The Rundown - Advanced Photography
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Research techniques
You need to find one amazing example for each style of lighting and upload it to the correct dotstoming page. No image can be reused by multiple students. Add how and why the lighting effect was created for that composition.
Quests for Advanced Photographers
Epic Quests
- Shoe Portraits
- Negative Space
- Light Painting Challenge
- Silhouettes
- Essential Color
- High Key / Low Key
- Toy Photography
- David Hockney – In Time and Space
- Hands in Concept
- Texture Montage
- Portraiture
- Low Light / Long Exposure
- HDR Detail and Drama
- Words and Ideas
- Landscape Compositions
- Concept of Time
- Abstract Compositions
- Shadows
- Photographer Research
- Double Exposures
- Fruit and Veggies
- Surrealistic Scale
- The Human Condition
- Holga Camera
- Panoramic format
- Lighting 101 (Light direction tests)
- Alphabet Soup
- Cooking with Light
- Candid Photography
- Triptychs
- Back to Basics but Bigger – E&P’s
- Cyanotypes
- Faceless Portraiture
- Telling a story: Narratives in Photography – 1 | 2 | 3 | Lynda video | Lynda Course
- Motion
- Jumping
- Dramatized Landscape
- Magazine Cover
- Shoot an Apple
- Shoot an Egg
- Surrealistic
- Textured Face
- Painting with Light
- Architecture
- Time Lapse
- Social Issue
- Hands and Feet
- Opposites
- FairyTale
- Creative Portraiture
- Inspirational
- Theme
- Mimic a Pro
- Water
- Studio Portrait of a Musician
- Social Issue
- Window and Door Seroes
- Triptych
- Movie Poster
- Inside and Out diptychs
- recreate a painting
- Infrared
- Double Exposures
- perception of a culture
- Candid portraiture
- Framing
- Studio Lighting
- Fashion Photography
- Food
- Photo Essay
- Holga
- Cyanotypes
- Image Transfers
- Pinhole Photography
- Photograms
- Liquid Emulsion
- Hand Coloring
- Surrealism
- Shadows
- Reflections
- Chiaroscuro
- Vantage Points
- Social Interactions
- capturing emotion
- People at work
- contrasting textures
- repetition
- flashlight and paper
- lines and curves abstracted
Suggested Lynda.com Courses
Lynda.com Courses – (all courses available)
- Photo Tools Weekly – weekly series
- The Practicing Photographer – weekly series
- Courses on Photoshop COMPOSITES: 1 | 2 | Color and Tone
- Photoshop 2019 CC: Essential Training
- Backgrounds and Textures
- Tinting Images
- Shoot with the Nikon D3300 (school DSLR’s)
- Lightroom Classic Courses
Great Photography Blogs and Resources
Photoshop Quests
- Photoshop 101 – image size and preferences
- Basic Color
- Basic Layers
- Basic Selections
- Layer Mask
- Adjustments
- Visual Puns – PS mini project quest
- Tool Bar Quests – Learn about the individual PS toolbar tools in detail – coming soon
- Deke’s Techniques – short projects and creative effects that can be completed in ten minutes or less. (repeatable)
- Creative Quick Tips
- Self-Directed Learning