Reminder!

We are having a critique on Monday Dec 6th from 2-5pm
Bring your books. We will not have class on Wednesday.
See you at 2.

HDR

Since we have a little down time before the critique I thought it would be good to
have Doug (some of you know him from the darkroom) come in to show us his HDR images.
Remember HDR stands for High Dynamic Range.

read more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging

see more http://www.flickr.com/groups/hdr/

I want you all to try to do your own HDR images for Wednesday this means using a tripod and bracketing...

See you all in class!!!

interesting idea

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

ATTENTION BLURB CODE

Hi there,
I was just told about a promo code for BLURB. When you order your book
put in wpo1. It is good until Dec 15th so if you already ordered your book-order another one with the discount.

see you monday

Lecture

Amy Stein

Friday, December 10, 2010
San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall 800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, Ca (at Jones Street)
7:30 pm
http://www.photoalliance.org/

MoMa

So much photography so little time

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
October 30, 2010 - January 30, 2011

An innovative artist, trailblazing photojournalist, and quintessential world traveler, Henri Cartier-Bresson ranks among the most accomplished and original figures in the history…
AND
Exposed
Investigating the shifting boundaries between seeing and spying, the private act and the public image, Exposed challenges us to consider how the camera has transformed the very nature of looking.


http://www.sfmoma.org/pages/exhib_events

Books

BOOKS MUST BE ORDERED BY THE 23rd at the Latest!!!
Blurb.com

Photo Show
Thursday 5-7pm

http://www.deltacollege.edu/dept/publicinfo/prel/2010/HortonAlteredLandscapes.html

Proposal Due TODAY!

Book Project
Create a 15 page (at least) double-sided page book. You will come up with one theme and explore it thoroughly and thoughtfully. You will work on sequencing, sizing, and content. You will utilize your color correction skills. Feel free to scan images (i.e. Polaroid’s, found images etc) to include. All digital images must be shot in RAW-you should shoot extensively for the project and depending on what your project is-400 images would not be unreasonable.


check out http://www.fractionmagazine.com/ for inspiration

Interesting Article

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130754296&sc=fb&cc=fp&ref=nf

STUDY GUIDE

A reminder that you have a quiz on Wednesday!
Study Guide
Quiz review (feel free to bring your camera to the quiz)

Noise


How do you convert RGB files to Black and White
Color Correction

DPI
RAW
JPEG
ISO
APERTURE
SHUTTER/B SETTING/LONG EXPOSURE

RGB1998 and sRGB
Histogram
LAYERS (adjustment)
GREY CARD/Light meter
What are the Advantages of a DNG file.

Susan Sontag

"To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge -- and, therefore, like power."

Midterm Quiz

FYI

Our Midterm Quiz will be on Wednesday.
There will be a Quiz review on Monday.

Gilles Peress

"I work much more like a forensic photographer in a certain way, collecting evidence. I've started to take more still lifes, like a police photographer, collecting evidence as a witness. I've started to borrow a different strategy than that of the classic photojournalist. The work is much more factual and much less about good photography. I don't care that much anymore about "good photography." I'm gathering evidence for history, so that we remember."

– Gilles Peress, U.S. News, October 6, 1997

Field Trip

When Wednesday the 13th AT 3pm
Where:Jeannette Powell Art Center, 1071 Mendocino Ave. Walk onto campus and go into the gallery on your right.
Park on the street they ticket in the lots!!!

The main entry to the Jeannette Powell Art Center is located in the Courtyard between the two buildings.

The Reynolds Gallery is pleased to present, Sightseers: Photographs by Jennifer Little, which runs from September 27 to October 20.

Jennifer Little's Sightseers series documents tourists in a wide variety of locations, emphasizing both the overabundance of spectacles in our society and the overabundance of people photographing them.

Weaving together themes of alienation, technology, advertising and media imagery, Little's work shows these influences not only on what people choose to photograph, but how they photograph.

By chronicling familiar tourist places, such as the observation deck, nature preserves, urban areas and botanical garden, Little's photos reflect how landscape is marketed as a spectacle for tourists to photograph. The view itself has been turned into a commodity.

DIPTYCH : People, Places, Things



For this assignment you will create 5 diptychs. Use your 200 shots to photograph PEOPLE, PLACES, and THINGS—you should shoot at least three rolls for each topic. Pay attention to quality of light—try shooting in the early evening, in the fog, in various kinds of artificial light, at night with long shutter speeds, etc. Remember to make INTERESTING IMAGES that will work well in pairs.

Your first 40 shots should be 400 ISO or less and should be shot between the hours of 10am and 2pm outside on a bright day. Make sure to make contact sheets of all your images.
40 must be slower than 400 ISO
40 must be 400 ISO
40 must be 800 ISO or above
The rest of the shots are your choice.

Over the next few class you will be bringing in Raw images to work on using Adobe Raw. The images will be placed next to each other in diptychs. Examples will be shown in class.You will be sending your prints to Adorama in NYC to be printed as well as the print shop.

Must Be sent to Adorama 10/25/10



Project due : Beginning of Class Wednesday, November 3rd

Next Few Days

Wednsday: Movie
Prepare Retouch assignment for print
300 dpi 11x14 before and after AND put it on your blog! PLEASE MAKE SURE ALL ASSIGNMENTS ARE ON THE BLOG.

Monday:
Look at Hockney!!!!
Examples Diptych (New Assignment)
Color Theory
Color correction
Test Strips
Types of prints

Wednesday:
Field trip TBA

Bring your Camera
Grey Card if you have one
Look up Custom White Balance in your manual.
We will meet in the classroom and go down to Shima 150.

REMEMBER

REMEMBER YOUR CAMERA...
SEE YOU SOON!

Wednesday

Download 30 images (convert to DNG if you want)

Add Metadata

Correct files

Save as Tiff

Create an Action that Resizes files for the internet
and saves them as Jpeg. this blog has some interesting advice http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/07/how-to-create-photoshop-actions/

Make a contact sheet of resized images

Print out...

For Wednesday

SHOOT IN RAW

SHOOT 10 Scenes
Bracket each shot for a total of 30 images
1+ Stop 1-Stop and Normal.

MONDAY

in class please check out http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Bridge/3.0/WS0DC1130B-6864-46da-B794-71FC8CBB2258.html this will show you the steps to make a contact sheet. Then...guess what??? I want you to make a contact sheet.

FOR MONDAY!

SHOOT 10-15 images in RAW.
Be sure your camera is set to MANUAL.

Batch processing

Steps for Batch Processing!!!!

Open up Photoshop and go through File>Open, select one of the images and click Open

Give a name to your Action and click Record to start, I named my Action Resize


From now on, Photoshop will be recording every command you make, so make sure you follow the following steps correctly. Select the image and go through Image>Image Size, and just change the width 3 or 4” and the height will fall in proportion. Make sure the image is 300dpi.


Save your image into a new folder. Close the image, go back to your Actions Panel and click on the Stop button. This has stopped the recording so that the action has been recorded until you closed your image in previous step.


Now that all of the actions are recorded all you have to do is simply Automate the action on a batch of images saved in a specific folder. Go through File>Automate>Batch . The Batch menu allows you to play a previously saved Action on multiple similar files. The Source section is where you select your desired source folder and the Destination section indicates where will the output images be located at. Finally, the File Naming section allows selection of various ways to save your output files, in the screenshot below the output images will have their original file name along with their original extension

HOCKNEY

Hockney Interior/Exterior/Portrait



Using the visual language that David Hockney is famous for make three final images. Digital imagery is fast and cheap to produce, take as many at least 25 shots of each scene (interior, exterior, and portrait). We will spend the next two classes opening, sizing, and setting up the collage in Photoshop and prepping it to print. Set your camera to Large JPeg.

Two Scenes Due 8/30/10
Third Scene Due 9/1

you will...

8/23 Monday

you will open Photoshop and go to Bridge
you will upload your Night Photographs
you will start to edit them

you will have fun with this...

Supplies

Supplies


Digital SLR camera OR Digital Camera that can shoot in RAW and JPEG
With fully manual functions
Memory card
USB Cable OR Card Reader to upload images

CDs
Flash Drive
Portable hard drive for backing up files


An old damaged photo to retouch for RETOUCH assignment
Some music CD or mp3 for slide show

Textbook: The Creative Digital Darkroom

1st Assignment

Assignment 1
Painting with Light: Night Photography:
With inspiration from Fourth of July Special: Paint Your Photos with Sparklers! See link
Shoot 100 images. Large JPEG is OK. You will edit to your best 4 images.

For the Assignment
DSLR camera or point-and-shoot camera
Flashlight
Tripod
Friends or Objects (1 or more)
Off-camera flash (optional)


Create beautiful and provocative long exposures using the B setting. Use an alternative light source to add information to your exposure. This is an experimental assignment so take your time. Making mistakes is the best way to learn. Do not delete any of your images. Recognition will be given for original ideas.

• Drawing, outlining, highlighting
• Play with your settings from F-stop to ISO.
• Try glow sticks or sparklers.
• Writing letters in the air will result in backwards words, but this can be fixed by simply flipping the image horizontally. Having your subjects wear black so they disappear into the scene.
Suggestion from photojojo.com

“If you are planning to use flash, you’ll want to keep your shutter speed shorter at about 8 seconds. If you are using the built-in flash on your camera, set it to “rear flash.” This means your flash will pop at the end of the exposure instead of the beginning.
Let your friend know to be ready at the end of 8 seconds, so that they can hit their pose!
If you are using an off-camera flash you won’t need to set “rear flash” because you’ll be manually firing it. Again, give your friend a heads up when you do!”

Images Shot by: 8/25/10