DP 2011

Monday, March 28, 2011

10 Simplicity Photos for "Magic Wand" Assignment

Our last Selection Tool to learn in Photoshop will be the "Magic Wand" tool. You will need 10 photos of Simplicity that have completely blank backgrounds of solid color or grayscale.

Example:




This assignment is due by the end of class on Wednesday, March 30th

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

The Andy Goldsworthy Assignment

Do an online search of "Andy Goldsworthy" to see more examples of Andy Goldsworthy's work.

For this next assignment you will be going out into nature and rearrange or manipulate it in the style of Andy Goldsworthy. Take multiple photos from different angles. You'll be turning in your best photo of each nature scene that you've manipulated.
For this assignment you'll need to manipulate 10 different scenes in nature. You'll be turning in your 1 best photo for each scene you've made. Take multiple photos of each scene you make so you have plenty of great options to choose from.
These 10 photos are due Monday, March 28th.

Here are some examples done by Heather Ellis from Digital Photography last year.



Friday, March 11, 2011

Color Wheel Assignment (Part 2)

Please make sure that you have all of these colors for your color wheel:

RED
RED-ORANGE
ORANGE
YELLOW-ORANGE
YELLOW
YELLOW-GREEN
GREEN
BLUE-GREEN
BLUE
BLUE-PURPLE
PURPLE
RED-PURPLE

YOU WILL NEED TO HAVE ALL OF THESE COLORS FOR YOUR NEXT PHOTOSHOP ASSIGNMENT.

Sunday, March 06, 2011

The Color Wheel Assignment

Today's reading assignment you will read the following 2 articles: www.colormatters.com/colortheory.html
webdesign.about.com/cs/color/a/aacolorharmony.htm
Read this article carefully as it will pertain directly to your photography assignment today.

Your assignment will be to take the following photos:

5 Photos - Primary
5 Photos - Secondary
5 Photos - Tertiary
5 Photos - Analogous
5 Photos - Complimentary

Spend a moment to think about objects that use these colors.
You cannot go out to shoot today, but will get to on Wednesday.
I'll look forward to seeing you then. :-)