This is where you take your own photos and display them in gallery format on your WordPress page.
What you’re graded on:
- Quality of the photo, including subjects, composition, contrast, and optimization.
- Optimize and level-adjust your photos. (Optimize at around 100 to 700K size, level adjust for best exposure).
Upload the photos in a WordPress gallery. (To create a gallery when you edit a page or post, click on the “add block” cross and look for the gallery format next to the image format. )- Show that you understand the principles of photo composition you’ve learned in class. Get close to the subject, use dynamic balance, simple backgrounds and leading lines. Look for contrast and repetition.
- Tell a story with your photos. Take closeups, medium and long shots of the same subject and show what is happening. For example, a landscape photo of a beautiful sunset should have several shots of people watching the landscape. A photo of a person might have a closeup, a medium shot doing homework or having fun, and a long shot of them walking to class.
- Don’t just post stuff from your old photo collection. Post photos that you have taken for these assignments.
Photo Gallery
3.1 — Portrait — Take several portraits of a person or pet using good composition and lighting techniques. This should be up close and reveal something about the person’s emotions and nature. Use either the closeup or portrait settings and try to use simple or unfocused backgrounds. Present in gallery format on your web site.
3.2 –DSLR photos — Borrow a (free) DSLR camera from the School of Communication or McConnell Library. Then take photos in the four major modes of shutter and aperture settings. Present in gallery format on your web site.
3.3 — Spring break – Topic of your choice, but the photos need to tell a story. Present in gallery format on your web site.
3.4 – Outdoors / Landscape — Get out in the landscape and take shots of nature and (if possible) people enjoying it. This is an aperture priority setting, so you can have long distances in focus. Present in gallery format on your web site.