October 31st

Today I printed out some pictures for a biome project I have in biology. I then came back to class and worked on a poster for the biomedical drive. Biomed is hosting a diaper and wet wipe drive. I added many texts with some effects like the wave effect and added some photos and moved them around to look better. I have the poster I made posted below. Hope you enjoy! 

October 30th

Today we got to work on a t-shirt design. It had to have the words “life is good” on the design. I visited a website that had lots of designs and found one I liked. I made a fishing one, using the text tools, and rotating and flipping the two fishing poles.  I also finished up my bull poster that I was working on last Friday. The pictures of my work are posted below!

October 27th

Today was a project day. I am working a bull poster to sell leases and semen on my club calf bulls. I have not finished it yet but will on the next day! I used they type tool to put any word on the paper and added some photos of my bulls. I also checked out the drone for the weekend! so hopefully I get to have some videos Monday or Tuesday! I will post my bull pictures and videos as soon as they are completed!

October 26th

Today was a project day. I worked on some pictures of some show calves I’m trying to sell and then I got to go out and fly the drone. It wouldn’t work around our building because of the airport being so close. But, we did get to fly it! We took the car and drove to the high school football field. I took a short video for my first time with the drone so, its posted below.   https://youtu.be/sqrt8uATmKM

October 25th

I attended career center this morning. I took a 34 question math test on work keys and felt like I did pretty well. After that I came back to class. I worked in my Lynda.com lessons. I am finished with chapter 7 and am 1/2 way done with chapter 8! Hopefully I can try and finish my course tomorrow! In chapter 7 I learned how to merge, merge 360 degrees and sharpen multiple panoramic images and chapter 8 was all about how to capture a HDR photo from a drone.

October 24th

I worked in Lynda.com again today. I am moving through my drone videos faster than I had thought! I finished chapter 3, 4, 5, 6, and am 2 lessons into chapter 7 today! But most of the lessons I have been learning are not so much about the drone, but about how to take and edit the pictures in Lightroom and in photoshop. All lessons 3-7 have been using Lightroom so far, learning different ways to change the look of the photo and different techniques to brighten and/or contrast the image. There are only 9 chapters in the course so I am about done. The last 3 chapters have about 10 lessons a piece but I plan to finish them either tomorrow or Thursday!

October 23rd

Today was the first day back from fall break! So, I worked in Lynda.com. But first I emailed my weekly goals with all my chapters and lessons. I then completed chapter 2 and 3/4 of chapter 3. I am learning a lot about drones and am very excited to get ours out and try it! I learned features like how to rotate the camera and and how to start and fly the drone and then how to take pictures and videos. I learned that they said landing is the hardest part of flying the drone.

October 18th

Today was a project day.  Before I started on my project we had career center, and we took a 35 question document test. After that, I had a college kid ask me if I could make him a goat logo the other day to be put on jackets, hats, etc. so, I made him this. I used many tools such as the text and pen tools creating different features on the goat, like putting a text that says their family farm name and then I cleaned up the edges and made them with less pixels. I changed the font to make it more of a professional type. I also had to fill the goat with white because he was a blue when I got the outline. I also made some other copies with the words in different places. Now its fall break so see ya Monday! 

October 17th

Today I worked in Lynda.com. I didn’t get as much done on my new course Learning Aerial Photography with drones, because the exercise files took so long to download. But, I did get through the introductions and chapter 1 and part of chapter 2. I have learned about the long checklist you must have before going and flying a drone and about how taking off and landing are the two hardest parts about flying. I am starting to learn the essentials of flying in chapter 2 and then I will learn how to shoot raw photos in chapter 3!

October 16th

Today I finished my Lynda.com course Photoshop Restoration: Replacing a background. I took and straightened and cropped the image first. Then, I started filling the background with color and gradients. After that, I took and rendered some trees into the back ground, burned some shadows, blurred parts of the image, and set some midtones. I am now starting a new course called Learning Aerial Photography with Drones, so I can learn more about them so I can use the one I have here in class.

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