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This essay on "de-mystifying pixels"
The point of this homework is to gain some experience in acquiring photos with a digital camera, and getting them on to a web page.
You should do this exercise in pairs, both to have someone else to consult with, and to have a photographic subject! You may certainly work on it together. But please hand in your own images.
Take at least 20 pictures each, but I'd like you to select from these just three images::
You'll take photos, download them, look at them on a computer monitor and select the three you want.
You'll edit each of these, creating one "display" image (800 pixels wide or less), and one thumbnail for each image.
Assemble a web page in which you display the three thumbnails, and each of these links to the "display" image. Hand in the web page by e-mailing to your instructor.
You may use your own digital camera for any work for this class. ITS-media has several Nikon 5000 digital cameras available for check out. You may also use these for any of your projects in this class.
To check out a camera, contact ITS-media to schedule a time at x-7727. They're open (May term) 9.30-10.30am, and 1.00-4.00 pm. They'll get you oriented to the camera basics.
See "Basic Digital Camera Shooting Techniqes"
Of course, the quality of your images depends to a large degree on your own visual sensibilities!.
To make sure your image has plenty of fat, happy pixels: There are two settings on your camera which determine the sharpness of your images, and the degree to which you can crop your images later on:
detail from a large, high-quality image |
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detail from a smaller, lower-quality image |
Assemble a page that displays your three thumbnails (linked to your display images), worry about whether it is also working for other people, and turn in (moodle) the URL to your page.
Typical DW publishing problem: In past terms we discovered that Dreamweaver usually makes those awkward "file:///..." links if the image you want to insert is in a folder above the web page you're editing. So make sure that images are in the same folder as your webpage, or lower down in a subfolder.
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