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Principles of Photo Composition and Digital Image Post-Production

596 個評分

Michigan State University

Principles of Photo Composition and Digital Image Post-Production

596 個評分

課程 3（共 5 門，Specialization Photography Basics and Beyond: From Smartphone to DSLR）

Welcome to Course THREE! In the first two Modules you will gain a more professional-level understanding of the Design Elements that artists have used throughout history to create successful compositions. Arranging the Elements in ways that lead viewers through their compositions is an essential craft for photographers no matter whether their subject matter is pure documentary or vividly exotic personal expression. In Modules 3 & 4 we survey the essential elements of post-photography image management, using Adobe(tm) LIGHTROOM(tm). Image adjustment software designed for Smartphone photographers rounds out the Course. Since even photographers whose mainstay is a high-end DSLR also must admit to Smartphone use occasionally, and photographers who only use a Smartphone will usually admit that they want to step over to a "regular" camera at some point, there is something for everyone here! Let's get started with Module One!

從本節課中

Elements of Design: Building Blocks of Composition

A writer must understand what nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and other word forms are, before putting them together in sentences that make sense to a reader. Similarly, an artist must understand the essential elements of design that must be put together to create a composition that will "make sense" to a viewer of their artwork. In this first module you will learn about the Elements of Design so you can understand their functions and use them effectively to guide your viewers to the content you wish to be conveyed by your photographs, whether it be creative, or documentary, regardless of the subject matter.

MEET MSU and THE SPECIALIZATION3:44

MEET THE PROFESSORS: Peter Glendinning and Mark Sullivan12:54

MEET THE COURSE: an overview by Peter...2:36

MEET THE COURSE: ...and an overview by Mark3:11

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Peter Glendinning
Professor
Art, Art History, & Design
Mark Valentine Sullivan
Associate Professor
Music / Innovation Hub

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Hello.

Welcome to the new environment.

We're going to go into some software today so we needed to go into studio.

Next, we're going to turn our attention to a part of photography we haven't spent

much time on yet.

Professional photographers call it post-processing.

It has to do with almost everything you can do with the photograph after

you snap the shutter.

We'll look at a software program called Lightroom and some alternatives to it.

Lightroom, which evolved from Adobe Bridge and

Photoshop, has been described as an intuitive interface to Photoshop for

photographers, and has become almost a kind of industry standard.

Recent developments, an app for cell phone, and a new monthly pricing

structure, have led it into even broader use by large segments of the photographic

community, including many people pursuing photography for their own purposes.

Of course, there are alternatives that can do some of the things Lightroom does.

But most of the concepts of many of these alternatives derive from

programs like Photoshop and Lightroom, so learning about the concepts and processes

in Lightroom can be helpful, even if the program is out of reach right now.

Since the same concepts apply to many aspects of free and

inexpensive software available as an alternative.

Almost all digital photography needs some form of post-processing.

Beyond that processing, there are many choices that

relate to personal preference, desired style, and so forth.

Although digital media have increased the kind and

number of ways the photographer can alter the photograph after it's taken,

such changes did not begin with digital photography.

Film photographers used various techniques in the dark room, and

in processing, to change the way the final photograph came out.

Many of the photographers of the past century developed techniques for

changing the photograph in the dark room before it was printed from the negative.

Dodging and burning, for instance, are widely used in common technique for

making certain areas of the print lighter or darker than in the negative.

And these very techniques have become the conceptual models for

the techniques available in software for post-processing of digital images.

So a great deal of the wave of possibilities in

post-processing had already begun even before the digital revolution.

In any case let's take a look at those possibilities, beginning with the program

Lightroom, and then we'll look at some desktop alternatives, as well as some post

processing software available for cellphones.

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