Sports / Action Photography preview assignment

Look at some great sports photography



2007 NPPA Sports Winners

2006 NPPA Sports Winners

2007 Akins Girls Basketball game


Copy and paste photos from the above sites to complete the 12 slide powerpoint presentation described below:


Make a PowerPoint with the following slides:
Save it as "LastName_FirstName_sports" in your folder

Action
Slide 1 - A Large example of an excellent action shot.
Slide 2- A slide with a small version of the photo, and the following information:
1) Is it a money shot or a safety shot? How can you tell?
2) Is it shot with high (250 or higher), Medium (100-250), or slow (Below 100) shutter speed, and what specifically in the photo shows this?
3) Discuss anything about the lighting and / or composition that adds significantly to the impact of the photo.

Reaction
Slide 3 - A Large example of an excellent reaction shot.
Slide 4- A slide with a small version of the photo, and the following information:
1) Is it a money shot or a safety shot? How can you tell?
2) Is it shot with high (250 or higher), Medium (100-250), or slow (Below 100) shutter speed, and what specifically in the photo shows this?
3) Discuss anything about the lighting and / or composition that adds significantly to the impact of the photo.

Rituals
Slide 5 - A Large example of an excellent rituals shot.
Slide 6 - A slide with a small version of the photo, and the following information:
1) Is it a money shot or a safety shot? How can you tell?
2) Is it shot with high (250 or higher), Medium (100-250), or slow (Below 100) shutter speed, and what specifically in the photo shows this?
3) Discuss anything about the lighting and / or composition that adds significantly to the impact of the photo.

Coach
Slide 7 - A Large example of an excellent coach shot.
Slide 8 - A slide with a small version of the photo, and the following information:
1) Is it a money shot or a safety shot? How can you tell?
2) Is it shot with high (250 or higher), Medium (100-250), or slow (Below 100) shutter speed, and what specifically in the photo shows this?
3) Discuss anything about the lighting and / or composition that adds significantly to the impact of the photo.

Fans
Slide 9 - A Large example of an excellent fans shot.
Slide 10 - A slide with a small version of the photo, and the following information:
1) Is it a money shot or a safety shot? How can you tell?
2) Is it shot with high (250 or higher), Medium (100-250), or slow (Below 100) shutter speed, and what specifically in the photo shows this?
3) Discuss anything about the lighting and / or composition that adds significantly to the impact of the photo.

Features
Slide 11 - A Large example of an excellent features shot.
Slide 12 - A slide with a small version of the photo, and the following information:
1) Is it a money shot or a safety shot? How can you tell?
2) Is it shot with high (250 or higher), Medium (100-250), or slow (Below 100) shutter speed, and what specifically in the photo shows this?
3) Discuss anything about the lighting and / or composition that adds significantly to the impact of the photo.

Six weeks wrap up

Follow these directions CAREFULLY, and email your final product to Connolly (mconnoll@austinisd.org) or Reeves (mreeves1@austinisd.org) by 5pm on Friday, Feb. 22.

These are MAJOR grades. YOU WILL NOT PASS IF YOU DO NOT SEND THIS EMAIL.

First, Make sure you have done ALL of the following:

1. Your final exam InDesign document (started as the final exam last semester) is saved into your server (T:) drive folder.
2. You have inserted your original Yearbook layout into the document toward the end, but before the glossary (Click here for reminder)
3. You have finished the color shoot (Click here for reminder), and edited the images in Adobe Bridge, and added the metadata (Click here for reminder). This is all saved in your (T:) drive folder in a folder named "Color_shoot"
4. You have cropped the best photos from the color shoot and placed them into your InDesign yearbook layout (see item 1, above)
5. You have created a page in your InDesign document that is a magazine cover (Click here for reminder) , and you have cropped one of your portrait shots to fit the cover. You have placed the cropped portrait into your magazine cover InDesign page.
6. Insert another page in your InDesign document after your Magazine cover, and place your finished "swarm" image on the page. It's your choice how you crop it and place it.

Next -Make a PDF of your InDesign document, and email it.

1. Open your InDesign document. Got to File> Adobe PDf presets > (smallest file size).
2. Title it "lastName_FirstName_pj_4" and save it to your (T:) drive folder.
3. Email it to Connolly (mconnoll@austinisd.org) or Reeves (mreeves1@austinisd.org) by 5pm on Friday, Feb. 22.
4. Subject of the Email should be "FirstName LastName's InDesign.

YOU WILL NOT PASS IF YOU DON'T Email this! Even if you are not finished with everything, you must email it!

Extra Credit Contest - Win extra points and prizes!

If you are finished with your InDesign document, and YOU HAVE EMAILED IT, go to the photojournalism folder on the server, and save copies of your best color shots in the "color_shoot_contest" folders. We will judge these on Monday 2/25.

Rules:
Save files in the correct folder
save files as "lastName_firstName_titleOfYourChoice"

Work Day

I am in Arlington with photography students at the ATPI photography convention.

1. Make sure you are caught up on all of your work. Several of you have not placed your InDesign yearbook spread into your final exam document, and several of you have not designed your magazine cover in your final exam document. DO THESE.

2. Turn in any film you have by placing it in a CVS envelope in the post office tub, and writing your name on it. If you have a camera, turn it in to Mr. Reeves.

3. If you have re-read the entire blog, and are finished with everything, do the following extra credit assignment:

Extra Credit-
Bill Fortney will be speakinf at the conference we are attending. Go to the link below, and look through his images post your favorite one on your blog, and write a 3-6 sentence critique. Discuss the subject matter, exposure, composition, and lighting.

Next - write a question for bill. I'll read these tonight and might ask him one of your questions.

http://www.billfortney.net/

Color Shoot Wrap Up

Step one- Drag Photos into your folder from the CD

Place the CD in the drive. When the Kodak software pops up, hit "Exit"
Cancel the startup wizard.
Click on "My Computer", and RIGHT CLICK on the "KODAKCD" icon
Select "Explore"

Click on "My Computer", and go to YOUR folder on the (T:) drive
Drag the "PICTURES" folder from the CD into YOUR folder on the (T:) drive
Rename the folder from "PICTURES" to "Color_shoot"

TAKE THE NEGATIVES OUT and store them in your folder
GIVE THE CD in the ENVELOPE back to the teacher as a backup

Step two - Open and edit photos in Adobe Bridge

Open Adobe Bridge (Shell Icon).
Point bridge to the "Color_shoot" folder YOUR folder on the (T:) drive
Allow the photos to render. (Wait)
Edit the photos as follows:

• Rate the photos- Rate all of the remaining photos with 1-5 stars by hitting "Ctrl + 1-5". A five star shot is amazing and award winning. A one star shot will probably never be used.
• Label the photos - In the Metadata , (1) Enter your name in the "creator" field for EVERY photo. (2) Enter one of the following in the "description" field: candid or portrait. Then describe the techniques you used for each (advanced techniques, lighting etc.)

Step Three - Open and correct the RGB levels of each photo

Double click on each photo in Bridge to open it in PhotoShop. For each photo:

Hit Ctrl+ "L" and adjust EACH Channel of the histogram (get rid of the flat areas)

Close each photo after it's adjusted.

Step Four - Start cropping and placeing your photos.

Open your main (final exam)InDesign document. You should have an original spread and a magazine cover layout just waiting to have beautiful photos added to them. Do it!

Open your photos in PhotoShop. Crop them to the correct size and 300 dpi. Save them as DIFFERENT files. Place them into your documents.

Work and fun with photoshop day

I am sorry I'm not there today, I am not feeling well.

First - In looking through your blogs and grades, just about everyone has fallen behind on at least one assignment. Read over the blog going all the back through January, and do any assignments you missed.

Second - If you are one of the VERY few people who are caught up, have some fun with photoshop by doing a few of the tutorials listed on the site below:
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tut_photo.htm

Have a productive day, and be good to the sub

AA Read in - Gordon Parks and Langston Hughes

Open the Gordon Parks presentation by going to:
My Computer > jstudents on 'akinspubserver' (T) > Photojournalism > parks > gordon_parks

Make sure the presentation is in full screen play mode so you can click on the different links it contains.

Click on the "poems" link on the Langston Hughes slide.

Look at the clock, and start reading some poems. Read for as long as you want. When you are done,

ON YOUR BLOG - Post how many minutes for which you read, and post the name of your favorite Langston Hughes Poem.

ON YOUR BLOG -Look through the rest of the presentation. On your blog, post your favorite photo by Parks. Critique it as a portrait (what type is it, what is the effect, how do the lighting, pose, etc. create this effect?

When you finish, make up old work that you didn't finish. If you have a camera to turn in, give it to Mr. Reeves in 253. Make sure you have transferred all of your files to the (T:) drive