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We went over many things today.  Next week I am away but a Substitute will be teaching for me.  Remember to send me your portraits through email.  When we get back from Spring Break we will have a crit on them.  Please bring two prints to class on March 31st for crit.

The next assignment is your Panoramic 360 landscape.  See my blog post about the 360 from two semesters ago here http://dcpixelthis.com/1/post/2011/04/360-landscape-assignment-part-1.html.  I am re-posting the how to videos I made on assembling the panoramic in Photoshop.

First I want to thank all of you who turned in your assignments last Sat.  It was great crit with beautiful work.
Net week's assignment is to shoot at the highest ISO your camera can shoot at.  This could be from 1600-6400.  I also want you to work on your portrait assignment.  We will be going over the RAW conversion of the portrait this Sat the 10th.  Finally start scouting out the location of your landscape assignment.

See you Saturday.

Here is a quick review of creating a Metadata Template plus Keywords through Bridge.

Here is a video for using layers and adjustment layers to make density adjustments to your imagery.

Last weekend we talked a bit about three photographers.  One of which I could not recall his name.  The photographer I wanted to show is Oscar Gustave Rejlander.  He is pioneer in photography and started compositing imagery at the advent of photography.  Many people think that doctoring imagery and combining imagery is new with Photoshop, but it's part fo the tradition of photography.

The image above is made of over 6 glass plate negatives cut together to make one image.

This image is made from at least 4 plates cut together.  The sky and the man behind the curtain are two plates.  The image below is one of the version of the sick girl on the chair.

Although I would like you to consider each shot as stand alone image and take the time to compose your imagery in camera, do not feel limited to only that philosophy of image making.  Contemporary image making is comprised of multiple images as well as single ones (just like the beginning of photography)

Another Photographer we talked about was Alexander Rodchenko.  He as a Russian photographer at the forefront of modern photography and graphic design.  Many of photographs were used in posters and other printed media.  Cut up and pasted with type and color.  Many of his images are from extreme angles with an emphasis on pattern.

Finally we looked at Andre Kertesz as well.  His eye for form, design, composition, and humor always inspires me.  Here are some of his imagery.

Hello, and thank you for a great firs class.  I wanted to make a quick video about converting RAW files to JPGS using the Raw Dialog Box that is shared between PS and Bridge.

First and foremost, thank you for a great class.  It was wonderful to meet you all and I feel it was a pleasure be your instructor.

Here are some selects from the last class.

Feel free to keep in touch and email me with anything.

The last class is finally here.  We will review some basic lessons that we covered the last 8 weeks by doing one last look book demo.  We have two models again with Nami allowing us to use their clothes one more time.  I want to thank Nami and Elise for letting us use their clothes in our last two classes.

What follows is some selects from the life style demo we did outside with on camera flash triggering our off camera lighting setup.

Two weeks ago we shot the landing page/banner demo.  We put together a very simple set using just foam core and gels.  I put together a mock up of what that landing page might look like.  I sent the processed images to all of you through my yousendit account.  Everyone did a great job shooting that day.  And I want to give a extra thanks to Rem for hair & make up, Leilani for terrific styling, and Melissa our talented model.

Here are a few of my selects from the shoot.

Here are the few images we took last week for our second product demo.

None of these were retouched this is just straight conversion from the raw file.