Senior students are going to start preparation for the NOCTI test that is coming up in March. In order to help these students out, we're going to be playing Commercial Art Jeopardy over the next few weeks. We'll be forming both AM and PM teams to compete for bragging rights of being the Commercial Art Team Jeopardy Champions of 2013.
This Week's Project Work:
This short week we will continue to work on both the Comic Book Project and the Photography Experiments. I'd like to see finished comic books by next Wednesday, January 30th. Below is a short list of photography experiments we'll be working with this week:
Lens was set to 35mm zoom and each picture was taken one footstep closer each time. Notice what happens to the lettering on the skateboard as we get closer.
The midterm is ready for you to take. See me for your username and password. It is an open-book multiple choice test with 45 questions. You can start the test by clicking on this link.
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The pictures below were shot with a Canon Digital Rebel T2i in Aperture Priority Mode, ISO 800 at various f-stops from f3.5 through f22.0. The depth of field widens as the f-stop number gets higher. At f3.5 the closer and further heads were not as sharp as the middle which was the focus point for each picture.
These images were shot with a Canon Digital Rebel Xsi at f8.0 at the specified ISO settings. Key Question - what drawback does a higher ISO setting have on a photograph?
This week we will continue to work on the group comic book project. We are also going to begin working on photography skills we'll be using in taking photos around the school for this year's Shield. Over the next month, we are going to be scientifically experimenting with our lab's digital cameras. Each week you will be required to complete four of the exercises that were developed by Peter West Carey. You can work with a partner, but each student needs to control the camera during the experiments. These exercises will help you develop the skills necessary to understand how digital cameras work. Here are this week's experiments:
All comic book groups should be shooting greenscreen images for their finished comic book this week as well. I expect layouts to be completed by the end of this week for this project. Below is a video that demonstrates how to use the background eraser on green screen photographs. Try to get even lighting on your green screen photos - eliminate as many shadows as possible.
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