HDR Essential Skills and Major Assignment

Original Images

Balanced Exposure

Under Exposure

Over Exposure

HDR Photo

HDR Preview

What does HDR stand for?
High Dynamic Range, is a way of processing photos that allows for a wider and deeper range of colors

In your own words, explain what makes an HDR photo an HDR photo?
An HDR photo has more vibrant colors and emphasizes them more

What is bracketing?
When you take several shots all at once with different settings

What software can you use to produce an HDR image?
You can use photoshop to produce an HDR photo

When selecting layers, what do you have to be careful about when creating your HDR photo?
To not combine too many photos together and expose too many pixels

Sample Poses

Pose for a single man

Pose for a single female

Pose for friends

Pose for couples (romantic)

Landscape/Cityscape Preview

Three tips that are important for Landscape/Cityscape photography

-Capturing movement can add drama and give interest into the photo

-Working with the weather can change the mood of the photo dramatically 

-Working during the day isn't always the best choice for lighting. The lighting may be too harsh so its better to shoot around dawn or dusk

Japan Flower Park by crazy-frankenstein.com

Apocalypse Now by Miles Morgan

Black Forest by Andy Linden

Equipment

-Camera

-Flashlight

-Lenses

-Tripod

Location

-Hamilton's Pool

-Downtown Austin

Hamilton's Pool

Downtown Austin

I can go downtown by 6th street to take these photos and take photos nearby that area

Pet Portraits Preview

What type of pet will you photograph?
I will photograph dogs

Where will you shoot?
Inside near a window

What type of lighting will you use?
Mostly natural lighting

What challenges will you encounter?
The dog doesn't cooperate, the weather might be bad

How will you overcome these challenges?
Give treats to the dog, take the photograph inside

Canon 6D vs. T3i

Shadowless

Butterfly

Loop

Rembrandt

Split

Shadowless

Butterfly

Rembrandt

Split

Shadowless

Butterfly

Loop

Rembrandt

Split

SmugMug Prep

Content Blocks
How do you add Content Blocks to your site
You add Content Blocks to your site by dragging it from the Customize drawer and dropping it onto your page

Content Types
What are the eight different types of content you can add?
Photo, Navigation, Video, Design, Text, Social, Discovery, and HTML & CSS

Photos
When you add photos to SmugMug, which are the FOUR different ways you can display them? Briefly explain what each method does.
Single Photo- add a block that contains a single image to any page, gallery, or folder
Multiple Photos- add a block that contains more than one image to any page, gallery, or folder
Slideshow- add a slideshow to any page, gallery, or folder
Carousel- add a photo carousel to any page, gallery, or folder

Navigation
What are the SEVEN different types of Navigation items you can add to your SmugMug account? Briefly explain what each does.
Menu- Build a navigation bar with links to other pages on your site, as well as to any external sites you'd like your viewers to visit
Galleries- Display certain galleries
Folders- Display particular folders
Pages- Display certain pages
Folders, Galleries, and Pages- Display all types of content levels together
Breadcrumb- Add a breadcrumb to reveal the links between your homepage and the page being viewed 
Featured Events (Pro)- Feature an event on any page you create

Design Elements
What kinds of design elements can you add?
You can add a logo anywhere on your SmugMug site and add page separators to your site 

Image Preparation

Colorspace

What "Colorspace" should your images be processed in to be uploaded to SmugMug?

Your images should be processed in sRGB colorspace

Cropping

Should you crop your images before uploading to SmugMug?Why?

No because today's cameras produce files with plenty of pixels and are large enough to sustain cropping

Resolution

What is the minimum resolution size for an 8" by 10" print?

750x935