Yearbook - Week 19

This week i have been doing exam review for this class, working on my campaign posters, my three fold flyer, and my time capsule spread. I can not WAIT till summer :)

Yearbook - Week 18

This week was rush rush rush, i had a lot to do and summer is coming very close. I had to finish my 3 fold flyer and start on my time capsule spread. I also had to catch up on my blog posts.

Yearbook - Week 17

Monday - I was away

Tuesday - Learned to make a three fold flyer pages

Wednesday - I was away

Thursday - Worked on Three fold flyer

Frisday -I was away

Yearbook - Week 16

Photo By: Kayla White

Monday- NO SCHOOL :)
Tuesday - Finished up Earthday Spread
Wednesday - Can't Remember what i did this day .. probably nothing
Thursday - Worked on and Finished up Theme Assignment
Friday - Weekly blog post, helped

Yearbook - Week 15

Photo By: Demi Hodgson

Monday - Worked on my Earth Day spread

Tuesday - Worked on my Interview assignment

Wednesday - I played solitaire because i did not feel like working (atleast im honest)

Thurday - Worked on Theme assignment

Friday - Worked on Theme quiz, weekly blog post, and my Earth Day Spread

Yearbook - Week 14

Monday - I was sick so i was not at school

Tuesday - Worked on Earth Day/ Earth Hour spread

Wednesday - I was on the grade 11 day field trip, so i was not in class

Thursday - Got to work on button, Thanks Mr. Wrigley

Friday - Weekly blog posts and worked on spread

Notes: I loved designing and and pressing the buttons they were really fun !

Yearbook - Week 13

Monday - Picked pictures for the Earth Day spread
Tuesday - Worked on converting and placed pictures for the Earth Day spread
Wednesday - Took pictures for the grade 9 Pow-wow
Thurday - Worked on finishing photo tips blog posts, and weekly blog post
Friday - I was at the Aboriginal Conference at Algoma University.

Yearbook - Week 12

Monday - worked journalism questions

Tuesday - Took pictures for tip 8

Wednesday - Did colouring book photo assignment

Thursday - Did weekly blog posts and worked on journalism questions

Friday - PD DAY !! NO school

Notes: i enjoy learning new things like the colouring book assignment, I wish we could make more things and finsh our buttons.

Yearbook - Week 11

Monday - Worked on My photos spread

Tuesday - Worked on My Photos spread

Wednesday - Took pictures for tip number 7, Know your Flash's range

Thursday - Took pictures of mr. wrigley on his bike, learned how to take photos using panning

Friday - blog posts for the week, catch up on blog posts.

Notes: I liked working with photo ease and the templates it was interesting and fun.

Photo Assignment - Panning

Panning is a photography term that means that you move your camera with the object you are photographing. Your subject should be in focus while the background should not.

Yearbook - Week 10

Monday - Learned about the shutter speed of a camera and the effects of each speed, then i wrote questions for my interview i had. After yearbook class i had an interview with mr. Macmaster for my body copy on the hockey spread. It was an interesting experience.
Tuesday - learned about understanding exposure - shutter and aperture online
Wednesday - we learned how to use Photo ease
Thursday - I took pictures for tip #6 - Lock the focus
Friday - Quiz on photo terms,blog posts, and started making my photos spread using photo ease
Notes - I liked the interview setting it was interesting and fun!

Yearbook - Week 9

Monday - Easter Monday !! No School :)
Tuesday - started working on new spreads, title pages like sports, people, ect
Wednesday - Took pictures for Tip 5
Thursday - Longer class by 5 minutes today because of the Literacy Test. We worked on completing our spreads, ad sales, touch ups and stuff to our blogs
Friday - Wrote questions for my interview with mr.mcmaster for the body copy for my hockey spread
Notes - I am a little nervous to do the interview on monday but at the same time i am excited for this experience.

Yearbook - Week 8

Monday - Worked and finished up my spread

Tuesday - Worked and finished up my spread

Wednesday - Took pictures for Tip # 4

Thursday - I was not at school

Friday - GOOD FRIDAY !! :) No school !

Notes - My spread is complete except for finishing and touching up the body copies.

Yearbook - Week 7

Monday - First day back from March Break, worked on Curling/ Hockey spread

Tuesday - Learned how to use the clone tool, then took pictures for our third tip

Wednesday - Learned how to use the move tool and the erase tool, then worked on our spreads

Thursday - Worked on our spreads

Friday - Photo assignment for Earth Day 2010, took pictures of classes in the dark

Notes: I like taking pictures for the photo tips they are so much fun!

Yearbook - Week 6

Monday - learned how to change pictures to black and white, also learned how to blur and only make certain parts of the picture colour.
Tuesday - Talked about advertising as a class and then worked on Curling/Hockey Spread

Wednesday -Took pictures for Tip number two

Thurday - Worked on Spreads/blog posts, and had a guest speaker

Friday - beginning of MARCH BREAK, NO SCHOOL !

Photos By Me

These are a couple of my favourite pictures that I took :

Our School Musical

Girls Curling

Photo Tips

Earth Day

Photo Assignment - Top Ten Tips

Each week we will be looking at a different photo tip until we have outlined The Top Ten Photo Tips :

Tip 1: March 5th, 2010 - Get Down On Their Level
Direct eye contact can be engaging in a picture as it is in real life. When taking a picture of someone, hold the camera at the person's eye level to unleash the power of those magnetic gazes and mesmerizing smiles. For children, that means stooping to their level and your subject need not always stare at the camera. All by itself that eye level angle will create a personal and inviting feeling that pulls you into the picture.

Tip 2: March 10th, 2010 - Use A Plain Background

A plain background shows off the subject you are photographing. When you look through the camera view finder, force yourself to study the area surrounding your subject. Make sure no poles grow from the head of your favourite niece and that no cars seem to dangle from her ears.

Tip 3: March 23rd, 2010 - Use The Flash Outdoors

Bright sun can create unattractive deep facial shadows. Eliminate the shadows by using your flash to lighten up the face. When taking peoples pictures on sunny days,turn you flash on. Yiou may have a choice of fill-flash mode or full-flash mode. If the person is within five feet, use the full-flash, beyond fibe feet the full power mode may be required.

Tip 4: March 31st, 2010 - Move In Close

If your subject is smaller than a car, take a step or two closer before taking the picture amd zoom in on your subject. Your goal is to fill the picture area with the subject you are photographing.

Tip 5: April 7th, 2010 - Move It From The Middle

Center-stage is a great place for a performer to be. However, the middle of your picture is not the best place for your subject. Bring your picture to life by simply moving your subject away from the middle of your picture. Start by playing tick-tack-toe with your subject position. Imagine a tick-tack-toe grid in your viewfinder. Now place your important subject at one of the intersections of lines. You'll need to lock the focus if you have an auto-focus camera because most of them focus on whatever is in the center of the viewfinder.

Tip 6: April 14th, 2010 - Lock The Focus

If your subject is not in the center of the pictire, you need to lock the focus to create a sharp picture. Most auto-focus cameras focus on whatever is in the center of the picture. But to improve pictures, you will often want to move the subject away from the center of the picture. If you don't want a blurred picture, you'll need to first lock the focus with the subject in the middle and then recompose the picture so the subject is away from the middle. Usually you can lock the focus in three steps. First, center the subject and press and hold the shutter button halfway down. Second, repostition your camera(while still holding the shutter button) so the subject is away from the center. And third, finish by pressing the shutter button all the way down to take the picture.

Tip 7: April 21st, 2010 - Know Your Flash's Range
The number one flash mistake is taking pictures beyond the flash's range. Why is this a mistake? Because pictures taken beyond the maximum flash range will be too dark. For many cameras, the maximum flash range is less than fifteen feet - about 5 steps away.

Tip 8: April 27th, 2010 - Watch The Light

Next to the subject, the most important part of every picture is the light. It affects the appearance of everything you photograph. On a great-grandmother, bright sunlight from the side can enhance wrinkles. But the soft light of a cloudy day can subdue those same wrinkles. Don't like the light on your subject? Then move yourself or your subject. For landscapes, try to tak pictures early or late in the day when the light is orangish and rakes across the land.

Tip 9: May 5th, 2010 - Take Some Vertical Pictures

Is your camera vertically challenged? It is if you never turn it sideways to take a vertical picture. All sorts of things look better in a vertical picture.


Tip 10: May 5th, 2010 - Be A Picture Director

Take control of your picture-taking and watch your pictures dramatically improve. Become a picture director, not just a passive picture-taker. A picture director takes charge. A picture director picks the location: "Everybody go outside to the backyard." A picture director adds props: "Girls, put on your pink sunglasses." A picture director arranged people: "Now move in close, and lean toward the camera."

Yearbook - Week 5

Monday - Got approval for spreads and started converting and resizing photos, placed dominate photo on spread

Tuesday - Use new editing program and used the clipping paths selection again and created the nossa banner as shown above

Wednesday - Worked on Curling/Hockey spread, other went out to do their photo assignment

Thursday - BATTERY BLOW UP, went to library. Demi, Kayla, and I took our pictures for our photo assignment. This week was " Get Down To Their Level " Also today i took pictures at Curling for my spread.

Friday - Worked on Curling/Hockey Spread, other went out to go their photo assignment

Yearbook - Week 4

Monday - Wrote our first test, then when everyone was finished we looked at different types of backgrounds as a class

Tuesday - Collected pictures for Curling/Hockey spread

Wednesday - Learned how to use the Clipping Paths option as shown above

Thursday - Worked on converting pictures to CMYK and 300 dpi for Curling/Hockey spread

Friday - We learned how to form text around an object and made a button

Notes - This week i got to start working on the Curling spread and im very excited to get to do it. That was my favourite part of the week.