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November 17 : Capturing the moving world!

& Tripods too!

Due Friday, November 21!!!

PLEASE KEEP CELL PHONES AWAY!

Either in your backpack or the lock box!

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

Please keep cameras dry!

Remember Cameras and Rain do NOT mix!

The ability to capture the moving world around us.

The key to shooting motion...

WHAT ARE WE LEARNING: Motion in Photography

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT: Motion photography is about showing movement. Adding a slight blur of the action to your shot helps tell a story. This storytelling element makes the images a little less static and unexpected. Images with movement tend to be eye-catching; they drag the viewer into the frame and force the eye to glide along with the moving elements.

HOW WILL MY TEACHER KNOW WHAT I LEARNED: You will practice different techniques and gradually show your success!

For Part 1 of assignment...

The Assignment...

For this assignment, you will photograph moving objects in three different ways.

You will need a partner!!!

You will photograph MOVING subjects in 3 different ways!

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

STOP ACTION

Try using a stop action SHUTTER SPEED of 1/1000+ of a second.

Try an F stop of 6 or 7

The idea is to FREEZE the moving object!

You will name the file:

First Initial Last Initial FREEZE.psd

Click the Right Cross Key

Let's change the Drive mode to HIGH SPEED CONTINUOUS

This means you click the button and it fires multiple times!

Shoot your Stop action in the bright sun. This allows you to use fast shutter speeds.

BLUR (Panning Photography)

Start with a shutter speed of 1/100

As your tracking gets better, start lowering the shutter speed...

Try getting to a shutter speed of 1/30 while “panning” your subject.

Follow along at the same speed as your subject!

For this shot, try using a high/greater depth of field (higher setting)

You will name the file:

First Initial Last Initial PAN.psd

Click the Right Cross Key

Let's change the Drive mode to HIGH SPEED CONTINUOUS

This means you click the button and it fires multiple times!

Shoot your blur shot in the shade or at least subdued lighting.

MOTION BLUR (Long Shutter Speed) Tripod needed!

With a tripod- try a SHUTTER SPEED at 1/4 -1/2 of a second.

Subject will stay still but something else in shot will move. For this the camera needs to be VERY still!

You will name the file:

First Initial Last Initial BLUR.psd

Click the Right Cross Key

Let's change the Drive mode to SINGLE SHOOTING

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

Using a tripod!

How To Put a CAMERA on a TRIPOD Tutorial for Beginners Manfrotto Tripod_v720P.mp4

Downloading your photos...

To Split the screens (to see them better):

Each day you take photos you will make sure to download images BEFORE leaving class!

Editing your photos!

Open Photoshop

Click OPEN (on the left)

Navigate to Desktop> PHOTOGRAPHY folder>MOTION

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

You should have multiple of each motion subject to choose from!

Always select the best image based upon three criteria:

Does it work for your assignment?

Is it a good exposure?

Is the subject in focus?

Is motion shown?

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 document:

"First Initial Last Initial FREEZE"

Name the second document:

"First Initial Last Initial PAN"

Name the third document:

"First Initial Last Initial BLUR"

Click SAVE

If it will NOT save to Creative Cloud, please let me know immediately!

If you have selected your best MOTION photo you can do the same process for other MOTION photos!

First Initial Last Initial FREEZE.psd

First Initial Last Initial PAN.psd

First Initial Last Initial BLUR.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 Initial Last Initial FREEZE.jpg

First Initial Last Initial PAN.jpg

First Initial Last Initial BLUR.jpg

CRITERIA:

3 Images of YOUR choice of different subjects in different places using MOTION!
One image must show STOP ACTION (FREEZE)
One image must show BLUR (PAN)
One image must show MOTION BLUR (BLUR)
Each image MUST be edited appropriately in Photoshop
Each image MUST have a signature and a Vignette
Each image MUST be named correctly
- (first initial last initial FREEZE.jpg)
- (first initial last initial PAN.jpg)
- (first initial last initial BLUR.jpg)
File format turned in MUST be correct (jpg)