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