Month: March 2020

Learning objectives:

• I know how to turn in an updated link to my visual journal into Google Classroom.
• I can turn in two images for Complementary Colors.

Step by Step:

1. Turn in an updated link to your visual journal for The Visual Journal check in Google Classroom.
2. Turn in two photos for the Complementary Colors photo challenge. into Google Classroom.
3. Export two photos as LastName_Comp_Colors_1.jpg & LastName_Comp_Colors_2.jpg

Learning objectives:

• I know how to upload photos to adobe color to see where the colors are on the color wheel
• I can go make photos for Complementary Colors

Step by Step:

1. Do today’s warm up: 24 Powerful Images Using Complementary Colors if you didn’t do it yesterday.
2. Prepare your Visual Journal check for Friday.
3. Sketch & Shoot for the Complementary Colors photo challenge.

Fire up your visual journal and check out this link:

Then choose your favorite photograph, save it and identify the two colors and where they are on the color wheel.

Go to color.adobe.com and upload your favorite photo to the website. It will show you all of the colors in the image and where they are on the color wheel.

Then tell me what you learned about this photograph and the color wheel and whether or not it inspired you to create your 2nd Complementary Color photo.

Learning objectives:

• I know a few techniques to correct color in Adobe Lightroom
• I can choose a background for my first Complementary Colors photo.
• I can go make photos for Complementary Colors

Step by Step:

1. Do today’s warm up: Color Correction in Adobe Lightroom
2. Sketch & Shoot for the Complementary Colors photo challenge.
3. Vote for the slow shutter speed photo challenge.
4. Visual Journal check is coming on Friday.

Since we will want our complementary colors to shine through, we will need to adjust the color levels in our two photos. Today’s warm up shows you how to do just that. Fire up Lightroom and try out a few for yourself.

After reading the above, link answer these two questions in your visual journal.

Which technique did you find the easiest to work with, why?

Which techniques will you use for your complementary colors assignment?

On Friday, you will turn in an updated link to your visual journal. Make sure you click Share and then Update if the lightning bolt appears.

Visual Journal: What you need.

1. All the warm ups we have done. You can type in Warm Up into the search engine on my website.
2. All the photos for photo challenges and the sketches that went them.
3. Any inspirational photos you downloaded and used for photo challenges.

Export the link by clicking the Share button. Update the link if it asks for it.

Turn it in as a link to the Visual Journal check in Assignment post in Google Classroom.

Learning objectives:

• I know what complementary colors are.
• I can use a color wheel to find out which colors are complementary to each other.

Step by Step:

1. Do today’s warm up, How to Use Complementary Colors in Photography
2. Strong goes over the Complementary Colors photo challenge.
3. Start the pre-production process of researching colors and how different photographers use complementary colors. Save your favorite images to your visual journal.
4. Vote for the slow shutter speed photo challenge.
5. Visual Journal check is coming on Friday.

For today’s Warm up, we’ll be learning about Complementary Colors and how you can deliberately choose images that have complementary colors. This week’s photo challenge will be around complementary colors.

After reading the article, answer the following questions in your visual journal.

1. Which pair of complementary colors are you most familiar with? Why is this so?
2. What is the difference between analogous and complementary colors?
3. How would you go about making a photograph with a complementary color pair?
4. How would you go about making a photograph with all of the complementary color pairs?
5. Choose your favorite image from the article and download it.