Photo Assignment 1

Visual Communications • JMC 059
Photography Assignment #1 • 20 points • Due Monday 8-31

This assignment is to help you practice taking photos and learn the photo editing workflow.

Eventually, our workflow will go something like this:
• Take photos with your camera (or one rented from the basement of Meredith)
• Load your photos into Adobe Bridge
• Edit photos with Photoshop and Photoshop Camera Raw
• Save photo as appropriate file type
• (And you're done)
-or-
• Import photos into InDesign or Dreamweaver for use.

But first we need photos!

For this first assignment, I'd like you to take photos of a person or object (pick something that's not too small, perhaps a basketball.

I'd like you to take photographs of this object in 5 different lighting environments. For example:
• Morning light
• Mid-day light
• Evening light
• Overcast day
• Inside, near a window
• Camera flash inside, camera flash outside
• Setting up your own lighting (not a flash) like a lamp off to the side (you can do multiple set-ups like this if you change it around)
• Fluorescent

Take at LEAST 5-10 photos per environment. For example, get close with the camera, far away, far away and zoomed in, from different angles, etc.

After you take the photo, load it into Adobe Bridge (before or in class on the 31st).

If you have a camera that shoots in RAW, use that. Otherwise, try different settings (portrait, landscape, close-up, sports) that might be on your camera. We'll talk about what these mean.

Highly recommended: if you plan on using the same model camera for these, find the manual online and read it!!

Grading: 10 points for photos, 10 points for loading them into Bridge

Schedule update

Folks,

I got word that a number of students will be gone on Sept 9.

So! That font lecture is an important one, so let's push that to Monday the 14th.

For those that can be there, bring a digital camera to class on September 9th. If you don't have one, you can check one out in the basement of Meredith. We'll go out and shoot around campus and come back and load them on the computer and do some basic photo editing. Be sure to have a cable or card reader so you can transfer it from your camera to the computer. I'll bring my card reader in case, but if nobody has a cable it will be slow going. (can you get them from Meredith? I don't know!)

So the new schedule is this:

Wednesday, September 9
Walk around photo shoot/photo editing
Photo assignment 2 due
Assign Photo assignment 3 (for magazine cover), due 9-21
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Monday, September 14
Type and color, read chapters 7, 9, 10, 11
Exercise: Fonts

Wednesday, September 16
Quiz, 8x10 Poster assignment
Lab work
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