Hello and welcome to all of my new students at Otis college.  This Summer semester I am teaching two classes.  Digital Photography and Lighting for digital media.




Digital photography will focus on using Photoshop as a darkroom.  The basics of camera operation will be reviewed, but many of the students enrolled in my class should have taken basic photography in past.  We will cover color management and using bridge to organize your photos in the first class.




The documentary project is the first major assignment.  You will have at least 3 weeks to complete this assignment.  I am will also assign the first weekly assignment, shooting a series of images with the widest aperture of your lens.  This weekly assignment will be due the following week on the 14th of June.




I am excited to start a new class on Monday the 6th- Lighting for digital media.  This is a hands on studio class that focus on using both still imagery and motion.  Many of the cameras on the market today can shoot still images but also have a movie capture.  After viewing many of these short films I realized that lighting for these shorts needed some guidance to make more viewable.  Basic understanding of lighting for different situations is the focus of this course.  I will show some examples in class and we will demo how to achieve better quality imagery in class.  Weekly assignments will require students to completer their own versions of the example in class to be reviewed the following week.




An example of a typical assignment is the first assignment due on the 13th of June.  Shooting a subject at sunset.  Using just a fill card for motion capture and using  the on camera flash or equivalent for still imagery, students will learn to have both the sunset sky and their subject illuminated for better quality image.




See you all soon,

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