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Establish pre-session expectations with clients
Assessment Strategies
Project: Five client consultations
Criteria
Use a project notebook
Document how the session images will be used
Document client expectations using format specified by the instructor
Images accurately interpret client requests
Images reflect student’s individual style and creativity
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Control depth of field using aperture, distance, and focal length
Assessment Strategies
Project: Super-Shallow Depth of Field
Criteria
Depth of field calculations are accurate
Calculations are completed prior to photographing
One image showcases depth of field less than 3 inches wide, single subject
One image displays multiple subjects within depth of field and a blurred background
Recite expected DoF using a 50mm lens at various distances and apertures
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Develop an editing process that reflects industry editing standards
Assessment Strategies
Skill Demonstration
Criteria
Use Adobe Lightroom
Edit subject features to enhance natural features
Change subjects clothing colors in post production
Automatically apply custom made editing to all captures taken during the same session
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Demonstrate real-world problem solving strategies when faced with unexpected circumstances
Assessment Strategies
Project: Make it work
Criteria
Effectively evaluate client change request made during post consultation
Make decision about requested change
Incorporate change to client criteria
Deliver consultation notes, image, and document requested change
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Use AI to isolate and edit sections of images (masking)
Assessment Strategies
Project: Build AI presets
Criteria
Build 5 AI masks
AI masks incorporate your personal editing style
Combine masks into a repeatable AI based preset
Use batch editing to apply these masks to an entire session
Refine your use of AI tools throughout the course
Editing process reflects industry editing standards
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Demonstrate portrait techniques on non-human subjects
Assessment Strategies
Project: Pet Photography
Criteria
Portrait is of a non-human subject
Use a minimum of two lights
Isolate the subject from the background
Capture subjects’ personality
Portrait meets quality guidelines as specified by the instructor
Refine your use of AI tools
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Control ambient light in portraits
Assessment Strategies
Two images
Criteria
Combine strobes and ambient light within each image
Use shutter speed to increase and decrease the amount of ambient light in the image while maintaining proper exposure
Each image is effectively exposed
Final images meet guidelines as specified by the instructor
Refine your use of AI tools
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Use the environment to provide visual details about your portrait subjects
Assessment Strategies
Peer image review
Project: Environmental Portraits
Criteria
Photograph a subject in a non-studio setting
Use composition and lighting techniques to include background and/or foreground elements without distracting from your subject
Non-subject elements provide details about your subject
Refine your use of AI tools
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Communicate effectively
Assessment Strategies
Skill Demonstration
Criteria
Listen effectively, showing interest in speaker
Respond to speaker in industry-accepted language and terminology
Convey meaning in speaking and writing
Write so others accurately interpret and understand
Speak so others accurately interpret and understand
Read and comprehend