For this week, post the following:

• Problem set 2: Optics
• Refer to the articles on lighting in photography along with the videos we watched in class. What did you learn about lighting in photography? What techniques do you hope to practice this week? What challenges do you foresee?
• Post one picture from your first studio session and one picture for your second studio session. Pick photos that best illustrate each session in your mind’s eye. Write about what you learned from each session.
• Sunset Cliffs Page. Post images and a your writing piece that will go into your Sunset Cliffs page for this week.
• Honors or Open Architecture work. Write a brief synopsis of what you plan to do for you Honors or Open Architecture work. What else do you hope to learn?
• Spend some time playing with lenses and prisms. What do each do? Write about the power of optics in our modern world? What strikes you? What questions do you still have?

Read the following articles. Take notes. Be prepared to use these ideas in a studio photography set up this week.

• Inverse Square Law and Perfect Lighting
• General Lighting in Photography

Post the following for blog post 3:

• Waves Problem Set
• Pick two ideas that struck you from the in-class articles on photographic technique. Answer the following questions for both. What about this technique strikes you? How do you plan to incorporate this photographic technique into your work?
• Read about the history of of the Old Town Mission prior to our trip there tomorrow.
• Practice photography. Post at least three photos from your photographs today and/or during our field work which demonstrate a technique you read about this week. Write about what you were trying to capture.
• Post a link to your second page on Old Town. The page should be saved as a PhotoShop file.

Read the following in order to brush up on photography basics:

• Composition
• Lines
• Rule of Thirds
• Golden Ratio in Photography

When you are finished reading about basics, look through these examples of narrative photography and urban photography. Think about the techniques that are being used. What style would you like to emulate? How can you capture that feeling?

• Examples: Narrative Photography
• Examples: Urban Photography

Post the following for this week’s blog post:

• An image of your second and final map of our Field Guide area.
  • Along with the image write a reflection about teamwork. What did you personally do to complete the map? What did your partner do? How did you decide roles? How did it work out? What did you learn from the experience that you can apply to your future work?
• Use the in class text we read on light, write about the significance and mystery of light. Use at least two ideas from the text that were new to you. What do you find most fascinating about the nature of light? What questions do you have as a result?
• Post a link to the page (~300 words) of text you and your partner write about Liberty Station.
• Post your three best photos from our Field work that we do at Liberty Station.

After we finalize the Friday Field Work locations to the syllabus, it’ll be ready to roll out. Look for that this week. The link will remain the same.

This semester, we will be completing an Urban Field Guide to the San Diego region near High Tech High. As part of this process, we will all need to become photographers for the book. With that in mind, your first blog post of the semester in physics should contain the following:

• Read this article on the use of narrative or storytelling within photography
• Spend time capturing photos that focus on narrative, using ideas gleaned from the article
• Post at least two of your photos. If you know post-processing, you can process. However, we will learn those techniques later in the semester so this post will focus on narrative.
• Add a paragraph on the nature of space. What struck you in learning how the everywhere is the center of the universe?
• Post a photo of the rough draft of your map with a brief explanation describing your map. Answer the following question: was the feedback helpful? what do you plan to change on your next iteration of the map?

Helpful resources

1. Where is the Center of the Universe? 
2. Vsauce: center of the universe visualized
3. No edge: shape of the universe
4. Everywhere stretch 

Please post the following as a final honors blog post:

• A final work log from last week into this week. Add what you have worked on each day as part of your honors work.
• A detailed reflection answering the question: What did you learn from the secondary honors project you completed? This reflection should include any struggle or challenge you experienced along the way, how you overcame that struggle, what technical or science concepts you learned from the work, what you were proud of and what you would change if you could work on it a second time.
• An image or video showing the work you completed as part of the honors work. For Astronomy people, this should be a processed image, for film-makers, it could be the film, for rocket group, it should be an image of the rocket you worked on, for nature groups you can post an image of the work you did.
• Problem set and Article: Read the linked (extensive) article on Ocean Acidification. Write a response containing the following:
  • List three concepts you learned from the article and explain each one
  • Describe how chemistry is important to understanding ocean acidification
  • What struck you personally about the article?
  • The end of the article lists lowering you personal CO2 output as a way to slow ocean acidification. Do one act which lowers your CO2 output and write about it.

Final Reflective Post

For the final post, please write three reflective paragraphs on the semester. Included in this post you should add a link to your final paper. The final paper should include citations from at least 3 sources and be between 500 and 1000 words.

Paragraph 1: What work are you most proud of and why? Focus on how you may have pushed yourself or how you may have grown in a way that surprised you?

Paragraph 2: What new, interesting science did you learn? Why did that stand out?

Paragraph 3: What is your role as an astronaut on Spaceship Earth? At this point in your life, how would you answer this question? What is your purpose?

Once you have finished the astronomy work, please take some time to process at least one image. Each person doing astronomy as a project – whether it’s your only one or your honors one has to complete the processing.

The processing works by stacking numerous images through Deep Sky Stacker , a PC based software (it doesn’t work on a Mac). You’ll need to download the software and follow a work flow that is fairly simple. You put in your light frames (pictures of night sky objects), dark frames (pictures from your camera at the same exposure settings but with a cap on the lens) and bias frames (pictures from you camera at fast exposure but with a cap on the lens). The software will stack the image which can then be exported and touched up in PhotoShop.

Check out the videos below for more info.

• Tutorial 1
• Tutorial 2
• Tutorial 3