Thursday, September 17, 2015

Thurs. Sept 17

We have been working on the poses/portrait assignment over the past few days. Today we will continue with editing and possibly do a bit more shooting when the weather cooperates. We will watch a video on how to get the best photos and I will introduce the new product assignment.

Product assignment: choose a product and take 10 very different shots of your product. Remember, you are trying to sell the product. Then you will choose your best shot and create a magazine ad for it. Feel free to include people in your ad if necessary and try to think outside of the box. Would your ad stop someone leafing through a magazine to check out the product in closer detail?

Thursday, September 10, 2015

More on Posing

Check out this link on posing
Posing for perfection

Posing guys/ and additional links

DPS articles on posing

Shooting assignment next week

5 male poses, and 5 female poses

4 poses of your model: 2 shots done wrong, 2 shots with corrections, printed out with an explanation of what you did differently.

Assignment Value: 30 marks

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Welcome back

Welcome back to school and to Photography 11/12. I am hoping you chose this course and are here because you want to challenge yourself, improve your photography, learn a little about video production and have some fun doing it! At this level, I am assuming that you have a solid background in the basics…if you landed in this class and you do not it is up to you to go through this site and the intro site to bring yourself up to speed. Also you should buddy up with someone who has already gone through Intro Photo so they can help you along.

Requirements: At this level it will be very helpful to have your own camera ( digital SLR), or a really good camera phone, a good working computer at home, your own sd card and jump ( thumb) drive. There will be cameras to borrow but they may not always be available since we only have about 10 cameras for over 100 students.

Let's begin with a quick review of camera basics.

Camera basics