Welcome to Digital Photography Class!

  Welcome to Digital Photography!  Take a moment to watch the how to post to the blog video linked above.  It is important that you respond to the email blogger sent you in order to join the blog.  Only members can post and comment here. Class runs from October 23 - December 14th, 2023.

Once you get going, you will see that it is easy and intuitive... and so much nicer looking than the eLearning shell.  Albertus is a Google Apps for Education campus, and Blogger is one of the apps available to you.

 For the first week, I want you to get up and running and post a bio with a photo here.  Please state what camera you will be using.  If a phone, state the model. Download and install Photoshop using your Albertus credentials.  (link above). You should have either a Windows pc or laptop or a Mac desktop or laptop.  A chrome book can't run Photoshop.  If that's what you have, then you'll need to work on your phone to edit your phone cam pictures and upload to the blog from your phone... Another possibility is that you could receive a remote login to an Albertus computer with Photoshop and run it from your Chromebook.

Read through the assignments in the syllabus.  Use Google images to get ideas for your work.  The first assignment, Introduction to Composition asks you to think about finding geometry in your compositions using the built environment (not nature)  Here is a good short tutorial on the subject.

This is a workshop class.  To succeed, you need to save 6-10 of your best pieces, edited in Photoshop for light and focal point each week in your Google Drive folder that is shared with me.   Post 2 or so of them here on the blog.  I take attendance each Monday morning from work posted here on the blog. If you don't post one week, then there will be two absences recorded.  At 4 absences, the college will withdraw you from the class.

You need to shoot about 50 new images for each assignment.  Edit these down to your best 6-10 to put in a sub folder labeled Assignment 1, Assignment 2, etc.  This is on your Google Drive folder.

 I comment on each and every post.  This serves as your feedback.  I want you to have fun with this class.  Looking forward to working with you!