DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY WEBSITE

My class website is published and entitled “A Day in A Digital Photography Class.”
The URL as indicated above is: http://community.uaf.edu/~lbeadie/DigitalPhotoHome.html
and contains four pages, including the Home Page.

The navigation bar is horizontal and links the four pages to each other. The first page is the index page and is entitled DigitalPhotoHome.html. All the pages also have webfile pages to accompany the html pages.

The second page is entitled DigitalPhotoPg2 and describes and reviews various cameras. The third page is entitled DigitalPhotoPg3 and describes some of the process of taking and editing photographs. And the fourth page is entitled DigitalPhotoPg4 and describes some editing procedures. The alternative page titles are PURPOSE, CAMERA, PROCESS, and EDITING. There are many images included on most pages.

Thank you for the additional time to design and create this small website for your review. I really enjoyed the class and would love to have another course with you. Semper Fidelis, Britt Eadie

Navigation bars and buttons

I thought we had done the navigation bars and buttons in class and like most of us did not think to post the ICE work. I think I do have some of the work around the site but I am not sure.

Merry Christmas to you and to your family and to all the class.

Britt.

Vector Editing

Wow, what a job.  All of the vector editing requirements are complete and on one page.   I used the ellipse and the polygon to begin with and then applied the star and the  doughnut.   I used several of the vector and the bitmap tools to rearrrange and reorganize the images before applying the live filter effects.   Two were grouped and two more were scaled and rotated.

My bitmap image is the representation of the United States Marines and the United States Navy Corpsman on the Iwo Jima Memorial now located in Arlington, Virginia depicting the battle for Iwo Jima in February 1945.  From that battle came the statement: UNCOMMON VALOR WAS A COMMON VIRTUE.   I think the “bleeding” (transparency of all of the images)  effect and the color balance provide a nice overall effect.   The wording “am i pretty” applies to the pink ellipse on which it is atached and not to the Marines or the Sailor or the Iwo Jima Memorial.  It was and is not a small bitmap image but I wanted to give the vector palette some “panache.”   I have, however, applied a small bitmap image to my blog as an avatar.

It is not posted to but linked to  my homework index page as requested and is entitled: 

VECTOR SHAPES.png

Bitmap Editing

       The Bitmap Editing requirements as to Scaling, Cropping, Selecting and Cloning bitmap images are posted to my homework index page and linked sequentially one to the other in the given order and the fist page is linked to the homework index page as requested.   There are two cloning examples because I separated the two images on the second example to better see the cloning effect.   This was lot of  fun and quite interesting.   All of the bitmap images had to be scaled or cropped as appropriate before applying the requested procedure.

JPEG Compression(Fireworks for the first time)

Fireworks is working fine for me.   It is an excellent program for combining the attributes of Dreamweaver and Photoshop in preparing and presenting  graphic objects.  I had to keep myself from automatically trying to work in Photoshop and save my work to Fireworks rather than  just starting in Fireworks and using its tools to do what I wanted to do.  I have completed the tutorials and the two assignments and published those to the web linked to the homework page as requested.

Color Sites

I have selected four sites to demonstrate the four color groupings of monochromatic, complementary, triad and analogous usage of color.  Although each of these sites represent a particular color grouping, all of them also instruct on the use of the color wheel in general.

Those sites are as follows:

• MONOCHROMATIC
• COMPLEMENTARY
• TRIAD
• ANALOGOUS

I will also try to find and post other sites on this subject.

Final Project Ideas:

1.  I would like to do a basic web site on the coffee/tea shops that cater to University students (see my recommended site).  I know of three that I have visited and enjoyed so I would want to include only those three.  Perhaps a short story on each of the shops and some photo images of daily activities.

2.  I would also like to do a short story (with photo images) web site on one of my photo walks, particularly the one at Creamer’s Field.  The pictures and signs tell a very interesting story of life (the ecosystem) in that arena.   Actually, I think a day in digital photography which could include several photo walks would be a great web site.

3.  And lastly, I would like to upgrade my Ice Alaska website at http://lbeadie.freehostia.com to include new information about Ice Alaska and the City of North Pole.

HOW DO THEY DO THAT: Web Sites that display creations that I would like to do.

The US Marine Corps site at: http://www.marines.mil/Pages/DefaultPage.aspx and the Marine Corps University site at: http://www.mcu.usmc.mil/mcu/mcu_welcome_packet/index.htm both show either a video connected to a navigation bar or an emblamatic icon emblazoned on its opening page.  The same type of video feeds but from several images displayed on the opening page and then clicked to the youtube video are shown at: http://video.google.com/.  I would like to be able to do both (or all three of those creations) as effectively as those site designers and creators do.

Use of dreamweaver and CSS postings:

1.  Dreamweaver is a fantastic program for disigning and creating websites but it requires a lot of study to do it right, particularly if you want to use CSS layouts and styles.

2.  This is a second posting of the Dreamweaver requirement because I had left this one in draft form and published the second version without removing this one from the posting area.  As a part of this publishing, I will also comment further on “Who’s using CSS for the 10/27 postings.”

3.  I revisited the site, http://www.newgrounds.com, and viewed its CSS layout and styles development through the use of the “Tools” toolbar.   This is a huge site and I observed  that they are using CSS stylesheets throughout and at least one table in the development of its banner.   I did not observe a print style sheet, but the print review does not look significantly different from the visual observation of the site so perhaps there is one.   There is a very interesting comment from the HTML coding author, Bob Rudderow,  further down the pages regarding CSS, i.e., WELCOMING THE FORMER BBS STYLE SHEET TO NGSECTS, CSS.  I am not sure what that means unless there was some other form of style sheets used before using CSS.   Perhaps Chris could enlighten us as to what a comment like that means.

CSS posts:

Yes, I did find many differences in the use of CSS stylesheets and the “older” method.  The older method is a lot of hard work and is very time consuming and it is also noticeable in the more polished websites as the use of CSS provides a more consistent layout.