CFG Critique & Voting: HDR – Period 5

Step 1: Get together in your CFGs and pull up the HDR photos you made last week. All of the work that was turned in last week is up now on the website.

Step 2: Each person should be able to answer these questions about each photo in your CFG. Write down the group’s thinking on each of these questions for each of your photos. Post the answers in a google doc and turn it into Google Classroom. Critiques are due on Tuesday.

1. Does each image contain an HDR type effect to it? Is the HDR effect subtle or heavy? Does the HDR special effect compliment the subject matter well? Is the subject something that is brightly colored? What is the photographer trying to say with this HDR effect? Does the image need to be cropped or rotated? Is the photo’s subject in sharp focus?

2. Overall, what could be done to make this photo stronger?

Each person turn in a copy of their group’s answers to the above questions

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CFG Critique and Voting: HDR: Period 1

Step 1: Get together in your CFGs and pull up the HDR photos you made last week. All of the work that was turned in last week is up now on the website.

Step 2: Each person should be able to answer these questions about each photo in your CFG. Write down the group’s thinking on each of these questions for each of your photos. Post the answers in a google doc and turn it into Google Classroom. Critiques are due on Tuesday.

1. Does each image contain an HDR type effect to it? Is the HDR effect subtle or heavy? Does the HDR special effect compliment the subject matter well? Is the subject something that is brightly colored? What is the photographer trying to say with this HDR effect? Does the image need to be cropped or rotated? Is the photo’s subject in sharp focus?

2. Overall, what could be done to make this photo stronger?

Each person turn in a copy of their group’s answers to the above questions

DO YOUR VOTING HERE: YOU GET THREE VOTES:

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Today’s Warm Up: A Beginners Guide to Low Key Photography.

http://www.school-of-digital-photography.com/2013/10/a-beginners-guide-to-low-key-photography.html

After reading the instructions contained in the above link, answer the following questions using complete sentences.

What is low key photography? According to the tutorial, what are the best settings to have your camera set to in order to get a good, low-key image? What should the ISO be set to? According to the tutorial, how many lights is suitable for a low key image?

This Week’s Photo Challenge: Low Key Lighting

This is one way you can shoot this in the studio. We have the seamless black background, and we have a reflector. You might want to have a friend hold the reflector up for you.

FOR THIS PHOTO CHALLENGE, you will shoot two photos featuring low key lighting, see example above. You can use the studio for the portrait shots, or shoot at night at a low ISO number and faster shutter speed. You will want to take many shots and adjust the aperture or shutter speed until you are happy with the results.

You are encouraged to use off camera flash, either with a Godox Speedlight and soft-box, or using one of the strobes. This could be done in the classroom at the front of the room or in the studio.

GREAT TUTORIAL. CHECK IT OUT: http://photography.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-complete-beginners-guide-to-shooting-low-key–photo-3427

TWO LOW KEY LIGHTING PHOTOS UPLOADED  Google Classroom on or before November 4th, 2016.

Upload to Google Classroom.

REQUIRED RESPONSE: Reply to this post with two ideas for this photo challenge. Give me as many details as you can and write in complete sentences.

Today’s Warm Up: Beginners Guide to Shooting Low Key Lighting

https://photography.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-complete-beginners-guide-to-shooting-low-key–photo-3427

After reading the above tutorial, answer the following questions using complete sentences.

What’s one way to get a low key lighting image? What is Chiaroscuro and how does it fit into low key images? What kind of ISO do you want to do with a low key image? Do we have all the things we need to shoot a low key image here at HHS?