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Choose a best photo with the input of your group. If you feel comfortable, ask other people from the class, including the teacher.

1. Prepare a 4x6 inch image at 240 dpi

2. Prepare a 5x7 inch image at 300 dpi

3. Prepare an 8x10 inch image at 300 dpi

Post the smaller photo on your blog and send all three to my school email address.

BF

Semester Final - Advanced Photo Period 3

Good Morning Period 3!

1. Create a blog post titled  "Semester Final Exam - Period 3" You will email this blog post to me when  you are finished with your final.

2. Type the name to your photo website link and embed the link so that I can click on your website name and go directly to your photo website in a new window. (I gave you an example using my website.)

3. Check that your links to your group member blogs work and that they are included on your blog.

4. Find your favorite blog post that you published from this year. (Here is an example, but you attach the you favorite post, not your entire site.) Give me three reasons that this was your favorite blog post. Why did you like the post?

5. Choose your favorite photo from the semester and tell me why it was your favorite. Paste the photo. List three reasons that you liked the photo.

6. Choose your BEST photos from the first semester. Provide THREE reasons using the language of photography class to explain why the photo was your best. Include the photo or a link to the photo! 

7. List three advantages for working in groups and three disadvantages. (You can use bullets, lists or complete sentences.)

8. Complete this phrase from Life magazine's founder. "Picture _______ "

9. Henri Cartier-Bresson knew when his photos were good because these three things were aligned. What were the three things?

10. Check your spelling and formatting for all your blog posts and pages on your webpages.

11. I am wearing gray today and feeling blue. Edit the photo I took this morning. Open Aperture and color correct the white balance. If you choose, edit the photo to improve composition. Post the before and after photos, so that there are 3 final photos. 1. Before. 2. Color Corrected. 3. Black and White.

12. What project would interest YOU during second semester? 

13. Why do you think Mr. Farley has a "Hecka Free Zone?"

14. No cell phones, headphones or outside classwork at your terminal during the final. No Talking!

15. Send me an email to my Pittsburg Unified work email. The subject should be titled " Period ____ Semester Final, Advanced Photo

I think that is all. If you have questions about the final exam, please walk quietly to the front of the room and ask me.

Semester Final - Advanced Photo - Period 2

Good Morning Period 2!

1. Create a blog post titled  "Semester Final Exam"

2. Type the name to your photo website link and embed the link so that I can click on your website name and go directly to your photo website in a new window. (I gave you an example using my website.)

3. Check that your links to your group member blogs work and that they are included on your blog.

4. Find your favorite blog post that you published from this year. Attach the link here. Give me three reasons that this was your favorite blog post. Why did you like the post?

5. Choose your favorite photo from the semester and tell me why it was your favorite. Paste the photo. List three reasons that you liked the photo.

6. Choose your BEST photos from the first semester. Provide THREE reasons using the language of photography class to explain why the photo was your best. Include the photo or a link to the photo! 

7. List three advantages for working in groups and three disadvantages. (You can use bullets, lists or complete sentences.)

8. Complete this phrase from Life magazine's founder. "Photo _______ "

9. Henri Cartier-Bresson knew when his photos were good because these three things were aligned. What were the three things?

10. Check your spelling and formatting for all your blog posts and pages on your webpages.

11. I am wearing orange today... and I am peaceful, but I am not THAT orange and peaceful. Edit the photo I took this morning. Open Aperture and color correct the white balance. If you choose, edit the photo to improve composition.  Post the before and after photos.

12. What project would interest YOU during second semester? 

13. Why do you think Mr. Farley has a "Hecka Free Zone?"

14. No cell phones, headphones or outside classwork at your terminal during the final. No Talking!

15. Send me an email to my Pittsburg Unified work email. The subject should be titled " Period ____ Semester Final, Advanced Photo

I think that is all. If you have questions about the final exam, please walk quietly to the front of the room and ask me.

Preparing for the Final

Today is our last day in Advanced Photo before our Semester Final.

Yor semester final is 20 prcnt of your semstr grade. Spelling matters! Links should work. Formatting counts for 

something.

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• hope. 
• Can you edit a photo using Apture?
• Can you re-order a blog post?
• Have you commented on your group's posts?
• Have you uploaded your best photos to your wesbite portfolio?
• Do you know the class rules?
• Photo __________
• Henri Carter Bresson says what?

What are the benifits of working with a group? What are the disadvantages? 

This is a digital photography class... know how to send an email and link. Check the links. If you have not done so now, do it during the final. 


Many of you have done extraordinary work. When you go to sleep the night before the final exam, remember all the wonderful things you have accomplished. Be prepared to discuss them using the language of the photography class... just spell better than I do.

Advanced Photography - First Semester Final Project (Participation)

Advanced Photography recently finished a project inspired by master photographers. Now we are creating projects that are inspired by the group. The group chooses the subject. The final semester project is a 500 point assignment grade. 


This post is for the 200 point participation grade.



For your Participation grade, you must

1. Choose a topic that inspires you. If it bores you, do not expect me to be interested.
2. Draw a rough sketch before your shoot
3. Preview the location and review of your original sketch
4. Take test shot and review together in Aperture
5. Photograph as a group
6. Review and edit photographs in Aperture
7. Prepare for next shoots
8. Comment and Assist each other
9. Use comment section when finished to show that your group members have participated
10. Select favorite photos in website too
11. Work - SCORE MAY CHANGE DURING THE FINAL WEEK!

and still King - Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley mannequin appears to be dancing with the person who works at the store in Nashville, Tennessee. This photo was taken in November, 2006.

Elvis Presley was born on this day in 1935. Two decades later, he would help shape a new world and a new style of music.

On Monday, we learned that the first image was transmitted to 25 cities "across the wire." This was the world that Elvis Presley knew. Just as you were born into a digital world, Elvis was born into a world that was changing. The older generation did not understand him. (Older generations rarely understand youth!)

His first album (and album cover) influenced music across the world. Twenty five years later, The Clash would release London Calling using Elvis Presley's debut album as inspiration for their cover.) Elvis was (and is) King.

My generation was not born into the digital age the same way that you were. We do not understand Facebook and the internet. We do not understand Instagram. We forget that album covers were square.

If us old folks forget, ask us,

What shape is an album cover? That's right. It's the same shape as most Instagram photos. (Squares existed before albums.)

Let the King influence your work today. Go shoot a photo that can be squared. Title your blog post "Squre." The photo should illustrate a burst of action about to happen, just as the Elvis cover and The Clash cover. (Is the pendulum about to swing again?)

Post one square photo. That's it.