Photography Basics Note

Journal Week 8

Monday
- Continued work on Motion
Tuesday
- SICK
Wednesday
- Continued work on Motion
Thursday
- Continued work on Motion
- Started the Cyber bullying project
Friday
- Switched project to Workplace Safety
- Continued work on Motion

TVP Module Tests

Video Camera Operation

Picture Composition:
- Action Safe and Title Safe Area
- Field of Angle of View
- Content Identification
- Framing
Field or Angle of View Identificaion:
- E.L.S. (Extreme Long Shot) or Establishing shot
- Long shot or Wide shot, area of action
- Medium Long Shot, head to mid-leg
- Medium Shot, head to waist
- Medium Close-up, head & shoulders
- Close-up, head
- Extreme Close-up, face
Content Identification:
- 1 shot, 1 person
- 2 shot, 2 people
- 3 shot, 3 people
Framing:
- Headroom, Space between subjects head and top of frame
- Position of Subjects & Objects (Straight & Triangular Arrangement)
Technical Aspects:
- Audio & Video
Matching Cameras:
- White and Black Levels
- Color Balance
- Chromo Levels
Chroma Key:
- Replaces specific colour(s) with another image or video

Journal Week 7

Tuesday
- Worked on SHSM Poster
- Got new fonts for poster
- Compared Fonts
Wednesday
- Picked final font for SHSM Poster
- Finished Poster
- Posted the poster on Blogger.com
Thursday
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Friday
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SHSM POSTER (FINAL)

This is a poster for the Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) program. I used the Adobe Illustrator CS2 to create this poster. I manually traced a picture of a computer, keyboard and mouse. I also took a picture of a classmate and made it have a black fill. As well, I created the SHSM logo using the same picture. I traced the banner and earth from pictures from Google.

Journal Week 6

Tuesday
- Took pictures for project
- Mr. D showed us videos about camera settings
- Worked on Project
Wednesday
- Finished tracing person
- Played with effects for project
- Combined the computer with the person
Thursday
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Friday
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Test 1 Review

What is communication technology?
1. Communication Technology gives students a better perspective on technology
and its nature. It also shows students how to use and apply many of the programs out
there. The students learn the impact of technology on themselves and on society. One of
the main focuses in this course is the application of artistic perspective and thinking to
the projects created. This course encourages the use of imagination due to the fact that
technology has made it so easy to express it through a visual means. There are many
different fields that this course introduces us to, leaving us to make the decision on which
path we would like to venture down. One of the first areas we explore is Photoshop. This
program makes it easy to create a work of art digitally with the use of many tools at the
click of a button. Not only can it be used to create but it can also be used as a means of
editing pictures that have already been created in the past as well as photographs. The
next program we are introduced to is flash. In this program we are shown the art of 2-D
animation. In this program you tell a story using many drawings that will depict time and
motion once it is played. It is played like a flipbook, all of the images are separate but
played at a quick speed and drawn properly will give it life. The next thing we learnt how
to do was how to create a proper website. We where shown how to link everything
together, create ads and basically customize the page to give it our own little touch. The
last thing we learnt was video editing. This is my personal favorite area due to the fact
that it lets you expand your imagination realistically and it also pieces everything
together. First you start by storyboarding, which is the process of creating the story and
visually giving an example of how you want it to look by drawing it out in quick
sketches. The next step is getting the footage, you find all the necessities and then you
film what you need until you have the perfect shot. Once you have your clips you bring
them into an editing program and begin piecing everything together and editing them by
giving them special effects, cutting them or changing the speed. Finally you make sure
the sound, works with the footage and then you export it making it your very own scene
or movie. Communication technology is definitely a great course to take if a future in any
technical arts interests you.

2. Vector vs. Bitmap (raster) Graphics    
1. All the shapes within vector images are represented as mathematical formulas    
2. The image is composed of a pattern of dots    
3. Vector graphics are more flexible than bitmapped graphics because they look    
the same even when you shrink or enlarge (scale) them to different sizes. In contrast,    
bitmapped graphics become jagged when you scale them. Vector images also look better    
on devices (monitors and printers) with higher resolution, whereas bitmapped images    
always appear the same regardless of a device's resolution. And finally, vector images    
often require less memory than bitmapped images.    
4. First, bitmapped images are better than vectors at providing the photo realism    
of an original scene. That's why digital images that are either created from scanned    
analog photographs or captured by digital cameras are stored as bitmapped images.    
Secondly, bitmapped images are supported by web browsers, whereas vector images are    
not.    
5. Programs that enable you to create and manipulate vector graphics are called    
draw programs, whereas programs that create or manipulate bitmapped images are called    
paint programs.    
GIF vs JPEG    
1. GIF's compression is called "lossless" literally meaning "doesn't lose quality"    
when compressed. JPG employs "lossy" compression which literally means    
the image "loses" quality during the compression process.    
2. The GIF format only supports a palette with 256 colors while JPG's palette    
supports 16 million colors.    
JPEG vs TIF    
1. TiF’s are larger sized files.    
2. Generally the same    
TIF vs PNG    
1. PNG uses a more efficient compression algorithm than GIF, is patent-free and    
supports true color images.    
2. While support for PNG images in browsers has been low in the past, they can    
now be safely used in all modern browsers    
3. TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) is the most widely supported graphics file    
format for printing. Although TIFF is not suitable for viewing in Web    
browsers, it has other strengths: it is a highly flexible format which is    
supported by numerous image processing applications. TIFF was designed to    
be independent of the hardware platform and the operating system on which it    
executes.    
4. PNG or TIFF cannot really substitute RAW files for later manipulation.   

Journal Week 5

Monday
- Mr. D showed us a note on Vector & Bitmapped Graphics
- We copied down the note and posted it on our Blogs
- I brainstormed for my SHSM Poster Project
Tuesday
- Worked on SHSM poster project

- Found information for project
- Traced a Globe for my Logo
Wednesday
- Worked on SHSM poster project
- Traced a Man and Banner for my Logo
- Worked on Colour scheme for my Logo
Thursday
- Worked on SHSM Poster Project
- Published information
- Finished Logo
Friday
- Did test
- Worked on SHSM poster project
- Traced a computer for Poster

Vector & Bitmapped Graphics

- Vector Graphics: Image represented and stored as a collection of shapes, together with data (parameters) defining how the shapes will be produced and where they will be located.
- Bitmapped Images: Image represented and stored as a collection of pixels which displayed make up the image.
- Vector graphics enable images to be composed or filled shapes
- Each object can be manipulated individually
- Scaling objects is easy
- Anti-Aliasing: Allows you to correct the pixelation effect
- Rasterising: Convert vector to Bitmap
- Example of Bitmap images: GIF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, DIB, PCD, PNG, Etc.
- VECTOR = LINES
- BITMAP = PIXELS

SHSM Poster Project Information

SHSM  Poster Logo

SHSM Proster Brainstorm

Photo Essay Note

Photo Essay - Step 1 - Looking at Essays
In this assignment you will create your own photo essay. To help prepare you for this you should review some other photo essays and prepare a report for the class.

Select a photo essay from the Time.com web site.

Select one essay and be prepared to review it for our class. You will show us the essay and speak to these points:

1. Did the photographer use staged photos, candid photos or both?
2. Color or B&W? Did it make a difference? What factors contributed to the selection of one over the other?
3. Find examples of good framing and composition and point them out. How close does the subject feel in the photo?
4. Find examples of good use of color and light. Do you see backlighting? Were the photos taken early or late in the day?
   
5. How is narration and text used to support the essay?
6. Do the photos in the essay stand alone or do they need to be seen as a part of the whole?
7. Describe your reaction to the essay. Do all photo essays illicit a reaction in the viewer?

This will be a public presentation for the rest of the class. You will recieve two grades for this lesson, one for presenting and one for participating (being an active listener.)

Photo Essay: Architecture