Introduction

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Hi, everyone, my name is Rochelle. I am the mother of two wonderful children, Peyton, my daughter, and Jayden, my son. Right now, I think I'm pretty much on the happier side of life (especially since I've decided to go back to school). Family and friends are very important to me, so I have a very close circle. I've been in the field of human services for over 26 years. This year will be the twenty-seventh year since my present place of employment, Community Residences Incorporated. I have held three roles within the Agency since I began Community Residences Inc.  I started working as a Residential Instructor in the Company for several years. I was later promoted to Program Manager, and within two years I was promoted to Program Coordinator. Human Services is my major and this is my Senior year with Albertus. 

I'm taking this class as we are in the modern era, the art of photography has definitely benefited from the booming popularity of social media, as taking photos and sharing is now part of everyday life. You need to take a snapshot to get to know the right angles and lighting. As a side note, I hate taking pictures, and I hope I enjoy taking photographs when I take this class.

Get to know me

My name is Edgar Jones and I am 15 credits shy of graduation. I am majoring in Humanities, where I will be receiving my Bachelor's. I currently work for the New Haven AIC as the Lead of Operations, and have been there for the past 10 years, in various roles. I hope to develop a new hobby after completing this course. I will be mainly using my Samsung Galaxy Note 10+

 

 Hello my name is Kiana Alston. I'm currently in my second year at Albertus. I will be earning my BA in Human Services. I currently work at Harc Inc. I've been there for 20 years. I have had many different positions there, currently I am the Liasion of Residential Programs. I hope to learn a lot of new things in this class. Things I never knew

Just Me

 

Good evening everyone, 

My name is Krystal, Krystal with a K. I am currently a senior at Albertus Magnus, I will be receiving my degree in Psychology in May. It has been a long but astounding journey, filled with both mental and emotional growth. I am currently a case manager, and work with individuals who are recovering from mental illness and/or substance abuse, and are trying to rebuild their lives and migrate back into the community. I have worked in the mental health field for over 10 years, and I love what I do. It has been a huge influence in my decision to study psychology, and become a therapist. I am not sure of what exact concentration I would like to study, however I know my purpose is to help all those that I can. I hope that this class will allow me to open my mind and further develop my creativity, so that I can use my art and my writing to further inspire people. I will be using my iPhoneXR mostly to take pictures, along with my Mac and adobe photoshop to edit them. However, I hope to be able to purchase a camera before the class is out. I am a little familiar with editing pictures, however due to school, family and my job I do not get as much practice as I would like. I look forward to this class changing that. 

Ps. I chose this picture because I feel it represents me, in a world that would attempt to make us only black or white, I continue to stand out and live in a full range of colors. 

 Hello Everyone, My name is Kimberly Irving and this is my second mod taking classes at Albertus Magnus, I transferred in last spring for mod 4. I transferred from Manchester Community College where I majored in Social Service and minored in Early Childhood Education. At Albertus I am majoring in Human Services and hope to graduate by May 2022. I work at a daycare right now as an Infant Teacher and I have been here for a year. I don't have any children but I hope to have some in the future seeing as how I love them! The goals that I have for this class are to better understand photography, I enjoy nice photos especially scenic views and nature and I'd love to know how to take great pictures of those. I will be using my iPhone XR as seen in this photo to shoot my work and I will be uploading the images from my iPhone onto my laptop to edit them in Adobe. Looking forward to a great semester!

"Inventive selfie" -S.Reid

Hello, 

My name is Sophie Reid and I am a human services major. For the pass 20 years I have been working for Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford. Currently, I am a Unit Director for the Southwest facility. I have been under that role for 5 years now. I have a passion for service to my community and mentor youth to reach their full potential as productive and responsible citizens. My goals for this class is to finally learn how to use photoshop and understand digital photography. As far as equipment that I will be using to shoot and edit is my smartphone and Canon camera. This photo below was taken with my Iphone 10. Took a few shots but I finally was able to choose the one I wanted to post. Have a great day!

Sophie

Here is a rundown of the assignments

 1. Introduction to Composition, shoot in a built environment using geometry, lines, angles, etc. to fill the frame to make interesting designs or compositions.  Pay particular attention to how light is working and here the focal point is..

2. Water, nature, not built environment.  Reflections, patterns, textures, light, light, light.. water in and form... running, still, frozen, fluid, etc.

3. Light and Shadow... Find patterns of shadow and light.  Relate this back to the first assignment, ie, fill the frame, make an interesting design.  Look around your house, in the street, downtown, etc... tree shadows on snow or pavement can be good... it is harder to work in nature though.

4. Macro... move in and fill the frame with tiny objects... Remember to pay attention to light again... move in close, fill the frame.

5. Window light portrait.  Take someone or a pet by a window.  Put your shoulder against the same wall the window is on.  Turn the face toward the light.  Hold the camera vertically.  Crop in to the top of the head.  Put more space in front of the face, in other words, don't center the head in the frame.

Take enough pictures so that you can put 10 edited examples of each assignment in your Google Drive... generally it is best to take 10 images for each one that is called a final image.  It is a numbers game when we are learning.  How rich to be able to pick out the best 10 out of 50 instead of coping with just 10 to begin with.

Make a separate sub folder for each assignment.

So what is due this week?

 Welcome to the first week of class...!

The main job this week is to get all systems up and running and to begin shooting the first assignment.  That work will be due the following week.  Specifically:

1. Join the blog, watch "How to post to the blog" linked in the upper right hand side.

2. Post an inventive selfie.... If you are shy, it can be a shadow, a distorted reflection from any shiny surface... the possibilities are endless...Vivian Maier's self portraits from the 1950's are worth a look.... You might want to google her... she was an unknown but brilliant photographer who spent her life as a nanny.

3. Write a short bio introducing yourself.  Major? Work? Children?  What goals do you have for this class?  What equipment will you be using both to shoot and edit your work... please be specific.

4. Read the Syllabus!

5. Download and install Adobe Photoshop.  Use your Albertus login to join the creative cloud. Don't have a decent computer, Pc or Mac?  Let me know so we can set you up with an alternate way to edit your work.  A very big part of this class is to learn to edit your images.

6. Go to Drive.google.com and create a new folder titled Digital Photo Mod 1 2020, (your name). Create a sub-folder titled "Assignment , composition"  Share the main folder with me by right clicking on it then left click "share"  Enter my email address, jnevins@albertus.edu.

7. Begin shooting the first assignment, "Introduction to Composition".  Start putting your images in the sub-folder. You will need to have a minimum of 50 by the end of next week.

I will take attendance for class each Monday morning by 9 am for work posted the previous week.  I have to submit 2 attendance records each week... 

Please email me with any questions, or you can ask them here on the blog.  Remember to create you own post and not to use the "comment" link to make your own post.

 Welcome to Digital Photography I. (and II)  Take a moment to watch the how to post video linked above.  It is important that you respond to the email blogger sent you in order to join the blog.  Only members can post and comment here. Class runs from Aug 24th - October 17th, 2020.

Once you get going, you will see that it is easy and intuitive... and so much nicer looking than the eLearning shell.  Albertus is a Google Apps for Education campus, and Blogger is one of the apps available to you.

For the first week, I want you to get up and running and post a bio with a photo here.  Please state what camera you will be using.  If a phone, state the model. Download and install Photoshop using your Albertus credentials.  (link above). You should have either a Windows pc or laptop or a Mac desktop or laptop.  A chrome book can't run Photoshop.  If that's what you have, then you'll need to work on your phone to edit your phone cam pictures and upload to the blog from your phone... Another possibility is that you could receive a remote login to an Albertus computer with Photoshop and run it from your Chromebook.

Read through the assignments in the syllabus.  Use Google images to get ideas for your work.  The first assignment, Introduction to Composition asks you to think about finding geometry in your compositions using the built environment (not nature)  Here is a good short tutorial on the subject.

This is a workshop class.  To succeed, you need to post 6-10 of your best pieces, edited in Photoshop for light and focal point each week. Additionally, post at least 50 pictures from all that you took for the assignment in Google Drive. I take attendance on Monday morning for the previous week's work.  I want you to have fun with this class.  Looking forward to working with you!

Here I am this spring before the Corona Virus sent  us home, teaching Ceramics to the undergraduate day students.