Week 3 - Capture a digital image/ Edit a digital image

1. Watch the Genius of photography episode.

2. Listen to a demonstration on the optimising images, the first five steps and uploading images from the camera to the computer.

3. Upload, select and organise your images from your last photo assignment.

Take a photo of yourself.

You will need

3 final selected photos of yourself.

Make sure they are in separate folders from your photo shoot.

Make sure you can show them to the class in a slideshow format.

4. Optimise your selected photos using the first five steps in Photoshop. (sheet provided)

Optimise or correct the images using Adobe Photoshop and the five steps process of
Levels
Curves
Brightness/Contrast
Hue/ Saturation
Blur/ Sharpen
save two copies of each to our student folder. One in TIFF format & one in JPEG format.

5. Post the images to your blog and label them and comment upon them.

Possible critique content.

In detail, describe the image.
Comment upon the images composition.
Where was the image taken?
What camera setting did you use?
Do you like the image? Explain why or why not?
What would you do to improve upon the image?

6. Finish the Photoshop exercise from the exercise sheet from last week. (sheet provided)