June 11, 2015 – What’s Happening?

Learning Targets:

Believe it or not they are the same as yesterday. So keep working hard, as you have been, to finish up all your projects and photo challenges. Please go to Monday’s blog post for links.

Here’s the list:

• Album Art (past due)
• Photo Essay (past due)
• Dream image (due tomorrow)
• Portfolio Project (due Monday)

For students who are finished and needing something to do, as well as a little extra credit, I have included a link to a fantastic website where you can use Photoshop layers to create a surreal image (see above) using step by step instructions and tutorial assets.

Here is the link.

Funny Surreal Image

June 4, 2015 – What’s Happening?

Learning Targets:

• I can vote and critique Photo Challenge: Album Cover Art with Line.
• I can continue working on my Final Portfolio.

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Choose THREE photos to critique.

Period 3  Period 5  Period 6

In a Google doc or Word doc critique the photos on the following criteria:

• How well does the Album Cover shot show the type of music that might be contained in the album?
• Does the text in the shot reflect the mood of the photograph?
• Does the image use line to create a sense of depth in the image?
  Does the image demonstrate thinking outside the box?
• What attracted you to this photo? What makes it different from the rest?
  Technical aspects (is the image in focus, does it need to be cropped, Photoshop work?)
  Did they use a composition technique? Which one and how? (Framing, rule of thirds, or leading lines)?
• What could be done to improve this image?

Please print out your vote and critique to the HHS classroom printer and hand your response to me at the end of class. Thank you!

May 28, 2015 – What’s Happening?

ONE PERFECT ALBUM COVER THAT USES A LINE, ANY LINE…

How to Make an Impact with your Album Artwork!

http://blog.sonicbids.com/how-to-make-an-impact-with-your-album-artwork

Tutorial: How to Make Album Art in Photoshop.

http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/design-a-conceptual-album-cover-in-photoshop–psd-12627

Top Album Covers Designed by Famous Artists

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-top-12-album-covers-designed-by-famous-artists-12696

100 Obscure and Remarkable CD Covers

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/13/100-obscure-and-remarkable-cd-covers/

Animated Album Covers

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/best-animated-album-covers/

AFTER VIEWING THESE TUTORIALS & LINKS, TELL ME WHAT YOU GOT OUT OF EACH LINK OR TUTORIAL YOU VIEWED? WHAT DO YOU STILL NEED TO KNOW AFTER LOOKING AT ALL THIS?

May 26, 2015 – What’s Happening?

Learning Targets:

1. Today You will be researching a career in photography. Requirements are listed below.

2. Turn in your ESSAY PHOTOS! – Due last friday.

Upload four photos to flickr

• in Flickr: You/Albums/Create New Album
• Add 4 photos to your flickr album.
• Copy the flickr album link and paste it here as a comment.

Photography Career Path assignment

Mehrija Selava captures photographs of Heritage High School athletes at a track and field meet in Battle Ground. (Photo by Troy Wayrynen)

Open Microsoft Word and create a new document. Name it “Photography Career Path” and save it to your folder on the “D” drive.

Title your paper at the top “Photography Career Path”

Choose an entry-level job in photography that interests you the most HERE or HERE.

Paragraph 1: Tell me the name of the entry-level position, why it interests you, a description of the job/ what you would be doing in the position, and the qualifications necessary.

Choose a professional Photography Program HERE. You can earn college credit through Mt. Hood Community College.

Paragraph 2: Tell me the average salary, work environment, education required, and what you would be doing in this position.

Read over these 2 paragraphs a few times to check for spelling/grammar issues.

SAVE!

Print your paper, including your class period and name, to the HHS classroom printer.

Weekend Photography extra credit Link!

May 22, 2015 – What’s Happening?

Learning Targets:

• I know the requirements and how to turn in my Personal Essay/Story with Four photos.
• I can complete my Personal Essay/Story with Four photos (due today).

Tutorial Lesson:

If you are all done with your Essay/Story with Four Photos work on Build a Burger tutorial. This lesson is designed how to use layers in Photoshop. You will find a Photoshop file in your shared incoming folder. Instructions on what you need to do will be posted with the overhead.

Have a great weekend!

May 19, 2015 – What’s Happening?

Learning Targets:

• I can finish my 500 word essay/story.
• I can begin/continue working on photos for my essay/story.
• I know how to turn in my essay/story using Google.

Please don’t hesitate to ask me for help.

Caroline Fernandes De Almeida competes in the javelin at the Clark County District track and field meet. (Photo by Troy Wayrynen)

May 12, 2015 – What’s Happening

PHOTO ESSAY

NEW ASSIGNMENT: PERSONAL ESSAY / PHOTO JOURNALISM WITH FOUR PHOTOS

PHOTO COLLAGE FOR AMANDA MAR’S PHOTO ESSAY: REMEMBERING YOU

For this this week’s assignment you will write a 500 word Personal Essay, or photojournalism piece. You will need to take a miniumum of FOUR PHOTOS for your essay next week. You will want to choose a subject that you feel passionate about. A subject that you can easily write five hundred words with the addition of photographs. If you do not have access to a camera at home, you are not at a loss. On the contrary. Look at all the people here in this class with you. They all have stories, or their families have stories. Where did they came from? What made them who they are today? Our lives are filled with rich stories; now we just need to get their stories down on paper and using photography as a communications tool.

Examples could include first generation Ukrainian family members, where they came from, how they got out, and how they maintain their culture in a foreign land. Maybe someone you know is from Cambodia, maybe Vietnam, was there a way of doing things that is no longer here now. Maybe there is an item you could bring in, an heirloom from a family member, write about it, take pictures of it, where does it come from.

It could be about an up and coming sports star, maybe a friend of yours. An injury that sidelined an athlete for an entire season, and how it felt. The point is, stories are all around us, we just need to listen out for them.

This is not the assignment to rush through and turn it in at the last moment. The quality of this assignment will determine the quality of the photos you take the following week.

Here’s the bottom line: You may do either a photojournalism Piece or a Personal Essay. Whichever you choose will be accompanied by photographs. It’s the kind of combination of story and photographs that you would typically see in a newspaper or magazine. This week you will write the story, and next week you will make photographs.

A few things to look out for:

1. As you write this story (THIS MUST BE A TRUE STORY) think about what you will be taking pictures of. What are the moments in my essay that would be most photographable?
2. Consider making photographs for your story by bringing in objects associated with the subject, through arranging lighting to enhance those object, by incorporating with the subject you can start creating story-telling images instead of randomly taking pictures.
3. Write about something interesting! You do not want to be in the situation where you are working on a story that you have no interest in creating. If you need help brainstorming ideas talk with some classmates, or come ask me for about possible ideas.

Newspapers that have examples of Professional Photojournalism:

New York Times: http://nytimes.com
Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/home-page
The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/
London Times: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Examples of Student Work in recent years on Howl Heritage

Christian Brett – Wake Up Call
Ashley Shockley – More Than Baking Cookies

Sean Hauff – Skate it Away

Melaine Merryman – Belonging

Aaron Jobin – My Life is Mine

Amanda Mar – Remembering You

Dylan Smith – A View to Something Beautiful

A Wonderful Example of A Photo Essay, which is pretty close to what we are doing:
http://www.dayswithmyfather.com/

AND THIS ONE. MUCH LESS SAD!

http://www.thereluctantfather.com/

MINIMUM of 500 words!!!!!!!!

Part 1: The 500 + WORD WRITTEN assignment is due uploaded to google drive and posted to this post on or before Monday, May 18th, 2015 – DUE FRIDAY.

Part 2: The  FOUR PHOTOS are due posted to your flickr account and URLs pasted to this post before Monday June 1st, 2015.

HOW TO TURN IT IN:

Part 1: The Essay

1. Upload your file to your Google Drive Account.

2. Right click on the document in google drive. Click ‘Share’

3. Click on ‘Get Shareable Link’

4. Copy the URL for the document and paste it into the comment field below.

Part 2: The FOUR Photos

1. Upload the Four Photos to Flickr.

2. Add them to HHS Photography.

3. Copy and Paste the Flickr URLs as a comment to this post.

ACTIVITY: RESPOND TO THIS POST WITH TWO DIFFERENT IDEAS FOR WHAT YOU COULD DO FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT. REMEMBER THE IDEAS HAVE TO BE THINGS THAT HAVE REALLY HAPPENED, AND MUST BE NEAR AND DEAR TO YOUR HEART.

RUBRIC FOR THE FOUR PHOTOS

May 11, 2015 – What’s Happening?

Learning Targets:

• I can critique and vote for my favorite images from last week’s Photo Challenge.
• I can complete and turn in an exposure quiz.
• Click HERE to start gathering unique ideas for this week’s photo challenge Fast Shutter Speed. Respond to the comments section of THIS post with 3 ideas you have for Fast Shutter Speed photos.

Nicole Moss is The Columbian’s All-Region gymnast of the year. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)

Please vote and critique your favorite Symmetry with Complementary Color images.

Period 3  Period 5 Period 6

Weekend Photography extra credit Link

Vote for your favorite Slow Shutter Speed image!

Extra Credit Monday and Vote!

My daughter Eilish and I decided to go on a photo adventure over the weekend. We had planned to spend part of the day in Portland, but a traffic accident on the bridge changed our plans. We ended up in Vancouver, Washington and had a nice lunch together at Tommy ‘O’s restaurant. Afterwards, we walked around Esther Short Park, making photographs along the way, as we visited Vancouver’s Farmer’s Market. On our way home we stopped by a grocery store and purchased a small monster cake. Eilish excitedly expressed an interest to do a portriat shoot of the monster cake in our back yard. Such is the life of a father of a 15-year-old girl. It’s always a great day when you are making photographs!

What was your photo adventure over the weekend? Upload your photographs to today’s blog post from your Flickr account to receive extra credit! You must use at least one compositional technique you have learned from class so far this semester to receive credit.

Here are links to the student galleries from last week’s Photo Challenge. Please vote for your top three images by putting numbers associated with each photograph at the link on a piece of paper. Please turn in your choices at the end of class.

Period 3

Period 5

Period 6

May 1, 2015 – What’s Happening?

Learning Target:

• I can set up my camera to make a slow shutter speed image, such as light painting, or a ghost image.
• I can use my knowledge from tutorials and lessons this week to produce two slow shutter speed images. All photos are due by the end of class today.
• I can work with a partner and other classmates collaboratively to complete this week’s Photo Challenge.
• I can complete yesterday’s tutorial and turn it in by Friday.

Left to right, Heritage High School photography students, Alyssa, Dakota, and Brooke, pose for a painting with light demonstration.

Shoot and edit in Adobe ACR/Photoshop 2 photos for this week’s Photo Challenge: Slow Shutter Speed. Due TODAY.

Both photos need to be posted together in the reply field after uploading them to your Flickr account and the HHS Flickr account. You can access the reply field by clicking on the “leave a reply” link at the top of today’s blog post.

HOW TO TURN IN YOUR PHOTOS

• From Photoshop, save your photo as a .jpg to your D drive.
• Upload your image(s) to your Flickr account.
• Add your image(s) to HHS Photography.
• Click on your photo in HHS Photography and copy the web address. Paste the web address into the comments section at today’s blog post.

Your photos are not considered “turned in” until they are posted to the blog.