Here’s a link to the extra credit! We’ll do a practice one tonight.

Agenda for March 11….

First 30 mins or so…. Mid-Term test… take as a group and help each other.

Then, for next 60-90 mins, play around in the studio. Experiment with portraiture and lighting.

Last, edit. I’m planning on at least one Photoshop demo: selective color.

ALSO, I added a Flickr group for our class…… join it here:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/2557730@N20/

and add your favorite shots of the semester!!

We’re going to erase the boring sky at Target field and replace it with a new sky

Handout

Click on each link and right-click download (or drag with mouse) to the desktop.

Sky photo

Target field

Handout……..

For the images you can click on them to open, then Right Click > Save As.. (or Download to…) or drag it to your desktop.

Skin softening

Red eye

Teeth and eyes whiten

Teeth and eyes whiten #2

Content aware fill

Couple things from tonight…

Next week, have all assignments through February 11 shot. See the list here:

http://www.andylangager.net/photo/?page_id=157

So that includes Still Life Food and Kitchen Imagination.

You can get started on the Window Light portrait if you want so you don’t get too far behind when we start to play catchup.

We’ll try to get them all edited next week, but we’ll see how far we can get.

Be sure to have the HDR shots done.. we’ll practice that with Photoshop.

I’m going to try to find a good HDR tutorial on YouTube and post it to the website. If you find a good one that helped, send me a link!

Be sure to watch the Lightroom videos I linked to if you haven’t already.

Last, a few people asked about open lab hours. David says during the day is fine, but just email him to make sure he’ll be there to have it unlocked. His email is dkpurdy@dmacc.edu.

The hour before our class is good too.

Andy

Hi folks,

Well, I’ve never had class that met once a week cancelled twice in a row! Gotta love snow, right?

I’ve had a couple people express interest in meeting this Saturday at 10am at the Capitol (we could meet just inside the security on the bottom floor… parking is easy on the east side of the building. Head to the door on the south side of the building to get in).

Please RSVP if you haven’t already. It will be pretty informal but give yourself at least an hour there. I will demo a few things.

If you’ve never been there… it’s a fantastic place to shoot.

For those that can’t make it Saturday, we can try to find another time in the upcoming weeks.

Regarding assignments, we’ll play catch-up as best we can. Don’t worry about things being late.

The Still Life Food and Kitchen Imagination are definitely ones you can shoot on your own in the meantime:

http://www.andylangager.net/photo/?page_id=157

Food photography tips:

http://digital-photography-school.com/11-quick-food-photography-tips-to-make-mouth-watering-images

http://content.photojojo.com/tips/food-photography-tips/

http://pinchofyum.com/ten-household-items-that-can-improve-your-food-photography

Here’s a nice lecture on composition (it’s about an hour but very interesting)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpHMuK7Htic

Lightroom: Flags, stars, labels (keeping track of your “keepers”)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZK350bz1C0

Lightroom: refresher on exporting (remember you don’t have to use the keyboard shortcut, you can just click on the Export button)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMW6LROmhLU

How about as a homework assignment, you find an interesting photography-related video and send me the link! I’ll share the best ones I get. 🙂

Please send me any questions you might have or feel free to call…. 319-290-8229.

See you on the 11th (I hope). We will do a quiz on Chapter 3 (maybe 4 & 5 as well), talk about lenses, HDR, composition, and more Lightroom tips.

A reminder that even though our class is scheduled until 10pm,  by 8pm or 8:30pm we’ll be in “lab” time, editing and working on photos and uploading to Flickr.

If you want to upload some shots I will take a look and give comments. I should see it come up on Flickr automatically but you can shoot me an email making sure I know you uploaded some work. It won’t count against your grade if there are problems at this point. 🙂

Andy

Since we don’t have class (DMACC closed due to water line break), here are some things you can do to keep up with things……

Assignments for next week found here (note that I pushed back the HDR assignment until we can practice it in class)

http://www.andylangager.net/photo/?page_id=157

Using the Develop module in Lightroom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv1-Or7KAuU&feature=youtu.be

Using the adjustment brush:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGKBcppFqD4

Keywords in Lightroom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBUTsxZRvGU

A video on lenses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l891jvp6N7E

Using the histogram to fix exposure in Lightroom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sawB7MDbOU8

Feel free to explore YouTube.. if you come across any good videos, send ’em to me!

Lenses 101 (Canon)

http://www.usa.canon.com/app/html/EFLenses101/index.html

Nikon Lens terms

http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/lens/glossary.htm

If you’re curious about using Lightroom at home, here is a link to the trial version (I can’t remember if it is 14 or 30 days…..)

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=photoshop_lightroom&promoid&promoid=DTEML

Finally, remember to add me on Flickr if you haven’t yet…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andylangager/

Welcome Spring 2014 students!

Here is a link to our syllabus.

Remember to bring your camera the first day.. we’ll go over some basic features and do some practice shots.

Also, add me as a contact on Flickr! My Flickr page is here.

Reyes wanted to share this: PROOF, a photo blog on the National Geographic website. Very inspiring.