Intro Quiz: Photography: Photographic contact strip

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﻿Hello and welcome. My name is Mrs Cowley, and I'm going to be your photography teacher today. So this is one of two lessons, and this is going to be exploring digital experimentation. And how are we going to do that? Let's get started, let's just see. Let's get busy with this lesson, shall we? So what a great start to the lesson. Look at the instances where we're going with this lesson over the next two lessons in fact. So I'm going to teach you how to take just a box standard photograph, and you are going to use the editing skills in the simple programme of PowerPoint, where you can start to add hundreds and hundreds of parts of contrast and also maybe stylize it a little bit in an artistic manner as well. So within these two lessons, you are going to cover these four points. So what the term post-processing means. Going to take you into that a little bit further later on in this lesson. How to use the programme, PowerPoint. Come Mrs. Cowley. I can use PowerPoint. I understand you can, I'm sure you can, but you can edit photographs within this programme in ways that you might not have realised that can give masses of impact. So I'm going to start you along that line within PowerPoint. It's going to start in this lesson and then we're going to process and develop those skills a little bit further in the second lesson. So how you can modify and refine your photographs. So through the processes that you'll be introduced to, or be able to develop from within here within PowerPoint, you'll be able to modify your work and refine it and how to use the programme PowerPoint again, how to achieve layering and translucent outcomes. And that's going to be a focus for next lesson. So let's carry on with this one, shall we? So what is digital experimentation? It's a long word, I'll tell you what that is in photography. So digital experimentation, is experimenting with digital photography and it is anything that is outside the norm. So here you got two pictures of me. One that I've changed colours and sizes, and I've laid them up. This can become an outcome. This is experimenting with digital photography. It's about exploring what is possible with your camera and even what can be defined as a photograph. So it doesn't necessarily have to be something you take with a camera device, it could be a photocopy of some kind that you then could scan in to your computer or take a photograph of on your phone or your tablet and then you can edit from that as well. So have some fun and use your camera and post-processing tools in a creative way. Well, how are we going to do that? Let's see, first of all, you need to understand what the term post-processing means because that's going to be what we going to be doing in these whole two lessons. What is, is it gives you the photographer, the ability to access your photographs and edit them in the best way in the most creative ways possible to create the best photograph possible. So what do you do? Is there any specific task you have to do to your photograph to make it look good? Well, no, all right. You can literally do whatever you want to your photograph depending on what you're trying to achieve. So within this one, it looks like I'm wearing bright red lipstick. Some tragic colours going on here, but I basically have saturated it and enhanced the contrast within this picture. Within this one, there are loads of filters within PowerPoint when you click on your image and highlight your image. And I turned my photograph of me into a pencil drawing, a tonal pencil drawing. So really you can edit and have so much fun. So let's begin, shall we? Send lets just looking. So what will you need to experiment digitally? So if you're joining me now within this photography course, you should actually have a bank of photographs already accessible. If you do not, then please you do need to have a collection of photographs that you can work from. They might be things that you have already found, they might be things that you've downloaded from the internet or anything, but either way before you move past this point, you need to have a collection of your photographs that you can access. You need to be able to access PowerPoint and you will also need to be very organised today. So in your approach here, I've highlighted you need to be organised in everything that you do on the screen. I'm going to show you a process that needs you to be ordered. You need to be productive. So it's going to be a lesson that is quite upbeat up paste. So we're going to produce a lot of work today and you need to be a little bit inventive too. So pause this slide make sure that you've got everything in place before you continue with this lesson and I'll see you back here in a minute. So here we go. First things first, in order for us to make a really good note and reference point for what we are intending to do today with which is other basic editing of a photograph is, you will need to create a contact strip. This is what I'm looking for at the very end of this lesson. This is what you're going to create, but clearly you're not going to use me as a photograph as an image. You're going to use one that you pick from your own bank of images. But this is what you're aiming for. Not going to talk about any of this at the moment, all of these little marks and so percentages, I'm not going to talk about those. I'm going to talk about those throughout this lesson, but that image what you're looking at there and then the order of it, the way that they're placed, is what you're looking for. So let's move on. So here we go, creating a Contact Strip using PowerPoint. What I'm going to do though for the whole of the bit where I'm taking you through my screenshots is I'm going to take myself down into the middle bottom of the page. That's what I'm going to teach the lesson from most of the times. So be please be aware that I'll be down the bottom. Cause I don't want to interfere with your screens. So at the moment, there's a lot going on on the screen. You've got two screenshots. This one on the left is the one that you should be looking at first of all. All I'm asking for you to do now, is I want you to open PowerPoint, create a blank one page document, it's landscape way round not portrait and Save As CONTACT STRIP. It's all I'm asking for you to do. So if you want to at this point, you could pause this slide and then do that. Or you can continue to listen to me because I'm going to take you through the next stage all at the same time. But staying on this page. So the next thing that I'm asking for you to do so once you've opened up your first page within PowerPoint and you've saved it, I'm going to ask for you to make your PowerPoint just that little bit smaller on the screen. And I want you to locate your photographs that I said that you should have within your resources. And I want you to drag a selection to your desktop. One, two, three, four, five at only let me move myself away. Just making sure. I've just got five of my photographs that I've taken in previous workshops, these photographic workshops. And the reason why I'm putting them on the desktop here is for easy access. So that is what you're aiming for in the next couple of tasks. Number one, simply opening PowerPoint and saving it. And then also having a selection of your photographs on your desktop. So please pause this slide, leave this up for reference and see if you can actually achieve that. You might have to minimise obviously this screen as you go 'cause you've obviously might just only have one computer to work on. So if you could do that, I'll see you back in a minute. Okay, welcome back. So I just wanted to say to you as well, there are plenty of pauses throughout this lesson plenty. You can view the entire lesson first, then revisit the pauses. So if you want to, you don't have to pause from now on in at all. I will still invite those pauses throughout this lesson, but if you find it easier to view all of this lesson first and then backtrack through the pauses, perfect. Whatever suits your work style, best the case. But I just thought I'd highlight that as well. Moving on. So let me move myself away from the focus there. So here we go. So we're moving onto the second point now of setting up your contact strip. So you had already opened your page and you'd already got a collection of your images on your desktop. So what I'd like you to do now is simply select one of the photographs that you've got in your collection and you're literally going to click on it and drag it onto the PowerPoint and let your image just sit whatever size it decides to place itself on your PowerPoint slide. That's the next thing you're going to do. And then on this page, there's lots of me. So I want you to resize this image on this page and copy and paste to create an organised contact strip. This is really important, organised contact strip. I'm looking for I've got here 10 images of me. You can fit 10 images of the same shot, the same photograph that you choose off your desktop on your one side. Resize them, place them so that they're even spaces apart and you've got a decent gap here and a decent gap there because I'm going to invite you to add notes to your edited photographs later on. So like I previously said, you could just choose to continue to watch all of this PowerPoint without pausing or you can pause this right now and you can continue to set up your contact strip as instructed. And if you're pausing, I'll see you back in a minute. And if you're not let's carry on. So creating a contact strip again, we are continuing this theme, obviously. So here we go. So this is the third stage. Once you've selected your image and you've made 10 copies even size on your one slide, this is what I would like to you to do now. And you might already know this, but this is all great for just reviewing a process. So I would like you to click on the second image on your first row, the second image, because we are going to compare what goes on with your photographs. 'Cause you are going to choose an editing scale to change your photographs step by step. But we want to starting points to reference too. So don't do anything to number one here, okay? So on the second image, just click on it so highlights. You're then going to be given the option up here in the toolbar of Picture FORMAT. You click on that. Then over on this stage, once you've clicked in that Picture FORMAT, this is going to appear and I would like you to click on Picture Correction Options. And that is going to take you through to the next window of options to do with contrast. So please again, pause this video, get yourself up to date with that. If not, let's continue. This time I'm putting myself back up here 'cause I've made this bigger view to understand view deficiency. So here we go. So we have clicked on our second image. We have gone to Picture FORMAT and it allowed us to drop down. Hang on let me just remind myself of that. Hang on a moment. Bear with me. So that's right. We've got this. So click on Picture FORMAT and what I forgot to say previously actually was you click on this one, which is Corrections. You click on the bright sunshine is Corrections. Let me take myself back down there ' cause I missed something out, but that's what happens in a lesson, isn't it? We're not perfect. So you pick your second image, you click on Picture FORMAT, you go to Corrections which should the sunshine, then you go down to Picture Corrections Options. Glad got that sorted carry on. Now that we've got that, that's where the corrections ones was the sunshine. So when you click that down and you find your other option you're going to it will come up with this. This will highlight where you can change your contrast. And that's what I want you to do first of all. So on your first image, well, your second selected image, your first editing skill, you're going to slide that contrast bar right over to a 100% and see what happens to your photo. As you can see, it's overexposed, the colours have been saturated and it is just got whopping contrast. So it's a great contrast to your first photo by using contrast in your second photo. So pause this slide and create that contrast. Or if you would like to continue to watch, then let's carry on. Let's move myself down here a minute. So what we going to do, is we going to continue along this top row. The idea is like what I said at the very beginning, I showed you an example of what you are aiming to do. We are changing the whole of this top row with lots of different approaches with simply the Contrast bar here. So I've clicked on this number three photograph and I've gone through the same processes of Picture FORMAT, Corrections, gone down to Options and it still gives me this. So my contrast though this time, I took all the way to the left to minus 85%. And that almost darkens me out completely, doesn't allow any much light to come through at all. So it's very soft contrast, but still a difference to this one. So I want you though to also note at this point, record the contrast under each image so that it's a record of visual record of your edit process and click on each individual photo on the top row with me and apply different contrast and put down what you actually did to it. So pause this slide, bring yourself up to date with your editing processes or let's continue, shall we? How did you get on? So a lot to take in isn't it? A lot. So sure would just take that moment to take a little bit of a breather. Okay, get yourself a drink if you need to, just breathe. So lots of editing and then we can carry on. All right, let's go. To put myself up there. No pause on this screen. I'm going to take you through where we're going now. So we should have completed the first row, using contrast only within our editing of PowerPoint, but creating a lot, look at that one. That's funny, isn't it? So it included on there. None not on there. Hold on a minute, that's strange look. So I'm here on my print screen. I've got the full 100% contrast there, but not here bamboozled anyway, carrying on. So we are now focusing on this second row. And I want to bring your attention to this. Following a process, you have just used a process to create your top row, okay? So I talked you through all the different points that you should do. You highlight your photograph, you click the Format image, you then go to the sunshine, you go to Corrections and you add in your contrast. I need for you to follow that process again. So it might be that you have to backtrack through this video to get that posted, but I'm not going to show you it again, because this is supposed to be you learning. So you need to recognise that you need to take onboard that information. But for this bottom row, you're going to click on the second one again, just like the first one, but this time you're going to apply various saturation. And you're going to recall the saturation underneath. But where do we find that saturation? I will take you through that point. Okay, here we go. So again, you click on number two, you go to Picture FORMAT, you go to your Corrections, you go to your Options underneath and then here we go, just here it says Picture Colour. So at the bottom of where your contrast were, it will give you a few other options, it will give you Picture Colour, Picture Transparency, and Crop. You are going to go on Picture Colour. Then there's your saturation and my second picture there, what it up to 400% and made a note of it there. So a huge contrast there as well. So the colours are becoming far more juicy. So I want you to pause this slide and I would like you to follow that process that you did across the whole of the top row and apply that to the whole of your bottom row. But this time using saturation. If you don't want to pause and you just want to continue watching, that's fine, let's go. So how did you get on? Did you recognise and follow it that process that we had going on at the beginning of the lesson? That was a focus for this lesson, a learning point for this lesson for you to make sure that you haven't ordered approach to your work and that you are able to follow a process, they don't know. So creating a contact strip using PowerPoint. This is what you were aiming for. So after you've done the process of that one and the process of that one, you're aiming for this, bar this one. This one needed to have 100% in it, which he has done and for some reason, it hasn't carried through on here. So the glitches of digital experimentation, PowerPoint does not hold that memory, I'm angry. So this is what you're aiming for and I hope you managed it basic skills remember, baby steps. Let's take this one step at a time. So what went well when you've a better if? That's right, I've gone back to that. So I think following a process worked brilliantly well for me, all right, look at it. It's all ordered and it makes sense. Even better if, what would happen if I combined this with this? So my 50% contrast with my 0% saturation, if I can combined my editing skills, maybe that would have created a more exciting outcome. I didn't ask for that as yet, but maybe if I'd thought about it, I could have pushed you just that little bit further. I think about your work then what went well and even better if. Independent learning skills. Now, like I said, this is lesson one of two. In this first lesson you've learned to approach your work with order, so important you recognise that. You followed a process and you applied basic editing skills to your photographs. What now? You have to prepare for the next lesson, of course you do. The second bullet point here says, I would like you to research and explore the photographic editing skill of layering. What is layering within photography when you edit your image? Is it about stacking things on top of each other so they're all balanced, like the wobbly? Is it basically just maybe get one image placing another one on top revealing what's going on? Making them translucent. Okay, so that you can see what's going on underneath, who knows? That's what your research skills are for, ready for the next lesson. Share your work with Oak National. Even at this point within your first lesson, you have made a creative outcome. So if you'd like to please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging @OakNational #LearnwithOak. Even at this early stage of your learning, you can do that. Time to take the end of lesson quizzes. Now this is super important actually. Now one of two lessons, you got to get these answers right because this is loading you with your understanding ready for the next lesson. No pressure, good luck. I am going to take this opportunity as always to thank you for attending my lesson, but I know I've not seen the last of you because you're coming back for the second lesson. So have a great day whatever you're up to and I'll see you for lesson two, bye now.

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In today's lesson we will be learning how to create a photographic contact strip to record the basic editing skills.

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