Good Monday Morning!!

We have a busy week ahead of us.

Things that are due:

Tutorials
-hair
-eyes
-vintage
-retro

Projects
-Photo-restoration
-Photo Coloring

Things that you should be thinking about and actively doing:

24 (minimum) exposures for the self portrait, portrait and/or levitation piece should be planned and executed. This could be a series, an individual shot or collection of shots in a single image.  Contact Sheets and the rubric are due no later than April 7th.  This is a great opportunity to be creative and have fun with poses, expressions, costumes, make-up or other inventive approaches. Extra shots of backgrounds and textures are also important to think about.


Levitation any one?

Today we will be learning about brushes.

Fabulous Wednesday

Fabulous Wednesday

TODAY is your day.

There is no reason for you to be lax on anything...

1. Finish what needs to be done.

2. Are there any exercises that you haven't gotten started on?  Vintage/Retro

3. Outline what you need to shoot for Self-Portrait/Portrait

4. Check out camera/tripod

Are you working in any levitation: TRIPOD IS A MUST.

Some photographers...

Lara Jade - she has become more commercial unfortunately.. her beginning stuff was awesome!

Portraits in general

Images to glance at..

Annie Leibovitz's Disney Celebrity Portraits 

Dave Engledow

Portraiture!

Portraiture!

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious 

and the smirk. 
Charles Dickens

Self Portrait:   a representation of an artist, drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by the artist.

Portraiture:  the creation of any portrait, an artistic representation of a person

Some images done prior: Portraiture Power Point!
And who doesn't love power points!

Now... some that we can also begin to work with...
LEVITATION!

This is how it will be done!!

This is how it can look....

How can we make this better?!

Goals with this project:  
24 images to work with... multiple shots, variety in images... what can we work with, how do we 

want the composition to look?  what are we trying to define of ourselves or the person?
List what would make this GREAT!!
What do I need to have images of?
Where do I need to go?
What will it take to make this happen?

Friday!

The wonderful world of color...

We are going to look at adding color to a black and white photo.  This was often done by photo studios before color film was invented.

We will learn how to use a layer group to allow multiple layers to be added to a project with the same blending mode applied to it automatically.

Keep working on

-Restorations and alteration...they will be graded next week

-Tutorials...eye and hair will be graded this week, and vintage and retro will be graded next week.

Coming up

-Portraiture

Wednesday

New tutorials...Retro and Vintage (see the tutorial tab)

Finish up Photomontage.  Grading will begin this week.

Finish hair and eye tutorials.

Bring me photos to scan for restoration.

New project to come...Self Portraits!

Today:
We continue with Restoration Work.

Continue working on the image from yesterday.
This is an image for us all to begin on.
You are expected to be bring in photos to be scanned in ASAP.

1st step is to restore the image on it's black/white (or possibly colored) platform.
2nd step is to enhance the image and provide a fun color palette to the photograph.
The final for this assignment will consist of two images: original  and the restored or altered color image.

Our next Project is in need of another contact sheet Photo-Session.
It will pertain to a self-portrait.
This will be discussed next week.

Monday! Restoration

Monday! Restoration

We are working on scanning in your images.
These images will go into the N-drive and you will be able to select them out of

there and SAVE them in your H-drive.

1.  First job is to begin restoration on images.
2. Second job is to finish your photomontage.

3. Third job is finish whatever projects you may have not completed yet.

Once your practice image is restored we will move into altering the color of the image, or for

many, adding color.  You will finally be ready to get started on your own photographs. YAY!

GOT CRACKS?

Check this tut out!

Work Day!!!

Restoration pictures ASAP!

Hair and Eyes Tutorials

Finish up your Photomontage

Great jobs on the critiques!  The comments were very helpful :) 
We'll finish up last couple today.

Photomontage is due this week.  The tutorial is in the N drive.
-Final image: in N drive as a PSD and printed
-Rubric: filled out and printed
-Contact sheet: request it back, circle used images or mark clearly
Paper clip everything together.

Photo Restoration-bring your photos in or email a jpeg of them to your school mail

New Tutorials:
Hair & Eyes

This is a great day to work hard!
Make a great composition!
Think out of the box!
Try different things!  You can remove it if you don't like it.

Bring in your photos for restoration!  We will be starting to work with them next week....

No More Snow!  Just saying...

Grades are looking better across the board.  There are still people needing to get assignments completed.  It's not too late.

Keep working on you photomontage.
Hair and eyes exercises will be due next week.

Start bringing in those sad faded, bent and generally damaged photos.  They can go back home as soon as they scanned.

Monday

Pulling it all together!
Continue working on your photomontage this week.

This is an important week for getting your grades all in order.
If you are missing assignments, turn them in.
If you turn something in, please email me.  If it is more for your contact sheets, give it to me.

Looking ahead...
You need to start looking for a picture or pictures that are damaged.  We are learning photo-restoration next.   This will begin next week.

The Hartman Creek field trip will be in April.