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November 9-13 : Directing the viewer's gaze!

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

What IS a Leading Line?

A key to directing your viewer’s gaze...

WHAT ARE WE LEARNING: Leading Lines in Photography

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT: Leading lines are important to use as they help to create a flow within your composition. The easier it is for a viewer to look at your picture the better. Leading lines naturally take the viewer on a journey around the photo.

Students: "I will be able to use leading lines and camera angles to guide the viewer’s eye toward my subject and create visually interesting photographs with strong composition."

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

For Part 1 of assignment...

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

Balance

Photo by Stephen Crane

Rhythm

Photo by Sergey Kotenev

Pattern

Photo by Kim Chan

Emphasis

Photo by Artem Kniaz

Contrast

Photo by Wyxina Tresse

Unity

Photo by Jaspinder Singh

Movement

Photo by Dibakar Roy

ELEMENTS OF DESIGN in Photography

Lines

Shape

Pattern

Form

Texture

Space

Color

Photos should be saved in your

LEADING LINES FOLDER (inside the Photography folder)!

Double click to open the Photography folder on your desktop

The Assignment...

For this assignment, you will need to take several photographs with Leading Lines. Pick several DIFFERENT subjects to photograph. With EACH subject, take different perspectives/angles!

You will photograph at least SIX (6) DIFFERENT Leading line subjects in DIFFERENT locations!

(you will only be turning in 3 of your best images)

Explore the subject. Take different perspectives. Not every shot will work!

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

Are you ONLY taking 3 photos?

Yes or no????

Student Examples

To make it more interesting, include as your subject something that demonstrates one other element or principle of design!

A leading line will move your eye as it creates a SHAPE.
A leading line made from a TEXTURE will move your eye to the subject.
Use contrast in your leading lines to direct the viewer to the subject.
A leading line made from a PATTERN will move your eye to the subject.

The elements are endless!

We will take photos this week!

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

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>Leading Lines

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

You should have multiple of each leading line 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 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 document:

"First Initial Last Initial Lines1"

Click SAVE

Name the second document:

"First Initial Last Initial Lines2"

Name the third document:

"First Initial Last Initial Lines3"

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

If you have selected your best Leading Line photo you can do the same process for other leading line photo of a different subject!

(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!

EXPORTING Your FILES

Please make sure it is a JPG file!

You will export 3 images:

First Initial Last Initial LINE1.jpg

First Initial Last Initial LINE2.jpg

First Initial Last Initial LINE3.jpg

CRITERIA:

3 Images of YOUR choice of DIFFERENT subjects in DIFFERENT locations using leading lines to direct the viewer to the subject! (so 3 DIFFERENT subjects in 3 DIFFERENT places!)
Each photo MUST have a clear SUBJECT! Leading lines LEADS to the SUBJECT!
Each image but be edited appropriately in Photoshop
Each image MUST be named correctly (first initial last initial LINE1.jpg)
File format turned in MUST be correct (jpg)