Instructor: John Sappington - jsappington@santarosa.edu - john@basearts.com


Syllabus:
http://www.basearts.com/SRJC.DigitalPhotoSummer2014.htm

Overview:
http://www.basearts.com/DigPhooverview.html

SRJC Open Computer Lab Schedule:

http://online.santarosa.edu/presentation/page/?37555


ANALY HALL - ART COMPUTER LAB HOURS

DATES AND TIMES TO BE DETERMINED

Analy Hall - Shooting Studio by Appointment

DATES TO BE DETERMINED

REPEAT Students <---CLICK HERE

Canon Digital Rebel Manual

Online Photography Resources

CURRENT News and Events Blog:
http://blog.basearts.com

Class Notes
http://www.basearts.com/notes/

Generalized Selection of Photo resources available online and local
http://www.basearts.com/Res.Photo.htm

A broad spectrum list of working/historical photographers
http://www.basearts.com/photographerslisting.htm

A recommended reading list centered around photography and imaging
http://www.basearts.com/Res.ReadingList.htm

basearts selection of resources lists
http://www.basearts.com/resources.html

Syllabus Overview - REVIEW Handout

Expectations, Requirements, Objectives, Best Practices.

Assignments:

• Bring Camera to second class meeting with cables (usb/firewire), or card reader.
  
  
• Locate and begin reading Camera Manual - Cover to Cover.
  
  
• Begin JOURNAL of questionable functions, settings, usage, portfolio ideas, reading notes etc...
  
  
• Required Text or Online Digital /Rental - Short Course in Digital Photography, A, 2/E Barbara London, Multimedia Learning Jim Stone
  ISBN-10: 0205066429 ISBN-13: 9780205066421
  
  
• Backup all images on working media/card
  and
• FORMAT card prior to first shooting assignment.
  
  
• Set Camera to highest resolution / lowest compression.
  
  
• TURN OFF THE FLASH! Until further notice.
  
  
• (1) - Make and Bring 3-5 Digital Camera images to the second class meeting
  - Images should represent your interest in Digital Photography

Reading:

A Short Course in Digital Photography: Chapters 1, 3 and 9

Supplimental Sites and Web Resources :

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

Artspace
http://www.artspace.com/tags/photograph


Camera Reviews

http://dpreview.com
http://www.keh.com

Lecture:

Digital Technology

Transferring images from camera/media to system.

Begin fundamentals of camera technology/exposure.

Lab:

Establish Home Directories
Work with camera connection / file transfer
First File Transfers

Reading:

Local Galleries and Suppliers

Moholy-Nagy - From Pigment to Light - 1936

Artists:
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce / Louis Daguerre
William Fox Talbot

John Herschel
Fredrick Scott Archer

Course Notes : http://www.basearts.com/notes/

Lecture:

• Camera Operation

  Best Practices - Beginning Camera Setup Outline
  Beginning Vocabulary Factsheet
  Exposure Factsheet
  

• Adobe Bridge Introduction
  
  http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-photoshop-cs6/what-is-adobe-bridge-cs6/
  
  
• File Browser - Bridge
• File Types, Format
  

Assignment: Beginning Exposure - (3)

Point and Shoot Exposure Adjustment - Working with the half-step shutter lock and/or AF-L create 3-5 exposures of a given scene showing + and - alternative exposure adjustments. (3)

- Simple tonal adjustment
- Good time to work with (Point and Shoot) exposure controls

Reading:

A Short Course in Digital Photography: Chapters 4, 5 and 7

Digital Camera Review - Technical Glossary

http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glossary/
http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glossary/Camera_System/


Artists:

Eadweard Muybridge
Paul Strand
Eugene Atget

SCANNING - OPTIONAL -

Artists:

Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
Man Ray

Olivia Parker
http://oliviaparker.com/newindex.php

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Scanning Procedures - Flat Art
Photography - Scanning Procedures Epson : SRJC

Digital Photogram
Objects for Scanning - 3 Dimensional Objects as well as prints or flat art that you may want to digitize. - (3)

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

Exposure Bracketing for Smart Phones

10 Best Apps for Exposure Bracketing (android) | AppCrawlr
http://appcrawlr.com/android-apps/best-apps-exposure-bracketing

25+ Top Apps for Exposure Bracketing (iPhone/iPad
http://appcrawlr.com/ios-apps/best-apps-exposure-bracketing

Day5

Lecture:

Exposure Factsheet

Equivalent Exposures Continues ... ?

Assignment:

Shooting in Low Light without a flash. - 5-10 Images - (2)

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:

Light Stenciling, compliments of Carolyn Reed:
dHere's what it looks like: http://www.fubiz.net/2012/01/30/light-stencils-in-vietnam/
Here's a video on how it's done. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DJsLqwsqlg

Lowlight artist / painting with light + range of lighting equipment
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jannepaint/4287648439/in/photostream/

Artists:

Henri Cartier-Bresson
http://www.magnumphotos.com/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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Jerry Uelsmann
http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/exhibition/digital-darkroom

Lecture:

Adobe Bridge to Adobe Photoshop- Layers

Field Trip : LIFE, Labor and Purpose - The Photography of Hansel Meith and Otto Hagel

Assignment:

Contact Sheets of Brackets/Equivalents - (5)

Create a minimum of 2-3 files utilizing 1) Output to PDF 2) Files to Layers Experiment with a standard contact sheet layout to document bracketing exposure
experiments/design starts/. - (5)

Artists:

Uta Barth
Larry Sultan

Lauren Greenfield
http://www.creativephotography.org/education/educatorsGuides/girlculturefacultyguide/
Henry Wessel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wessel,_Jr.
Todd Hido
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Hido

Lecture:

Discussion : Adams, Weston and Cartier-Bresson

Assignment:

- Equivalents: Depth of Field - (6)

5-15 Images which illustrate the side effects of aperture selections. -(5)

Aperture:
Fig. 1
Fig. 2

Wikipedia Entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_System

Depth of Field Calculator
http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html

Reading:

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)

Henri Cartier-Bresson - .PDF - 234KB


Artists:

Diane Arbus
William Klein
Richard Prince
David Hockney

Adobe Lightroom :

Develop Module Introduction
http://www.lynda.com/Lightroom-tutorials/Develop-module-overview/124393/141813-4.html

Understanding White Balance and Color Temperature
http://www.lynda.com/Lightroom-tutorials/Understanding-white-balance-color-temperature/124393/141819-4.html

Creating a Contact Sheet:
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-lightroom-5/creating-a-contact-sheet/

Using the Histogram to Correct Exposure
http://www.lynda.com/Lightroom-tutorials/Using-histogram-correct-exposure/124393/141827-4.html

Understanding Vibrance and Saturation
http://www.lynda.com/Lightroom-tutorials/Understanding-vibrance-saturation/124393/141836-4.html

Assignment:

1st Critique- 5-10 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.

Critiques - 5 pnts. Continue through Tuesday.

Evaluation Form <--click here
(Please Complete and Submit from your home system)

Reading:

Italiano Calvino - Adventures of a Photographer

Artists:
Vivian Mier
Lorna Simpson
Bernd and Hilla Becher

Supplimental Sites and Web Resources :

Slinkachu - Street based installations and photography
http://slinkachu.com/

Vivan Maier

Vivian Maier - John Maloof Collection
http://www.vivianmaier.com/

the wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier

Finding Vivian Maier - the film

http://www.findingvivianmaier.com/

http://www.vivianmaier.com/film-finding-vivian-maier/

-------Misc.

the controversial print collection - Jeffrey Goldstein Collection
http://www.vivianmaierprints.com/vivian-maier-images.html

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Chicago Tonight Series:
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2012/07/31/vivian-maier
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2012/08/02/searching-vivian-maier
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2012/08/01/meteoric-rise-vivian-maier

The New Yorker - Vivian Maier and the Problem of Difficult Women
BY ROSE LICHTER-MARCK
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/vivian-maier-and-the-problem-of-difficult-women

PBS - Bringing a portrait of private artist Vivian Maier to the big screen
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/bringing-portrait-private-artist-vivian-maier-big-screen/

PBS - From glamorous to ordinary, Vivian Maier’s street photography captured America’s mid-century urban life- BY DAVID COLES
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/from-streets-scenes-of-the-50s-and-60s-to-neighborhood-characters-photographer-vivian-maier-captured-it-all/

• Seydou Keït
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seydou_Ke%C3%AFta_%28photographer%29
• Malick Sidibé
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malick_Sidib%C3%A9
  
• Mama Casset
  http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_Casset

DATE: Wed.- July 8 @ 3pm

Jeremiah's Photo Corner - LIGHTING DEMO

We will meet at Jeremiah's @ 3 pm for a Portrait Lighting Workshop

Corner of Sebastopol St. and South A

Lecture:

Lighting

- Utilizing Ambient Light
- Flash

Good Alternative Manufacturer of speedlite flash units
http://www.hkyongnuo.com/e-index.php

Lens Selection

Angle of View:
Fig 1


Lens Selection:
Link to external sites of interest regarding lens selection

DPReview Lens Reviews
http://www.dpreview.com/lensreviews/

DP Review Lens Widget:
http://www.dpreview.com/lensreviews/


Tilt- Shift: A DIY guide
http://cow.mooh.org/projects/tiltshift/

Additional Lens review sources:

Photozone for lens reviews
Thom Hogan for Nikon equipment reviews

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  Foundations of Photography: Specialty Lenses
  From ultra-wide angle to ultra-telephoto to macro, tilt-shift and more, discover the creative options that specialized lenses and attachments provide.
  
  http://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-tutorials/Foundations-Photography-Specialty-Lenses/111233-2.html

  
  

  
  Foundations of Photography: Lenses
  Shows how to understand, choose, and properly use lenses.
  http://www.lynda.com/Photography-tutorials/foundations-of-photography-lenses/76336-2.html
  
  
  
  

Shooting Assignments Summary

(1) - Initial 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 - 5-15 exposures for each with alternate exposure. -

(4) - Equivalents: Depth of Field
5-15 Images which illustrate the side effects of aperture selections. -

(5) - Equivalents: Motion / Blur
5-15 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)- Photoshop Example File - create a .PSD file for demonstration and experimentation in PS.

(8) - Critique I - Make presentation of representative selection of your portfolio subjects (5-10 of each at minimum 3 times throughout the course.

Day 16-
17

Lecture:

Photoshop: Printing
Printing Demonstration - Epson R1900

Printer :

• Resolution (review)
  
• File Preparation
• Color Management
• Color Modes
  





• Papers
  
  Surface/Finish
  Texture
  Color
  Weight

Processing a Digital Image for PRINT rev4.13.pdf

Printer Profile File Names: profilenames


Additional Printing Resources:

Device/Paper Profiles - additional resources
http://www.basearts.com/Res.Printing.htm
and
Color Management Resources:
http://www.basearts.com/color/basearts-Photography-color.html

- see contents of directory listing below for various white papers:
htttp://www.basearts.com/PDF/ColorManage

http://www.basearts.com/PDF/ - see contents for various PDFs

• http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/srgb-versus-adobe-rgb-debate.html
  
  
• http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/sRGB-AdobeRGB1998.htm

Assignment:

Printing
3-5 prints - 5 pnts. - 8x10 minimum - (9)

Lab:

Printing continues through to the end...

• Photoshop: Printing
  
  Processing a Digital Image for PRINT rev4.13.pdf
  
  Printer Profile File Names: profilenames
  
  

The World of Inkjet Papers
http://www.freestylephoto.biz/inkjet

PDF of Digital Printing Supply Catalogue
http://www.freestylephoto.biz/static/pdf/catalogs/fs_creative_imaging_catalog.pdf

Freestyle - Inkjet Comparison, Ratings and Reviews
http://www.freestylephoto.biz/inkjet/paper-ratings

Inkjet Papers Glossary
http://www.freestylephoto.biz/inkjet/glossary

Artists:

Harold Edgerton

Richard Avedon
Irving Penn

Philippe Halsman - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Halsman - http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/10022756.html

Reading:
Photographs Not Taken Jim Goldberg
- from Photographs Not Taken: A Collection of Photographers' Essays, Edited by Edited by Will Steacy, Daylight Community Arts Folundation 2012

Lab:

Critique II - (11) -Make presentation of representative selection of your portfolio subjects (5-10 of each at minimum 3 times throughout the second half of course.

Artists:

Rahubir Singh - *see wikipedia also
http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/masters/Raghubir%20Singh/

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

Contemporary Japanese Photographers - compliments of anton(Rudolph) kuehnhackl

REN HANG :

http://renhang.org/ (all of his work is on display here, has links to his flickr and tumblr plus facebook)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdnZlynWFMs (ren hang: the art of taboo. vice japan doc that aired on sep 2nd 2013 extremely good, i highly recommend you watch this.)

KISHIN SHINOYAMA :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishin_Shinoyama (recently discovered his work, fell in love.)

NOBOYOSHI ARAKI :

http://www.nowness.com/day/2014/5/29/3868/nobuyoshi-araki-love-on-the-left-eye/?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=SM&utm_term=01_type&utm_content=nobuyoshi-araki-love-on-the-left-eye%2F&utm_campaign=FB10072014

JOHN SYPAL :

http://tokyocamerastyle.com/ (main website i think? features many different photographers in tokyo and their personal work)

http://petapixel.com/2011/09/12/interview-with-john-sypal-of-tokyo-camera-style/

- William Carlos Wiliams
- Lydia Davis
- Mary Oliver
- Billy Collins

Artists:

Nathon Lyons
http://museum.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/nathan_lyons/index.html

Jenny Holzer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Holzer

Paul Rand
Matthew Carter

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/

Daniel Kukla: The Edge Effect

DK: “I believe that it is impossible to capture a landscape in the frame of an image. Landscapes are so vast and varied that they engulf the very frame that one holds to it. As an artist that works with the shifting tensions between humanity and nature, landscapes are integral to my work and prove to be both the most frustrating and inspiring subjects to work with.” ...“I work at the juncture of these disciplines, focusing in on capturing evidence as images that have the power to articulate our ever-changing relationship with the natural world. In both science and photography the act of collection is universal. Whether specimen or subject, the collection process allows one to categorize, control, and critically describe one’s findings, and contribute them to the collective work of others in the field.”

http://lenscratch.com/2014/03/daniel-kukla-edge-effect/

Assignment:

Collected

5-15 images of light - (10)

Online Storage / Services

http://www.livedrive.com/

http://www.carbonite.com

Achive and Publishing

Shutterfly
Fastback Creative Books
Digifilm Labs VioVio
Print and Share
Qoop
100 Books Publishing
Xlibris
Album Printer Software
Print My Photobook
Picaboo
MyPublisher
Vision Art Book

New Photoshelter Guides :

For a Business Plan /business plan

Creating a Porfolio /portfolio

Photographers Guide to Copyright /copyright

"The photo wars back then",
Disappearance of Darkness: Photography at the End of the Analog Era
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/photo-wars-back-then

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7.23

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
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)Objects for Scanning - 3 Dimensional Objects as well as prints or flat art that you may want to digitize. - (3)

OR

(3)LIGHT AND SHADOW / 5-15 exposure bracketed shots with alternate exposures for each.

(4) - Bracketing Exposures
3 Subjects - 5-15 exposures for each with alternate exposure.

(5) - Equivalents: Depth of Field
5-15 Images which illustrate the side effects of aperture selections.

(6) - Equivalents: Motion / Blur
5-15 Images which illustrate the side effects of shutter speed / time value selections.

(7) - Contact Sheets of Brackets/Equivalents
Create a minimum of 3 contact sheets documenting bracketing exposure experiments.

(8) - Critique 1- Presentation of a representative selection of your portfolio subjects (5-10 of each at minimum 3 times throughout the course.

(9) - Prints - create 3-5 - 8x10 minimum.

(10) - Critique 2

(12) - Final Portfolio, Presentation and Critique 3
- 3 subjects / 20 images each - final presentation of 1 subject 20 images or 2 subjects split 10/10