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Here are some professional & student galleries of photos that Matt Cautheron, a digital media teacher in California has collected. Check them out for some very inspirational stuff!

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Make your own fisheye lens.

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Check out this cool blog by a couple who do photography together. They do some neat retro looking stuff and have a tutorial page, which hopefully they'll add more stuff to soon: http://nacedesign.com/blog/ Continue

Turn your photos into polaroids! Wheeeeeee! http://www.poladroid.net/index.php Continue

For your sequence narrative assignment, create a series of 5 composite photographs, utilizing at least two layers each, and a technique that you learn in a online tutorial of your choosing. You can find many good tutorials at PSDTuts.com, or find your own. Sketches (5) Due: A: Tuesday, 11/25 H:Wednesday, 11/26 Requirements: 1. Create something that is fictional and not possible in real life. 2. No octopi. 3. No giant ___________ attacks the school. We… Continue

Out of Place Photographs (Finals): A: Monday, Nov. 17 H: Friday, Nov. 14 Light Painting Photographs (unedited): A: Monday, Nov 17 H: Tuesday, Nov 18 Narrative Photographs (Finals): A: Friday, Nov 21 H: Thursday, Nov 20 Continue

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Materials: Camera Tripod Regular Flashlight Small light emitting device (LED lights, glow sticks, laser pointers, small flashlights, chirstmas lights, etc.) You will need to find two locations for this assignment, 1 indoor and 1 outdoor. You will end with a total of five final photographs. At least two in each location (3 in one, 2 in the other) For your outdoor assignments: Find an interesting location away from your own backyard. It should be somewhere that is dark, although it may… Continue