What is Happiness?

What is happiness?

Project Overview
This project is intended to show an advanced level of digital photo manipulation. You will take silhouette pictures in studio, then fill the silhouette with things that you feel lead to happiness. On the outside of the silhouette you must include text that describes happiness. The text and imagery can be implicit or explicit.

Graduation Portfolio
A grade of 3 or Higher on the graduation Portfolio Rubric will qualify this assignment for the Envision Schools Benchmark Portfolio

Grading
Grades will be based on a visual appeal of the final image and the use of Photoshop layering tools to create images that blend into one another while maintaining contrast between the silhouette and the background text.

Expectations for project
Students will be expected to use most of the following tools;

Pen tool
magic wand
or magnetic lasso tool
Brushes, both soft and hard, with varying degrees of intensity
eraser
Layers
Opacity
Levels
Brightness/ Contrast
Text and Fonts
Crop
Paint brush
Clone Stamp
Color chooser
Gradient Tool


Benchmarks

Friday October 2nd Two Tone Silhouette

Friday October 9th Images blended and layered within the silhouette

Weds October 14th Final image is due with text layers surrounding the silhouette

The Happiness Silhouette Collage

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when
pursued, is always just beyond your
grasp, but which, if you will sit down
quietly, may alight upon you.

The next project is an advanced Digital Imaging Project. Student will take silhouette pictures in studio, then they fill the silhouette with things that make them happy. On the outside of the silhouette they will write quotes and definitions of what happiness is and means. Look for benchmarks and Troubleshooting tips as this project progresses.

Color Test

Yes, They are Ugly, but that is not the point. You must create a pair of shoes using the PIG magazine templates that use at least four variations from each of the three primary colors, red, yellow and Blue that complement each other. You must also make sure that the complementary colors lay on opposite sides of the shoes and only complimentary colors should touch each other.

*Make sure that the hues you choose are consistent.

Nike Shoe Templates

Down load templates
http://cats3.es-cat.org/~pferraris/Dunkhi.zip
http://cats1.es-cat.org/~pferraris/Paul_Class.html/Dunklo.zip
http://cats1.es-cat.org/~pferraris/Dunkhi.zip

Portait Reflection

SAMPLE

One of the first assignment in Digital Media was to take professional portraits of ourselves using digital cameras, a white back drop and lights. We worked in groups of three and I traded off taking pictures and having pictures taken of me. I took pictures of _______________ and I shot the pictures from ___________________ in order to get an interesting perspective. This position was effective because ____________________. Triana took pictures of me, and I ___________________ because I thought I would look good in this position. I was very _________________
with the results.
The next step we took in order to complete this project was to use Photoshop to touch up and add borders to our portraits. But first we had to choose an image that would work best. I chose an image that had good colors and was properly exposed. I chose an image where I was ____________. Using the canvas tool I made the canvas a perfect square by adding to the _________________ of the image, I also matched the shade of white by using the color chooser. I then used the Dodge tool to blend the White background with the new canvas. Then I used the levels tool to enhance the colors. Finally, we used the canvas tool again to create a black border. Which framed the finished image.
I feel the portrait is __________________________________.

Back to School Night Reel

Keynote Rubric

Photography Unit

Studio photography Project. Each student will be required to use a Digital SLR to take photos. Each student will then use Photoshop to edit the photos. This is an introduction to Photoshop, lighting and digital photography.