Geography and Climate

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen! Sorry, I am away sick today :( 

Are you finished yesterday's work? Then please follow these instructions:


Watch the following Video and Answer these questions on lined paper. The video is only 4 minutes long so if you don't catch the answers the first time watch it again:

During the video

1. How many main climate zones does the earth have?

2. Where are two places listed in the video with harsh climates?

3. What are the reasons we can now live in theses very hot or very cold places?

4. What are two ways we track weather with technology?

After the video

1. In the video they said, Some of the first human communities occurred in places with HOSPITABLE climates. What does hospitable mean?

2. List the 6 Main Climate Zones on Earth. 6 Main Zones

3. Name and describe one of the Earth's Main Climate Zones where you would want to live.

4. What country would you live in if you were in that climate zone? Use this map to help.

Click here for Map of Climate Zones

Exposure Detective

Today's challenge is to look at a picture and try to determine what aperture and shutter speed was used. I have given you some tips and clues below to help..

Example:

My Comments: I think this picture is using a fast shutter speed between 1/500 and 1/1000 because the quickly moving subject is frozen.  The background is out of focus so this tells me the aperture is on the larger end, between f2 and f4. You would also need a wide open aperture to get enough light into the camera in such a short time span.

Clues for Shutter Speed:

• is anything in the picture blurred? Use your judgement and decide it blurred because a very long exposure like 8 seconds or blurred because the subject is moving extremely quickly? In the case of fast objects blur can be captured at even 1/100 second exposures.
• is their a panning effect? Chances are good you have a slow exposure .
•  is the subject frozen in a way that would normally happen to quickly to see? A very fast (1/500 -1/1000) exposure was probably used.

Clues for Aperture Settings:

•  is there a shallow depth of field ? (An out of focus background?) This is a clue that a large aperture ex: f2.8 was used.
•  Is everything near and far in focus? The opposite is true.

Overall Clues:

• Pay attention to the light. If the picture has an obvious high shutter speed and is nice and bright this means that the aperture must have been wide open.
• Remember your own experiments, what settings did you use?

Your Challenge
Respond by telling me what approximate settings you think were used for each of the following pictures. Please type and submit your responses. (Support with evidence!)
#1

#2

#3

#4

Grade 12 Project: Photos That Make People Think

As a last in class assignment you will but manipulating one of your photos using the "Rasterbator" program. This software takes an image and rasterizes it (Think Lichtenstein Pop Art) so that it can be blown up to a much larger size.

The focus of this assignment is to draw attention to an issue you feel needs to be highlighted in a social setting. Examples of locations include: the school, inside or out, streets in Grimsby (only with permission of property owners) the library,  and other public buildings. the image is blown up and printed on paper, cut out and put up on a backing. Remember you are not limited to walls, think about using 3-D surfaces as well (Ex: a park bench) The image must be your own. To "hand-in" take a photo of your installation "in situ" and post it on your blog along with an explanation of your intent. Posts must be made before midnight on Friday.

Grade 11: Hue and Saturation Assignment

Grade 11s,  your final in class assignment is based on the lesson we did in class today on using the Hue Saturation editing options in Photoshop. The assignment is very straightforward in the editing sense. It will be marked with emphasis on the creative and artistic effect you achieve. 

The assignment is to take a photograph over the weekend or during Monday's class that you intend to edit for colour. The edit must do one of the following things but only one:

• Desaturate all colours in the image except for one. This will result in the a black and white image with only  (for example red ) tones showing  through. Ex:

• Isolate one part of the picture with a selection tool, feather and leave only this in colour. Note the difference in the effect.

• OR you can isolate part of an image and play with altering the colour in an interesting way. Ex:

You will be graded on the quality of your original image as well as the overall effect of the edits. Pictures that have poor composition or colour edits that appear to be random or without purpose will lose marks.

Student Gallery

Some amazing work from recent journals....

Hanna DeRoche

Larissa Downs

Taylor Vincent

Nesta Cooper

Journal 9 and Grade 12 3-D Assignment

Grade 11 Journal 9 "Pareidolia"
"There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good- will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us." --David Hume




This weeks assignment is to see faces in inaniamate objects. On one level it is kind of a silly fun assignment on another level it is about seeing negative space in a new way and looking closely at the world around you.

Grade 12 Journal 9 and 3-D Assignment
Part one of your assignment will also be your journal for this week. I would like you to take several photos that will create an interesting 3-D image. Subject matter should have a number of "layers" ie: objects in the for, middle and background. It also helps to have a focal point which stands out clearly from the background. 

Examples:

To take the photos you must take a left and a right eye photograph. The photos above were taken with specially rigged "double camera" that took two pictures at the exact same time from the approximate distance of your two eyes. We will not be doing this approach, we will only use one camera and take 2 subsequent photos. Therefore you are encouraged to do a still object instead of a person/pet.

Grade 11 Unit 3 Technical Test and Grade 12 Technical Manual

Grade 11's Study Guide for the Unit 3 Test 

Part One
Lighting Techniques
Review Reading from the Cindy Sherman Unit

Part Two
Photoshop Terms and Techniques
Terms to know (You should understand how to manipulate/use each in Photoshop)
Resisizing Canvas, Crop, Gaussian Blur, Layer Blending, Colour Cast, Levels/Histogram,
Noise Reduction, Feather, Inverse

Study the following buttons and menu options in Photoshop that are related to "Selection". You should also be able to to understand when they are the most effectively used and how to add and subtract from a selection.

Selection Tools

Extended Options in Lasso Tool

Selection Menu options for working with your selection

Grade 12's Technical Manual

Grade Twelves, in place of a written test you will be required to put together a Technical Manual on creating a Cinemagraph and Lighting Techniques. Everything will be Posted Online as a single post entitled Technical Manual.

Part One
This will be like a step by step tutorial that will explain how to create a cinemagraph with tips from your own experience. This will be created online and posted to your blog. Include links to any websites sited as well as many example photographs. You may want to include screen captures of your photoshop screen like I have above.

Required Elements:
1. A brief Explaination of what a Cinemagraph is with your favorite examples as well as your best Cinemagraph.
2.Written Instructions on how to create one. (Clear and concise)
3. Images used for explaining your points.
4. Links to external Websites if you refer to them.

Part Two
Using the photocopied Lighting Techniques package you were given during the Cindy Sherman Project create an "Infographic" in Photoshop informing people of essential Studio lighting techniques.

Required Elements:
Inverse Square Law
Red Eye Reduction
Bounce Flash
Fill Flash
Studio Lighting Arrangements illustrating  key lights, fill lights, accent lights(The diagrams showing where different lights go)
Light Feathering

What is and Infograhic? Check out the following examples, here, here and here.