Thursday, May 29, 2014

Major Project Idea

  • What is the topic of your project?
    Football
  • Who will you interview?
    Students that like to play Football
  • What will you take photos of?
     I will take pictures of each play they do
  • What type of project will you make?
    Flier created in Indesign
  • When and where will you record and capture this content?
    Akins Football field
     
  • When will you transfer your images, audio, text to your computer?
    As soon as possible maybe next class.

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Sports Action Photos

Subject is moving directly at you.

This is the "blur" photo

This is the "Panning" photo
                                                    
Subject running across the plane of the camera.

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

7 New Values

Timeliness: Monday March 31, 2014 at 4:46 p.m.
This shows how new it is & when it occurred.
Headline: Pit bulls seized from home after women, 85, found dead
Link: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/02/pit-bulls-removed-woman-found-dead/7194131/

Human Interest: This story has drama in it because its tells you how a man almost lost his life and he escaped and making quick decisions.
Headline: Danish Zoo, Reviled in the  Death of a Giraffe, Kills 4 Lions
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/world/europe/lion-killing-at-danish-zoo-provokes-fresh-outrage.html?ref=world&_r=0


Impact: Detriot is no longer pledging vital casino taxes, instead they decide to repay with income tax revenue.
This is an effect of a loan they couldn't pay off.
Headline: Judge OKs $120M loan to improve Detriot public services.
Link: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/02/detroit-bankruptcy-loan/7230251/

Proximity: Onion Creek Neighborhood.
This shows the nearness I was to this event.
Headline: Demolition begins in flood-racked Onion Creek neighborhood.
Link: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/demolition-begins-in-flood-racked-onion-creek-neig/nfQLn/

Prominence: Dog saving a women in Round Rock due to house fire.
This shows that importance of the situation.
Headline: Round Rock woman says dog saved her life in house fire.
Link: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/round-rock-woman-says-dog-saved-her-life-in-house-/nfQsg/

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

News Values

1. TIMELINESS
 how recent

2. PROXIMITY
 how close

3.  CONFLICT
people fight

4. PROMINENCE
famous or important people

5. HUMON INTREST
 drama

6. IMPACT
how it affects you

7. NAVELTY
 how weird

Friday, February 14, 2014

Magazine Cover Preview

Masthead: The title of a magazine.

Selling line: The main subject of the magazine.

Dateline: When the magazine was published and how much it is.

Main Image: The first image in the front of the page.

Modle credit: Name of model on the magazine.

Coverlines: The overall subject pod the magazine.

Main cover line: The topic of the magazine.

Left third: you can tell what the magazine is about even if some of the magazine is covered up.

Bar code: Is used by retailers.

Selling line: Short description of the main subject.

Monday, February 10, 2014

Year In Review

Best Photos of 2013

I like this photo because it shows a lot of scary power and the emotion someone would get if they saw this storm would be scared

I like this picture because it looks like a rapture is happening or like people are being adducted  most peoples would think what is happening and feel shocked and surprised

This picture makes all of the stands that are making the building stay look like in a pattern and also it balances out the picture too and it would also be pretty dark if it was at night instead of day

Your Favorites
1. What was the best song of 2013?
Eminem: Rap god

2. What was the best movie of 2013?
American Hustler

3. What was the most important news story of the year?
Boston Terrorist

4. Who was the most important person of 2013?
Barack Obama

5. What was the biggest sports OR entertainment story/person of 2013?
Braking Bad

Your Holiday and Hopes for 2014
1. Tell me what is the one thing that happened on your holiday that you will remember?
I remember when on Christmas me and my brother opened a present that had both of our names on them and it was a ps3.

2. What are your resolutions for 2014?
 My New Years resolutions is to try to skate everyday with a friend.

3. What are you looking forward to in 2014?
To be good and happy 2013 wasn't really my year so I'm hoping that 2014 will be a better year.

Monday, January 27, 2014

First Photoshop Practice


Web

Yearbook

Newspaper

Photoshop Notes

Save as

re name your image make sure the image is saved as a .jpg at the highest (maximum) image quality


Nestle - tools are stacked onto of each other - to access those tools you have to left click and hold

USE COMMAND KEYS !!!

Command += Zoom in
Command - = Zoom out
Command O = open

Command C = copy
Command V = paste
Command Z = undo
Command, shift, Z=step backward
Command S = save
Command P = Print
Command L = Levels

To Turn An Image Go To
>Images>Image Rotation
CW and CCw
CW = Clockwise
CCw = Conter Clockwise

Adjusting Levels
>image>adjustmeants>levels
Channel Blue
Channel Green
Channrl Red
Moved just the black and white hersheys kiss

Adjusting Contrast
Channel RUB move just the browned hersheys kiss

To Crop
Select the cropping tool and then click and drag the area you want to crop.
Before your crop you want

Resolution Guidelines
yearbook = 300
newspaper = 150
web = 72

To Make An Image Black And White
Use Grayscale
Image>Mode>Grayscale

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Common Tools

4. Crop Tool: It is used to cut off a portion of your photo it is also another possible way to make your photo look smaller.

5. Lasso Tool: It it used to specific point stuff out in the photo being showed you can also draw shapes with it the changes made will only affect the portion of the photo.

6. Text Tool: Allows you to add text in your image it can be used in two different you can click once on your image using the text tool or you can click-and-drag in order to create a text box.

7. What buttons do you push to "Undo" a mistake you made?
Command-Z (MAC) or CTRL-Z (PC) is the "undo" command that will undo the last action you took.

8. What can you open to "undo" more than one mistake? How do you open it?
You have to pull up the History palette. Window --> History menu


9. How do you rotate an image?
Go to the image menu and select Image Rotation.

10. If you don't like the initial cropping box you drew, how can you change it before you make your crop?


11. Under the heading "Resizing while Cropping" when you enter dimensions as you crop, what are you telling Photoshop to do as you crop your image?



12. What is the correct resolution for newsletters and newspapers?


13. What is the correct resolution for magazines?