Final Project

What are you going to do?

• To finish up this semester I will focus on photography.

What are you hoping to learn?

• I actually hope to gain more skills and learning experiences in the particular field. 
• Chase Jarvis - Photographer
• My Inspiration!

What will you create?

• I will redo/make better 6 photos that I can enter at the Washington State Photo Contest.

What is the final product?

• I will have 6 photos printed and framed for the contest.

What I actually did

• I added more photos to my Flickr account because I haven't added new work in months! (I could use some feedback! Also, please tell your friends!) I've also been taking pictures trying to decide what 6 pictures I should enter in the contest -- very hard decision.

What I actually learned

• I have added at least 30 new pictures here -- tell me what you think! 

My Video

Plot Line

Storyboard

I learned that it is important piece of making a video is the outlines. 

Like Pixar they all sketch out all their movies exactly how it will happen in the movie. - To help them become more organized. 

Although, I didn't actually get to get hands on with a video camera, I'd someday like to

try panning and the zolly effect etc... 

My Presentation

1. Just showing text and hearing voice, not seeing the person*

- Timed slide and voice ? 

- colored text

- no bullet points

     2.  Dick Hardt 

- he's talking & he shows the visual things he talks about

- doesn't have image and text on the same slide (text on one slide, image the following one) 

ex: "I like to read this" (shows magazines/books) and keeps it up for a second at the most, then skips to the next thing. - We don't need it up for more than 2 seconds because it's just one image/short phrase that we can "absorb" in a short amount of time.

 < Mindmap





< Storyboard

PowerPoint Master Slide

                               

My Outline

My Presentation

First, for this presentation I started off watching video clips and took notes on the different ways of how to do a powerpoint presentation. Made an outline of the slides for my powerpoint using the skills I learned.

I LEARNED that you shouldn't have words and text on the same slide because it can get crazy and overwhleming.. For my presentation I planned to have just pictures and say the text.

My Best Shot

the image I took

     

original image

What I first had problems with was getting the lens to focus, I had the settings on Manual (as directed by my teacher), then couldn't get the picture to completely focus on what I wanted it to. Eventually, I got it though.

The object that I was photographing was fine. I had to move it a few times to get the shot I wanted and played around with the F-stop.

F-Stop: f/2.8
Exposure: 0.05 sec (1/20)
Focal length: 7.4 mm

Compositional Rules

Compositional Rules

This link (above) goes to a slideshow I made showing examples of six different rules of composition.

Simplicity

The Rule of Thirds

Lines

Balance

Framing

Avoiding Mergers

Photoshop Projects

Original Scanned Magazine Ad                              

Fake Ad image              


















1. I used the 'add layer' tool to copy and paste different parts to other layers.
2. I used the 'eraser' tool at 3 diameter to shape how I wanted the hand to grasp the bottle.
3. I used the 'background eraser' tool to make the fingers have the same background as my scanned image.
4. I used 'copy' to bring to my photoshop background image.
5. I used 'paste' to put on top of my original image.
6. I used the 'opacity' tool to softly make the water bottle and hands to show the waterfall behind it.
7. I used 'transform' to ...
8. (cont.) 'scale' my waterfall picture to enlarge it.
9. I used the 'move tool' to move around my pictures.
10. I used the 'rectangular marquee tool' to copy out different parts of the water bottle to another layer.


Other Photoshop Works
1. E is for Elmo


I learned what masking is and got to experiment with it. This is what i got.

As for the tools i used:

- smudge to give it that effect

- paint bucket tool to fill in large areas

2. Celeb face mash

I "mashed faces" with Chritina Perri. I used the eraser & background eraser tool. But first i had to copy her original image from online into Adobe Photoshop, using copy and paste. Then, selected her image and moved it into the same tab as my picture. By doing all these different tools i learned more of how to use them along with remembering what tool does what.







Online Tutorial Resource

- Photoshop CS4 tutorial: Create a colorful Aurora effect

         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrPS7JcSKzc

I created an aurora on photoshop learning through watching this YouTube video. 

I have just started out with using Photoshop, really and this was my first time using all of these instruments. 

I used a lot of creating new layers (at least 5!), blurring, highlighting, darkening and brush strokes.

Most of what I did was, play and listened to the step the guy had said, then pause, then switch back to Photoshop and do.

My Business Card

Basically, I made my logo by using mainly three tools from Adobe Illustrator - Selection tool to select shapes and re-size them to my liking, Type tool to include information about me on the card & the zoom tool to get a closer view to fix detailed movements.

Making my business card...First, I typed in the dimensions - 3.5in by 2in. Then, just started trying different alignments with the text and placing my logo. I kept in mind 'C.R.A.P.'

Contrast - White background with one color text - black. Also, my logo which "POPS."
Repetition - My logo is symmetrical with the flower petals.
Alignment - My logo and text have the same amount of space from top to bottom & the sides.
Proximity - I'd say overall it's well put together. My text and logo are lined up, got readable text font, in a size that most anyone can see.

Lastly, I wound up with this final product (see above) - which I took a screenshot (command+shift+4) and put it into my blog! :)