Final Assignment-Mini Portfolio

Assignment 5 Final Assignment Mini-Portfolio 25%

Purpose
To introduce students to the concept of sequential imagery, as opposed to individual “one-off” efforts. Secondly, to familiarize students with the technical demands of creating a portfolio of ink jet prints.
Students will produce a mini portfolio of five A3 Ink Jet Images.Each print will be matted.
The portfolio must be integrated. That is, there must be a common thread or theme throughout the series. This common theme could be either stylistic or based on content,technique and resulting style. Students must propose a theme for their portfolio by October 26th-group 2 and October 28th-group 1
either in class or via email by Or the portfolio could pursue a common subject matter/content; architectural interiors, portraits or a Fashion.Images should be consistent in size, aspect ratio, paper surface, colour or
B/W, printing style and presentation.

A reminder that image impact and aesthetic considerations count fully as much as
technical excellence, in marking the assignment.

Submit at the beginning of class Dec 6th. No Late Assignments!!

Five matted A3 final Ink jet prints.

Print files should be sized to fit an A3 sheet at 240 DPI, PSD or TIFF.
For the purposes of this assignment students must print in-house. Home or externally made prints are not acceptable.
The prints must be identified with the teacher's name, your name, the course name and the assignment number on the back of each print.

The portfolios will be reviewed in class by both Roy and Laurel no extensions! One Date only!!!





Marking: The project will be marked on technical competence; correct colour or proper distribution of tonal values, shadow detail, highlight detail, sharpness and impact of the sequencing. Professionalism in presentation will be taken into account as well.

Creating an Alpha Channel Mask

Creating an Alpha channel mask
Creating a mask by copying one channel and creating contrast. Our in class example was replacing the sky behind the tree.
This demo explains the technique well.

Creating an Alpha channel mask-Example the sky-tree demo-http://infiniteskills.com/blog/2011/03/how-to-create-alpha-channel-masks/

In our second in class demo we replaced the background of a studio image by again selecting the blue channel>-making a copyby dragging it to the copy icon on the bottom of the dialogue box. Go to the Image menu choose-Apply Image using a blend mode of Multiply. Using your Brush tool paint over the image with the brush in the Overlay blend mode. When painting with black the dark pixels will be affected and the light ones should remain untouched. When painting with white, the light pixels will become lighter but the dark pixels should remain unaffected. Build up contrast until you have a black and white silhouette. click on the letters RGB in the RGB channel. Drag the image that you want to use as a background onto the first image. With your channels dialogue open drag the blue channel copy onto the load as selection icon(the one that looks like a circle made up of dotted lines.you will notice that the selection has become visible as marching ants on the new background.
Make sure that the layer that will become your background is active. Hit the Add layer mask icon. and BOOM you will see the selection that you have made burn through the background layer example above. You should use a blend mode of multiply in your layers panel. You may need to make the channel mask active to work a little more on your mask with the brush tool using either black or white. to make it perfect.You could also go to maskand use the refine mask dialogue A slightly feathered edge(1 Pixel) can make the edge blend more easily with the background.

Test

Please DO NOT FORGET that we will be having a test in class this week October 27th and 29th!!

Assignment-3 Stop Motion

Professional Photography Program (DEC) Fall 2011
Digital Lab 3 Value 20%
Assignment Introduction to Adobe Premiere (Stop Motion Project)
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Instructor Roy Hartling (rhartling@dawsoncollege.qc.ca)
Purpose To introduce students to the fundamentals of Adobe Premiere Video Editing Software through the creation
of a Stop Motion project.
Method Technique will be demonstrated in class
Submit Students will hand in one 25 to 45 second Stop Motion (not including Titles or Credits) as a High Resolution
mpeg or mp4 video file.
The assignment has to be submitted to my Dawson Network Dropbox (in the Faculty Folder) in a folder that is titled
DL3_StopMotion_1st initial_Family name. For example DL3_StopMotion_R_Hartling.
The folder must be properly titled. This is not a suggestion or optional. I receive large numbers of assignments in
my Dropbox, if I can’t find your assignment, I can’t mark it.
Due The assignment is due at the beginning of class on November 1st 2011. We will review the assignments in
class. No Exceptions!!
Please Note No late assignments will be accepted.

Assignment-4

Create a Panoramic image
To create this photograph you can use any number of images merged together. You can try a 360 degree Panorama or a simple scenic image a dramatic night shot or a daytime scenic vista. Remember that you can create an image that is either horizontal or vertical, it can include more that one row of images as well to create a more square result.
What to hand in. One print. Utilize at the minimum, the full width of the 22 inch printer,minus the required borders of course. The image doesn't have to be a specific width. Just whatever your panoramic image requires. Remember that a simple photo merge isn't the end of the process. Your image might benefit from some layer masking or even a little HDR. Make them exciting!!

We will look at your prints in class On November9th


Planet Pano!!

Stacks Modes

Stop Motion-Premiere

Stop Motion Video
Professional Photography Program (DEC) Fall 2011
Digital Lab 3
Instructor Roy Hartling (rhartling@dawsoncollege.qc.ca)
Instructions for Adobe Premiere (Stop Motion Project)
You will need somewhere between 4 and 8 images per second of your Stop Motion Project.
Before getting started in Premiere Pro you’ll need to have taken your photos, copied them onto your computer and (in
this tutorial) made them 1920 x 1080. This is the default hi-resolution setting and is commonly known as 1080p. 1080p is
the best HDTV resolution you can get.
The easiest way to do this is through Lightroom, export your images, properly sized and exported as high high quality
JPGs tagged with sRGB.
Before you even open Premiere Pro, set up a folder on your Portable Hard Drive to contain all of the bits and pieces of
your Stop Motion Project. This is crucial.
Export your properly formatted image files to a folder within this project folder.
Premiere Pro will run most efficiently if you run it over two drives. The Hard Drive of the computer and (hopefully) a fast
portable hard drive for all your project files, (Images, sound files, sequences, project files).
Professional Photography Program (DEC)

Assignment-2

Painting with light.
Create an image using several different exposures. One long exposure for the ambient light in the sky, and several short exposures using flash to light up a variety of different areas in your scene. You need to include a structure,or a vehile,that is lit both inside and out, and a person. The structure can be a house,a shed,a tent,a bus shelter, a bridge,a tunnel. The vehicle can be a car,boat,bus, plane(!)any thing that is enclosed. So that it can be lit both inside and out.
for inspiration go to www.thenoctures.com Also many interesting Youtube videos such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK_tBOT8xDc
What to hand in 1 layered psd file as well as 1-11x17 print. Please make sure that your file is called lastname_firstinitial_assignment_2. Also please make sure that you prints are clearly identified.
We will be looking at prints in class on Wenesday October 27th and Friday October 29

Refine Edge Tool

For a close up look at the refine edge tool take a look at this tutorial

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-photoshop-cs5/using-improved-selecting-and-masking/

Puppet Warp

Puppet warp is a new feature in CS5.Watch this tutorial by Dr Russell Brown

Puppet Warp-http://tv.adobe.com/watch/the-russell-brown-show/puppet-warp-tool/

Healing Brush

This tutorial by Deke McLelland shows the incredible power of the healing brush!

Healing Brush- rotate etc-healing a new eye-http://www.lynda.com/tutorial/76067

Faux HDR

Manual HDR

HDR pro

For a good tutorial on using HDR Pro,watch this .

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/photoshopcafe-tv/new-in-cs5-hdr-pro-high-dynamic-range/

Creating an Alpha channel mask

Creating a mask by copying one channel and creating contast. Our in class example was replacing the sky behind the tree.
This demo explains the technique well.

Creating an Alpha cannel mask-Example the sky-tree demo-http://infiniteskills.com/blog/2011/03/how-to-create-alpha-channel-masks/

Content Aware

Content aware fill healing brush and scale are all great new automated features in Photoshop CS5 for a great demo on how to use content aware fill and healing brush this tutorial at www.tvadobe.com by Russell Brown will fill you in!


Content Aware –Fill and healing brush- http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-evangelists-russell-brown/content-aware-fill-part-1/
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-evangelists-russell-brown/content-aware-fill-part-2/

Content aware scale this tutorial by Matt Kloskowski is great.

Content Aware Scaling- http://tv.adobe.com/watch/photoshop-with-matt/cs4s-content-aware-scaling-feature/