"Do not ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman

Monday, April 27, 2015

To Brent

Yesterday morning my cousin Brent passed away.  He was more like a brother to me than a cousin, and we were always close growing up despite an 8 1/2 year age difference.  I am gathering strength from my students today.  This will be a difficult week and I appreciate your support.



Friday, April 24, 2015

8L photo editing highlights

Here are some photo editing highlights from 8L on the first few assignments (Selective colouring, selective boost, and nature quote are featured here).  Enjoy!

Andra - Selective Colouring

Gina - Nature Quote

Sydney - Selective Boost

Sydney - Selective Boost

Julianne - Selective Boost

Tessa - Selective Boost

Tessa - Selective Colouring

Tessa - Selective Colouring

Habiba - Selective Boost

Amanda - Nature Quote

Amanda - Selective Colouring

Brianna - Nature Quote

Friday, April 17, 2015

Nature Quote

Assignment 6: NATURE QUOTE

Choose one of the following quotations:

"In summer, the song sings itself."
- William Carlos Williams



"My profession is to always find God in nature."
- Henry David Thoreau

"All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness w
ithin."
- Horace Friess

"Sounds of the wind or sounds of the sea

Make me happy just to be."
- June Polis

"Each moment of the year has its own beauty . . . a picture which
 was never before and shall never be seen again."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"If one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few."
- William Wordsworth

"The earth laughs in flowers."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to ove
rwhelm the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping me in total freedom."
- Scott Holman

Choose a nature photo from Google Image Search that will complement the quotation you have chosen. Please be sure that the resolution of the photo you choose is high enough that you will be able to edit it with accuracy and that it won't be too "crowded" once you add your effects to it. You can choose the effects you add to the photo. Remember that sometimes less is more. Some suggestions:

- selective colouring (turn the photo to black and white or sepia and paint back on some original colour)
- selective boosting (turn down the saturation of the photo, boost the picture, click "reverse effect" and then paint back on some boosted colour)

- text emphasis (pick out an important word or phrase in your quotation and change its font, colour, and/or size)
- soften

- colour filters
- any other effect(s) that you deem appropriate


When you are finished, save your file as "Lastname, nature quote" and hand it in to the Computers 8M or 8C folder (depending on what class you're in of course). Happy editing, you creative beings, you!

Computers 8 - Shadows and Sunshine assignment

The next edit in our photo editing unit is called "Shadows and Sunshine."  8M started the project yesterday and 8L started today.  The focus on this assignment is finding a suitable photo to edit (high resolution, high quality photo that fits artistically and appropriately with the theme of the assignment), and including the quote "Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine." with emphasis on the words "shadows" and "sunshine."  We create the emphasis by changing the font, the font colour, and the size of the important words while finding an appropriate (less dramatic) font for the rest of the text.  You want to make sure that the supporting words are not written in an invasive or overly flashy font, as they can take away from the emphasis of the more important words.

Here are a few examples from the lessons with 8M and 8L for your reference.  Happy editing!

An edit I did with 8L to explain the assignment

A sample edit with 8L

The same photo but with the text on "shadows" duplicated, dragged slightly off the original text, and faded further to show shadowing on the word for emphasis

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

8M Selective Boost highlights

8M Selective Boost highlights.... no pun intended! :)  I didn't realize I had a nature bias for this particular assignment but it would appear that I do!

Jaeda

Paige

Madi C

McKenna

Cameron

8M Selective Colouring highlights

It's time for our first photo editing feature!  Here are some of my favourite 8M photo editing assignments from the Selective Colouring assignment.  Well done everyone!

Halle

Graeme

Dylan
Caitlin

Cameron

Madi C

Michael

Madison S


Alphabet photography collage

Here's a collage I created from photos I took in Mexico last week.  We may try this today in IP 10 as several people are missing their group partners for our new assignment!