4 pts. Please put your answers in a text file, convert to PDF, and email it to me: rmichals@citytech.cuny.edu
Due: Dec 8, 7 pm
Each question is worth 1 pt.
Describe the difference between direct and diffused light. Take and include in your answer an example of each one.
In both food and portrait photography, it is common to use a main light and a fill light. Describe the role of each of these lights. Take and include in your answer a photo that clearly has a main light and a fill light. The subject can be anything from an onion to a person as long as the two lights are clear.
Compare and contrast these two photographs of eggs. Be specific about how each photo uses the following conventions of food photography:
angle of view
lighting
depth of field
4. Compare and contrast these two portraits of Chadwick Boseman. . Use at least 4 vocabulary terms from the class for full credit. Please do not include that one is in black and white and one in color. These are not vocabulary terms from the class but prior knowledge.
Select one of the photos that you will include in your final project that needs some local as well as global corrections.
First make the global corrections.
Then identify what is the most important thing in your photo. Consider how to best direct our attention there.
Then using the adjustment brush and or the graduated or radial filters, make the needed local corrections.
Put a before and after version of your file with local corrections into a gallery block in a post on OpenLab. Include a list of the global and then local corrections that you made to the file.
Pick any photo that you will be including in your final project presentation.
Make the necessary global corrections to make your photo look its best.
Put the before and after versions of your photo in a gallery block into a post on OpenLab. Include a list of the adjustments you made to the photo.
Category: Lab: Week 14 – Review Global Corrections
Lightroom Workflow:
Classic: Lens corrections and Transform panels. Correct lens aberrations and Transform, rotate and straighten. App: Optics, geometry.
Classic: Crop. Left below the histogram. Keep the lock on to maintain aspect ratio. App: Crop
Classic: WB on basic panel – Set white balance. App: Color
Classic: Exposure section on basic panel – Read the histogram to set exposure. Most images should have the widest possible dynamic range, meaning that there should be data across the entire histogram. App: Light Both: a. Exposure slider-use to adjust the overall tonality b. Set black point-shift double click. c. Set white point-shift double click. d. Use shadows slider to brighten mid tones.
Classic: Presence section of basic panel – Adjust clarity (mid tone contrast) App: effects
Classic: Presence section of basic panel – Adjust vibrance. App: color
Classic: Presence section of basic panel – Use saturation with care: +10 at most App: color
Classic: Detal panel – Sharpen-amount at least 50 App: detail
Global corrections adjust the entire file. In Lightroom Classic, this includes everything in the basic panel: White balance, Exposure, Tone and Presence. In the Lightroom/Photoshop App, it includes the controls under Light, Color and Effects.
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 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.
The main tools for local adjustments are the adjustment brush, the radial filter and the graduated filter.
Selective Edits is a premium feature. You should have access to it if you have an account.
1 album of the 10 best photos of the 90 total, 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. One big picture sentence such as, ” I photographed variations on the theme of windows with most of the photos 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.
Your presentation will improve if you practice.
Try making a simple notecard for each image that lists the one or two points you want to make about that image.
Do not tell us about what you did to the photo in Lightroom or what would have made the photo better..
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