This week's assignments

For the B&W Student Choice, a contact sheet of 12 new, UNIQUE photos is due today (Monday). These can be straight out of the camera. You do not have to make them black and white before creating the contact sheet. Edit a minimum of six photos. Crop for the best shot. Make them black and white either by desaturating, or using the grayscale mode. Adjust levels and brightness/contrast. This is the most important feature in black and white photography. Correct any obvious mistakes. Once you have six photos as perfect as you can make them, make a contact sheet. Don't forget to change the numbers so that the photos take up the whole page. Turn in the contact sheet of six edited photos, and the best 5x7 JPEG. You should also experiment with duotone. Turn in your best duotone. You'll need to copy and paste to a new canvas in order to make it a JPEG. So, for the B&W project you are turning in 4 pieces---contact sheet of 12 straight out of camera, contact sheet of 6 edited, best b&w 5x7 JPEG, best duotone 5x7 JPEG. You should have these in the completed assignment folder by Friday.

We will also continue to work on the 3 worksheets (Digital Book pp.10-35). When I have checked you off on this assignment, you may begin the PhotoShop Tools Exercise (or 'PAINT' project). This project does not require a photo at all. You will experiment with lots of new tools and techniques! The process is more important than the finished product. You'll learn where these tools are in PhotoShop, and what they do! If you finish a picture before you finish the list of tools, start another. Save your picture/pictures in the completed assignments folder by Friday.