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Digital Photography Schedule
(subject to change) |
All Assignments Due for Completion of Art 82 :
(1) - Initial 5-10 Digital Camera images
- make 5-10 camera images which represent your interests in photography as an art medium.
(2) - Shooting in Low Light without a flash.
-Feel free to experiment, try to find the lowest
level of light possible to render a readable image.
(3) - Bracketing Exposures
- 3 Subjects - 3-5 exposures for each with alternate exposure. -
(4) - Equivalents: Depth of Field
- 3-5 Images which illustrate the side effects of aperture selections. -
(5) -
Equivalents: Motion / Blur
- 3-5 Images which illustrate the side effects of shutter speed / time
value selections. -
(6) - Contact Sheets of Brackets/Equivalents
- Create a minimum of 3 contact sheets documenting bracketing exposure experiments. -
(7) - Critique
- Presentation of representative selection of your portfolio subjects - 5-10 images of each at minimum 3 times throughout the course of the course.
(8) 3-5 prints - 5 pnts. - 8x10
minimum.
(9) 3-5 images of light
- photographs with an attention on the lighting conditions in the image not physical represention.
(10) Final
Portfolio, Presentation and Critique
- 3 subjects / 20 images each - final presentation of 1 subject 20 images or split between 2 subjects 10/10.
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Week 1 |
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Syllabus
Overview
- REVIEW Handout
Expectations, Requirements, Objectives, Best Practices.
Assignments:
- Locate
and begin reading Camera Manual - Cover to Cover.
- Required Text -A Short Course in Photography, Barbara London and Jim Stone 7th Edition, Prentice-Hall ISBN #0136031870
Chapter Topic Breakout :
1 - basic camera
2 - lens
3 - exposure
4/5 - hardware/software
6 - printing
7- file management
8 - lighting
9/10 - composition/history
- Set
Camera to highest resolution / lowest compression.
- TURN
OFF THE FLASH! Until further notice.
- Backup all images on working media/card
and
FORMAT card prior to first shooting assignment.
- Make 5-10 Digital Camera images between the first and the second class meeting
- Bring these to share on the 2nd class meeting. - (1)
- Begin JOURNAL of questionable functions, settings, usage, portfolio ideas, reading notes etc...
- Email
john@basearts.com with your current email address
- include SRJC Digital Photo and your section number in the subject
line.
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Reading:
A Short Course in Digital Photography: Chapters 1, 3 and 9
Sites:
Local Galleries and Suppliers
Masters
of Photography - Good starter site for Analogue Masters
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/
Lomographic
Society
http://www.lomographics.com
Camera Reviews
http://dpreview.com
http://www.keh.com
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Week 2
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Lecture:
Digital Technology
Camera / Scanner
Scanning Procedures - Flat Art
Transferring images from camera/media to system.
Begin fundamentals of camera technology/exposure. |
Lab:
Establish Home Directories
Work with camera connection / file transfer
Assignment:
Shooting in Low Light without a flash. - (7)
Feel free to experiment, try to find the lowest
level of light possible to render a readable image.
Depending on what you may or may not know regarding ISO, experiment with
this setting in your camera as well.
Student Examples:
Jesse Klein - nitelight
Karl McJimsey - Flora
Justin Stevick - paintingwlight/celestial
Other:
Lowlight artist / painting with light + range of lighting equipment
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jannepaint/4287648439/in/photostream/ |
Reading:
Local Galleries and Suppliers
Moholy-Nagy - From Pigment to Light - 1936
Artists:
Lazlo
Moholy-Nagy
Man Ray
David Hockney
Olivia Parker
http://oliviaparker.com/newindex.php
Bruce Conner
David Hockney
Sites:
Zach Fernandez [zachsrjc123@yahoo.com]http://zfphotography.blogspot.com/
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Print, Sign and Return field trip liability waiver.
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Week 3 |
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Lecture:
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Lab
First File Transfers
Assignment:
Objects for Scanning - 3 Dimensional Objects as well as prints or flat
art that you may want to digitize. - (2)
Review Historical Photograms/Montage works:
Photography
- Photograms and Montage Samples
Photography - Scanography - Example Files
Photography - Scanning Procedures
Niko Robinson - Student Scanner work
more scanner work - various
Bracketing Exposures
3 Subjects - 3-5 exposures for each with alternate exposure. - (3)
1st exposure according to meter reading.
2nd + .5 half step greater aperture/shutter selection or more exposure
(over)
3rd + 1 whole step (full stop) greater aperture/shutter selection (over)
4th .5 half step smaller aperture/shutter selection or less exposure (under)
5th - 1 whole step smaller aperture/shutter selection or less exposure
(under)
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Experiment with White Balance Bracketing.
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Reading:
A Short Course in Digital Photography: Chapters 4, 5 and 7
Discussion:
Moholy-Nagy - From Pigment to Light - 1936
Digital Camera Review - Technical Glossary
http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glossary/
http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glossary/Camera_System/
Artists:
Paul Strand
Eugene Atget
Eadweard Muybridge
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Suggested Student Sites from section 0188:
from Wendy
http://redbubble.com
from Michael Frye
http://www.michaelfrye.com/
from Lila
http://www.peterlik.com/
and also
Force of Nature: Artist Puts Petal to the Metal for Electrifying Images
By Jason Albert
Forget the notion of a reverent nature photographer tiptoeing through the woods, camera slung over one shoulder, patiently looking for perfect light. Robert Buelteman works indoors in total darkness, forsaking cameras, lenses, and computers for jumper cables, fiber optics, and 80,000 volts of electricity. This bizarre union of Dr. Frankenstein and Georgia O'Keeffe spawns photos that seem to portray the life force of his subjects as the very process destroys them.
Read More http://www.wired.com/culture/art/magazine/17-07/pl_art?currentPage=1#ixzz0yEIH2Ynu
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Week 4 |
09.08.10 |
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Week 5 |
09.13-15.10 |
Lecture:
Equivalent Exposures Continues ...
Photoshop:
- Move Tool / Auto Select
- Transform
skew/perspective Tranformations for barrel or pincushion distortion (not parallax) see ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_distortion
- ruler
- Working with and around Selections
- Brush controls
Adobe Bridge Automation Techniques:
PDF based Contact Sheets and Presentations
Multiple Files to Layers - Manual Composite/Contacts
PS Best Practice #1 - Duplicate the pixel based background layer as
first step on opening a .jpeg.
- Layers Palette Introduction
- Adjustment Layers
- Levels Adjustment Layers
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Lab:
Review :
Photography - EXAMPLE FILES - Shooting Assigments
Exposure Bracketing
Wrap up current technical experiments:
- P mode exposure control
- Exposure Compensation
- Manual Mode
Assignment:
- Equivalents: Depth of Field
3-5 Images which illustrate the side effects of aperture selections. -(4)
Aperture:
Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Wikipedia Entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_System
Depth of Field Calculator
http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html
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Equivalents: Motion / Blur
3-5 Images which illustrate the side effects of shutter speed / time
value selections. - (5)
Shutter / Time Values:
Fig 1
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Reading:
A Short Course in Digital Photography: Chapter 5 + pgs. 18-25 /40-45 / 152-155
Ansel Adams - .pdf - 344KB - 3 pages
Edward Weston - .pdf - 360KB - 3 pages
(first left hand spread of each essay is last page of that essay)
Artists:
Henri
Cartier-Bresson
http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.PhotographerDetail_VPage&l1=0&pid=2K7O3R14T1LX&nm=Henri%20Cartier%20%2D%20Bresson
Hiroshi Sugimoto
http://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/portfolio.html
John Divola
http://www.divola.com/
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Enter the Harvest Fair’s Competitive Exhibit Program
On-Line entries will be accepted until midnight, September 17.
Fine Arts and Photography
Guide:
http://www.harvestfair.org/guidebooks.php
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Week 6 |
09.20-22.10 |
Lecture:
- Adjustment Layers
- Levels Adjustment Layers
- Histogram
- History
PS Best Practice #1 - Duplicate the pixel
based background layer as first step on opening a .jpeg.
PS Best Practice #2 - All adjustments to adjustment layers - no
pixel damage.
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Lab:
Assignment:
Contact Sheets of Brackets/Equivalents
Create a minimum of 3 contact sheets documenting bracketing exposure experiments. - (6)
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SSU September 22 Todd Hido
Todd Hido is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist whose work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Eyemazing, Metropolis, The Face, I-D, and Vanity Fair. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as well as in 40 other public & private collections. In 2001 an award winning monograph of his work titled, House Hunting, was published by Nazraeli Press and a companion monograph, Outskirts, was published in 2002. His third book, Roaming, was published in 2004. Between the Two—his fourth book that focused on portraits and nudes—was published in
2007. His latest book—A Road Divided—was released in 2010 He is an adjunct professor at the California College of Art, San Francisco, California
All lectures are free to the public and held at:
Sonoma State University in the Art Department.
This semesters lectures will be held on Wednesdays, Room 102 from Noon - 1:00pm.
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Reading:
A Short Course in Digital Photography: Chapter 5, + Pages 40-45
Henri Cartier-Bresson - .PDF - 234KB
Artists:
Lauren Greenfield
http://www.creativephotography.org/education/educatorsGuides/girlculturefacultyguide/
Henry Wessel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wessel,_Jr.
Stephen Shore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Shore
Todd Hido
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Hido
Larry Sultan
Sites: |
Week 7 |
09.27-29.10 |
Lecture:
- Curves - Adjustment Layers
- Channel Mixer- Adjustment Layers
- Pixel Based Masks
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Assignment:
1st Critique- 10-15 images of your own work - looking toward portfolio subjects. If you haven't made any decisions it could be just images you have made since the beginning of the semester that you believe were good.
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Artists:
John Baldessari
Sophie
Calle
Nick Waplington
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Michael Light
http://www.michaellight.net/
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Week 8 |
10.04-06.10 |
Lecture:
- Roxio Toast - CD and DVD Burning
Photoshop:
- Review - Essential Layer and Masking Processes in Photoshop.pdf
- Pixel based Masks
--- Working with layers as masks
- Shadows and Hightlights
- History Brush
- Compositing
- Extract
- Selections - Paths (Pen)
- Blending Options
- Sharpening
- Noise Reduction
- Replacement and Removal techniques / Healing tools
- Color Modes/ LAB /Luminance Sharpening
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Lab:
Critiques - 5 pnts.
5 Images - should represent beginnings of portfolio subjects either content
or technique.
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Artists:
William Klein
Lorna Simpson
Richard Prince
David Hockney
William Carlos Williams
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Week 9 |
10.11-13.10 |
Mid-Term Interviews - 5 pnts
The midterm interview is mandatory and = to a shooting assignment.
Prepare a selection of ideas for you your final portfolio.
Write up a brief description of each and submit during the interview.
Reference specific images within your home directory if you have images
related to the subjects chosen for the final portfolio.
You are only required to show
up for the time of your interview.
If you haven't signed up email me for a time.
Evaluation
Form <--click here
(Please Complete and Submit from your home system)
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Shooting Assignments Due for Midterm:
(1) - Make 5-10 Digital Camera images
between the first and the second class meeting - bring these to share on the 2nd class meeting.
(2) - Shooting in Low Light without a flash.
-Feel free to experiment, try to find the lowest
level of light possible to render a readable image.
(3) - Bracketing Exposures
3 Subjects - 3-5 exposures for each with alternate exposure. -
(4) - Equivalents: Depth of Field
3-5 Images which illustrate the side effects of aperture selections. -
(5) -
Equivalents: Motion / Blur
3-5 Images which illustrate the side effects of shutter speed / time
value selections. -
(6) - Contact Sheets of Brackets/Equivalents
Create a minimum of 3 contact sheets documenting bracketing exposure experiments. -
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Artists:
Diane Arbus
Lorna Simpson
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Gregory Crewdson
Philippe Halsman - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Halsman - http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/10022756.html
William Carlos Williams
Reading:
Robert Adams - Truth
Robert Adams - Beauty
Sites:
Slinkachu - Street based installations and photography
http://slinkachu.com/
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Week 10 |
10.18.10 |
Lecture:
- Camera RAW Workflow
- HDR - High Dynamic Range Imaging
- Stiching - Photomerge
Resource Links for Camera Raw and HDR - plugins/extensions/software
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10.20.2010 @ 9 - 9:30 am Graton, CA
Shooting Field Trip
Driving Directions:
http://www.mapquest.com/mq/10-FzPmY8bGc6Jw |
Week 11 |
10.25-27.10 |
Lecture:
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Assignment:
Printing
5 prints - 5 pnts. - 8x10
minimum - (9)
Lab:
Printing continues through to the end...
Additional
Printing Resources:
http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/PDF/ - see contents for various PDFs
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Week 12 |
11.01-03.10 |
Lecture:
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LAB:
Printing continues through to the end... |
Artists:
Harold Edgerton
Richard Avedon
Irving Penn
Edward Burtynsky
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Week 13 |
11.08-10.10 |
Lecture:
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Critiques - 5 pnts. |
Reading:
A Short Course in Digital Photography: Chapters 8 & 9
Artists:
Diane Arbus
Jeff Wall
Richard Barnes
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Week 14 |
11.15-17.10 |
Lecture:
Composition
- tone
- balance
- line
- framing
Photoshop Tools:
Rulers
Guides
Custom Shape Tool
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Lab
Critique - 5-10 Progress toward final
subjects
Assignment:
3-5 images of light - (10)
- Pre-Visualization
- sensitivity toward the lighting conditions(less focus on subject)
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UPDATE Printing a Digital Image REV 11.17
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Sites:
Lisa Bayloc World Series Gallery is here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contribute/sn/gallery?plckGalleryID=406af9d9-9617-4d83-9826-30fe9142f60f&plckPageNum=6
Collection of composition links:
Rule of Thirds
http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/rule-of-thirds/
More on the Rules of Photography
http://macteens.com/magazine/features/fullstory/the_rules_of_photography/
Holding your Camera at an Angle
http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/hold-your-camera-on-an-angle/
Rules for Landscape Photography
http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/4-rules-of-composition-for-landscape-photography/
Diagonal Lines
http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/using-diagonal-lines-in-photography/
Converging Lines
http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/converging-lines/
Foreground
http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/pay-attention-to-foregrounds/
Framing
http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/framing-your-shots-photography-composition-technique/
http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/5-elements-of-composition-in-photography/
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Rule of Thirds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rule_of_thirds_1845_George_Field_Chromatics.png
Golden Mean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials.htm
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/camera-lenses.htm
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/hyperfocal-distance.htm
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Week 15 |
11.22.10 |
Lecture:
Internet Presence / Websites / Automation
- Image Ready
- Optimization
- Batch and Automation
- Scripting
Text - Typography
- Text tools
- Vector graphic
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Photo Sharing
http://www.webshots.com/
http://www.dpchallenge.com
http://www.flickr.com/
http://www.slide.com
http://www.kodakgallery.com/
http://www.snapfish.com/
http://www.shutterbook.com/home/
http://www.deviantart.com/
http://www.zoto.com/
www.smugmug.com
Commercial Collection:
http://gabrieljeffrey.com/
http://www.imagebychristos.com/
http://vixpetportraits.com/
http://www.studio-ca.se/
http://dirkrauscher.de/
http://www.reneadler.com/
http://www.tedmorrison.com/
(Director API driven)http://www.indyrain.com/
http://www.sambroadbent.co.uk/
http://www.accesi.lv
LOCAL:
http://www.svenwiederholt.com/
http://www.peterkoval.com/
http://www.nadavkander.com
http://www.jockmcdonald.com/
http://www.milesaldridge.com/
http://www.marcleclef.com/
Network Artists :
Lynn Hershman Leeson
http://www.lynnhershman.com
George LeGrady
http://www.georgelegrady.com
John Maeda
http://www.maedastudio.com/
http://dbn.media.mit.edu/
http://www.maedastudio.com/indexold.html
http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/maeda/
Ted Nelson
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0155.html
http://xanadu.com/
http://ted.hyperland.com/
Lev Manovich
http://www.manovich.net/bio_00.htm
http://www.manovich.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Manovich
Victoria Vesna
http://www.bodiesinc.ucla.edu/
Timothy Druckrey
http://users.rcn.com/druckrey/
http://users.rcn.com/druckrey/texts.html
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THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY - CAMPUS CLOSED 11.24-28.10
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Week 16 |
11.29-12.01.10 |
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SRJC Shone Farm - Shooting Field Trip Wed. Dec. 1st - 9am -12
Map: http://www.santarosa.edu/map/shone-farm.html
Address:
6225 Eastside Road
Forestville, CA 94536
Directions:
From the north:
From Hwy 101, take the River Road/Guerneville exit.
Turn right onto Mark West Springs Rd. (turns into River Rd.) 5.82 miles.
Turn right onto Trenton Healdsburg Rd. travel 1.34 miles.
Turn left onto Eastside Rd. travel .04 miles.
From the south:
From Hwy 101, take the River Road/Guerneville exit.
Turn left onto Mark West Springs Rd. (turns into River Rd.) 5.82 miles.
Turn right onto Trenton Healdsburg Rd. travel 1.34 miles.
Turn left onto Eastside Rd. travel .04 miles.
View Larger Map
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Artists:
Margaret Bourke-White
Tina Modotti
Immogen Cunningham
Nan Goldin
Sally Mann
Sherry Levine
Judy Dater
Annie Liebovitz
Graciela Iturbide
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Week 17 |
12.06-08.10 |
Lab
Business - Usage and Licensing (GETTING PAID)
American society of Media Photographers
(National) - http://asmp.org/
American society of Media Photographers
(Local) - http://www.asmpnorcal.org/
Photojojo:
Starting Your Photo Biz… Part 1: You Sure ‘Bout That?
http://photojojo.com/content/photojojo-original/starting-photo-business/
Starting Your Photo Biz… Part 2: What’s In a Name?
http://photojojo.com/content/photojojo-original/photo-business-name/
Starting Your Photo Biz… Part 3: The Nitty-Gritty Business Details
http://photojojo.com/content/photojojo-original/starting-photo-business-details/
Starting Your Photo Biz… Part 4: Fame and Fortune
http://photojojo.com/content/photojojo-original/photo-business-marketing/
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Week 18 |
12.13.10 |
Final
Critique
Presentations of selections from individual portfolios 10-20 images. = 10
pnts
Final Exam is here --> TEST |
Reading:
dpBestflow / American society of Media Photographers / Best Practices Resource:
http://www.dpbestflow.org/
Walter Bejamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", 1936 - Excerpt translanted by Harry Zohn |
All Assignments Due for Completion of Art 82 :
(1) - Initial 5-10 Digital Camera images
- make 5-10 camera images which represent your interests in photography as an art medium.
(2) - Shooting in Low Light without a flash.
-Feel free to experiment, try to find the lowest
level of light possible to render a readable image.
(3) - Bracketing Exposures
- 3 Subjects - 3-5 exposures for each with alternate exposure. -
(4) - Equivalents: Depth of Field
- 3-5 Images which illustrate the side effects of aperture selections. -
(5) -
Equivalents: Motion / Blur
- 3-5 Images which illustrate the side effects of shutter speed / time
value selections. -
(6) - Contact Sheets of Brackets/Equivalents
- Create a minimum of 3 contact sheets documenting bracketing exposure experiments. -
(7) - Critique
- Presentation of representative selection of your portfolio subjects - 5-10 images of each at minimum 3 times throughout the course of the course.
(8) 3-5 prints - 5 pnts. - 8x10
minimum.
(9) 3-5 images of light
- photographs with an attention on the lighting conditions in the image not physical represention.
(10) Final
Portfolio, Presentation and Critique
- 3 subjects / 20 images each - final presentation of 1 subject 20 images or split between 2 subjects 10/10 |