Renaissance Portraits (photo 2 & 3)
Collab with Drama
due: wednesday 4/13
(40 points)
As we continue to learn more about lighting design we are going to photograph a creative project in the studio with our friends from Drama. The rest of this week you will be photographing using one point lighting and playing with directional light. Meanwhile our counterparts in drama will be selecting a painting that they will be creating wardrobe and posing for. Your job in this project is to direct your subject and create dynamic lighting. You can use any one of the following one point lighting designs:
Rembrandt Lighting
Rim Lighting
Split Lighting
Split Lighting with Reflector Fill
Next week you will have two twenty minute time slots to photograph your two models. During your twenty minute time slot you will start by recreating the pose from the painting you selected. From there you may take some creative liberties with the pose. Since you will only have twenty minutes you will only have time for one style of lighting.
Requirements:
Must use one of the listed lighting techniques
Total of 4 edited images
2 images per painting
1 image should recreate the original pose
1 image should be your interpretation of the painting
What to turn in:
4 individual edited images
Rename: Ren.Portraits#1_yourinitials.jpg
Google Drive link to your Unedited images
Hobby Still Life (photo 1 only)
DUE: FRIDAY 4/1
(35 points)
For this photoshoot you will be planning, designing and photographing your own still life. The subject of this still life is a hobby that brings you joy. In this still life you will need to gather items used in your hobby along with other items that might add context, texture and color. See the images below for inspiration. Before you start shooting you will need to create a planning mood board using our new tool Milanote (please refer to the Milanote assignment to see the requirements for your plan). When you are selecting your props, be sure that they support the hobby you chose and add to the overall mood of the image.
DO NOT FORGET ABOUT YOUR LIGHT! Now that the sun is out for longer, soft window light will be available longer for your shoots! Good light is the key to a successful image. Look at how the light interacts with your objects. Play with the direction to get the right coverage of light!
Requirements:
3 edited images
Good use of light. Window light is one of the best lighting styles for still life
Rule of odds for 2 out of the 3 final images
A simple / Non distracting background
Largest arrangement needs a minimum of 5 different items
You may have multiples of the same item. However, the duplicate items do not count towards the final 5 items. All duplicates count as one.
EX: playing cards (each individual card does not count as a single item), poker chips, popcorn, soda can, board game
Milanote planning sheet
Create a board for your Hobby Still Life photoshoot. During class start adding inspiration images, color palettes, equipment lists, to do lists etc. for a night photography shoot. Once you are happy with your board, click the export menu on the top right of Milanote and select standard PDF. Rename: StillLifeMoodboard_yourinitials
If you have questions on how to use Milanote, please refer back to our Google Classroom assignment to watch the attached video.
Requirements for Mood Board:
3 color swatches
3 inspiration images
List of props (you can use images to create your list if you want)
Description: of your hobby, why is it important to you, what mood do you want your viewer to feel, describe the set up you have in your head. (minimum of 5 sentences)
To-do list
List of potential difficulties
What to Turn in:
3 edited images (Submit directly to Google Classroom)
Google Drive link to all of your unedited images
Milanote Planning PDF
Still Life Study | Abe Morell
due: Wednesday 3/23
(15 points)
In this mini photoshoot you will need to select one of the images from Abe Morell's "A Book of Books" photo collection. After you have selected your image you will be recreating it to the best of you ability. This means you will need to study the use of light, textures used, and the composition of the overall image. This image is the beginning of our study in still life. As you are photographing, keep in mind that everything does not need to be exact. You are able to make different creative choice to; modernize the image, change the subject for accessibility, etc.
What to do:
Once you have selected your image you will be photographing your own version of Morell's image to start exploring what it means to take a successful still life image. At its core, still life photography is a study of composition and lighting. In class or at home find a subject matter that most resembles the subject(s) in Morell's original photograph. Next find a light source that will mimic the lighting in Morell's photograph. Even though you will only submit one image, play around with your perspective and try different angles.
Requirements:
One recreation photograph will be submitted, unedited. however, if you wish to edit you may
Use of light must mimic the original image
Use of texture must mimic the original image
Composition must mimic the original image
What to turn in:
Original Abe Morell image that you will be recreating
Your recreation image. Rename: StillLife_Morell_yourinitials.jpg (or whichever file extension your device uses)
you may choose form the 18 pictured in this assignment or you may find another image from Abe’s book of books project
Photo GIF | Part 2
Two photo Gifs Due: Firday 3/18/22
(25 points)
For part two of our GIF mini unit, we will be creating our our images on our class DSLRs. When you are photographing, you will need to set the shooting speed to continuous and keep shooting while your subject moves around the frame. The trick a the photographer is to stay as still as possible while not moving the camera side to side. Let your subject move around in the frame! Before we go out and shoot, we will learn the Photoshop process to create GIFs from images. Some of these steps will be familiar from our source material GIFs.
Minimum of 15 images
minimum of 30 frames
that means you will only need 15 images. the other 15 are just copies of your original images
In class photoshoot!
Today in class we will be taking our 15 images on campus to create our very own photo GIFS. You will be put in a group of 3-4 classmates and each of you will have a turn to take your 15 images with our class DSLR cameras. If you are the designated photographer YOU SHOULD NOT BE IN THE PICTURE! You are the one take the pictures, setting the camera and directing your subjects to create the scene you want.
camera settings (we will cover this in class before the shoot):
Set the drive mode to Continuous or Burst
In the Continuous or Burst drive mode, your camera will keep capturing the images continuously as long as you are holding down the shutter button. This is great when you are shooting fast-moving subjects like a sports event or active kids, and you want to have a sequence of photos in quick succession.
High: If you are shooting faster action like a person sprinting or jumping, you would want to use the High Continuous Burst mode in order to capture the maximum amount of images.
Photo requirements:
Light Choices:
Soft Light: There are many different spots on campus where you can find open shade.
Harsh Light: HOWEVER, You must use side or backlighting if you decide to use harsh lighting.
Must use Negative Space as your compositional element
Having extra room in your images will make your life that much easier in photoshop
Get creative with the motion your subject creates!
Give your subject a prompt to act out
Use more than one subject
Experiment with this different style!
Tips:
Take time to scout out a good location first
TAKE A TEST SHOT! You will want to make sure you are happy with your exposure before you have your subject act out your gif motion
DO NOT MOVE THE CAMERA! your subject should be the only thing moving. Photoshop can only do so much!
Step by Step photoshop Instructions
Download all 15 sample images from the link provided in Google Classroom.
Unzip the file by double clicking
Import the images into Lightroom and make any color or tonal adjustments that you would like
Since these images will become a little movie you want all of your images to have the exact same settings
Make your adjustments on the first image
Then select the rest of the images by first clicking the image you have edited > press and hold the shift key > click on the last image of the series
Next all you need to do is click sync settings in the bottom left corner of your adjustment panel
Highlight all of the finished images in Lightroom and export to your desktop
In the export dialog box CHECK “put in a subfolder”
Rename the files: PhotoGIF_yourinitials
Quit out of Lightroom
Open photoshop
DO NOT CLICK ANY OF THE NORMAL BUTTONS! Ex: Open or Create new
Instead, go up to your File menu > scroll down to Scripts > Load Files into Stacks
This should bring up a pop up menu that says Load Layers
Click the browse button and find your set of 15 edited images
Highlight all 15 and hit ok
In the Load Layers pop up window you should see your selected files populate in the window. BEFORE YOU CLICK OK, make sure to check the box that says, “Attempt to Automatically Align Source Images”
Then click ok
Photoshop should take awhile to load in your new set of layers
LOOK AT YOUR LAYER PANEL. Photoshop won’t necessarily load your images in order. You will need to manually reorder with 1 at the top and 15 at the bottom of your layers panel.
To make our GIF act like a Boomerang we will need to duplicate ALL 15 LAYERS
Highlight all of your layers, Click the top layer > press and hold the shift key > click the last layer
Command > J
Now that you have two sets of your layers, reorder them in reverse
13, 14, 15, 15, 14, 13, 12 ,11, etc.
Now we can start working in the Timeline!
Window > Timeline
Click “Create Frame animation”
Click on the three lines in the top right corner of the timeline panel. Select makes frames from layers
Play your GIF and see what you have so far!
Play with the duration in which you want each frame to play
I like to start around .1 seconds up to .17seconds
Use the crop tool to get rid of the checkerboard edges. You will only need to do this on one layer. It will apply the drop to every layer automatically
You may need to do this a couple times before all of the checkerboard is gone.
To check your crop, play your GIF in the timeline to see if there are any spots you missed.
Now all you need to do is resize and export! Navigate up to the Image menu > Image size
Change your resolution to 100 and then play with the width and height until your file is between 4M - 5.5M
This will make your file smaller but easier to load for the web
Finally, export!
File > Export > Save for Web (Legacy)
Rename: PhotoGIF1_yourinitials
What to Submit:
Practice GIF (10 points)
Your finished GIF. Renamed as: PhotoGIF1_yourinitials.GIF
Screenshot of your timeline in Photoshop
Final GIF (Made from images taken on Campus) (15 points)
Your finished GIF. Renamed as: PhotoGIF2_yourinitials.GIF
Screenshot of your timeline in Photoshop
You will be creating TWO different styles of gifs. One will be created through found images online (you will manipulate the placement of the objects, like the sample above). The second GIF will be created through images that you take on campus next week, 3/9-3/10. EACH GIF SHOULD BE NO LESS THAN 15 FRAMES.
GIF #1 | Source Material INSTRUCTIONS
Watch the demo in class and the provided video linked HERE.
For a more detailed video click THIS LINK.
You will need to create TWO DIFFERENT Gifs using source material. This will help you practice the technique for when we use our own images in part 2 of this assignment.
Due: Tuesday, 3/8/22
(15 points)
STEP BY STEP
Find material online that you would like to manipulate, or decide what you would like to draw
On new layers, create variations of your animation
Once you have your layers to your satisfaction, you will then go to window > timeline
Go to Window > Timeline - a snazzy little timeline will appear at the bottom of your screen.
Create Frame Animation. If the program does not instantly pull a layer into the timeline, click on the button that says “Create Frame Animation”
Click on Menu with 3 little lines - located on top right side corner
Make Frames from Layers
This will put each one of your layers into the timeline separately
If you need to adjust the order of your layers in your timeline:
Navigate to your layers panel.
As the Gif plays you will see the little eyeballs on each layer cycle through
you can decide which layer is visible by switching the eyeballs on or off
On time - click on forever
You can change the duration of each frame by clicking the drop down menu at the bottom of your frame. The standard setting is 0 sec.
File > Export > Save for Web (Legacy)
What to Submit:
Your finished source material GIF
Rename: GIF#1_yourinitials.GIF
Screenshot of your timeline in photoshop
do not rename your screenshot