Online Class Notes (Tibo)
Speaking exercise
I’m very well we have a lot of things. / I’m doing great a lot of things happened
I cannot fit everything in my home
we are looking at new homes / we plan to get a new home / we plan to move to a bigger place.
I didn’t buy nothing but the course is very good and I learned a lot of things I didn’t know. -> I didn’t pay for the course / it is a free course but it is great learned a lot of things I didn’t know.
you can take advantages of it if you are jobless / unemployed
I was trying to search for some courses but it was expensive and I found one in the Madrid community.
They have a lot of courses for the unemployed / jobless.
I never thought the community had this kind of courses. / it really surprised me that they offer this.
One girl also told me they have yoga course, I said I need to join that course.
Maybe they have shorter courses, they want you to work quickly.
They want you to get some knowledge to then find a job
The course is for everyone who wants to work from it or just enjoy it / they course is for people who want to learn new skills.
You need to register and you can enjoy some of the courses. You can also take on a part time job as long as it doesn’t disturb your studies.
it is for people who want to do it professionally and for enthusiasts
We do a lot of practice in the studio with lights. / we work with strobes in the studio
This week we had a model test.
we had to find the light used in the mona lisa had / we had to replicate / imitate / copy the light of the Mona Lisa.
at the last minute we found how to light the smoke. / how to use light to give more contrast to the smoke / how to light the smoke to make it more prominent / to make the smoke stand out
For the last photo we used 3 strobes and 1 flash
at the last minute we found how to light the smoke
she didn’t smoke so another classmate smoke and put the cigarette in her hand.
We are 5 students per group. Sometimes you can forget things.
The first difficulty was we are agree in , everyone has an idea
– > first we have to agree on what to do with the lights. / we have to agree on how to position the strobes.
Sometimes you don’t want to argue so you follow their ideas
it is difficult to be agree -> it is difficult to agree as a group.
We used color filters in blue and orange.
We tried to get a blue color / blue tint
we set the white balance in the camera.
we used a filter to increase the color
Next week we will start to learn photoshop.
Now photoshop has a lot of things where you write something and they make it so / now photoshop has AI capabilities / AI functions , you write a prompt and it does it
It is not perfect but it can do it. / it does the job
he won the contest with an AI image
My classmate is crazy with everything about photography so he found something about AI.
He asked a program to make a portrait with traits of black people and Indian people / he made a portrait for a mixed person half Indian and half Black.
we needed to do a presentation about a photographer.
I tried to ask AI to make a biography about him and it did. / I used an AI to generate a biography
Vocabulary
to do the job : be good enough
My car is quite old but it still does the job
to set (v) choose a setting
I set the flash to TTL mode to make it easier for me
to stand out (v) be very obvious / very noticeable / appear different from the rest
We use a red filter to make it stand out
traits (n) something specific about something / typical characteristic
One of the traits of lions is that they are very lazy
prompt (n) text used with AI
I wrote a good prompt and got a good image
contest (n) : a competition between people
He joined a photography contest
to argue (v) disagree strongly / voice a different opinion strongly
We argued about where to position the lights
enthusiast (n) someone who has a hobby
I am a photography enthusiast
enthusiasm (n) happiness when looking forward to doing something
He does his job with a lot of enthusiasm
Pronunciation
pulp fiction
capabilities
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