Posts tagged: DC Campus

Photography

Seeing Beyond the Object

March 22, 2010 Last Saturday was the start of Composition and Design class.  This course will explore how best to compose your photograph in a dynamic way.  I was excited to start the class and to bring my composition skills to the next level.  Our first exercise found us in the school's bathroom.  Yes, the bathroom.  I wasn't sure about this assignment, but my classmates really created some great shots.  The exercise was name Read On...

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Photoshop I

March 2, 2010 Photoshop is an amazingly powerful tool to any photographer. After a week with Robert Rathe instructing our class, I feel like I can do almost anything with images and yet we've only scratched the surface of what Photoshop can do. Here are a few images that I've put together this week in Photoshop. This photo of Mikela, James and Alex was taken in my Intro to Light class. The lighting is coming from above using an umbrella. image by wi Read On...

Photography

CDIA Showcase: Developing a Style and a Portfolio

March 1, 2010 Last week's CDIA showcase featured three photographers specializing in different areas of photography and a photo editor. Vincent Ricardel, a portrait photographer, Morgan Howarth, architectural, Sean McCormick, a travel photographer and Lauren Stockbower, a photo editor, sat on a panel to discuss style and portfolio development. Chris Alvanas, the director of photography here at the DC campus, moderated the discussion. We started out by Read On...

Photography

Intro to Photoshop

February 25, 2010 This week we will be working with Adobe Photoshop CS4 with Robert Rathe as our instructor. Photoshop is a powerful image editor which allows us to get the best results possible. Today we played with some basic tools and learned about masking. We were given an image of an old man to practice masking. Masking is a way of adjusting a specific area of an image. This is the original image we were given to play with. In layers you can se Read On...

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The CDIA Commercial Shoot

February 17, 2010 There were no classes on Monday because of President's Day. However, Gaston Lacombe, a CDIA alum, was shooting a CDIA commercial on campus. I joined to watch them as they prepared for the shoot. Eventually I got used as one of the photographers with TA David Phillipich, and FT student Caroline Spacee. The commercial is supposed to start off in a video game. And then it pans out to see a kid playing the video game. And then it pans out to see pho Read On...