Welcome!

Welcome to Digital Photography I an II!  Take a moment to watch the how to post 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 Jan 18 - March 10, 2022. 

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.

Everything you need to navigate and do well in this class is in the syllabus.  Click on the link above to view it, both Photo I and II.  Return to it often... It is you roadmap from day to day.  I will post a comment on each post.  Please read them too.  

 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 desktop 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 for you to work from any public computer on the Albertus campus.

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). Look at these examples of "Urban Geometry" using Google Images.   This assignment gets you to see each part of the picture as a shape and how all of the shapes work together.  I have also linked visual suggestions for each new assignment in the upper right side of the blog.  Find an image that you could pull off each week and run from there.

This is a workshop class.  To succeed, you need to post 6-10 of your best pieces, edited in Photoshop for light and focal point each week.  Put everything you shoot in a Google Drive folder and share it with me using jnevins@albertus.edu A good ratio is to shoot 10 pictures for each "best image" you post on the blog. As a minimum, shoot at least 50 images for each assignment and put them all in your google Drive. I need to look at the original images.  They carry metadata about your camera, the exposure, the date and time and even gps coordinates.  Only new work, shot for each assignment can count towards your grade.  The metadata proves it... it do check it!

I take attendance on Monday morning for the previous week's work.  Each Monday, I record 2 attendances for the previous week. Please email me with any questions.  That is the best way to get in touch with me. I want you to have fun with this class.  Looking forward to working with you!