Documentary - The Photographers

Composition in Photography - Grade 11/12 Photography

1. Watch the video
2. Each student, working individually,  should find 2 different examples for 5 of the photo composition tips using the following links only. (I separated pattern and interrupted pattern to create an extra tip)
National Geographic Photography
Getty Images Life Picture Collection (explore this site)
The Guardian - best photos

Please make sure that all students sign into the computers. For those that are unable to sign up due to password issues, please have another student log them in so they can work on this assignment.

Note: Do not search for the composition tips and find the photos that come up. You MUST only use the above three links provided and select photos that you think are great, and that match the different composition tips from the video. I have listed them again below, but feel free to watch the video over again or google any of the composition tips for more in depth information.

1. Rule of Thirds
2. Leading lines
3. Diagonal lines
4. Framing
5. Figure to Ground
6. Fill the Frame
7. Center the Dominant Eye
8. Patterns and Repetition
9. Interrupted pattern
10. Symmetry

3. ASSIGNMENT: Create a google slide presentation for 5 of the above compositional techniques

Title Page should state:

Composition in Photography
Your Name

Each slide should have a headline identifying the composition rule and the two photos you have selected to help identify it. Write a brief sentence at the bottom of each photograph explaining why you think that photo best demonstrates that particular compositional tip AND what you like about the photo.
10 marks  - 1 for each photo that is correctly selected and identified (Knowledge/Understanding)
10 marks -  1 for each sentence that correctly justifies the choice of photos. (Bonus marks for further discussion about the photos) (Communication)
5 marks - for organization, layout, title page, care and completion (Application)

Total  = 25 marks

Due at the end of the period. Submit to Google Classroom. Please note - the google classroom codes are for Ms. Silverman's Photography class.
Gr. 11s join class with the following code: xew6yc6
Gr. 12s join class with the following code: 6vj2l4

Important Principles in Graphic Design

http://www.printwand.com/blog/basic-alignment-principles-in-graphic-design-with-examples

Review basic alignment and make sure you are making a decision about which of the four types of alignment you are using to line up text and other elements (like pictures!)

https://www.smartdraw.com/brochure/basic-design-principles-flyers.htm

Review this to remember some basic principles of design when creating your brochure.

• Group related elements
• Align elements
• Consistency and visual unity
• Contrast and emphasis
• White space

Brochure evaluation will be based on you paying attention to and applying these principles.

Are related elements grouped together?

Have you paid attention to alignment?

Do you have consistency and visual unity (repeated elements, like graphics, colours and fonts - same size/font for headlines/subheadlines/body text)

Are you making an effort to create CONTRAST and EMPHASIS?

Do you have a reasonable amount of white space? No white space is simply not enough!!!!

Culminating Activity Part 2 - Planning

Today's task to complete worth 5% will be on planning your brochure design - and submitting your paper rough copy that includes design ideas, photo and text placement and colour and graphic ideas. The more detail you have in your rough paper copy, the better.

Go through the same categories you went through to analyze the brochures you found online and write down ideas for each of the categories for your own brochure in a word document (or google docs).

1. Subject: Portfolio or Promotional (discuss your plan here. What content do you want in your brochure? Which tech areas?)

2. Colour: What colours do you want to use? And Why? What do you think those colours express?

For colour - find colour samples online, or in Photoshop to show your ideas.

i.e. You can actually just google "red colour swatches" and look for the colour you like
Then paste it like this:

Also you can look up something like "colour combinations with red" or "colour schemes with dark red" 
and get something like this:

3. Typography: Find fonts that you might like for your HEADINGS, Subheadings and body (that's all the text you write that says stuff)

For example:
HEADING (helvetica 28 pt Bold)

SUBHEADING (helvetica 20 pt. regular)

Body font (Trebuchet 12 pt. regular)

4. Design: Do you want it to look full and vibrant and colourful, or clean and simple and minimal and modern? Lots of space and breathing room, or jam packed full of images and info?

5. Shape: Will you have any distinctive shapes? Circles, squares, octagons? How will you use them? Will you place your photos next to eachother so they create a secondary shape? Or place them within that shape? 

Like these:

6. Photography: How many photos will you have, of what and where will they be placed? Will they be lined up, placed very closely together or overlapping? Choose the photos you will be using and add them to your document. 

Once you have done this, you can also take your paper and fold it the way you want and sketch out your design placing text and images where you'd like them to go.

Your rough layout should be as neat and careful as possible. (5%)

Culminating Activity - Brochure Design - Part 1 (5%)

Brochure Design Part 1. - Research and Analysis - DUE TODAY!!!

For any design project, once you know your objective (design a brochure for a specific audience), your next step would be to research other similar designs.

Today you will research and submit the following in a Microsoft Word document:
Save the document as Culminating_Research_Yourname.doc

1. Indicate whether you are choosing option A (Portfolio) or option B (Promotional) for your culminating brochure.

2. Indicate which type of folding option you would like (1 or 2 folds = 2 or 3 panel)

3. Search for 3 examples of brochures that are either portfolio or promotional (for school programs/schools). Research the option YOU chose.

What am I looking for?
You should look for brochures that catch your eye and that you think are really good designs. They might catch your eye because of colour, images, subject matter, graphics, typography or overall design.

4. Save each of your 3 favourite brochure designs (you can google search for them) and copy them into a word document.

5. For your absolute favourite one, write a few brief sentences answering the following questions for each category below:

A. Subject: What's the subject of the brochure

B. Colour: Discuss the use of colour - what colours are used. Are they bright and cheer, or calm and sophisticated? Using the colour psychology chart on the blog, take a guess at what you think the colours used express in emotions.

C. Typography: What does the font look like to you? Is it bold and clean, or really fancy and decorative? Is there variety in the size of fonts and types of fonts used? Is the typography mostly in black, or did the designer use colour with the typography as well?

D. Design: Does the design leave a lot of space and breathing room, or is jam packed full of text and images? What do you like about this?

E. Shape: Did the designer use a distinctive shape or shapes in the design (i.e. circles, triangles, octagons?) Are the shapes part of a graphic, or do they create a shape for the photographs? How do you think this adds interest to the design?

F. Photography: How many photographs are used in this brochure? Are they large or small, or varied? Do you think that it works best to have them all the same size, and shape, or to vary them? Do they go right to the edge of the brochure (bleed) or are they contained and inside the margins? Are the photographs well lit, well composed etc.? Do you think that matters? Why/why not?

DUE: TODAY!!!
Please submit this at the end of the period and answer all the questions listed above for ONE brochure. For bonus marks, you can attempt to do this analysis for a second or third brochure.
You must post 3 examples, but the requirement is to write about only ONE of the brochures.

Submit to the drop off folder - TIJ 1O1 under Ms. Silverman Drop Off. Due TODAY - 5% of culminating.

Tomorrow - 5% will be on planning your brochure design - and submitting your paper rough copy that includes design ideas, photo and text placement and colour and graphic ideas. The more detail you have in your rough paper copy, the better.

The remaining 20% will be divided as you submit your first draft of your brochure (5%) for feedback, your final copy of your brochure (making changes based on feedback) (10%) and your final written analysis (based on what you have written today, but for YOUR final work) (5%)

Brochure Design Culminating Activity

Go to THIS link to review the tips on brochure design

Or here: https://creativemarket.com/blog/how-to-design-a-stunning-brochure-30-expert-tips-and-templates

How to create a Tri-fold brochure in InDesign

Follow the steps in the tutorial once you have created your plan on paper.

HERE is another example of creating a brochure in InDesign

THE ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

The Elements of Art & Principles of Design from jdavis76

Go through the slide show and fill out the chart on the elements and principles of design. Draw a visual example for each one and write the definition in the appropriate box. Submit by the end of the period.

Photoshop - removing a person from a background using masks

If necessary, review the Photoshop tutorial video to remember the steps involved.
Also, review the video and instructions from the post below this one so you're familiar with some of the basics.

Scroll to the spot where we learned this: Quick selection - putting a subject on a different background: 19:40 - 29:12

There is also a step by step tutorial HERE if you prefer following these instructions. The only thing missing is the last few steps with the Colour Blending mode.

Removing a subject from a background and putting them on a different background.

The purpose of this exercise is to practice what was learned yesterday and be able to remove a person from one background and put them on another background.

This will lead up to your major assignment in this unit, where you will take a photograph of yourself and place it on another background to make a movie poster.

Procedure:

1.    Find a minimum of two different photos for this exercise – one MUST be a person (ideally on a white background), the other can be any landscape, or background setting you like.

2.    Save both the photos in your TIJ folder in your home drive so you can find them again.

3.   
With Photoshop open, open the two photos into Photoshop so that you have two tabs open at the top of your screen.

4.    Using the MOVE tool grab the image of the person and drag it up to the tab of the background photos, wait for the photo to open and then without letting go, move the person photo down into the background photo. Then let go.

5.    You will now have both images in one file.

6.    You may need to resize the person photo. Try to find photos that are at least 1000 pixels x 1000 pixels in size.

7.    Resizing – review the previous tutorial. Control T (or Edit, Free Transform)

will bring up the bounding boxes around the image. Don’t forget to press SHIFT (and ALT if you want the image to remain centered while you resize it) and ONLY GRAB BY THE CORNER NODES. Do not let go of Shift until you have stopped resizing.

8.   
Quick Selection:

Using the quick selection tool, slowly select the person from

the background. If you select too much, simply press ALT

and select the parts you want to remove. When you stop

pressing ALT, the quick selection tool will resume ADDING selections. Keep doing this until you have selected the entire person.

9.    Refine Edge: 

Using the View button you can change the view to see the image on the background layer. You can also make any adjustments you like, but watch carefully how it impacts the edge of the image.

10. Most importantly, make sure you click the button at the bottom where it says Output to Decontaminate colors. This will output your selection to a New Layer with Layer Mask. Click OK

11. Now you can move and position the person layer or resize again if necessary.

12. Advanced Step - Colour blending – Click on the MASK for the Layer that has the person photo on it. If you press Control and Click, it will bring up the selection around the photo that you just did. You will see the marching ants around the person.

13. While that is selected, click on the background layer. You are basically copying a piece of the background layer in the exact shape of the person to place on top of the person and blend into them so the colour and lighting match more closely.

14. With the background layer highlighted, and the marching ants around the person, click Control J (or go to the Layer menu, choose New – Layer Via Copy)

15. This will give you an exact copy of the shape of the person cut out from the background layer as a separate layer.

16. Move that layer so that it’s on top of the person layer. This will completely cover up the person.

17. Now choose Color in the Blending Modes.

18. This will apply the colour from that new layer, and blend it in with the layer below. Now change the Opacity to approximately 20%.

19. Make any other adjustments to try to match exposure by using the adjustment layers. Or just leave it as is and SAVE AND HAND IT IN!

20. SAVING YOUR WORK: Choose SAVE AS in the FILE MENU. Save this in YOUR TIJ folder in your Home Drive. Save it as YOURNAME_QUICKSELECT.psd then MOVE the file into the Silverman DropOFF folder. Congratulations! You’re done!

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Photoshop Composite Tutorial

Please watch this video again if you need to (or if you didn't see it yesterday).


Your assignment:

1. Find 3 different photographs in google images. (Note: try to find images approximately the same size. You can see the size by hovering over them with your cursor - you will see a number x another number that looks like this 1600x1200. Those are the number of pixels. Just try to get images that have at least one of the dimensions over 1000 pixels.

2. Save these photographs by clicking on them from the search page and then right click to Save Image As - make sure you save them into your TIJ folder that you should by now have made in your home drive.

3. Open up Photoshop CS6. From there open up each of the three photographs. You will see three tabs across the top of your Photoshop window (just like in the video).

4. Using the Move tool - pictured at the top of the A panel of tools - it's the one right at the top of the tool panel in Photoshop - grab anywhere in one of the images and pull it up onto one of the other tabs. Don't let go until you've centered it over that image. You can press Shift to place it exactly on top of the image.

5. Now you should have one file with two layers (and two images). Repeat this until you have all three images in one file. You can close the other tabs now.

6. Decide which one will be your base image and which ones will go on top. You can then begin erasing parts of the images on top to reveal the images underneath. Make sure you only erase the parts you want to. In the next few days I'll show you how to do this without damaging the images, so if you make a mistake you can easily fix it. For now, just go as carefully as you can.

7. Things to remember.

• You can only do things to a layer if that layer is highlighted. So click on that layer in the layers panel to highlight it. Otherwise you'll be erasing the wrong layer.
• You can adjust the opacity if you want part of the base image to be seen through one of the other images. That's up to you, however you want it to look.
• Save your finished image as a psd. Put your name in the file name and call it Name_Composite1.psd. Then put it into the drop off folder.
• The eraser tool is the 5th tool down on the B tool panel above. You can change the size of the erase by using the right and left Square Brackets on your keypad. Or by changing the brush size and hardness on the top menu bar once you've selected the eraser.
• You can resize any image by selecting Edit (on the top menu) and Free Transform. OR CTRL T (keyboard shortcut). That will give you a bounding box. You MUST grab by the corner while pressing SHIFT while you resize the image, otherwise you will distort it (make it too wide or too tall). You can also press ALT at the same time to keep it centered.
• Have fun! I'll be back tomorrow to help you with anything and to check your work.