Week 4: Adobe LR/PS, Portraits, and Aplhabets... Oh My!

Nicola Kuperus

Today in class we went over art opportunities, basic Lightroom editting, and basic photoshop layers. If you are behind on blogposts, please get these up to date no later than this weekend. 

Assignment for this week: "Portraits of Self, Portraits of Others"

1. I would like you to go through the portraits that we shot in class the other day, and chose 5 of your favorite images. 1 portrait must be a self-portrait. And 1 portrait must be of someone else. The remaining 3 are your choice, (Self or Other). You will take these 5 images and process them in Lightroom:
• If you do not feel confident about the portraits you have taken, please RESHOOT. You should feel good about your work. Shoot until you do. 

• In Lightroom: Make sure to do your White Balance, color corrections, exposure, contrast, and any cropping. And then EXPORT the images as jpegs. 

• You will then post these 5 images to your blog prior to next class, 9/27. Post should be titled "Portraits of Self, Portraits of Others." The day of the class, please bring these images on a harddrive / thumbdrive to turn in, we will be projecting them for the critique. 

• Please label images in the following format: lastnamefirstname_portraits_001.jpg. 
• Ex: SmithKristina_portrait_001.jpg, SmithKristina_portrait_002.jpg, etc. 

Monica Ruzansky, Dicen Que

2. I would like you to continue shooting for the Alphabet assignment. 

• You will photograph a minimum of two complete sets of the alphabet. 

• (Remember, there are 26 letters in the alphabet. 1 image for each letter. Each complete set must be different, So at least 52 images total.)   

• You will process one alphabet set in color and one in black and white. The letters should be made from your image composition, and not from shooting actual letters or typefaces that you may find on signs! Two sets are due, the friday after next, on October 4. We will process these in class on Friday, September 27, so please have something to work with. And the final image will be posted to your blog as one final image. 
• See the example below: