Mastery Skills Demo:  Total Time:  40 minutes

It is important to know how to use your camera to capture good exposures straight from the camera, without needing to do a lot of editing in post production. This takes practice to know your proper camera settings.

It is equally important to know how to use Photoshop and Lightroom to edit images, mask images, and add typography for advertising and marketing purposes. This will help you when working for clients who want you to remove unwanted items or blend images for creative approaches.

So for this Mastery Skills Demo you will demonstrate your skills with straight photography and with image editing.

Instructions

PART 1:  Photography Assignment:  20 minutes

Imagine your top client is a landscaping company. They just emailed and they need a quick but good quality image of seasonal plants, trees and textures for the background of their website. Here are the specs they sent and you want to comply with their request because they provide a large share of your overall income and they will pay you well.

Here is the email:

My web designer is in our office right now and she needs the following in 20 minutes! Can you help us out?
a photo of seasonal plants, trees and textures with a wide aperture.
Size it to 1800 x 1200 pixels as a jpeg with your name according to this example JakeSpencer-WebBanner.jpg

 
The lighting should be good enough to need very little editing. You will turn in an edited image using different techniques learned in this class.
 
 
 
PART 2:  Image Editing Assignment:  20 minutes
Use your image editing skills in Photoshop to clean up and repair this old photo
PhotoRestorationAssignment
1. Click the image above to enlarge. Then right click it to download the image and add your edits. You may not be able to finish this in 20 minutes, so just do as much as you can in the time you have.
2. When finished, size your photo so the long side is 1024 pixels. Save your photo as a jpeg with your name according to this example:  JakeSpencer-PhotoRestoration.jpg

Submission

Before the deadline, submit both jpegs in the dropbox for this assignment.

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FAIR USE & COPYRIGHT NOTICE: As a student, the Fair Use laws allow you to practice with only one image from a photographer, But you may not publish it online, or use it in any other way except to submit this in I-Learn. This image belongs to Hancock Studios from Pleasant Grove, Utah.