This class is a follow up to Digital I and puts your new skills to work in developing a portfolio of your choosing. You success is entirely driven by your shooting and creative activity. Quality AND quantity count. Keeping up with your work on a week to week basis also counts. Everything you need to complete this class successfully can be found in the class syllabus linked from the list of links on the right.
Now that you know how to fill the frame with expressive design and to see and use light in a photographic sense, what are you now going to do with these skills?
Any season of the year is good to be taking this class... Spring into summer is a particularly good time. ..Allow yourself time to shoot each week during daylight hours... it's your assignment to do so each week. Light is out until 8 pm now and getting longer with each passing day...The very best light to shoot under is the hour up until sunset... say 7 pm or the hour after dawn. The light is beautiful then. I will be encouraging you to use light expressively throughout this class and no flash pictures are allowed! With your work, try to make a point of shooting while you have light... You might want to change your routine and allow yourself 15 or 20 minutes in the morning before heading off to work to do your shooting.
Look at the list of ideas I suggested on the class syllabus. That is not an exhaustive list by any means. Choose a theme or topic that has meaning to you and that you know you will have time and access to it to work at it on a weekly basis. As a starting point, plan on shooting about 80 or more images per week, edited down to your best 8. Edit the for light, contrast and expression.
Post a couple of examples to the blog each week and put you 8 or more on your fotothing account. When you create your account, post your screen name here on the blog so I can find you and add you as a friend.
....You can post to the blog and your portfolio from any computer on the Internet from any where in the world. I'm looking forward to getting started with you...
-Jerry
