Photography One
Photography One, teach the basic fundamentals of digital photography. Students will acquire the skills needed to create strongcompositional photographs using photographic principles as well as gain a basic understanding of post-production editing through Photoshop. PCS has provided the photos classes with Canon T2i DSLR which students can check out to support their educational experience. Once you have completed Photography One you can take Photography Two.
Each week students will take 100+ photographs, with an emphasis on the topic being studied that week. All assignments will be turned in electronically through Mrs. Harris' dropbox.
STUDENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE TO BACK UP ALL IMAGES - A GRADE CANNOT BE GIVEN IF WORK IS NOT AVAILABLE. PCS HAS PROVIDED EACH STUDENT WITH SERVER SPACE TO SAVE THEIR WORK. -This class is a lot of work, you are excepted to shoot images throughout the semester. Just because you complete an assignment doesn't mean that you will receive full credit, its not about just doing it, it's about doing it well.
Each week students will take 100+ photographs, with an emphasis on the topic being studied that week. All assignments will be turned in electronically through Mrs. Harris' dropbox.
STUDENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE TO BACK UP ALL IMAGES - A GRADE CANNOT BE GIVEN IF WORK IS NOT AVAILABLE. PCS HAS PROVIDED EACH STUDENT WITH SERVER SPACE TO SAVE THEIR WORK. -This class is a lot of work, you are excepted to shoot images throughout the semester. Just because you complete an assignment doesn't mean that you will receive full credit, its not about just doing it, it's about doing it well.
Photo Exercises |
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These are assignments we will do before we hand out the classroom cameras.
- Favorite Photo - Upload a favorite photo to Google Classroom - Only ONE photo, you took it either with a DSLR or a phone camera (25 points)
- Vantage Point - Using a DSLR or phone camera capture 8 images using the following Vantage. (100 points)
Assignments |
Photoshop |
Four Factors of Exposure: Aperture - Shutter Speed - ISO - Available Light Understanding Exposure - Virtual DSLR - Getting Started- (how it works)
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Photoshop CS5 Assignments
When you are working on your assignments save your files as a .psd once it's completed you MUST be save and turn your final image as a jpeg. Save all work until the end of the semester. CS5 shortcuts
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Turning work in:
All work will be turned into Google Classroom, Labeled with you LAST NAME - Grading information
Events:
- PROCAM is a Photo & Video superstore with studio space for classes, demos, seminars and rentals, look at schedule to see up and coming events.
- Howell Nature Center - Offers Photography Workshops
- Livingston County Photographers Group - This group is to promote photography by bringing together those who are interested in helping each other to produce better pictures, to educate, encourage, and expand the photographic knowledge and capabilities of its members
See how the four factors of exposure work together with these online interactive cameras - The SLR Camera Simulator - Camera -Camera Simulator - Penn State
Critiquing and writing about your photos will help you to become stronger photographers - CRITIQUE GUIDE - GIVING A GOOD PHOTO CRITIQUE - PHOTOGRAPHY MEANS TO DRAW WITH LIGHT -
Critiquing and writing about your photos will help you to become stronger photographers - CRITIQUE GUIDE - GIVING A GOOD PHOTO CRITIQUE - PHOTOGRAPHY MEANS TO DRAW WITH LIGHT -
Great opportunity to get your images in PHS's YEARBOOK - Create an account at ReplayIt - by Jostens - Check out the school paper PHS Connect it's another opportunity to get your images published.
Chromebook Apps.
Exif Viewer is a tool that shows the Exif, meta, file information of your pictures, ebooks, documents, archive, images, audio, and other formats.
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