** Complete the "Reflection" portion of your planning worksheet from Tuesday. This is where you will tell me *How your project came out, in your opinion. *What you thought was successful about it. *What you wish you could have changed or made better IF you had access to any prop/location. *What grade do you think your finished product deserves?

** Turn your finished file into the M:/ Folder. Put your paper in the turn-in box on the counter.

**Finished early? Make one of these easy frame/mirror illusions:

It is easier than you think!

1. TAKE A TRIPOD and set it up at your location

2. Take a shot of your model at the desired location, holding their frame

3. DO NOT MOVE the camera. Take the same shot WITHOUT the model

4. Load the two photos into Photoshop. 

5. Drag the shot with the model on top of the blank shot.

6. Layer mask or erase the middle of your frame- It will show the background from the bottom photo.

Today you will develop your concept for this project and plan your shots.

You can either use big frames, small frames, or even your phones like the example below:

Catch up- look ahead

Hi everyone! Welcome back.

Today we will be doing 3 things.

1. Pick up any prints of your work on the counter.

2.. Check your progress report grade and make sure everything looks correct.

3. Turn in your double exposure photos (2!!!) See last post.
These are coming out WONDERFUL. The best ones align the nature photo with the natural lines of the model's face/anatomy. Take a look:The branches in the first radiate out from the face, mimicking hair, and the bark almost fits like a coat.

Here, he lets the face divide the space between the green leaves and tiny flowers, so the flowers fit almost like a veil. 

4. Begin formulating ideas for the next project- "Two sides to every story"
 You are going to come up with a concept for this project that will require some creative thinking. It can reflect an experience in your own life, or you can make one up. You are going to present two sides to a story, using your photography skills, editing skills, and your fellow classmates as models/actors. You will be the art director, producer, photographer, and editor- meaning you are not in your own shots- you are calling the shots.

You will take several base shots like these 3, presenting your frames, which will be your story boards, in various ways. Decide if you want your frame-holders faces showing, or not. Inside the frames, you will present two photographs that tell two sides to a story. 

Pick your TOP 2 portraits. You are going to prep them for the tutorial.
Find full tutorial HERE

1. fix large blemishes
2. crop excess space
3. Add brightness/contrast
4. quick select the background and CTRL+SHIFT+I to invert your selection (so the person is selected)\
5. Click "refine edge" in your toolbar
6. Increase the "radius" slider until you have grabbed any stray hairs or details. Play with your other sliders so make your selection perfect.
7. In the "output" section of that menu, click "New layer with layer mask". Click ok.
8. This should have made what we call a "clipping mask" or a new layer mask clipped to your selection
9. Create a new layer. Place it underneath your portrait.
10. Use paint bucket to fill your new layer with a neutral gray. Do this by double clicking your main color swatch until you get the color picker menu. See where it has a # sign on the bottom. Enter this #dcdbd9

11.  Choose your second photo of a natural scene or texture
12. Put that image above your portrait
13. Hold control and click the LAYER MASK of the portrait (not the actual picture). That should make a selection in the shape of the man.
14. Click the "add layer mask" button (down there by Fx button. Looks like a square with a circle in it)
15. If you click the tiny chain link between the image thumbnail and mask, it will allow you to move the nature layer around for the best fit. You could also flip or rotate the nature layer to fit well with your portrait.\

16. CTRL J your portrait layer to make a second one.
17. Place it above the nature layer, so you should have a portrait layer, a nature layer, and another portrait layer.
18. For an interesting effect, desaturate the portrait and nature layers and "colorize" them using the hue & saturation menu
19. Open levels. Make the top portrait much darker.
20. Right-click on the portrait layer mask and we can Apply Layer Mask in the dropdown menu. Change the Blending Mode of the portrait layer to Screen in the Layers panel.

21. Now it is a matter of blending the two images together. If you select the MASK on the nature layer (the black and white attachment) you can use a soft, low opacity brush to blend the two. Wherever you paint BLACK, the person will show. When you paint WHITE, the nature will show.

Double Exposure

Check out some of these portraits: http://reelfoto.blogspot.mx/2011/06/platon-power-of-portrait.html  Ask yourself- is your portrait powerful?

Do basic edits on your portraits. That means ***Levels ***Cropping ***basic spot healing for acne/etc. ***Run your 20 portraits into a 4 Column 5 Row contact sheet and submit to the turn-in folder.

https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/make-a-trendy-double-exposure-effect-in-adobe-photoshop--cms-23774

I am hesitant to do a whole class demo since we have testing again this week. I did have really good results when I gave Photo II the link to this tutorial and had them work independently, so we are going to try that method this week and see how it goes. You will need

Double exposure

We will be taking a series of portraits and a series of textures and landscapes to combine into a single double-exposure image. The term "double exposure" refers to the old days of film, where a photo would sometimes contain 2 exposures.

Check yourself!

So far for 4th Quarter, you should have...

1. Pen tool sports collage with at least 5 figures (30)
2. Jake Waldo (10 pts)
3. Retouching folder with (10 pts each)
       -Nose job guy
       -Your own face
       -2 girls 
       -Nose job girl
4. Illusion contact sheet and best photo (30)

Awesome, gravity defying illusions are underway.

By the end of today: You will have at least 10 shots of experimenting

Tomorrow: You EDIT your best 4

You will turn in: a contact sheet of the best 4 and 1 BEST PHOTO

What makes an illusion good?

-Good lighting (model is NOT super dark as a result of backlighting)

-Creative pose

-Pose done properly (so the illusion looks real)

-Cropping any excessive space

-Doing your levels to boost contrast and color

Check out some of my favorites from past years: