Archive for April, 2009
File Specifications
Hi yas-
Submit your images from the Flickr selection, and you may add in other shots up to five of your own pics.
Pics must be .jpgs and named ‘lastname-initial-number(01,02, etc).jpg. They must be 600pixels on the longest edge, and make sure they are in the sRGB colour space (in photoshop go to Edit>Convert to Profile>sRGB). Each image must have a 50x50pixel thumbnail to go with it, and just add the word ‘thumb’ to the filename.
Write you little personal stories to add interest and colour to the presentation. Write 2 or 3 sentences about one of the following subjects: Classes, Great Images, Great Books, Student Life. Make it personal and fun, not moany and boring.
Get on it…
Gathering Info
Hi Folks-
You should be frantically working towards those final deadlines.
This week, each group will submit their images for the website, and
examples of written work.
I need you to bring in any written work you have done to class and you
will pick two or three essays that are representative for each group,
for a total of 4 or 6.
Elina started working on a bibliography, so email her with
contributions or bring them in tomorrow.
All the images on flickr will need to be loaded onto a CD with the
proper person’s name, so get yours ready and we will load them up
tomorrow and burn the CD.
Finally, now is the chance for some light writing in the midst of the
deadlines: we need your personal comments about the first year in
photography education. Write them as 1 paragraph treatments- and write
about as many topics as you want. There is space for a lot, but I need
at least two from everyone.
So, gather your images, gather your essays, and be ready to write short
comments about the year…
see you in Temple Bar,
Photoshop Montage class
Okay, this week we try a bit of fairly sophisticated photoshop maneuvering. Head to the nowwhichway homepage, or go directly to sample pageto see the examples and links to the image files.
As I said before, I’m not much into making composites to create imaginary scenes, but here is an example where the orginal photographs all had problems, and we can use photoshop to overcome the limitations of imaging capture technology and create an image that is more in keeping with what we see and remember.
The ‘remember’ part is probably more accurate. How often do people look at a photograph and say “that wasn’t what I saw” when really they mean, “that image isn’t what I remember from what happened. I’m sure the sunset was much more red and that boy/girl I was snogging was much cuter than that…”
There are many reasons for using compositing tools, so practice them.
