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...