TUE: Introduction to Photography cont...

Daily Learning Target(s):  

• I can LEARN the Best Practices of Digital Photography by viewing exemplars and taking notes on the techniques used to achieve them.

Homework:  

• Take photos all the time
• Install GOOGLE PHOTOS on your Phone BEFORE MONDAY'S CLASS

Weekend Photo Assignment:

• No School this Friday so you have THREE DAYS to take ONE great picture
• Show something in your neighborhood that people have never seen “that way”.  Make something that is everyday and normal look new and interesting

Announcements: 

• Be prepared to go OUTSIDE next class
• Progress Reports come out 11/17
• Want to raise your grade?  Check typing.com AFTER 3:45 on the LAST DAY of the WEEK and look at your position on the leaderboard - are you below the midpoint?  Find some time before midnight Sunday to type some more.  Look at the time spent statistic, you can see how long you need to type to go to the top of the list.
• Start Bringing Fully Charged Cell Phones with free memory space so that you can SEIZE opportunities 
• Congratulations Theater Team!




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Agenda: [60...]

• Typing.Com+ [10]
• LECTURE w/ guided note-taking: [Multi-day]
• BLANK note-taking sheet available here


• You will need to SAVE and USE these notes for this unit
• Basic Camera Phone Tips
• More on IMAGE QUALITY and PICTURE SIZE in megapixels 
• Watch your LIGHTING
• LOOK for LIGHT
• Use a FILL FLASH
• Look for REFLECTIONS
• Make SMALL changes
• Don't Shake
• Watch your battery and storage levels
• If you have a VIEWFINDER you can check your images on the LCD screen - but WATCH YOUR BATTERY
• Viewfinders on non-SLR (single lens reflex) cameras do NOT show you exactly what you are shooting
• Use unusual angles
• Get PHYSICALLY CLOSE
• Use REAL zoom - Optical ONLY!
• Use BURST MODE when shooting 'action'
• The RULE OF THIRDS
• More GOLDEN RULES of photography:  Golden Ratio 1:1.6, Golden Spiral, and other Composition Techniques
• Divine Composition With Fibonacci’s Ratio (The Rule of Thirds on Steroids)
• 20 Composition Techniques That Will Improve Your Photos
• LEARN & USE CAMERA MODES if you have them
• Basic MODES
• Advanced MODES

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• Balance & repetition 
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• Fill the frame


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• Leave Space


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• Leading Lines


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• Rule of Odds


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• Simplify


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• Learning from a master [30]
• Henri Cartier-Bresson_ The Decisive Moment  [19:00]
• "[Photography] is an immediate sketch, done with intuition and you can't [really] correct it..." Henri Cartier-Bresson
• Photography is an ART - there is no "right or wrong" unless you have a client
• There are "rules" that help you SEE and MAKE good images
• Looking at more of John's Photos
• What RULES do I use?

• Setting up Google Photos on your phone [20]
• Automatic backup (selective)
• Saves storage space on your phone
• Easy to create and share albums of your work