Extra Special Teaching: Daily 5 & CAFE ~ Thoughts for Special Education

Extra Special Teaching: Daily 5 & CAFE ~ Thoughts for Special Education: Last week, I mentioned that I had the opportunity to see The Sisters speak about using CAFE in the classroom.  You can read about that { h...

JS Day 9 - Edge Burn

Here is a technique I will most definitely use! Edge burn, which darkens the edges of a photo so the light draws your eyes to your focal point. One problem I'm having is that I don't have a whole awful lot of pictures to choose from yet. I do love this shot of Jillian & Abby though, and it helped me learn the technique, so I guess that's what matters. I'm giving you the before and after so you can see the effect.

JS Day 8 - Type

Day 8 is about typing text onto a photo. Again, not something I really love personally, but still good to know. A lot of these techniques are geared towards digiscrapping, which I don't do, but would love to start if I could find some time... Maybe when we move. I need to catch up my paper scrapbooks first! One thing that really appeals to me about digiscrapping is that I don't have to drag out supplies - they're all in the computer. That means elements can be used repeatedly, and I don't have to worry about little hands getting hold of my stuff!

Here's the picture. I'm proud to say this was taken in manual at the 4th of July parade in Hope Mills! I brightened it up some and really like the way it turned out! I saved a copy without the text on top too. ;-)

JS Day 6 - TTV

For Lesson 6, Jessica Sprague talks about a technique called "Through the Viewfinder" or TTV. Basically, photographers will take a picture through the viewfinder of an old camera in order to achieve a worn, faded look. Interesting that we have sharp new technology, and people want to make their pictures look old, isn't it? Anyway, the look can also be achieved through photoshop, and here is my go at it. I really like the way this one turned out.

JessicaSprague.com Photo Editing Class - Day 5

Now that VBS is over and my FTCC is on a 3 week break, I figured it was time to get back to my Jessica Sprague class! Day 5 was all about adding textures to photos. I think this one came out well.

A lot of these techniques aren't really my style, or at least not something I'll use a whole lot, but learning how to do these things is helping me navigate my way around PSE6 tremendously!

Shooting Downtown - FTCC Class

These pictures are from this past Tuesday night, when we met downtown to shoot. We were working primarily on shutter speed and I think I got some good results!

I'm not liking how blogger uploads photos. They post in the opposite order of what I upload them in, and I can only do 5 at a time. I guess I'm going to have to start using flickr, but when I tried that before it took forever. I need an easier way to resize, upload, and post!

FTCC Class Shoots

Just wanted to share some pics I snapped while out with my class. These were at the rose garden at FTCC during the second class. Just a few of my favorites.

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