Light Study

Time to add to your InDesign Document!

On Page Seven of your document, you should have typed the words "Light Study" as a headline. Complete this page by doing the following:

1. Layout the rest of the page.

• Make sure the page has three columns
• Place a text area under the headline that stretches the width of the document (margin to margin) and fill it with placeholder text. The text should be - Times new roman, 10pt, 11pt leading, over two columns
• Draw three boxes for photos, and leave one column of white space to the side of each box for a critique of the photo.
• There should be a dominant photo that is at least twice the size of the other boxes.
• Boxes should stretch from column to column in width.
• Make sure everything looks orderly and that there is consistant one pica internal spacing.
• Scan all of your light study B&W prints on the flatbed (300 dpi, Grayscale, .tiff)
• Save them into one of the group member's folders.
• Each group member will choose their favorite as a dominant, and two other photos. Each group member must save his/her own copy of the photos into his/her own folder.

2. Crop, edit, and place your photos

• Each photo must be cropped to fit the box in the layout, and the levels should be adjusted.
• File>Place the cropped photos into the layout.

3. Critique each photo

• Next to each photo, write a critique of the lighting including the following information: a)What was the task you were trying to accomplish with this photo? b) What were your shutter speeds and aperture settings? c) Describe the quality of light in the photo (soft, hard, shadow) d) Describe the direction of light e) Describe the amount of light f)what is the overall effect or feeling produced by the lighting?

Photoshop Manipulation

First - Make sure you are caught up on all of your work:

InDesign Document page 1-6 are complete (See blog)
Ethics modules are complete (global classroom)

Second- When you are DONE - Start messing with (manipulating) some faces.

Open Photoshop
Got to File> Open
Go to Journalism Network > j3 > beauty_photos
Open teen_girl.jpg and teen_boy.jpg
Save these into your folder immediately

Do the following in order.

To the girl- Get rid of as many skin blemishes as possible using the following tool:
Stamp tutorial




To the boy - Whiten his teeth
1. Watch this tutorial @Atomic LearningAtomic Learning (http://www.atomiclearning.com/photoshopcs2_intro_pc -- C. 9 Using the Lasso tool for selections)
2. Follow these instructions - http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Teeth-Whitening/10376

To the girl - Further smooth her skin
1. Watch this tutorial @Atomic LearningAtomic Learning (http://www.atomiclearning.com/photoshopcs2_intro_pc -- C. 14. Drawing and erasing within a selection )
2. Follow these instructions - http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Creating-Smooth-Skin/16026

To the girl -Increase the bicept size
1. Atomic Learning (http://www.atomiclearning.com/photoshopcs2_intro_pc -- A. 11 Applying a filter effect)
2. Follow these instructions - http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Expand-Biceps/11240

To the boy - Give him longer hair
Follow these instructions -http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Hair-Manipulation/14687

InDesign Cover 2 - Table of Contents

Add the following to page 1

• Draw a text box on your front page that is w- 7.5in by h- 3in
• Right click on the text box with the black selection tool and select "text frame options"
• Set the number of columns to "3"
• Type the following in column 1

Tool Practice — Pg.2
Cropping and layout practice — Pg.3
First shoot crop and caption — Pg.4
Academic shoot layout— Pg.5
Color Study — Pg.6
Light Study — Pg.7

(Note that the line between the name of the page and the page numbers is an "EM Dash" created by pushing "Alt+Shift+ -")

• Don't worry about formatting the text perfectly. We will work on this later.

Start your InDesign Cover

You will use the type on a path tool (Under the normal type tool) to create an interesting effect for the cover of your photojournalism concepts document.

1. Open your InDesign, and re-save it as "photoj_concepts" in your InDesign folder.
2. On page one, draw a curved path with the pen tool.
3. Select the type on a path tool (Under the normal type tool), attach it to the path by clicking when it shows a "+" sign.
4. Type "Photojournalism Concepts" in a large interesting but readable font.
5. Type your name in some interesting way.

InDesign assignment reminders

Most of the instructions of what to place on pages 2-6 of your document are on the blog. You will find the information below useful if you need to make up this work.

Page 1- Blank
Page 2-3
Blog post - Friday, September 29, 2006
InDesign Tutorial 2
Page 4
Copy the layout from page 3, and place your human knot photo, then write a real caption
Caption Style-
1st sentence - 5ws and h, present tense, describe what is happening in photo, but don't state the obvious
2nd sentence- Background or context information about the situation in which the photo was taken. Past tense.
Page 5-6
Blog post - Friday, October 13, 2006
Academics Photography Wrap Up