2 0 2 4 RCW Photo Club
Storyboarding
Larry Padgett
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Photo Critiques
Layers “In Action”
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Assignment:
Continue to Develop your Story…
Update / Correct / Enhance you story from the critiques.
Upload the final images for next weeks meeting.
P.S.
Until further notice…
“Select” and “Submit” each photo individually.
Story Telling “Continued”
Planning Your Shot
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Assignment:
Developing Story:
– Create a set of images that tell a Story
P.S.
Until further notice…
“Select” and “Submit” each photo individually.
Story Telling
Night Sky “Processing”
Photo Critiques .
Assignment:
Developing Story:
– Create a set of images that tell a Story
P.S.
Until further notice…
“Select” and “Submit” each photo individually.
Histogram Critiques
Unordinary Ordinary
Evaluating Before / After Photos .
Assignment:
Developing Story:
– One subject, animate or inanimate
– Minimum of 3 images showing the progression leading to the …
– Final image… the one that represents the “STORY”
Extra Credit:
One image of the Unordinary Ordinary
P.S.
Until further notice…
“Select” and “Submit” each photo individually.
Dynamic Range / Histograms
Histograms “In Action”
HDR in Lightroom / Using PhotoPills APP
Assignment:
One Subject…
– The subject must have a dynamic range that when properly exposed, occupies approximately the middle half of the histogram.
Create 3 Exposures…
– One underexposed, which histogram almost touching the left side of the histogram display – NO clipping
– One over exposed, with the histogram almost touching the right side of the histogram display – NO clipping
– One properly exposed, with the histogram occupying approximately the middle third of the histogram display
P.S.
Until further notice…
“Select” and “Submit” each photo individually.
Color Space
“Shooting the Moon”
Assignment:
One WOW photo incorporating a minimum of four compositional elements.
P.S.
Until further notice…
“Select” and “Submit” each photo individually.
Assignment:
3 Photos… Each of a different subject.
Each photo should use color to enhance a composition.
Example… Using color to lead the viewer to the point of interest.
P.S.
Until further notice…
“Select” and “Submit” each photo individually.
Perspectives
Vantage Points
Critique – Auction Photos
Assignment:
Combining Vantage Point & Perspective
Keeping in mind all of the compositional elements we have discussed so far:
Create 3 images:
1 – High vantage point creating a specific sense or feeling
2 – Low vantage point using overlapped elements to convey size, importance, …
3 – Close vantage point, creating sense of intimacy with the subject
Enhancing the Image
Lightroom ( Luminosity Mask )
Assignment:
Make the edit adjustments per class instruction…
OR…
Re shoot a previous image using one of the Image Enhancement Techniques…
Upload 2 images… Title 1 – Original Title 2 – Enhanced
OR…
Select a new subject to photograph, and…
Using the Image Enhancement Techniques…
Take 1st photo from a wide angle… Take 2nd photo using an Image Enhancement Technique.
Upload 2 images… Title 1 – Original Title 2 – Enhanced
Composition (Tools & Elements)
Lightroom ( Masking / Effects )
Assignment: 6 Photos of the parks railroad
3 DIFFERENT Subjects / Views
1st Image wide angle… Shows the scene from the angle of the 2nd photo.
2nd Image uses one or more compositional elements & tools.
( Feet do NOT count as one of the tools )
You will explain what elements & tools you used in the class meeting.
Understanding Light (Direction / Effect)
Composition (Basic Rules / Leading Lines)
Lightroom ( Masking / Effects )
Assignment: 4 Photos
One CREATIVE photograph that clearly demonstrates each of the 4 basic compositional designs
– Rule of Thirds
– Leading Lines ( NO railroad Tracks )
– Depth of Field
– Rule of Odds
Photograph vs Snapshot
Working with Light
Lightroom Basics – 2
Assignment:
3 Images… Each of a different… Subject, Lighting, and Lighting Direction
i.e. Back light with soft or hazy lighting.
Introduction
Basic Photography Skills
- Mastering the Potential of your Camera – 1
- Mastering the Potential of your Camera – 2
- 5 Factors Affecting Proper Exposure – 1
- 5 Factors Affecting Proper Exposure – 2
- Handling Difficult Exposure Situations
- Understanding Natural Light’s Affects – 1
- Understanding Natural Light’s Affects – 2
- Basic Composition – 1
- Basic Composition – 2
- Putting it All Together
Beyond the Basics
- Putting the WOW in your photography
- Introduction and Overview
- Basic Tools
- Composition Killers
- Recognizing and Using Lighting
- Essential Composition
- Advanced Composition
- Overcoming Color Incompatibilities
- How to Use Color to Enhance Composition
- Telling your Five-Image Story
Topics / Ideas
- Wildlife Photography… How To
- Macro Photography
- Working with Camera… Properly
- Lighting… Natural / Studio
- Digital Features of Cameras
- Photography Locations
- Editing in Luminar
- Editing in Capture 1
- Using Layers
- Masking
- How to process bracketed photos
- Field Ethics… Blend / Composite / Pixel Art
- Tricks to Panning
- Night Scapes
- Long Exposure / Lighting Effects
- Use of Flash / Artificial Light
- Photo Critiques. (Actual / How To)