Resources and Tutorials
ResourcesArt Research Resources: ArtLex
Museums
Museum of Modern Art - The Getty Museum - International Center for Photography - Museum of Photographic Arts - Oceanside Museum of Art
Copyright Law: Copyright.gov - What is Copyright - Creative Commons
Business: 2GoodThings
Photoshop Brushes: Brusheezy - Brush King - PS Brushes - My PS Brushes -
Fonts: Abstract Fonts - DaFont - 1001FreeFonts - Font Cube
To Download and install fonts:
DIGITAL ART
AIGA - Lines and Colors - HOW Magazine/ - Computer Arts - Behance Network - Society6 - Nobrow - But Does it Float - Cindy Chang -
Photoshop Tutorials: Photoshop Star
PHOTOGRAPHY
LIFE - the Candid Frame - Photography Now - Masters of Photography - In-Public - Behance Network - But Does it Float - Magnum Photos - William Eggleston - AfterImage Gallery - the Collective Shift - David LaChapelle - TIME Photos -
Photography Technique: http://photoinf.com/ - Advanced Photography - Gizmodo Shooting Challenge - PixIQ - Camera Simulator -
Photo News: Photo District News - Digital Photography Review -
TUTORIALSEach semester you will be required to complete a tutorial. This is something you can work on if you finish a project early or on your own. A tutorial is a way you can learn a technique or skill you are interested in. Pick a technique that challenges you to learn something new and let you apply skills that you have already learned or are familiar with. Below are a list of tutorials according to programs, use your own images if possible! (Techniques might vary slightly if tutorial is shown on a mac computer) These are only a limited selection of tutorials out there, google search to find ones that interest you and can be applied to digital photography!
Photoshop Tutorials:
Displace - Streaks of color in hair- Realistic tears on face - Face without features - Adding eye makeup - Create a laserbeam on body - Adding 'creative' label to skin - Adding colorful curved lines - Selective focus - Old Style Photo Retouching -
Tutorial Sites & Tips: Greyscale Gorilla - Photoshop Star - Youtube-PhotoGavin - LayersMagazine
Intro to Photoshop toolbars- Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Museums
Museum of Modern Art - The Getty Museum - International Center for Photography - Museum of Photographic Arts - Oceanside Museum of Art
Copyright Law: Copyright.gov - What is Copyright - Creative Commons
Business: 2GoodThings
Photoshop Brushes: Brusheezy - Brush King - PS Brushes - My PS Brushes -
Fonts: Abstract Fonts - DaFont - 1001FreeFonts - Font Cube
To Download and install fonts:
- Download the font to a folder you can easily find . . . maybe the Desktop.
- Make sure its extracted . . . click on the file if the extension is .ZIP and extract to the default folder
- Find the file with the .TTF extension and copy it to the Windows > Fonts folder.
- Copying the file to the Fonts folder installs it so look for confirmation that it did actually install. You should see a small progress window that quickly disappears after it's finished.
DIGITAL ART
AIGA - Lines and Colors - HOW Magazine/ - Computer Arts - Behance Network - Society6 - Nobrow - But Does it Float - Cindy Chang -
Photoshop Tutorials: Photoshop Star
PHOTOGRAPHY
LIFE - the Candid Frame - Photography Now - Masters of Photography - In-Public - Behance Network - But Does it Float - Magnum Photos - William Eggleston - AfterImage Gallery - the Collective Shift - David LaChapelle - TIME Photos -
Photography Technique: http://photoinf.com/ - Advanced Photography - Gizmodo Shooting Challenge - PixIQ - Camera Simulator -
Photo News: Photo District News - Digital Photography Review -
TUTORIALSEach semester you will be required to complete a tutorial. This is something you can work on if you finish a project early or on your own. A tutorial is a way you can learn a technique or skill you are interested in. Pick a technique that challenges you to learn something new and let you apply skills that you have already learned or are familiar with. Below are a list of tutorials according to programs, use your own images if possible! (Techniques might vary slightly if tutorial is shown on a mac computer) These are only a limited selection of tutorials out there, google search to find ones that interest you and can be applied to digital photography!
Photoshop Tutorials:
Displace - Streaks of color in hair- Realistic tears on face - Face without features - Adding eye makeup - Create a laserbeam on body - Adding 'creative' label to skin - Adding colorful curved lines - Selective focus - Old Style Photo Retouching -
Tutorial Sites & Tips: Greyscale Gorilla - Photoshop Star - Youtube-PhotoGavin - LayersMagazine
Intro to Photoshop toolbars- Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
To Photograph The Moon
1. Use a tripod! A flat surface will only allow you to shoot straight, and shooting the moon means that you'll be shooting up and constantly re-adjusting the tripod as the moon moves throughout the night.
2. Use a shutter release cord, remote or the camera's self timer if you don't have one, so that you don't move the camera when pressing the shutter release during a long exposure.
3. Use a zoom lens and zoom in as much as you can to the moon. It's okay if it's not a super fancy lens, this was shot using a 15 year old $100 lens. Focus in on the craters and details on the moon.
4. ISO 1250- 1600, so that you can use as fast a shutter speed as you can without losing detail-the longer the shutter speed, the more chances you have the camera will shake even slightly in the wind, resulting in an out of focus photograph.
5. Aperture priority of f/5.6 since you are not worried about capturing any details other then the moon.
6. Bracket your exposure, meaning over expose and underexpose the photograph from what the camera is telling you. Generally the camera will overexpose the moon, so you'll get nothing but a white blob in the sky. Use the exposure compensation button (the +/- button below the shutter release) and change the exposure to -0.5, then -1.0, then -1.5 and so on, until you start seeing detail in the moon. You may go as far as -5.0 exposure compensation to get what you need.
7. Take a fair amount of photos and keep refocusing as the night progresses. The photographs may look focused on the camera's display, but you won't really see if they're completely in focus until you upload them onto your computer screen.
1. Use a tripod! A flat surface will only allow you to shoot straight, and shooting the moon means that you'll be shooting up and constantly re-adjusting the tripod as the moon moves throughout the night.
2. Use a shutter release cord, remote or the camera's self timer if you don't have one, so that you don't move the camera when pressing the shutter release during a long exposure.
3. Use a zoom lens and zoom in as much as you can to the moon. It's okay if it's not a super fancy lens, this was shot using a 15 year old $100 lens. Focus in on the craters and details on the moon.
4. ISO 1250- 1600, so that you can use as fast a shutter speed as you can without losing detail-the longer the shutter speed, the more chances you have the camera will shake even slightly in the wind, resulting in an out of focus photograph.
5. Aperture priority of f/5.6 since you are not worried about capturing any details other then the moon.
6. Bracket your exposure, meaning over expose and underexpose the photograph from what the camera is telling you. Generally the camera will overexpose the moon, so you'll get nothing but a white blob in the sky. Use the exposure compensation button (the +/- button below the shutter release) and change the exposure to -0.5, then -1.0, then -1.5 and so on, until you start seeing detail in the moon. You may go as far as -5.0 exposure compensation to get what you need.
7. Take a fair amount of photos and keep refocusing as the night progresses. The photographs may look focused on the camera's display, but you won't really see if they're completely in focus until you upload them onto your computer screen.