4.20 How do you make up events?

Good Monday morning, photojournalists!

I hope this post finds you well!

This is how I'm feeling today

I've received several emails from several of you asking about events.

Obviously, there aren't any more events for the rest of the year. I know several of you were hoping to make up events from January and February in the later months of the school year.

First off, I'm only going to require events for January and February, so if you took events in March and were missing events in January or February, I went into the gradebook and transferred the March ones to ones you were missing in January or February. That should take a little of the stress off of a few of you.

Also, I've graded every event that you've turned in, so if you took pictures at an event and didn't turn in your paper, please let me know so I can check the server.

You can check that by looking at your photojournalism folder on your laptop and comparing it to the google sheet I made to keep track of everything. Here's the link if you can't find it: 2019.20 Photojournalism Events Semester 2

Now, some of you still need to make up events.

I've decided that the best way to do this would be to have you learn skills in PhotoShop AND THEN use those skills to make a video that teaches someone else how to do them.

You need to make a video like the one I made teaching you how to rename your photos, and here's the link to that video: How to Batch Rename Photos

Every skill you learn and video you make will count as one event.

Here are the skills I'd like you to learn and make a video of yourself doing:

USE PHOTOS YOU'VE TAKEN UP TO THIS POINT TO EXPERIMENT, AND THEN WHEN YOU'RE READY TO ACTUALLY DO THE ASSIGNMENT(S), EMAIL ME, AND I'LL SEND YOU A PHOTO TO DO THE ACTUAL VIDEO WITH.

1: Using Levels to improve the color of your photos.:
 
2: Make a photo black and white and then adjust the sliders of the colors to make different areas in the photo stand out.

3: Cut out a figure in a photo with a transparent background so it can be place on a yearbook page.

How do you record your screen and voice?

Here's a link to a video that shows you how to do it if it's not blocked:
How to record your screen and voice using QuickTime
If it is blocked, google it.

How do you learn how to do these things and then show others?
Google how to do them.  There are HUNDREDS of videos of photographers talking you through how to do them.
With Photoshop, there are at least 10 different ways to do each of these skills, which is one of the reasons I kind of struggle with PhotoShop sometimes.

ONCE YOU DECIDE WHICH ONE YOU'RE DOING, AND LEARN HOW TO DO IT, EMAIL ME AND LET ME KNOW WHICH ONE YOU'RE GOING TO DO, AND I'LL SEND YOU THE PICTURE TO DO YOUR VIDEO WITH.

When is this due? Thursday, May 7.  DO NOT EMAIL ME THE MORNING OF THURSDAY, MAY 7 AND ASK ME HOW TO DO THIS.

START NOW!!

EACH one counts as one event. So you can make up three events. If you have all of your events to make up, do all three of these before you ask me for another activity.

Practice on photos you already have from ones you've taken.

Got questions? I'm just an email away!