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COURSE CODE: AIO-PHOA232 Portraiture Milestone 6
Milestone 6: Final Project Submission: Images to the PR Department
Learning Path
Milestone 6 Overview
Milestone 6 Learning Activities
Other Portrait Considerations
Postproduction
How to Edit Pictures in Postproduction
“Closing Letter” for Course Scenario
Summary
Textbook: Going Professional
Milestone 6 Submission: Instructions
Milestone 6 Submission: Post Here
Due <Week 6, Day 3>
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Milestone 6 Overview
Milestone 6: Final Project Submission: Images to the PR Department
Over the last several weeks, we have discussed the various lighting schemes, posing styles of portraiture, working in the studio or on location, and the importance of props and wardrobe. To complete this milestone, think about your subject’s facial features and the texture of their skin. Also, focus on editing your images in postproduction as well as other things you should consider when planning a portrait photo shoot.
What You Will Learn
When you successfully complete this milestone, you will be able to:
Analyze all that you have learned so far, select the best photos, and edit the images in a professional manner.
Learn what would be considered ideal retouching verses excessive retouching. Discuss editing techniques in Adobe Lightroom after watching a course from Lynda.com.
You will complete…
Learning Activities
Other Portrait Considerations Postproduction How to Edit Pictures in Postproduction Summary
Required Reading
From your course textbook, The Portrait Photography Course: Principles, Practice, and Techniques: The Essential Guide for Student Photographers, read the following chapter:
Going Professional
Milestone 6 Submission
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Look back at all of the feedback you’ve received in order to put a portfolio of your top 10 images shot throughout the last 5 milestones. Combine your 10 images into a slideshow using Adobe Lightroom. Also, submit the same 10 images as JPEGs; each image saved as three different resolutions. To complete your course scenario of working for a fictional college, write a 150-word closing letter to the Marketing Department at Bowenhouse College explaining your overall experience, the exact files which are in your submission, and your contact information and website link.
Slideshow 30 JPEG Files Closing Letter Milestone Report
REQUIRED 120m
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Milestone 6 Learning Activities
Review each learning activity by selecting the Next button. It is recommended that you review the activities in order, beginning from Learning Activity 1, before completing your tasks.
Required Activities
1. Other Portrait Considerations
Consider your subject’s facial features and the texture of their skin.
READING 10m
Image/Icon related to the topic.
2. Postproduction
Learn that postproduction refers to the process of making any changes to an image after the shoot.
READING 10m
Image/Icon related to the topic.
3. How to Edit Pictures in Postproduction
Learn a step-by-step process of how to edit your pictures in Adobe Lightroom like a professional!
VIDEO 160m
Image/Icon related to the topic.
4. “Closing Letter” to Complete Course Scenario
Students will write a closing letter to the Marketing Department of the fictitious school they have been taking photos for throughout the course.
READING 5m
New text
5. Summary
Consider the final steps required to put your top edited
Image/Icon related to the topic.
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photos together to create a professional portfolio.
READING 5m
Required Reading
From your course textbook, The Portrait Photography Course: Principles, Practice, and Techniques: The Essential Guide for Student Photographers, read the following chapter:
Going Professional
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Other Portrait Considerations
Unique Facial Features
Interest in unique characteristics in faces is what brings us all to portrait photography. But you must be sensitive about those you photograph. You may want to enhance the very thing subjects do not like about themselves. Big ears, crooked smiles, and age lines are some of these features. Many great images have been created from the unique and sometimes strange human face, but a photographer should show great compassion and sensitivity.
Emphasis of the Skin Texture
We have all seen photos of a man or a woman who has spent a lifetime of hard work in the sun. The skin on the hands and faces tells the stories. To bring out maximum texture and emphasis, use a light that produces deep, rich shadows. Converting a portrait to black and white and adding contrast in postproduction can help.
Postproduction
Postproduction refers to the process of making any changes to an image after the shoot. There are several programs designed for initial image management, general manipulation, and specific area manipulation. Adobe Lightroom and Apple Inc. Aperture are the most popular for image management and general manipulation. Once you have selected your best images, you want to deliver a final product that everyone will love. In working toward this goal, you may find some of those individual smile lines could use some softening. Adobe Photoshop is the most well-known software for this specific type of manipulation, but other companies have developed software specific to the portrait photographer and making skin look its best. You might find one of them just as useful.
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We call this process retouching, and there are numerous ways to get your end result. Any retouching should look invisible; the subject should never be able to see where it was done. It's a matter of subtle technique and knowing when to say when.
When Is It Too Much?
Retouching has gone too far if it looks retouched or just plain weird; if you are not sure, then you probably have too much retouching. You want your client to respond positively. Any comment from a client regarding Adobe Photoshop or how much younger he or she looks is often a signal that the retouching was heavy-handed.
Cost of Postproduction
Fees for retouching will vary in price and quality, in the same way a photographer's fees will. And you have to consider the workflow and timing of using a retouching service. You don't want it to cause you to miss a deadline. It's most important to get before and after samples and cost before you ask someone to retouch. This way you can work those fees into your clients' cost.
How to Edit Pictures in Postproduction
In the Lynda.com course below, you will learn from Bryan O’Neil Hughes about how to use Adobe Lightroom to edit your images. Throughout this course, he brings you through a step-by-step process of adjusting your images’ exposure, white balance, noise reduction, lens correction, tone, color, and more! Be sure to watch the entire length of the course to get the most insight out of the video!
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“Closing Letter” to Complete Course ScenarioBelow is the final letter from the Marketing Department at the fictitious school that you have been taking photographs for throughout the course. Within the letter below, you’ll see their final request.
Hello Photographer,
We have enjoyed working with you during the period of this course. We would now like you to deliver 10 of your best images to our Marketing Department in a few different formats. These images should be edited in a professional manner. Make sure to combine all 10 of your top images into a slideshow and submit as an Adobe PDF. We would also like you to submit the images as separate JPEG files in various resolutions: high-resolution, web size, and print ready. From there, we’ll be able to have the correct size of file for our different marketing formats.
We’re also curious to hear how your experience working for Bowenhouse College has been regarding all of the different portraits you’ve shot for the school. Please provide us with a brief summary describing your overall experience and be sure to also note all items that are enclosed. We may contact you for future inquiries, please include your updated contact information and website.
The Marketing Department, Bowenhouse College
Summary
To summarize this milestone’s topic based on postproduction, nearly all portraits are "retouched" in some way. In today's world, photographers use a variety of programs not
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just to facilitate the removing of blemishes and reducing of wrinkles but also to add their unique look by adjusting other settings. The combinations are endless; what is important to remember is to explore the options, continue to learn, and discover for yourself what works best.
Remember, when taking someone’s portrait, there are a few things you want to consider. Portrait photography is an exploration of the human face and the emotions that change it. A photographer who believes this will always enjoy the people he or she meets and will find something beautiful or wonderful to photograph about each one. There are more considerations than just light patterns and f/stops, but you must know your equipment so well that setting lights and adjusting your camera is second nature. Then, and only then, can you focus on the person in front of the lens.
As you explore all the wonders of the face, be kind and grateful to everyone who allows you to take their portrait. It is an intimate, personal, and trusting moment for them.
Textbook: Going Professional
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Milestone 6 Submission: Instructions
Milestone 6 Submission
Overview
To complete your project, look back at all of the feedback you’ve received in order to put a portfolio of your top 10 images shot throughout the last five weeks for Bowenhouse College. When choosing your best shots, pay close attention to the suggested top images your instructor has pointed out to you and what editing may be required in postproduction.
Also write a 150-word closing letter to the Marketing Department at Bowenhouse College explaining your overall experience and an inventory list noting the exact files that are within your submission. Include your contact information and if available, a website link to your online portfolio within the letter for future inquiries.
Additionally, write a 300-word Milestone Report that summarizes your learning experience during this course.
Submission Specifications
A zipped file named PHOA232_LastnameFirstinitial_M6_Submission.zip that includes:
o Slideshow: Slideshow of top 10 images compiled in an Adobe PDF file named PHOA232_LastnameFirstinitial_M6_Submission_Slideshow.pdf
Images Slideshow should be 1600pixels at the largest dimensiono 30 JPEG Files: A folder named “PHOA232_LastnameFirstinitial_M6_Submission_30JPEG
Files” containing: Top 10 images saved as high-resolution images, the same top 10 images saved
as web-ready images, the same top 10 images saved as print-ready images, and named as follows:
PHOA232_LastnameFirstinitial_M6_Submission_HighRes_1.jpeg (follow through to 10)
PHOA232_LastnameFirstinitial_M6_Submission_WebReady_1.jpeg (follow through to 10)
PHOA232_LastnameFirstinitial_M6_Submission_PrintReady_1.jpeg
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(follow through to 10)o Closing Letter: A 150-word closing letter to the Marketing Department at Bowenhouse
College in a Microsoft Word document named PHOA232_LastnameFirstinitial_M6_Submission_ClosingLetter.doc and containing a list of inventory; what you have included in your files.
o Milestone Report: A Microsoft Word document named PHOA232_LastnameFirstinitial_M6_Submission_MilestoneReport.doc that includes:
A 300-word summary of your learning experience. This report should address your interpretation of the tasks, your approach and the improvements that you made with your revision.
Steps for Success
1. Review the feedback that you received during Milestone 1 to Milestone 5.2. Select 2 top images from each milestone. While selecting your top images, consider that
your images show:
An understanding of a strong one, two, and three light set-up. A variety of focal lengths. A variety of light ratio. The use of both traditional studio setting with paper backdrops and environmental
settings/on location.
3. In total, your breakdown of the top images should look like this:
Milestone 1: 2 edited top images Milestone 2: 2 edited top images Milestone 3: 2 edited top images Milestone 4: 2 edited top images Milestone 5: 2 edited top images
4. This will give you a total of 10 images for your final project submission.
5. Revise your work as advised by the instructor. Refer to the editing and post-production resources provided in Milestone 6 for
assistance. The final portfolio should feature images that have been edited in a similar style
regarding exposure, contrast, white balance, highlights, shadows, cropping, color adjustments, etc.
If you need to re-shoot any previous tasks, this is an option. Please ensure to include the edited top images only to complete this submission’s requirements.
6. Once you have completed editing your images in Adobe Lightroom (and/or Adobe
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Photoshop), combine all 10 images into a slideshow using Adobe Lightroom. Your slideshow should meet the following criteria:
Include a Cover Page with your logo or full name; this will be the first page of your portfolio.
Place one image on each page. Your images should be “right side up” when scrolling through slideshow; avoid
having to make viewers turn their heads. No watermarks should be used. Use a white background to place all of your images on; avoid gradient backgrounds
and drop shadows. Export the slideshow and save it as a PDF file.
o The largest image in the slideshowslideshow width should be 1600 pixels. Label your slideshow as noted in the Submission Specifications section.
7. Create a folder that contains your 30 JPEG files; this folder will contain your top 10 images saved as three different sizes. Your folder should contain:
Top 10 images saved as high-resolution imageso 3:2 aspect ratio; 3600 pixels (largest dimension) at 300ppi
Top 10 images saved as web-ready imageso 3:2 aspect ratio; 1024 pixels (largest dimension) at 72ppi
Top 10 images saved as print-ready imageso Cropped for 8 x 10; 3600 pixels at 300ppi
[8.] Write a closing letter to the Marketing Department at Bowenhouse College. Your letter should be at least 150 words in length and should discuss your experience of taking weekly portraits of different faculty members, students, coaches, and teammates who either work at or attend the school. Be sure to also include an inventory list of that clearly details all included items in your submission as well as your contact information and, if available, a website link to your online portfolio so they may get in touch with you in the future.
8.[9.] Write a Milestone Report in 300 words that summarizes your experience selecting your images, editing your images, creating the slideshow, and resizing the images into three different sizes. Discuss how your overall experience within this course could help you shape your own freelance photography business.
9.[10.] Save your newly revised files as noted in the Submission Specifications section.10.[11.] Place all of your items into a folder and name the folder as noted in the Submission
Specifications section. Compress the folder into a zipped file.11.[12.] By the due date, submit the zipped file in the Submissions Area on the next page.
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Grading Criteria Table
Your Milestone 6 Submission will be evaluated as follows:
Submission Criterion Descriptor Points
Slideshow
Specifications How well directions were followed.
15
Professional Practice
Submission demonstrates an understanding of standard
business practices and a professional approach to the
task.
(Slideshow was put together according to course standards
with Adobe Lightroom.)
10
30 Top Images
Lighting Professional lighting tools utilized with effective skill,
creative vision and appropriate technique to meet
the final submission’s objectives.
(10 images from slideshow show an understanding of past
lighting schemes and light ratios.)
25
Visual Communication
Demonstrate a unique perspective and creative interpretation of project. Effectively engages and communicates with the
25
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audience.
(10 images show a variety of compositional strategies and
changes in focal length.)
Post Production
Images employ strong postproduction technique
appropriate to the task; Final images demonstrate a clear and relevant concept that
addresses the project objectives; Images display a
similar style of editing techniques.
(10 images from slideshow show an understanding of
professional editing techniques.)
25
Professional Practice
Submission demonstrates an understanding of standard
business practices and a professional approach to the
task.
(The 30 images were re-sized for different uses as noted in
the Steps for Success.)
30
Closing Letter
Professional Practice
Submission demonstrates an understanding of standard
business practices and a professional approach to the
task.
20
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Research and Writing
Text is grammatically correct and addresses the task
requirements and is supported by research. Writing skills
meet MLA format.
10
Milestone Report
Critical Thinking Evidence of critical thinking, conceptual development, and
creative effort.
15
Research and Writing
Text is grammatically correct and addresses the task
requirements and is supported by research. Writing skills
meet MLA format.
5
Final Milestone Written report of at least 300 words that addresses
challenges and lessons learned.
25
All Milestone Deliverables
Timeliness Adherence to deadlines. 40
Total Points 240
Submit
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Instructions
Submissions
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Due <Week 6, Day 3>
Review/Approval
Reviewer DateComments (Ex: Approved as is; Approved with changes noted; etc.)
Damon Sauer 5/31/18 Reviewed
Mary Yates 6/4/18Approved with changes – please simplify steps for success. See Damon’s notes.
Damon Sauer 6/27/18 Second Review
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