Today you will be continuing your portrait research. I'd like you to answer a few specific questions regarding portrait work: remember to use the Internet, but write everything in your own words and  always check several sites to make sure you're getting good information. You can do this in WORD.

1. What are the best lighting conditions for a portrait?
2. What are good background ideas for portraits? What backgrounds can you think of that you have HERE?
3. What are good angles to use when shooting portraits? Are certain angles less flattering?
4. What are some good poses, or poses you particularly like? Provide images below of examples you plan to try.
5. What does pricing look like in this area? See if you can find pricing information on either craigslist or local photographer sites. List at least 3.
6. What would you charge? By the hour, by the pose? How much for a senior portrait session vs. for a wedding?
7. Are there any special tips or considerations when taking portraits of babies and children?
8. Do you prefer the drama of black and white in a portrait, or the pop of color?
9. Look up the work of 2 different famous portrait photographers: Annie Leibovitz and David La Chappelle. Which do you personally prefer. Why?
10. What are the similarities and differences in their style? Do a quick compare and contrast of their styles.

 Good morning! Today will begin research on a magazine article that will be about taking portraits (that is, pictures of people! This is where you make $$$).  I would like you to research as many tips and tricks for taking portraits as you can. This should include poses, ways to make your model look better, ways to make your model more comfortable, ways to compose your model in the light, etc. I want to see a list  of your findings tomorrow, whether it's written or in Word.

Good morning!

Today you will:

1. Finish the TED talks videos and worksheet from yesterday.

2. Copy/paste your concentration choice brainstorming notes (at least 3 things) into the bottom of the TED Talks worksheet.

3. Write 1 paragraph on your ultimate concentration choice. I want you to include: a detailed description of the type of photographs you intend to take (remember, you don't just pick something generic, like "black and white portraits". I want something more detailed, like "High contrast black and white portraits suggesting rebellion, inspired by the 80's punk scene.")
Include your inspiration or why you picked this topic. Include how you intend to make this happen- where will you get models/objects/etc? What photoshop editing do you intend to do, if any? Add this paragraph on the very bottom of the TED talks worksheet.

Open the Photo II folder and find the folder titled TED Talks.
Save a copy of the worksheet to your folder.

You will be watching each of these videos in order and reflecting a little bit on what you saw.
(I have headphones if you don't.)

These videos are inspiring and might give you some ideas about your concentration by seeing how other artists work!

Welcome back, Photo II!

This semester, you will be picking ONE THEME or "concentration" which you will work on for the rest of the year, building a cohesive portfolio. It is a hard decision to make! I have put together a whole page of resources so you can explore some options.

Open "semester2 concentration ideas.doc" on the Miss E Photo II folder. Go through each step, sifting through all these websites and ideas, until you reach step 6, where you present me 3 ideas you like, and why you think they would be good for you to work on.

I figured out exactly how we will run the 3D project.

First, I want you to try the 2-photo-method on a landscape of our school. This means you take a tripod out, take 1 shot of your landscape, move the camera a little bit, like a couple inches (swivel it to the left) and take a 2nd shot. READ the tutorial (Open my Word doc)
http://www.photoshoplady.com/tutorial/how-to-apply-3d-effect-to-your-image/11481


The second part will be using Photoshop techniques on a single photo of an object or person to create 3D depth. Before you start this second part, I want you to practice the steps on one of my Lewis Hine photos. This effect works best in black and white:

http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2013/05/08/3d-anaglyphs-using-photoshop-effects-to-create-a-sense-of-depth/

You can skip the steps for clone stamping the edges in the second tutorial- it was confusing and I did not feel like it was really beneficial.

Anaglyphs

Make sure you turned in one portrait and one nature photo for the Unity and Variety project. Make sure yours has outlines! See my instructions below for outline examples and tips.

For this week:
Grab a pair of 3D glasses and look at the 2 examples I left on the M:/

Open up the word document in my Photo II folder. Read this document thoroughly and follow the first tutorial link. You will be using the FIRST technique in the first tutorial link. (The second one listed on that page is really complicated, though you're welcome to try it out!)

The FIRST link makes the entire photo 3D. The second link makes one specific part of a photo look 3D. We will do ONE OF EACH. The theme will be

Read all of the instructions before you start anything! It tells you valuable tips, like how far to move the camera if you are taking a close-up versus a far away landscape.