Course Outline
Photographers List
Reading List
Portfolio

Overview

Intro

Self
Student

Camera/System
Previous Experience
Motivation/Objectives
Previous Work - (Following session review)

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Best Practices

Original Files
Working Files
Zip Disks/CDRW/CDR
Regarding Cards, Memory Sticks

Lab Proceedures

File Naming conventions
Storage drives
Temporary Drives
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Regarding working files from disk

Lecture:

Camera (*Digital)

• CCD/Super CCD/
  
  Change couple device - Individual sensors / samples
  Pixel / grain
  Bit Depth
  
  Shutter speed
  Apeture
  Film Speed - Sensitivity (iso) equivalent to grain /noise in lower light situations
  White Balance
  
• Lens
  
  Focal Length - Shorter focal length - 50mm become 72/105
  Sensory sizes vary although typically smaller than 35mm
  Greater Depth of field,
  
• LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
  
  
  Relevant with viewfinder cameras regarding what the image actually captures.

Transport / Storage

• USB
• Firewire/ iLink / IEEE1394
• Serial
• SCSI
  
  
• Flash Card
• Memory Stick
• CD
• DVD
  
  

Core File Issues

• Size Dimensions
• Resolution
• File Size (storage)
• File Type
• Compression
• Bit Depth
  
  

  Color Models
  Chrominance
  Luminance

Photoshop

Best Practices (Reviewed)
Transport and Organization

File Browser
File Info
CD/DVD Burning

Web Gallery
Contact Sheet II

Selection, Manipulation and Repair

Selections
Croping
Magic Wand
Color Range

Burn / Dodge
Clone
Healing
History

Color/tonal Correction

Levels
Curves
Auto
Color Modes
Conversion (black and white)

Compositing

Layers
Channels
Masks

Scanning

Printing

Color Management
Resolution
Pre-Press File Preparation
File Types

Web Presentation

Image Ready
Optimization
Automation Techniques

Legal / Copyright Issues

Protecting your images
Respecting the work of others

 

Photographers

Eadweard Muybridge
Eudora Welty
Moholy-Nagy
Irving Penn
Karl Blossfelt
Andreas Feininger
W. Eugene Smith
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Tina Modotti
Robert Frank
Diane Arbus
Sigmar Polke
Fredrick Sommer
Lee Friedlander
Richard Avedon
William Klein
Joel Meyerowitz
Robert Adams
Duane Michaels
John Baldessari
Bruce Weber
Chuck Close
Richard Misrach
Jerry Uelsmann
David Hockney
Sherry Levine
Bernd and Hilda Bechner
Richard Prince
Mary Ellen Mark
Sally Mann
Cindy Sherman
Nan Golden
Catherine Wagner
Misha Gordin
David Levinthal

Linda Connor
Henry Wessel
Regan Louie

 

Final Portfolio - Traditional - 80 Total

Who - People - 5 People, 5 Lighting Situations - 25 Total

Selfportrait
Family
Friends

Where - Place - 5 Views, 3 Locations - 15 Total

Home
Neighborhood
Hometown

What - Thing - 5 Items - 5 Views - 25 Total

Personal effects
Automobile
Home

Composite/Montage - 5 Total

Image / Text - 5 Total

Prints - 5 Total

Self Portrait
Place
Thing
Composite
Image/Text

Web - Portfolio

Self Portrait
Place
Thing
Composite
Image/Text

Reading List:

Photography: A Critical Introduction, Edited by Liz Wells, 1997, Routledge

Photography in Print, Edited by Vicki Goldberg, 1981, University of New Mexico Press
By Susan Sontag

On Photography, 1973, Picador.

By John Berger

Another Way of Telling, 1982, Vintage Books
The Sense of Sight, 1985, Vintage Books
Ways of Seeing, 1972. BBC & Penguin Books

By James Elkins

The Object Stares Back: on the nature of seeing, 1996, Simon and Schuster

By Roland Barthes

Camera Lucida, 1981, Hill and Wang
Image, Music, Text, 1977, Noonday Press

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Technical:

The Photoshop CS book for Digital Photographers, Scott Kelby, 2003, New Riders


Photography: An Introduction
By Barbara London, John Upton, Ken Kobre, Betsy Brill