Month: August 2025

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Practice LR Editing w/ Your Own Photos!

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Begin this AFTER you submit your 10 Lightroom Tutorials!

Practice LR Editing w/ Your Own Photos!

Instructions:

You will need to select 5 of your own COLOR photographs to edit in Lightroom. It can be any photos in your camera roll or any photos from your Elements of Art project. If these 5 photos are not already in the same folder in your OneDrive, create a new one called “5 photos to edit”.

For each photo, you will create 3 different edited versions in Lightroom so you can see how one photo can be edited in various ways, sometimes editing can really transform an image!

  1. Open Lightroom–>Click on Add Photos.

2. You will get a pop up to get to the photos on your computer. Open your new folder then SELECT ONLY ONE photo at a time for this assignment. Click Review for Import.

Ignore that this screenshot shows B&W photos. Yours should be in COLOR!

3. In Lightroom you will make sure the photo is check marked and click “Add 1 photo”.

4. Right click on the photo box at the bottom and select Duplicate 1 photo. Do this again so you have 3 copies total:

5. Edit each image differently to change up the look, aesthetic, or mood. Stick to the Light, Color, and Effects categories only. Also use the crop tool to tighten photos or to straighten them!

6. Once you edit each one so they all have a different style, you will select all three and go to the share icon towards the top right. Select JPG (Large). In the pop up, select the folder where you have the originals and save them there:

7. Now repeat these steps for the next 4 photographs!

To turn in:

8. Create a new blog post titled, “Practicing Lightroom Editing w/ My Photos” or “My 5 Photo Edits”.

9. Insert a separate gallery for each photo so that each gallery has 4 photos total (the original + its 3 edits). Don’t forget to change the gallery settings: Link to= Media file (always!), columns=4, size= thumbnail.

10. Repeat this for the next 4 photos you edited.

11. Publish and turn in the link to Teams! Yay!

Sample gallery (you will have 5 of these in your blog post):

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Quiz #1 and Sept. 3rd Lightroom Tutorials

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Today’s Agenda:

  • Review your notes 10 minutes.
  • Before you begin the test, close all other tabs or files on your computer. Only have Teams open and put your phones away, please.
  • Test will drop in Teams at 10:55am.
  • After the test, you may quietly work at your seats on past due assignments or the Sept. 3rd Lightroom Tutorials assignment.

Lightroom Tutorials

Complete 10 tutorials by Wednesday September 3, 2025.  I will have a Teams assignment to collect the screenshots.

Before you begin:

When you complete a tutorial, you will get a congratulations/completed message. DO NOT CLICK in that box, first use the Snipping Tool to take a screenshot of your FULL screen! The full screenshot should show the date and time on the bottom right of your computer. (Scroll further down for an example of a full screenshot of a tutorial).

Instructions:

  1. Create a new folder in your OneDrive photo class folder titled, “September 3rd LR Tutorials”.
  2. Open Lightroom (NOT Lightroom Classic) and click on “Learn” (has a lightbulb icon). In the options menu above, change the level to “beginner”:

3. Choose any 10 tutorials you would like to try!

4. During the tutorials, go SLOW and make sure you read the info provided with each step, so that you know why you’re making those edits. This is how you learn what to do to your own photos later.

5. For some reason, LR tutorials have been getting stuck on steps. When this happens click the forward and back arrow on the top right where it shows what step you’re on (you might need to click back & forth more than once). Sorry! 

6. Important!! When you complete a tutorial, you will get a congratulations/completed message...before you click to close it…. use the Snipping Tool to take a screenshot of your full screen! The full screenshot should show the date and time on the bottom right of your computer:

7. Rename each screenshot file with the title of that tutorial (ex: Color & Exposure Correcting a High-key Image) and save them all in the new Sept. 3rd LR Tutorials folder.

8. To turn in your screenshots, you will share the link to your OneDrive folder containing your 10 screenshots:

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Blog Post Assignment: Elements of Art in Photography

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Thursday 8/28/25

Today’s Agenda:

  • Elements of Art Videos + Notes (Located in Teams): Due today, get started right away!
  • Blog Post: Elements of Art in Photography: Due Tuesday Sept. 2nd
  • Lightroom Tutorials: Due Wednesday September 3rd

Blog Post Assignment: Elements of Art in Photography

Create a new post and using your notes from the videos, explain the following to your audience:

  • What does “composition” mean in photography?
  • What are the “elements of art” in general?
  • Define each of the 7 elements and explain how they are used in photography:
    1. Line-
    2. Shape-
    3. Form-
    4. Texture-
    5. Space-
    6. Value/Tone-
    7. Color-
  • Find a good quality photograph online that you think can represent each of the elements (one online photo example per element). Save the 7 photos to your OneDrive (screenshot them if they don’t save as jpeg or png files).
  • Add a gallery to your post with the 7 photo examples you saved. Caption each photo with the element it represents before you insert gallery into post.
  • Make sure you change your gallery settings! Link: to Media File, Columns: 3 or 4, size: thumbnail.
  • Publish your post and show it to someone next to you for feedback before you turn in the link on Teams!  🙂
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Sept. 5th Lightroom Tutorials

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Lightroom Tutorials

Complete 10 tutorials by Wednesday September 5, 2025. 

Work on these when you’re not working on the First Photo Assignments

Before you begin:

When you complete a tutorial, you will get a congratulations/completed message… DO NOT click in it! FIRST, use the Snipping Tool to take a screenshot of your FULL screen! The full screenshot should show the date and time on the bottom right of your computer. Scroll all the way down for an example.

 

  1. Create a new folder in your OneDrive photo class folder titled, “September 5th LR Tutorials”
  2. Open Lightroom (NOT Lightroom Classic!) and click on “Learn” (has a lightbulb icon). In the filtering options above change the level to “intermediate” and/or “advanced”., depending on how comfortable you are with the program (if you’re new to it or super rusty, you can select beginner).
  3. Choose any 10 tutorials you would like to try!
  4. During the tutorials, go SLOW and make sure you read the info provided with each step, so that you know why you’re making those edits. This is how you learn what to do to your own photos later.
  5. For some reason, LR tutorials have been getting stuck on steps. When this happens click the forward and back arrow on the top right where it shows what step you’re on (you might need to click back & forth more than once). Sorry! 
  6.  Reminder!! When you complete a tutorial, you will get a congratulations/completed message...before you click to close it…. use the Snipping Tool to take a screenshot of your FULL screen! The full screenshot should show the date and time on the bottom right of your computer.
  7. Rename each screenshot file with the title of that tutorial (ex: Color & Exposure Correcting a High-key Image) and save them all in the new Sept. 3rd LR Tutorials folder.
  8. To turn in your screenshots, you will share the link to your OneDrive folder containing your 10 screenshots (This example has a different date):

 

A full screenshot of a tutorial should look like this:

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First Photo Assignments!

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Today’s Agenda:

  • Finish presentations and turn in your presentation visitor notes.
  • First Photo Assignments

First Photo Assignments

Due: Thursday September 4, 2025, at the end of the period.

Get reacquainted with our DSLR camera settings!

Before you begin:

  • Turn on your camera.
  • Check your battery level and format the SD card.
  • Check your optics- Is your lens and viewfinder clean?
  • Set your image quality to L with the smooth pie wedge.
  • Set your lens to auto focus (AF)
  • Set your WB to AWB
  • Create a folder in your OneDrive for this class (“Advanced Photo” or “Period 5 Adv Photo”. IN that folder create another new folder titled, “First Photo Assignments”.

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Depth of Field:

Find or create a scene with various objects moving on a slight diagonal from you. Use Aperture Priority mode, ISO set to Auto.

Focus on the one in the middle object and put your camera lens switch to Manual Focus (MF).  Make sure you are about 1-2 feet away from objects.

Start at the highest f-stop value your lens will go and move down the f-stops keeping everything else the same except for your aperture #.  (Example f22 down to f4.6)

Check out a 50mm or 85mm prime lens do the same experiment with the different lens (Example f22 down to f1.8).

If you are doing this correctly you should get some shots with narrow depth of field at the bottom of the range for your lens (the low f-stop values).

In your “First Photo Assignments” folder, create another folder just for all these DOF photos.

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Action and Movement:

  1. Use a moving object or subject (I have some spinning pinwheels you can use for this) and a tripod to keep your camera steady. Use Shutter Priority mode (Tv), ISO set to Auto.
  2. Choose a spot in the classroom or a place outside with some shade (not in direct sun) for better results with the slow shutter speeds. But it’s okay if they end up overexposed. (You may use another scene with action, as long as the action is consistent enough.)
  3. Take a photo of the moving object with the following shutter speeds: 1/4000, 1/2000, 1/1000, 1/800, 1/400, 1/250, 1/100, 1/60, 1/25, 1/10, 1/5, 1 full second (1″)

In your “First Photo Assignments” folder, create another folder just for these 12 action photos.

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ISO:

Put your camera on Manual mode (M). Put your shutter speed at around 1/250 and aperture f-stop at around f5.6. Don’t change these settings after you set them!

Focus on an object/subject indoors and cycle though all of the ISO possibilities of your camera (example 100- 1600).

In your “First Photo Assignments” folder, create another folder just for these ISO photos.

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Shooting Manual:

Now let’s return to the exposure triangle—aperture, shutter speed & ISO. The general process of shooting in manual mode might look something like this:

  1. Set your camera mode to Manual (M).
  2. Check the exposure of your shot with the light meter (push halfway down on your shutter) visible through your viewfinder.
  3. Pick an aperture depending on what DOF you want for your scene.
  4. Adjust the shutter speed (unless using a tripod, don’t go slower than about 1/60).
  5. Pick an ISO setting based on the light available. Remember, the lower the ISO, the better.
  6. If the light meter “ticker” is lined up with 0 (zero), then you have a “properly” exposed picture.
  7. Take the photo.
  8. Repeat this in different lighting situations with various interesting subject matter until you take 20 well-exposed photos.

In your “First Photo Assignments” folder, create another folder just for these 20 Manual settings photos.

Visual Resources:

Canon Camera Exposure Simulator

Canon Camera Parts

How to get a share link for a folder in your OneDrive:

How to turn it all in!

 
Create a blog post titled, “My First Photo Assignments”.
 
-Aperture and Depth of Field:
  1. Define aperture and depth of field to your audience using your own words.
  2. Insert a gallery of 6 photos from your first DOF set that you took with the standard zoom lens. Include the lowest & highest f-stops but you choose which ones from the middle f-stops to include. Make sure they are in order (from lowest to highest, or vice versa) and caption with the f-stop.
  3. Follow the same instructions as step 2 for the prime lens DOF photos.
  4. Provide the link to your “Aperture/DOF” folder in your OneDrive account (see screenshot on class blog) so I can check all the photos you were required to take.
-Action and Shutter Speed:
  1. Using your own words, define shutter speed and explain how it affects action shots.
  2. Insert a gallery of 6 photos that show the slowest & fastest shutter speeds you used but you choose the middle shutter speeds to include. Make sure they are in order (from slowest to fastest, or vice versa) and caption with the shutter speeds.
  3. Provide the link to your “Action/Shutter Speed” folder in your OneDrive account (see screenshot on class blog) so I can check all the photos you were required to take.
-ISO:
  1. Define ISO and how it affects exposure and photo grain.
  2. Insert a gallery with 6 photos from this series. Include the lowest and highest ISO values used, but you choose the middle ones. Put them in order and caption with the ISO.
  3. Provide the link to your “ISO” folder in your OneDrive account (see screenshot on class blog) so I can check all the photos you were required to take.
-Shooting Manual:
  1. Pick your best 6 (unedited) photos to place in a gallery. Include the full settings in the captions in the following order: Mode, Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO, Focal Length….and in this format: Av, f4.5, 1/200, ISO400, 50mm.
  2. Provide the link to your “Shooting Manual” folder from your OneDrive account (see screenshot on class blog) so I can check all the photos you were required to take.
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Getting to know Canon DSLR Cameras + Lightroom Tutorials

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Today’s Agenda:

  • Getting to Know Canon DSLR Cameras: taking photos on auto and uploading from SD cards
  • Lightroom Tutorials: complete 10 by Wednesday September 3, 2025

Getting to Know Canon DSLR Cameras

  1. Use the resources below along with a DSLR camera from class.
  2. Take several photos in the classroom using different shooting modes.
  3. Upload the photos from the camera’s SD card to your OneDrive photo folder for this class.
  4. Format the SD card after. See full instructions here: Saving Photos from SD Card to One Drive

Canon Camera Parts

Lightroom Tutorials

Complete 10 tutorials by Wednesday September 3, 2025.  I will have a Teams assignment to collect the screenshots.

IMPORTANT:

When you complete a tutorial, you will get a congratulations/completed message. Before you click to close it.… use the Snipping Tool to take a screenshot of your full screen! The full screenshot should show the date and time on the bottom right of your computer.

  1. Open Lightroom (NOT Lightroom Classic) and click on “Learn” (has a lightbulb icon). In the options menu above, change the level to “beginner”:

2. Choose any 10 tutorials you would like to try!

3. During the tutorials, go SLOW and make sure you read the info provided with each step, so that you know why you’re making those edits. This is how you learn what to do to your own photos later.

4. Important!! When you complete a tutorial, you will get a congratulations/completed message...before you click to close it…. use the Snipping Tool to take a screenshot of your full screen! The full screenshot should show the date and time on the bottom right of your computer:

5. Create a new folder in your OneDrive photo class folder titled, “September 3rd LR Tutorials”. Rename each screenshot file with the title of that tutorial (ex: Color & Exposure Correcting a High-key Image) and save them all in this new folder.

6. To turn in your screenshots, you will share the link to your OneDrive folder containing your 10 screenshots:

 

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Share & Discuss Partner Critique, Finish B&W Peer Critique Blog Post

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Today’s Agenda:

  • Share & Discuss Partner Critique
  • Finish B&W Peer Critique Blog Post
  • Getting to know our cameras: Using Mode Dials and Uploading from SD card.

Use the documents below along with a DSLR camera from class.

Take 3-5 photos in the classroom using different photo dial settings.

Then upload the photos from the camera’s SD card to your OneDrive folder for this class.

Photo Mode Dials Cheat Sheet

Saving Photos from SD Card to One Drive

The Canon Camera

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Scavenger Hunt: Elements of Art

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My Elements of Art Photographs

Due Tuesday August 26, 2025

Take numerous photographs over the next few days.  Concentrate on a couple elements of art at a time.

Choose your best 2-3 photos for each of the 7 elements of art:

Line, Shape, Form, Space, Texture, Value, Color

You will put together a new post that looks a bit like what you see below. You will type the name of the element only (you don’t need to define again), hit enter and add media (your 2-3 photos) as a gallery. Gallery settings: link to Media File, columns 2 or 3, size as thumbnail.

 

IF USING A DSLR CLASS CAMERA, SEE THE INSTRUCTIONS AT THE END OF THIS POST ON HOW TO UPLOAD FROM THE SD CARD.

 

Line: look for vertical, horizontal, diagonal, curved, or zig zag lines. How can you frame them to create interest or to lead a viewer’s eyes through a photo?

Shape: these are two dimensional; think squares, triangles, circles, and other organic shapes (like the human shape) that are present in our surroundings. Silhouettes help to accentuate shape- to do this you shoot against the light.

Form: these are 3-dimensional; think cubes, pyramids, spheres or other organic forms. Side lighting usually helps to accentuate form.

Texture: get up close to the surface of subjects.  Texture is how things feel, try to capture a variety of textures with various lighting direction.

Color: color is everywhere. But how can you make it stand out? Find vivid pops of color in dull surroundings, or monochromatic/matching colors within a frame (like someone wearing orange, holding an orange, and walking past orange cones).

Space: take photos that are simplistic by using a lot of negative space or fill up your frame with positive space. Also, look for ways that you can create depth in the photos (foreground, middleground, background).

Value: look for striking contrast, low key or high key lighting, or look for how things in the distance lose value the farther it is.

UPLOADING PHOTOS FROM CAMERA SD CARDS:

Saving Photos from SD Card to One Drive

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Photo Critique Process and Assignment

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Today’s Agenda:

  • Learning the 4-Step Critique Process
  • Critique with a Partner
  • B&W Photo Critique Assignment (blog post or Word document)
  • Turn in any past due assignments ASAP

Download and save this 4-Step Critique Process PowerPoint to your OneDrive in your class folder:

4-Step Critique Process PPT

We will go over this PowerPoint as a class and will practice a critique with a partner.

Individual Photo Critique Assignment:

Select ONE B&W Photo from the Padlet Gallery Wall that is not your own. See if you can save it, if not, take a screenshot of it and save to your desktop.

Create a New Post on your blog titled: Photo Critique Process

First inform your audience on what the critique process is why we use it.

Insert your classmate’s photo/screenshot of the B&W photo you selected (or provide the name and period)

Then use at least three sentences in each of the steps to critique your classmate’s photo. Use some of the sentence frames in the PPT.

Describe-

Analyze-

Interpret-

Evaluate-

Publish your post and turn in on Teams. Or turn in as Word document.