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January 30 : A guide to UNREAL camera tricks!

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NO CELL PHONE DAY!

(That means put them away!)

Expectations:

C: Voice Level 2 (only the people next to you can hear you and no shouting across the room)

H: Ask your team, elbow partner or raise hand

A: Work on the assignment

M: Stay in your assigned seat

P: Work till assignment is completed

S: Finishing your work

Forced Perspective

A Guide to UNREAL Camera Tricks

WHAT ARE WE LEARNING: Forced Perspective

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT: Forced perspective is important because it allows filmmakers and photographers to manipulate the perceived size of objects within a scene, creating visual illusions where things appear larger or smaller than they actually are, which can be used to enhance storytelling, add dramatic effect, or achieve visually interesting compositions, especially when dealing with limitations like budget or set size.

HOW WILL MY TEACHER KNOW WHAT I LEARNED: You will follow along with instruction and use what we have learned to create amazing photos using Forced Perspective!

For Part 1 of assignment...

Tips for Forced Perspective...

Choose a small foreground subject and a big background subject

The best forced perspective images tend to feature a clear foreground and background subject.

The background subject should be many times larger than the foreground subject.

The most basic method is to position a person (or a person’s hand) in the foreground and a (reasonably) tall building in the background. This is a perfectly valid approach, and when you’re just starting out, it’s a great way to have plenty of forced perspective fun.

Use a WIDE/DEEP aperture to keep the entire scene in focus

To create the most effective forced perspective illusion, you must trick the viewer into believing that your foreground and background subjects exist on the same plane.

Which means that your foreground and background subjects should both appear sharp. After all, two objects on the same plane should feature identical levels of sharpness!

Carefully position the foreground subject

Pro tip: If you’re struggling to position your subject, try leaving it and moving your camera instead!

Don’t just position the subject sloppily. Instead, pay careful attention to the effect you’re trying to create – and make sure the foreground subject lines up perfectly with the background. If your subject is “touching” a building with an outstretched finger, the finger should be positioned right on the edge of the object. If your foreground subject is “holding” another person in their palm, the background subject’s shoes should be aligned with the top of the foreground subject’s hand.

The Assignment...

For this assignment, you will need to take photographs showing Forced Perspective. The goal is to capture the essential elements of the subject and draw the viewer's attention to those specific details.

For this assignment, you will need to pick 3 DIFFERENT subjects

YOU choose what you are shooting! Do NOT just copy these!

To shoot FORCED PERSPECTIVE...

Set your camera to M!

You are in control of ALL settings again!

M (Manual)

Set your ISO to 100!

Click the Right Cross Key

Lets change the Drive mode to SINGLE SHOOTING

This means you click the button one shot at a time!

Need a Wide/Deep Depth of Field:

To create FORCED PERSPECTIVE...

Shoot it at a small Aperture F22 or higher!

This should give a GREAT/LARGE Depth of Field.

Take your time... Focus on one idea and take a few options. Don't rush!

Downloading your photos...

To Split the screens (to see them better):

Editing your photos!

Open Photoshop

Click OPEN (on the left)

Navigate to Desktop> PHOTOGRAPHY folder>FORCED PERSPECTIVE

Select ONE of the subjects/images you would like to work with.

Always select the best image based upon three criteria:

Does it work for your assignment?

Is it a good exposure?

Is it in focus?

Click OPEN

CHOOSE YOUR BEST IMAGES! If they don't meet the criteria, check out a camera and go shoot some more!

SAVE (as) YOUR DOCUMENT!

Shortcut: Shift + Ctrl + S

(or File: SAVE AS)

Save as Type: PHOTOSHOP!

Then click Save to Cloud Documents

Save to CREATIVE CLOUD!

Click the Save to CREATIVE CLOUD button

Name the first image:

"First Name Last Name Forced1"

(You get the idea...when you are done you will be turning in 3 images!)

Click SAVE

If you have selected your best Forced Perspective photo you can do the same process for other Forced Perspective photos of a different subject!

First Name Last Name Forced1.psd

First Name Last Name Forced2.psd

First Name Last Name Forced3.psd

(Open through Photoshop, Save as, Save to Creative Cloud)

Editing your photos!

Adjusting using layers

Remember to use an ADJUSTMENT LAYER (in the layers panel: click the adjustment icon) so it is non-destructive

Adjust such things as:

Brightness/Contrast
Exposure
Vibrance
Hue/Saturation
Color Balance
Black & White

Make Adjustments as needed! (And they are needed!)

Edits are subjective! They are what YOU feel needs to be adjusted. But YOU MUST MAKE ADJUSTMENTS!

Spot healing/patch

If there is anything you want to remove:

Create a new layer and use the Spot Healing or patch tools to clean it up!

Remember to make sure Content-Aware is selected AND Sample All Layers is checked!

Using the masks

Remember on the mask of an adjustment layer (make sure it is selected), we can add black to conseal what we are adjusting!

White=Reveals

Black=Conseals

Make sure your adjustment layers are ON the TOP in the layers panel so that any other alterations (spot healing etc) are adjusted also!

ADD A VIGNETTE!

(all images MUST have this!)

Remember! PULL to the left to use the Dark Vignette!!!

ADD A SIGNATURE!

(all images MUST have this!)

Remember! If your image area is dark, make your signature WHITE. If the image area is light, make your signature BLACK!

Make sure you have added the vignette AND your signature!

Each image MUST have YOUR signature on the bottom right!

EXPORTING Your FILES

Please make sure it is a JPG file!

You will export 3 images:

First Name Last Name Forced1.jpg

First Name Last Name Forced2.jpg

First Name Last Name Forced3.jpg

CRITERIA:

3 Images of YOUR choice of subjects using Forced Perspective!
You will shoot 3 different subjects...in different places (come up with 3 DIFFERENT IDEAS!)
Each image MUST be edited appropriately in Photoshop
Each image MUST have a signature and a Vignette
Each image MUST be named correctly
- First Name Last Name Forced1.jpg
- First Name Last Name Forced2.jpg
- First Name Last Name Forced3.jpg
File format turned in MUST be correct (jpg)