Photoshop & Photography
In this unit we took a lot of pictures and edited them in the program Photoshop. We took some of our own pictures and used some other people have taken to practice/learn on. Even though some of these assignments were a little challenging, this was probably my favorite unit, with Video production coming in second. I like to take pictures and learn how to seriously edit pictures to enhance their visual appeal. Most of these projects were a lot of fun! We did quite a bit of selecting in Photoshop and had to apply what we learned in the practice assignments to our own pictures. Also before being in this class I had only used Photoshop some in 10th grade Business Tech 1 so it was nice to get more experience using it.
PHOTO COMPOSITION
Photo Composition was an assignment in which we had learned about different types of pictures we could take and then we had to go take some of our own of each category.
Open Shutter
For the Open Shutter assignment we were put into small groups and had to take pictures using Christmas lights to swing around and a camera that could have a longer exposure time.
Simple Pictures
Here is one of my Simple Pictures
For Simple Pictures we had to bring in a special object from home to take a picture of around the school. We just had to take pictures of it in different places in the building.
Camera Settings
For Camera Settings we had to take three kinds of pictures, portrait, macro, and action. In my opinion, the easiest one to take was the macro pictures, because the props I brought in from home could be easily manipulated. The other two have people in them and therefore were slightly harder to manipulate.
Photoshop Projects
Hide & Seek Pictures - For this assignment we had to find our name somewhere in the classroom and take pictures of it at different angles. Then we had to put it somewhere else and take more pictures of it.
Jump Picture - For this project we had to take pictures in the gym of fellow classmates jumping and then put them into Photoshop and select our subject/jumper and create a new layer to import a background from the internet.
Flowers Photoshop Assignment - We had to select all of the flowers and move them to a different background using selecting tools
City Retouch - For this assignment, we had to use various tools on Photoshop to cover up objects and people in this picture to make the picture look nicer and more desirable to look at.