1. CURRENT PROJECTS
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Unit 3: Urban Setting
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Unit 3: Principles of Design
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10 photos fully edited
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Be “curatorial” and choose only the best of the best
images
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Use adjustment levels
Use shadow and highlights
Use channel mixer
Use layer blending modes
Use gradient map
Use the NEW blurs
Use the NEW lighting effects
Use channels
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Follow the theme
Create unity in editing, style and subject
Emphasize the urban environment
Look to Berenice Abbot and Eugene Atget for inspiration
OPTIONAL: use silhouettes
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cropped 11x14, 8x10
black and white (grayscale, B&W or channel mixer)
lvls, curves, bright/cont, exp
burn & dodge
Layer blending modes
Gaussian blur
Lens flare
PhotoShopping
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No camera shake
Avoid clutter
Try different angles
Use candid images
Use lighting/look for light quality
Each classically edited
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Each photo must represent an urban setting
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Follow camera basics
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Follow compositional rules: Framing, Leading
Lines/Proportion, Rule of Thirds, Tension, and/or S-Curves)
Use the correct exposure and light quality
“Capture a moment”
Advanced editing and experimentation with PhotoShop
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10 photos fully edited
Emboss + overlay to correct blur
Isolate color in B&W image
Photochrome: hand-coloring or color blending mode
Clone stamp to extend the background
Color replacement tool
Quick mask tool  faking differential focus
Each photo represents a different principle and
emphasizes that principle
NEW POWERPOINT RULES
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learning target:
Name
“Title”
B&W Photography
2013
Principle chosen
Explain how this principle is represented
know the language of the arts, create using techniques and methods, and review socio-cultural contexts