Author: lwilson

Key Words you should be using in all lessons!

DSLR
Digital Camera
Photograph
Image
Picture
Pixel
Formal element
Composition
Rule of Thirds
Negative space
Balance
Symmetry
Depth of field
Lens
Focus
Blur
Out of focus
Viewpoint
Perspective
Angle
Zoom
Up close
Distance
Framing
Border
Lighting
Flash
Tripod
Lamp
Natural
Forced
Spotlight
Highlights
Shadows
Colour
Contrast
Bright
Dull
Dark
Contrasting
Bold
Monotone
Shutter speed
Aperture
Macro
Continuous
Shoot
Pattern
Texture
Space
Shape
Leading lines
Photoshop
Post processing
Editing
Manipulate
Change
Alter
Enhance
Create
Develop
Filters
Saturation
Desaturate
Hue (colour)
Invert
Curves
Levels
Gradient fill
Zoom
Layer
Opacity
Transparent
Transform
Rotate
Skew
Re-size
Scale
Reveal
Combine
Select
De-select
Lasso

Useful Websites
www.PhotographyWithMissWilson.weebly.com
https://students.weebly.com/
www.art2day.co.uk
Www.pinterest.com
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/category/photography/

Writing about a photographer’s work
To analyse a photographer's work, you need to talk about: - what is in the picture? - how they have taken the photograph? - What camera or editing techniques have they used? - how have they used the formal elements? (colour, composition, lighting, viewpoint etc) - what do you like about the work? Explain your answer. - how could their work inspire your own photographs? If you need help getting started, you can use these sentence starters but make sure you write a paragraph not bullet points... Artist's Name takes photographs of... He/she takes his/her photos by…
The photography techniques he/she uses are…
These are effective because... This photographer considers formal elements in their work by... Something I like about Artist's Name's photography style is... I could take inspiration from this photographer in my own work by...

How am I marked in photography?
You get a mark out of 96 in total (both A-level and GCSE) which is broken down into marks out of 24 for the following areas:

AO1 Research	AO2 Experiments	AO3 Recording ideas	AO4 Outcomes
Using artists to inform ideas, written work about artists, analysing their style, trying out their techniques, combining different photographers styles.	Trying different camera techniques, different ways of editing photos, experimenting with lighting, composition, etc., developing ideas and reviewing to improve	Quality of your photographs, contact sheets, variety and number of photo shoots, drawing ideas, planning photo shoots, sketching compositions, writing about your ideas and photos.	Bringing together your ideas in outcomes throughout the project and a series of final pieces. Must be a reflection of the experiments you have completed beforehand.

Writing about your own photography
What was the task and how did you approach it?
Which photographer did you link to and how?
What are the strengths of your photographs and why?
What will you do differently next time and how/why?
What will you do next as a result of this task?

Move tool
Select (box)
Select tool (draw around a section to move/change)
Magic Wand tool (automatically selects)

Photoshop tool bar
Right click each tool for more similar tool options

Crop tool

Colour picker—to select a colour to use

Spot healing tool— for automatic corrections

Brush tool to draw with

Clone tool—hold alt and click and area to copy when drawing

Free Transform
Go to edit, free transform.
Use this to change size or rotate an image or section
go to transform to skew, warp or distort

Hue and Saturation
Go to image, adjustments, hue and saturation. Drag the hue bar to change colour, saturation bar to make brighter or duller, lightness to make it lighter or darker.

Use this sheet to help you with Photoshop! The more you practice, the more confident with using it you will be.
You can access Photoshop from home by logging on to Frog then log on to Medhurst.

Keyboard shortcuts
Use these for quicker actions rather than going to edit or using the right hand button
CTRL+Z = undo last step CTRL+ALT+Z = undo past previous step CTRL+X = Cut
CTRL+C = Copy CTRL+V = Paste CTRL+T = Transform (size, rotate etc)
CTRL+A = Select all CTRL+D = Deselect CTRL+M = Curves (change contrast etc)
CTRL+ U = Hue and saturation (change colours) CTRL+S = Save F7= view layers

Eraser tool— to rub out.

Fill or gradient tool (options) - gradient fades between 2 colours

Blur/ Sharpen/ Smudge tool

Dodge (lighten) / Burn (darken) / Saturate (enhance colour)

Text tool for adding writing to your picture

Shape or line tool—right click for options

Zoom tool—click then change in/out using +/- at top of page

Switches the background and foreground colours

Foreground colour at top, Background at bottom—click to change colours. Foreground is main filter colour.

Clone tool
Use this tool to copy a section of a picture to another area. Select the tool then click the area you want to copy whilst holding down the ALT key. Let go of the ALT key then draw in the area that you want to transfer that area to.
You can change the size of the brush by clicking the number at the top of the page then dragging the bar. Also, you can change it to slightly see through by lowering the opacity. (you can do this on many of the tools.)

Change opacity
In the layer box select the layer you want to change. Drag the bar to make it more or less see through. You can do this with multiple layers to reveal what is underneath.

Blue box on a layer means that this is the layer that is selected. Anything you do will only happen to this layer. You cant edit another layer if it is not selected.

Click the eye to hide or reveal a layer. Useful to see what is happening underneath.

Click the page turning for a new layer. If you paste something on top of an existing image it will automatically paste it on a new layer for you. You can hold down CTRL and select multiple layers to merge them if you wish—but this is hard to undo past a certain point.

Drag a layer to the bin to delete the layer.

This is a shortcut to editing features