Week 4 - Capture a digital image/ Edit a digital image

1. Photo Exercise 3 - Using the macro setting on your camera.
  
Go out and use your macro setting on your camera to capture different objects or compositions.

Think about composition but for this assignment concentrate on the rule of thirds and leading lines.

Take at least 30 shots, choose the best three, optimise them in Adobe Photoshop, save them as TIFFs (format) and present them next week.

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

Optimise your selected photos using the first five steps in Photoshop.

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 your folder. One in TIFF format & one in JPEG format.


3. Post the images to your blog and label 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?

4. Log in to /RI learn online/19056 Cert II IT Tools for New Media/ICPMM321B Capture a digital image - Dave Maloy.

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Left click the following link.

http://learnonline.rit.tafensw.edu.au/course/view.php?id=359&edit=1&sesskey=w1Oae6RcWh
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Complete - Basic camera functions by finding your camera model on the web links provided and completing the quiz.