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Flickr account troubleshooting

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Pass out class cameras

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Getting to know your camera:

• Basic Camera Settings (PowerPoint)
• You will have time to look through your cameras as we discuss each setting to see if you can locate that setting
• QUIZ THURSDAY!

Photo project 1: Scavenger Hunt

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Begin studying for Basic Camera Settings and Resolution quiz (Thursday)

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BRING CAMERAS TOMORROW!

Prayer

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Personal photos:

A Block: Sierra
B Block: Abbey

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D Block: Expectations quiz (third time is a charm!)

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Getting to know your camera (continued):

• Basic Camera Settings (PowerPoint)
• You will have time to look through your cameras as we discuss each setting to see if you can locate that setting
• QUIZ THURSDAY!

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Complete Digital Photography, Chapter 2: Getting to Know Your
Camera.

Books MUST remain in classroom so all blocks have access to them.

If you need to sign out a book, they are first-come, first-serve, through Ms. Kalnay. 5 total are available.

Photo project 1: Scavenger Hunt

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Study for Basic Camera Settings and Resolution quiz (Thursday)

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BRING CAMERAS TOMORROW!

Prayer

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Complete Digital Photography, Chapter 2: Getting to Know Your
Camera.

Books MUST remain in classroom so all blocks have access to them.

If you need to sign out a book, they are first-come, first-serve, through Ms. Kalnay. 5 total are available.

CHAPTER 2 CLASS WORK GROUPS

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Discuss worksheet for Complete Digital Photography, Chapter 2: Getting to Know Your Camera.

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Getting to know your camera:

• Photo resolution basics (PowerPoint)

Photo project 1: Scavenger Hunt

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Study for Basic Camera Settings and Resolution quiz (Thursday)

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BRING CAMERAS TOMORROW!

Prayer

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Basic Camera Settings quiz

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Discussion of what worked/didn't work about yesterday's group expercise (Chapter 2 of the textbook, comparing notes in groups)

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Flickr troubleshooting

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Review Scavenger Hunt project rubric

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Image resolution (PowerPoint)

Photo project 1: Scavenger Hunt

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BRING CAMERAS TOMORROW!

Prayer

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Scavenger Hunt photos due.

As a class, we will:

• Upload photos from cameras (cords or card readers)
• Create a contact sheet in Adobe Bridge
• Open the contact sheet in Photoshop CS5
• Resize for the Web
• Flatten/Save for Web and Devices
• Upload JPG to Flickr
• Title, tag and note ALL entries
• Move photo to the group

D Block: finish adding Notes in Flickr to all 20 of your Scavenger Hunt squares.

Click here for a YouTube video tutorial explaining how to title, tag and note your photo.

This tutorial is also linked on the Student Resources page!

Due: Monday

No School -- Labor Day!

Prayer

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1)

Decoding Photographic Images (DVD) ~ 27 minutes

During this film, try and look for ways in which the basic components of photography—line, shape, form, texture, etc.—contribute to an image’s impact on the viewer’s mind.  

When the DVD is finished, please right-click here to download/save and answer these questions!

Email your finished questions to me with the following subject header:

If you do not use this subject header, I will not receive your response!

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2)

Writing assignment: Flickr discussion question #1

1. Log on to Flickr and go to the Group for your block/class.
2. Click on the "Discussion" link

1. Answer the discussion question in your own words
2. Try and meet the word count
3. SPELLING AND GRAMMAR COUNT so you may want to write in Word first and then copy/paste your response into Flickr (this is also helpful for checking your word count!)
   

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3)

Photo analysis worksheet -- photo of the day

• Click here to access the photo
• Right-click here to download/save and work on the worksheet

Email your finished questions to me with the following subject header:

If you do not use this subject header, I will not receive your response!

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4)

If there is any time left over, look through the Alphabet Project set on my Flickr page to get inspiration for the project you'll be receiving this week!

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5) CHECK THE HOMEWORK PANEL FOR HOMEWORK -------->

ALL BLOCKS:
BRING CAMERAS TOMORROW!

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Finish any outstanding work from class today.

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Scavenger Hunt photo instructions -- B Block ONLY
(continued from Friday)

Click here for a YouTube video tutorial explaining how to title, tag and note your photo.

• Add 5 keywords to your Scavenger Hunt contact sheet photo using the “Add Tag” feature of Flickr. Tags are simply keywords that describe your photo so that others can find them on Flickr!

• Add 20 Notes to your Scavenger Hunt contact sheet photo – 1 note per square/photo – using the Add Notes feature of Flickr (found under Actions)
  
  
• Move your Scavenger Hunt contact sheet photo to the Group by clicking Actions and the choosing Add to a Group. If you have accepted my invitation to the Flickr Group, your Group will appear in a list for you to choose.

Click here for a YouTube video tutorial explaining how to title, tag and note your photo.

This tutorial is also linked on the Student Resources page!

Prayer

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A Block: give out Literacy Initiative Books

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Assignment #2: Alphabet Project

• Alphabet Project Instructions
• Alphabet Project Rubric
• Alphabet Project Inspiration Set

Due: Wed, 9/14

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Camera resolution:

• We will work as a class to find your specific resolution settings.
  
  
• Each student should find her highest quality resolution setting and take a random photo in the classroom.
  
  
• One you find your correct high-quality camera setting -- leave your camera on this setting to take all photos!
  
  
• We will look at these photos in Photoshop to determine qualtity settings.
  
  
• You will be given a handout for your specific image resolution circumstance (72, 96, 180, 200, 300, 480+).

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Uploading class photos:

_where to save
_how to save

Checking resolution:

_opening Photoshop
_using Image Size
_making changes (72 and 300 dpi)

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On the R drive > Resolution Test Photos folder

Save your 72 dpi photo as FirstNameLastName_72.jpg
Save your 300 dpi photo as FirstNameLastName_300.jpg

Begin to take photos for A2: Alphabet Project

Due: Wed, 9/14

Prayer

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What makes a good photograph?
Discussion and PowerPoint.

Begin to take photos for A2: Alphabet Project

Due: Wed, 9/14

Prayer

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What's Making Me Happy This Week? (WMMHTW)

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What makes a good photograph?
Discussion and PowerPoint, continued

ALL BLOCKS:
BRING CAMERAS MONDAY!

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Begin to take photos for A2: Alphabet Project

Due: Wed, 9/14

Prayer

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In-Class photo shoot for A2: Alphabet Project

We will work in small groups, indoors and out, to take photos for your Alphabet Project.

Continue to take photos for A2: Alphabet Project

Due: Thursday

Prayer

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What makes a good photograph?
Discussion and PowerPoint, (complete)

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Four-point analysis practice

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Read: Barriers to Seeing,Due: Monday

Continue to take photos for A2: Alphabet Project

Due: Thursday

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Read: Barriers to Seeing

(This reading has also been sent
to you as a Google Doc)

Due: Monday

Prayer

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WATCH YouTube videos for resizing images for print and Web:

• General image resolution video (YouTube informational video)
• Working with 72 DPI (YouTube video tutorial - 1:36)
• Working with 73-299 DPI (YouTube video tutorial - 1:46)
• Working with 300 DPI (YouTube video tutorial - 1:37)

COMPLETE Short resizing and resolution exercises:

1. Open in Photoshop each of the four files given to you
2. Change the size of files for PRINT (according to guidelines from video)
3. Change the size of files for WEB (according to guidelines from video)

SAVE the files on the R: > Digital Photography Drive > Your Block > Resolution Test Photos with the following file names:

• Name of File_Print_FirstNameLastName.jpg
• Name of File_Web_FirstNameLastName.jpg

Continue to take photos for A2: Alphabet Project

Due: tomorrow

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Read: Barriers to Seeing

(This reading has also been sent
to you as a Google Doc)

Due: Monday

Prayer

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Alphabet Project due:

1. Create a new folder on your K drive called: Alphabet
   
   
2. Upload all of your Alphabet Project photos to the new Alphabet folder
   
   
3. Right-click to rename the 26 letters you are choosing for this project, "A.jpg", "B.jpg", etc.
   
   
4. Open each letter in Photoshop (File > Open)
   
   
5. Resize each photo so it is 72 DPI and somewhere around a 5 x 7 inch photo. (it's okay if the photo is a little larger or a little smaller but stay around that size, in inches).
   
   
6. Save for Web and Devices on EACH IMAGE (ensure that they are being saved as JPGs, not GIFs)
   
   
7. Upload all 26 letters to Flickr
   
   
8. To create a new Flickr set: view YouTube tutorial on how to create, label and organize your Alphabet set properly!
   
   
9. Make sure your photos are all titled properly (e.g. "A" and not "A.jpg") and each has a minimum of 5 tags. You may use the SAME 5 or more tags for all 26 letters (do this under "Batch Operations")
   
   
10. DO NOT MOVE THESE PHOTOS TO THE GROUP!

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Read: Barriers to Seeing, Due: Monday

Read: Barriers to Seeing

(This reading has also been sent
to you as a Google Doc)

Due: Monday

Prayer

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What's Making Me Happy This Week? (WMMHTW)

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Alphabet Project critique

If you need inspiration:

• Consider the basics of a 4-point analysis;
• Consider some or all of these questions, to get you started;
• Look through the Alphabet Project Rubric;
• Come up with some questions and comments on your own!

Read: Barriers to Seeing

(This reading has also been sent
to you as a Google Doc)

Due: Monday

Prayer

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Barriers to Seeing review

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Camera as Cathedral worksheet

Part I:

Working solo or in groups of 2-3, find working definitions of each vocabulary word. Follow directions to use each word in a sentence.

Please be sure you understand not only the basic meaning of the word, but how to use it in a sentence. Also, be sure you know how to conjugate the word if it is a verb, or what the word sounds like in singluar/plural.

Part II:

Find a group if you were working solo or switch groups if you were previously working in a group. Share definitions with one another an quiz one another to see if you feel confident with those definitions.

You will be asked to know these words in a matching quiz on Wednesday so use this time to clear up definitions, memorize these terms, etc.

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If any time remains:

Begin Complete Digital Photography, Chapter 9 (part I) pp: 187-198 (up to: Building a Shot)

Reading and notes!

Work on Camera as Cathedral worksheet

Due: Wednesday

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BRING CHARGED CAMERAS AND HEADPHONES TOMORROW!

Prayer

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Photo shoot: Learning to see + Barriers to Seeing discussion

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Upload to Flickr:

9-photo contact sheet:

Remember to use as much of the white space as possible when creating your contact sheet (3 rows, 3 columns)!

Video resources:

You will need headphones to view/follow these tutorials!

• How to Create a Contact Sheet in Bridge (YouTube Tutorial)
• How to Open and Save a Contact Sheet in Photoshop (YouTube Tutorial)

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Flickr submission:

Make sure your photo is:

• Titled
• Tagged (with a minimum of 5 tags)
• Moved to the group

Finish Camera as Cathedral worksheet

Due: tomorrow

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Read: Setting Up Lighting Scenarios

Due: Monday

Prayer

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Camera as Cathedral vocabulary quiz

Remember to:

1. Double check to make sure each drop down menu has a chosen response
2. Click submit and make sure you get to the "thank you for submitting" screen before exiting the Google doc
3. Check the checkbox to have a copy of your responses sent to you - this way, in case your responses did not record properly for me, we have an email "receipt" for you having taken the quiz! (And I can grade your responses from that)

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How to make your worst quiz grade go away forever!

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Discussion of homework for the weekend: (bringing objects to photograph)

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Finish any remaining A2: Alphabet Project critiques

• B - Ended @ Lisa P
• A - Ended @ Darby S
• D - Finished!

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Finish any outstanding Barriers to Seeing photo shoot work from yesterday!

Read: Setting Up Lighting Scenarios

Due: Monday

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Bring in: objects to photograph

Due: Monday at the LATEST

Prayer

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Discussion of quiz responses

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Camera as Cathedral podcast/viewing <-- direct link to page with podcast, slides and handout!

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Discussion

1-page writing assignment guidelines -- due: Friday, 9/30, on Flickr

• History of Photography short essay questions
• History of Photography essay rubric
• History of Photography essay sample/formatting guidelines

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Reminder of homework for the weekend: (bringing objects to photograph)

Read: Setting Up Lighting Scenarios

Due: Monday

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Work on History of Photography short essay questions

In case you need to review the podcast: Camera as Cathedral podcast/viewing

Due: Friday, 9/30

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Bring in: objects to photograph

Due: Monday at the LATEST

Prayer

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What's Making Me Happy This Week? (WMMHTW)

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Lighting examples (PowerPoint)

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A3: Lighting Examples - Due: Monday, 10/3
A3: Lighting Examples Rubric

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Build class light boxes (groups of 5)

--> Basic outline for building DIY light boxes

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Reminder of homework for the weekend: (bringing objects to photograph)

Read: Setting Up Lighting Scenarios

Due: Monday

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BRING CHARGED CAMERAS MONDAY!

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Bring in: objects to photograph

Due: Monday at the LATEST

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Work on History of Photography short essay questions

In case you need to review the podcast: Camera as Cathedral podcast/viewing

Due: Friday, 9/30

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Work on A3: Lighting Examples

Due: Due: Monday, 10/3

Prayer

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In-class photo shoot for A3: Lighting Examples - Due: Monday, 10/3

• You are looking for strong examples of direct, diffuse and silhouette lighting
• You are also looking to reduce unwanted color casts, blur, grain
• You should strive to place/arrange your object(s) in an interesting way
• Please work together to help each other hold/arrange lights

Work on History of Photography short essay questions

In case you need to review the podcast: Camera as Cathedral podcast/viewing

Due: Friday

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Work on A3: Lighting Examples

Due: Monday, 10/3

Prayer

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Work on History of Photography short essay questions - due Friday

In case you need to review the podcast: Camera as Cathedral podcast/viewing

• History of Photography short essay questions
• History of Photography essay rubric
• History of Photography essay sample/formatting guidelines

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Instructions for posting your History of Photography short essay question:

TurnItIn:

• Assignment is due by 11:59 pm on Friday, 9/30
• All late entries will receive a 0
• Turnitin.com enrollment information found on the Student Resources page
• Please submit your paper to your class block!

Flickr:

• The assignment is due on Flickr BY YOUR CLASS BLOCK ON FRIDAY
• The assignment is posted under the Discussion area of your class Group
• Please ensure that you are logged into Flickr (under your own user name)
• Copy and paste the 500 words from your turnitin.com Word document to Flickr
• Please ensure that you are posting FIRST NAME, LAST INITIAL ONLY in the body of your paper/posting
• Please mark which question you are answering: 1, 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b, 3c, 4

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If you have posted your response to TurnItIn.com and to Flickr, you may get a pass to take photos for A3: Lighting Examples - due Monday, 10/3

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A Block -- turn in your Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac book!

Work on History of Photography short essay questions

In case you need to review the podcast: Camera as Cathedral podcast/viewing

Due: Friday

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Work on A3: Lighting Examples

Due: Monday, 10/3

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You will have in-class time to read through this tomorrow but your time is limited (25 minutes) so you may want to complete this for homework if you read a bit more slowly or like to take more detailed notes!

Reading: Meaning in Composition:

1. SKIM Part I (Introduction)
2. READ from Part II onward (The Meaning of Abstract Shapes)
3. SUMMARIZE in your own words what each shape or symbol stands for!

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Prayer

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A Block -- turn in your Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac book!

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Reading: Meaning in Composition:

1. SKIM Part I (Introduction)
2. READ from Part II onward (The Meaning of Abstract Shapes)
3. SUMMARIZE in your own words what each shape or symbol stands for!

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All-class Photoshop discussion:

• Photoshop Layers palette
• Using the pencil tool to draw on your Layer

Working with the Jodie Cotson/Meaning in Composition articles:

• Open Photoshop
• Look through your exisiting photos on the network and try to find examples where some of these shapes and forms are at work!
• Be prepared to show at least 3 instances of different shapes in your work (Triangles, circles, spirals, ellipses, lighting bolts, leading lines, etc.)
• Make a new layer in your layers palette
• Use the pencil tool to draw the shapes on this new layer. Don't worry if your lines and shapes are shaky!
• Save these images as PSD files in your K > Digital Photo folder
• You should have ONE layer for your photo (background) and a SECOND layer for your drawing (Shapes)

There is a tutorial for this Photoshop session on the Student Resources page, called Using the Layers Palette in Photoshop.

Work on History of Photography short essay questions

In case you need to review the podcast: Camera as Cathedral podcast/viewing

Due: Friday

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Work on A3: Lighting Examples

Due: Monday, 10/3

Prayer

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A Block -- turn in your Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac book!

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Working with the Jodie Cotson/Meaning in Composition articles:

• Open Photoshop
• Look through your exisiting photos on the network and try to find examples where some of these shapes and forms are at work!
• Be prepared to show at least 3 instances of different shapes in your work (Triangles, circles, spirals, ellipses, lighting bolts, leading lines, etc.)
• Make a new layer in your layers palette
• Use the pencil tool to draw the shapes on this new layer. Don't worry if your lines and shapes are shaky!
• Save these images as PSD files in your K > Digital Photo folder
• You should have ONE layer for your photo (background) and a SECOND layer for your drawing (Shapes)

THREE PSD IMAGES TOTAL (1 from yesterday, 2 for today)

---> Class "Gallery Walk"

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Flickr discussion question #2: Angles and point of view

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Short reading:

Are You Using Emotional Lighting? Don't forget to check out the links in the article!

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Reading and notes:

• Complete Digital Photography, Chapter 9 (part I) pp: 187-198 (up to: Building a Shot)
• Complete Digital Photography, Chapter 9 (part II) pp: 207-225

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In-school photo shoot:

If you have posted your response to TurnItIn.com and to Flickr, you may get a pass to take photos for A3: Lighting Examples - due Monday, 10/3

Work on History of Photography short essay questions

In case you need to review the podcast: Camera as Cathedral podcast/viewing

Due: tomorrow

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Work on A3: Lighting Examples

Due: Monday, 10/3

Prayer

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History of Photography short essay question Due today!
INSTRUCTIONS FOR POSTING, BELOW

This should have been posted to Flickr BEFORE your class block today!
No in-class submissions accepted!
Due to turnitin.com tonight by 11:59 pm

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What's Making Me Happy This Week? (WMMHTW)

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A Block -- turn in your Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac book!

B Block -- receive your Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac book!

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Introduce Lighting a Still Life assignment. Due: Wednesday, October 12

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Revisiting Emotional Lighting:

• What is (your definition of) emotional lighting?
• How can emotional lighting enhance the theme or idea of your photo?
• What are some ways to show emotional lighting in your photos?
• What will do (physically) do to achieve an emotional light setup in your photos?
• What type/color/strength light(s) will you use to draw out or emphasize the emotion of your still life arrangement?

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Brainstorm on looseleaf:

2 detailed ideas for a still life, including:

• a potential working title
• your textured, reflective and transparent objects and 2 others
• your backdrop/background, and
• how you plan to set up your direct light
• a quick sketch of your object arrangements and (emotional) light setup

Example:

TITLE: "Awards Ceremony"

OBJECTS: reflective trophy, textured blue ribbon, transparent champagne glass, framed awards certificate, gold medal on ribbon lanyard

BACKDROP: plain white sheet

LIGHTING: (Explain what available, controlled light sources you will use, where you will place them and why -- minimize glare, increase texture, etc.)

SKETCH: (Attach a quick sketch of your object arrangements and light setup -- how will your objects be arranged and where will your lights be?)

If you do not finish this in class today, please finish for homework (due Monday)

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Read (Optional resource):

Creating a Still Life (Also shared with you as a Google Doc on Tuesday, 9/27)

Work on A3: Lighting Examples

Due: Monday

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FINISH Brainstorm:

2 ideas for a still life, including:

• a potential working title
• your textured, reflective and transparent objects and 2 others
• your backdrop/background, and
• how you plan to set up your direct light
• a quick sketch of your object arrangements and (emotional) light setup

Due: Monday