Final Portfolio - Traditional

Who - People

Selfportrait
Family
Friends

Where - Place -

Home
Neighborhood
Hometown

What - Thing

Personal effects
Automobile
Home

Composite/Montage

Image / Text

Prints

Self Portrait
Place
Thing
Composite
Image/Text

Web - Portfolio - Presentation - 20 Total

Self Portrait
Place
Thing
Composite
Image/Text


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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 / Elements / iPhoto

*addressing any other image editing applications that come along.

Best Practices (Reviewed)
Transport and Organization

File Types
File Info
CD/DVD Burning

Web Gallery
Contact Sheet II

Selection, Manipulation and Repair

Selections
Cropping

Sharpening

Burn Dodge
Clone

Color/tonal Correction

Levels
Curves

Color Modes

Conversion
(black and white)

Compositing

Layers
Channels
Masks

Scanning

Printing

Color Management
Resolution
Pre-Press File Preparation
File Types

Web Presentation

Optimization
Automation Techniques

Legal / Copyright Issues

Protecting your images
Respecting the work of others


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Recommended Technical Texts:

"Photoshop CS2 for Windows and Macintosh", Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas, Peachpit Press 2005
www.peachpit.com

"The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers", Scott Kelby, New Riders Publishing, 2005
www.scottkelbybooks.com

"Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS2", Bruce Fraser, Peachpit Press, 2005

Recommended Photography Texts:

Photography: A Critical Introduction, Edited by Liz Wells, 1997, Routledge
Photography in Print, Edited by Vicki Goldberg, 1981, University of New Mexico Press
On Photography,By Susan Sontag, 1973, Picador.
Another Way of Telling, By John Berger, 1982, Vintage Books
The Sense of Sight, By John Berger, 1985, Vintage Books
Ways of Seeing, By John Berger, 1972. BBC & Penguin Books
The Object Stares Back: on the nature of seeing, 1996, Simon and Schuster, By James Elkins
Camera Lucida, By Roland Barthes, 1981, Hill and Wang
Image, Music, Text, By Roland Barthes, 1977, Noonday Press

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Photography, Barbara London, John Upton, Ken Kobre, Betsy Brill, Prentice Hall
Photography, Revised Edition, Henry Horenstein, Russell Hart Prentice Hall
Black and White Photography, A Basic Manual,, Little Brown and Company