LHS Digital Photography

4/15/20

ALERT!! PLEASE DO THIS NOW

Unfortunately some commercial site(s) have found our blog and are making "comments" below your posts to sell their wares. PLEASE log in to your blog, go to the most recent post and change the setting on the far right side under Options. Don't Allow Hide existing. Thanks!

4/14/20

Let's talk about Portraits!!!

So many AWESOME Portraits have been taken and with many different ideas!
In the beginning of March we began talking about PORTRAITS.
When we left each other on March 13th, 2020 things were unknown, but we were going to take 100 portraits by the end of Spring Break. It has been a couple of weeks later and now its time to show what you've got! What did you try? Upload your photos to Google Photos. Take screen shots of your best 100. On G.Classroom place the images of the screen shots of the 100 portraits into the document provided. On Thursday 4/16 and Friday 4/17 we will look at what you've got. Those of you who have already added the images, start to choose the 20 best images.

Shooting Portraits Checklist

Try different framing: wide shot, full body, Knees-up, Waist-up, head and shoulders, close-up face, rule of thirds, centered, etc.
Try different angles: Straight-on, ¾ view, Profile, back of head, Level, High-angle, low-angle, etc.
Try different backgrounds and foregrounds: All black, All white, scenery, props, etc.
Try different poses or gestures: facial expressions, actions, hand gestures, not looking at

the camera, etc.

Try different light sources: direct sun, indirect sun, indoor, window, lamp/spotlight, candle,

flashlight, harsh, soft, colored lights, string lights, flash, etc.

Try different lighting angles: top, bottom, side, behind, or a combination of multiple light

sources at different angles.

Try different creative controls: frozen/blurred motion, shallow/deep depth of field, etc.

3/26/20

Using Adobe ONLINE!

PLEASE READ

Adobe is offering free, personal in-home access to Adobe Creative Cloud in place of their school's in-classroom licenses through May 31, 2020. Go to

https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-enables-distance-learning-globally-schools-impacted-covid-19

and follow the instructions.

Please use email to let me know if you are experiencing any challenges.
My email is <lwindle@pps.net>

3/25/20

Extended School Closure and What you can DO!

Hello Dear Students and your families!

The number one priority is to take care of yourself and your loved ones in these unusual times. I want to let you know what I will be doing about grades, projects, etc. for our classes.

There was a request to PPS IT to allow students use their PPS login to access the Adobe Creative Suite at home.
All projects will be assigned through our class blog and Google Classroom and listed in Synergy! all students need to post their projects on your own blog site or as the assignment dictates.
Grades should be updated in Synergy!, but PLEASE email me if there is an assignment you have finished and posted and want me to see and update in your grade. Do look if there is a comment from me, sometimes I DO see your post and perhaps it is missing something...?
If there was an assignment that you did not complete and were using Photoshop or Lightroom and can not complete it, DO the other assignments that have not yet been graded and post those to your blog.
We have begun PORTRAITS! Have you completed the Pre-work such as 1.examples of Fine Art portraits 2.examples of commercial portraits 3. Explain and compare the two? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JtHjFELkzY1KmU3G9AyTunz_ho3vhExEmLRW9i-J5UQ/edit?usp=sharing
If you would like to continue taking photographs and talking about them, please go to our Google Classroom page and see instructions for sharing the images that you have taken so far!
Enjoy this time as an opportunity to create, rest and enjoy the beautiousness of spring while, of course, social distancing!