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Aims of session

• Learn new Photography techniques

• Learn how to manipulate images digitally

• Upload photos to Flickr

• Build an on-line portfolio using Wordpress

• Have Fun

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What is New Media?

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Digital

Interactive

Computerized

Networked Information

What isn’t New Media?

TV

Cinema

Magazines

Books

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In pairs, you have 5 minutes to take 3 photos each.

‘You don’t take a photo, you make a photo’ Ansel

Adams

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Worm’s Eye View

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Birds Eye View

Strange Angle

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Leading Lines

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Objects in the Foreground

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Rhythm

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Natural v Artificial

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Silhouettes

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Using the Techniques you have learnt, you have 30 minutes to experiment by taking photos that encompass any of these rules.

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Now you know the Rules, you can break the rules.

1. USB

2. Card Reader

3. Bluetooth

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Understanding Colour

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On-line Colour Pickers

Kuler

Colourlovers.com

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Highlights/ Whites

Midtones

Shadows/ Blacks