Smartphone Viewing & Posting

SMARTPHONE VIEWING & POSTING

SMARTPHONE VIEWING 

One easy way to deal with all of this is to use the Blogger app, that can be downloaded from the Apple App Store or Google Play site. When you go to the blog site on your smart phone with this app you first have to sign in to blogger.com. This requires that you know your new Gmail address and your password for the blog site. When you get in you will be presented with a page with the Blogger logo at the very top-left and the name of this class blog “Smartphone Photography_F 13”. Below that will be four icons: one for Posts, one for making a New Post, one to View the Blog, and one for Settings.

If you tap [view blog] icon you will be taken into the Smartphone Photography blog site itself. Try it! There you will see the name of the site in a large font, the description of the site underneath in a smaller font, and below that you will see the most current post and below that will be all the preceding posts. If you tap on the photo for any particular blog you will see that photograph enlarged. But better, click on the [arrow] to the right of that photo you will see all of the photographs in that post, and you can scroll through them. If you tap on any of these photos you will be taken to an even larger version of that picture, filling the smartphone screen. The ‘grid’ icon at the top left corner of the screen will always take you back.

blogger home                      site home        

[note: you can also view the class site in any browser on a smartphone at the usual address: http://smartphonephotof13.blogspot.com.]

COMPUTER VIEWING

The experience is a bit different if you’re viewing the blog site on a computer. When you log in to on a computer at http://smartphonephotof13.blogspot.com you will see the title of the blog at the top, followed by the description of the blog. Then the most recent post will appear, with all the photos contained within visible on the page. Clicking on any single photograph enlarges that photograph full-size on the computer screen. Below that will be a series of very small thumbnails of all the other photographs that are in that particular post.

SMARTPHONE POSTING

Tapping on the New Post icon on the Blogger home page on a smartphone screen will take you to a page that enables text and image input. 

                                new post screen       post content screen launch camera screen

create a new post at the start of each Topic

enter a title for the post into the post title box 

the Title of each post must follow this format: 

your first name - topic e.g. Steven - B&W

the Title of your Critique posts must be:

your first name -  crit # e.g. Steven - B&W Crit 1

add a series of photos using the post content box 

or the camera button at the bottom of the screen 

tap use photo library to choose photos 

After selecting the photo(s) you will return to the first screen

tap the save button in the upper-right corner to post the page 

for the next post:

edit the previous post

there should be only 1 post for each Topic for each person

add new photographs at the top of the page

tap the update button

NOTES on POSTING

• Title each Post with your First Name and Topic or Critique Number to clearly organize the list of Posts on the right side of the blog site. This will make it much easier for us to follow each other’s work. 

• Always place multiple photos in each post. It teas up too much space in the Post list on the Left side of the Blog.

• We do not want any text or descriptions of the photographs. Just photos! My mentor used to say, “If I have to read something to understand your photographs, then your photographs are not doing their job.”

• Comment freely on the daily posts of your classmates. We are seeking positive feedback designed to make our work better. This class is about cooperation to competition.

COMPUTER POSTING

If you log on to the class blog at http://smartphonephotof13.blogspot.com you can post from any browser on any computer. When the page opens you will see the site title, and the most recent post. Up in the far top-right corner there is a text-button called ‘new post’.  Click on that and you will be taken to a page that allows you to Compose a new post. 

In the tool bar of the Composition page there is a little icon that looks like a photograph, just to the right of the link button, that you hit to insert a photo into the page. 

    enter a title for the post in the post title box 

the Title of each post must follow this format: 

your first name - topic e.g. Steven - B&W 

the Title of your Critique posts must be:

your fist name -  crit # e.g. Steven - Crit 1 

add a series of photos

click on the photo icon in the tool bar  

click preview to make sure it looks okay 

click   publish   

Click the view blog button at the top left of the screen to see the actual blog site.