Portfolio Prep

We are nearing the end of the quarter!  For your portfolios,please select at least 5 pieces of work.  At least 2 should be photos and at least 3 should be Photoshop projects.  Of course you can have more than this if you like. 

All of your selections need to saved as JPEG files.  Put them together in TWO places:

1.  Your desktop (to make it easier to pull into iMovie)
2.  Your network documents.  Make a folder - if you haven't already - called Digital Photography Portfolio.  Put the JPEGs in that folder too.

Rather than writing a formal reflection, I'd like you to do a reflection in iMovie.  For each of your portfolio choices, you should record a voiceover that describes why you chose that piece.  Your voiceovers should be about a paragraph's worth of reflection.  You can't just say, "This is my pop art project.  It's cool."  Questions to help you with your voiceover:

• what do I like about this image
• how does this image show my growth as a photographer and/or Photoshop user
• what was hard about this project for me
• what am I most proud of about this image
• what does this image illustrate about me and my life right now

Once you have all of your pieces and reflections in your iMovie project, be sure to design a cover slide.  You should design a special cover in Photoshop.  It should say "Joey's Digital Photography Portfolio" or something like that.  Please show your use of special text effects.  It is AWESOME if you include images too.  Make it unique!

Then add your cover slide to your iMovie project.  Add transitions, music, and anything else to make your portfolio video the best it can be.When you're ALL done, export it as a MEDIUM sized video and save it in YOUR documents subfolder called Digital Photography Portfolio.  Make sure you save it there; if I can't find it, I can't give you credit :)

Learning More About Filters and Achieving an Impressionist Look

Some of you are still finishing up your pop art projects, and that's definitely okay!  After you've saved your pop art project as a JPEG in student common AND printed a copy for me, you are free to start our next project.

The Impressionist art movement is one of my favorites!  I was lucky enough to visit the home of Claude Monet when I visited France in high school and took an art history class on Impressionists during my study abroad in London.

Before you begin, I want you to do a little research on Impressionism.  When you can answer these questions, call me over and I'll give you the thumbs up to start.  You can take notes if you like.

• Where did Impressionism start?
• When did it start?
• Name at least three famous Impressionist painters.
• What made it different?  Be able to explain at least three qualities that make a painting Impressionist in style.

Rather than walk you through achieving this effect in Photoshop, I'd like you to use the online tutorial posted at Graphics.com titled Creating an Impressionist Watercolor Look with Photoshop Filters. I'm doing it this way because:

1. Some of you are ready to start now and others aren't
2. It is good for you to learn how to follow an online tutorial to learn more about Photoshop <-- this is how I've learned!

The Graphics.com tutorial is great.  It gives you step by step directions with helpful screenshots along the way.  If you get stuck, naturally I'm happy to help you.

Requirements:

• choose a photo that you (or someone in this class) took - no borrowing pictures from the web for this one
• can be still life, landscape, or portrait...Impressionist painters did all of these!
• if you want to shoot something special for this, go ahead, especially if you're one of those people who finished your pop art early!
• sign your name in a script font in the bottom right hand corner
• make your "painting" look like it's hanging in a museum!  download a Photoshop frame OR dump your photo into Pixie and frame it (there are a bunch in a stickers folder called frames)
• save your project as a JPEG in the student common folder and print a copy for me

Here are some examples from last year:

Katharine W.

Marie-Louise

Harrison Y.

equality picture