I had chosen Stetsasonic Brooklyn 1988 by Janette Beckman. For this photo a lot is going on in it, it’s a group photo on a street side in Brooklyn. One of the first things I noticed was the matching clothes and how the red kind of functions as a two-way arrow kind of making your eye go up and down the image. There’s also a lot of shade, contrast, and darker tone pigment which is kind of combating the white clothes. If I were to guess the image would intend to give a sensation of unity or our neighborhood camaraderie. If not I would take a fair guess to it being a show of pridefulness for being a Brooklynite.
The key elements to this photo would be the figure to ground, pattern, repetition, and finally the rule of thirds. The White and the darker-toned colors work as a sort of pattern within the photo and a good way to withdraw interest throughout it. However, because the gray backgrounds contrast with those colors, it helps keep the sense of passive sort of emotion for the subjects. The mix of the people within it being crouched and standing up creates more points of interest within the image is very collaborative with the colors, people, and the background.
Global corrections adjust the entire file. In the Lightroom, it includes the controls under Light, Color and Effects. In Lightroom classic, this includes everything in the basic panel: White balance, Tone and Presence.
Lindsey PerezXavier VasquezSoraya Forrester
Download and color correct the three files. Put the corrected versions in an album on Flickr.
Local corrections
After you make global corrections, sometimes you will want to make corrections to part of your image. Generally, the brightest part of the image commands the most attention. Sometimes that is not where you want your viewer to look first so shifting the exposure of parts of your image can create the image you want.
The Adjustment Brush
The important thing in this photo by Bryan Rodriguez is the face of the card player. However the cards are brighter and demanded too much attention. Using the adjustment brush, I darkened the cards. Creating a second adjustment, I lightened the face of the card player a little more. The goal was to bring more attention to the person’s face and less to the overly bright cards.
Masking
Lightroom masking allows you to select part of the scene and correct it. It can select “the subject” or specific people.
Robin Michals
This is an image I shot at the Dance Bloc Festival of The Dynamite Experience.
Image one is the file as shot.
Image two uses a subject mask.
Image three uses a second mask created with the brush to reduce the brightness of the crouching figure.
After global corrections on each file, use masks to make local corrections on the files below.
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Lab exercises
Adjust the 6 photos above.
Working with your partner, you both adjust one of their photos and compare the results. Then you both adjust one of your photos and compare the results.
Put your results, a total of 8 photos, in an album on Flickr for today’s lab credit.
1 album of the 10 best photos adjusted in Lightroom
a 3-5 min presentation of the final project – projected from the album on Flickr.
Presentation Guidelines
Start by introducing yourself and your project. Then outline the big picture with a few sentences sentence such as, ” I photographed variations on the theme of windows. Most of the photos were taken in downtown Brooklyn.
If you are showing 10 images, you have about 30 seconds to describe each photo. Tell us what your intention was, what interested you about the photo we are looking at, and give us information we may need to know to understand the photo. Tell us what makes it visually interesting ie the use of shallow depth of field or some other feature.
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice.
Do not tell us about what you did to the photo in Lightroom.
Working with a light or lights, draw an image over time in the frame. Experiment with thin and thick lines, abstraction, words, and images.
Using a speedlite or a monolight, add a person to your shot. fire the flash and then with a long exposure keep drawing into the shot. The more the subject and the light painting interact, the more successful your photos will be.
Upload a minimum of 20 images to Flickr. Send your best two to the class group.
Spread the legs out and make sure the tripod is stable. Use the height from the legs before using the neck of the tripod. Put one leg forward and the two legs on your side.
Put the plate on the camera and make sure that the lens arrow is pointing towards the lens. Insert the plate into the locking mechanism and make sure that the camera is secure.
Use the camera timer and DO NOT TOUCH the camera or the tripod during the exposure.
Considerations for painting with light:
1. Use a tripod
2. Use Manual as the shooting mode.
3. Set the ISO to 100
4. Set the aperture to f/11 as a starting point to get a wide range of depth of field.
5. Set the shutter speed to 2″ as a starting point.
6. Use manual focus. Make sure the subject is in focus. To do this shine a light on the subject and use auto focus. Then flip the lens back to MF. Remember that if the distance of the subject to the camera changes, you need to refocus!
Mixing Strobe Lights or Flash with Painting with Light
The aperture controls the exposure of whatever is lit by the strobe lights.
The shutter speed controls the illumination of the background.
20 pts. The goal of the Final Project is to create a series of 10 related images on a theme. The images should show your range as a photographer. Depending on the project, each image should be visually engaging and contribute to your story in a unique way.
You may choose to do either:
A series of portraits (not 10 pictures of 1 person but 10 pictures of 10 people) OR
A portrait of a neighborhood
OR another theme that you are passionate about: dogs, skateboarders, basketball players, street fashion to name a few possibilities.
Deliverables and dates:
Due Week 11: Nov 14 – a 300 word final project statement posted to Openlab with “a mood board”
Due Nov 28: Shoot 1 – minimum of 40 images in an album on Flickr
Due Dec 5: Shoot 2 – minimum of 40 images in an album on Flickr
Reading Day – Dec 12
Due Dec 19: Shoot 3 -minimum of 40 images in an album on Flickr PLUS
final 10 images selected, adjusted in Lightroom, and posted to an album on Flickr
a presentation to the class of the final images.
Total = 4 albums: 1 for each of three shoots, 1 with the final edited images
All coursework must be submitted by no later than 11:59 pm on Tuesday, December 19, 2023.
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