Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Photoshop introduction

1. What are the three parts of Adobe Photoshop?
MENU BAR
OPTION BAR
TOOL BOX
2. What types of professionals use Photoshop?
Magazine covers
photographers
producers 
3. What are the functions of the three different components of Photoshop?
Color mode- controls the color of the image.
make images more sharp 
remove blemishes or any other flaws. 
 
4. Crop Tool 
used to cut off a portion of your photo.
 
5. Lasso Tool
used to select a specific part of a photo.
 
6. Text Tool
It allows you to add text to your image.
7. What buttons do you push to "Undo" a mistake you made?
Window--- history---deselect 
 

My Favorite Cover

Favorite 
#32 Vogue (May 2004)
Photographer Irving Penn captures Nicole Kidman's back profile dressed in a Christian Lacroix oyster satin backless dress for this cover of the May 2004 issue of Vogue. This was the first cover shoot for Vogue by Penn since 1989. The issue contains more photographs of Kidman dressed as a Grecian goddess, an Italian diva and as legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt.

This portrait is very elegant.
Also very focused on the image, just her.
The lighting causes her to stand out from the dark background. 

Friday, January 17, 2014

Magazine Cover Review



Parts of a Magazine Cover-
-Masthead: What attracts someone
-Dateline: The day sold.
-Main Image: what attracts the reader
-Model Credit: person on the cover
-Coverline: one main part of magazine
-Main Cover Line: whats inside
-Selling line: what sells the magazine
-Cover lines: everything inside
-Bar code: to scan the magazine 


Monday, January 13, 2014

Fixed Portrait Shoot

 100
 400
 800
 1600
3200

Part 2:
Best photo! Iso:400 
for each photo we were inside.
ISO: 100 Aperture: 3.5 
ISO:400 Aperture: 7.1
ISO:800 Aperture:8.0
ISO:1600 Aperture:9.0
ISO:3200 Aperture:10
 
What was the best ISO setting to use for your portraits?
The best ISO setting was 400. 

What was your next best photo?
ISO setting 100, except it was a little dark.

Were you able to create equivalent exposures to your best photo by changing the aperture and shutter speed?
Yes! 
What did you learn from this activity that you will apply to your real portrait shoot?
I will know what correct ISO to use depending on where we are taking the photo.
 

Thursday, January 9, 2014