Photo+Integrity+Project

**Photographic Integrity**
 * Final Digital Imagery Portfolio Requirements**

Your “digital portfolio” will require that you have at least one of each of the following shots. **All photos must be taken by you (you may not use someone else's photo)**. All photos must be edited in Photoshop.
 * 2 quality unaltered photos (you can crop and resize, if needed)
 * 2 photos that will make the viewer ask, "Is this real?"
 * 2 completely altered photos in Photoshop

It will most likely require you to take multiple shots (I’ve functioned taking 100 shots to capture 2 that were really good) of each idea before your capture “**THE**” photograph which meets your likings. That’s the beauty of the digital camera…you can operate in excess without fear of mistakes and loss of money…**PHOTOGRAPH AWAY**! Each final photograph (other than #1) should have been altered, beyond sizing/cropping, in Photoshop.

Your final “digital portfolio” will be a selection of the best 3 photographs, each with a discussion of your thought process in taking the photograph, and all the digital alterations you’ve made, including image size. Assume your audience knows nothing when it comes to your explanation of each final photo that will appear in your digital portfolio. Full details of alterations are required with each altered photograph.

Since this is a digital communications class, the assumption is that you will digitally display these images and post to the updates page for credit. It will be your responsibility to find a method(s) which best suits you. Be creative, for there are a ton of ways to display your final portfolio in the digital medium. I would suggest [|Flickr], [|Photobucket], [|TwitPic]to name a //mere few.//

And one last thing, yes, I want you to keep a [|journal]each day. [|Reflection]is a big part of this class, and if you keep your records as you go, then you won’t forget what you’ve done. A few quick notes each day – what you worked on, what progress you made, what worked well, what made you want to chuck the darn computer out the window, what you learned, what you researched, etc…just breath & [|reflect].

Now, you must seek & learn in Photoshop on your own. There are thousands of videos and tutorials online. Search them out. You are using Photoshop CS3. Make sure you have a compatible tutorial. The tools and how to do vary from edition to edition.

Below is a list of links to sites which will help you with the idea of good photography. The first image in your portfolio cannot be altered. It must be a sound picture that employs the quality expressed in the ideas in these links.

[|Taking Better Pictures: Composition] [|Digital Photography Help & Tips] [|Top 10 Tips for Great Pictures] [|Ten Tips for Taking Better Digital Photos]

If you are in need of some ideas for photos to take, here is a list of ideas which will perhaps spur some creativity:
 * 1) **Motion** : people, water, vehicles, etc. Much of the motion can be enhanced in Photoshop
 * 2) **Series or Sequence:** Use the rapid-fire option. Play with layering in Photoshop. Consider Comic Life – that’s why you downloaded it…
 * 3) **Showing a “Still” Mood:** Use space, place, or object (not people) to create a mood
 * 4) **Showing a “Live” Mood:** photograph a person or living being to describe a mood
 * 5) **Self-Portrait:** be creative here with your Photoshop options
 * 6) **Portrait of Another:** capture a person’s spirit or essence. Think about posing in unusual settings and lightings
 * 7) **Patterns or Rhythms:** Look at nature or architecture as a start
 * 8) **Ugly or Grotesque:** Look to use situation to enhance the ugliness of the object. Then, consider your Photoshop tools to further the plight of ugliness
 * 9) **Something Old or Weathered:** Photoshop will again enhance your abilities here, but think outside the box when you think of what you’re photographing
 * 10) **Sad/Lonely OR Happy/Outgoing**
 * 11) **Up Close**
 * 12) **Create an Advertising Logo in Photoshop:** You must then shoot the accompanying marketing photo.
 * 13) **Body Parts: MUST be school appropriate!**

Imagination and a photographer's eye will get you through this project. You need to think outside the box here for the next week until you have completed this. Do not settle for OK... strive for excellence.

And for the final picture of your portfolio, check out this [|link]. It gives you a multitude of digital effects you can create in Photoshop. Literally, all I typed in the search was 'cool tutorials in Photoshop'... imagine that!