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This Week’s Photo Challenge: CD Album Cover with Text

Professional Examples:

Student Examples:

YOUR PHOTO CHALLENGE FOR THIS WEEK IS TO CREATE YOUR OWN CLASSIC ALBUM COVER! Create your own band name, your own font that reflects the name of your made up band. USE TEXT TOOLS IN PHOTOSHOP TO CREATE TEXT THAT MATCHES THE MOOD OF YOUR ALBUM COVER.

Even though some of the examples doesn’t have text, your cover must have text!

Images will need to be exactly 1600 pixels by 1600 pixels, forming a perfect square.

First CD Album Art Photo is due on 3/3

Second CD Album Art Photo is due on 3/6

You will be graded on:

  • Use of text and how it adds to the feel of the album cover:
  • Text placement, Font Choice, Shading,
  • Text on a path,
  • 3d Text Effects, Bevel and Emboss, Horizontal and Vertical Text. Text Selections, etc.
  • How well the photograph matches the name of the band and the text, forming one complete package.
  • Camera techniques: I’ll be looking to see that you incorporate techniques that add interest to your photos (POV, ROT, Shutter Speed. etc.)
  • Focus (no blur please!) and editing in Lightroom & Photoshop
  • Employability skills: Is it turned in on time.
  • What the image says about being alive.

First CD Album Art Photo is due on 3/3.

Second CD Album Art Photo is due on 3/6

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To Do List for 2/26

Learning objectives:

  • I can use the editing techniques to edit my indoor and outdoor photos
  • I can turn in two photos for Indoor/Outdoor

Step by Step:

  1. Make photos for your Indoor & Outdoor. Photo. Try different F-Stops when you make the photo.
  2. Two photos are due TODAY into Google Classroom.
  3. Exported from Lightroom as jpgs. Lastname_indoor.jpg & lastname_outdoor.jpg

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Today’s Warm Up: 5 Tips for Editing Portraits in Lightroom

After we watch the video, fire up your visual journal and answer these questions. Copy the URL of the Video and paste it into your Visual Journal.

  1. Which of these tips do you think you might use for your Indoor/Outdoor Photo Challenge?
  2. If you have shot your photos already, which issues do you see popping up that you will need to address in Lightroom?
  3. What was your biggest aha moment in the video?
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Today’s Warm Up: What 2 Sides are You Trying to Capture?

For today’s warm up, I’d like you to find out a few things and put them onto your Visual Journal.

  1. What side of your person are you trying to show in your indoor photo?
  2. What side of your person are you trying to show in your outdoor photo?
  3. Find an example of an indoor portrait you like online and download it and put it on your visual journal.
  4. Find an example of an outdoor portrait you like online and download it and put it on your visual journal.
  5. Find an example of an indoor portrait you like online and download it and put it on your visual journal.
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To Do List for 2/21

Closeup image of notepad with pen.

Learning objectives:

  • I can analyze the work of last semester’s indoor outdoor photos.
  • I can take what worked in those photos and apply that to my own indoor outdoor photos.

Step by Step:

  1. Check out Today’s Warm Up: Last Semester’s Indoor Outdoor Photos . Save your favorite indoor and outdoor photos to your visual journal and answer the questions.
  2. If you were able to turn in your slow shutter speed photo. Help someone who doesn’t know how to do that.
  3. Make photos for your Indoor & Outdoor. Photo. Try different FStops when you make the photo.

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Today’s Warm Up: Last Semester’s Indoor Outdoor Photos

For today’s warm up we will look at last semester’s Indoor Outdoor photos. Choose two photos to write about, one outdoor and one indoor. Download the photos and put them into your visual journal, then answer the questions below.

Choose one indoor and one outdoor portrait that you think does the best job of showing a side of your subject? Can you tell what side of the person’s personality the photographer is trying to show? Why are the successful ones successful? What side are you going to show of your person? Will it be as successful?

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To Do List for 2/20

Closeup image of notepad with pen.

Learning objectives:

  • I know a few techniques for how to capture different sides of a personality.
  • I understand what aperture is and how it can control how much of an image is in focus.

Step by Step:

  1. Check out Today’s Warm Up: 21 Techniques for Self Portraits – Also works for normal portraits. Answer the questions and save your two favorite photos to your visual journal.
  2. If you were able to turn in your slow shutter speed photo. Help someone who doesn’t know how to do that.
  3. Sketch out an idea for Indoor & Outdoor. And take a photo to put into your visual journal.

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Today’s Warm Up: 21 Creative Self Portrait Ideas for Photographers.

21 Creative Self Portrait Photography Ideas You Should Try

For today’s warm up, we will be looking at 21 different self portrait ideas for photographers that can also work well for portrait photography in general. Remember we want to really get to know something about someone and put that down in the image.

These techniques can help show the side of the person we are photographing. After looking at the ideas, save your two favorite examples to your visual journal.

Then answer these questions:

Which two techniques are techniques you could use in your indoor/outdoor photo challenge?

Which side of your subject are you going to capture? Which of these techniques get to that side you are trying to capture?

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