Photographers

Masao Yamamoto
John Divola
Arne Svenson
Loretta Lux
Mark Klett
Tokihiro Sato
Andreas Feininger
Andreas Gursky
Araki Nobuyoshi
Bernd and Hilda Bechner
Bruce Conner
Bruce Weber
Catherine Wagner
Christian Boltanski
Chuck Close
Cindy Sherman
Dan Graham
David Hilliard
David Hockney
David Levinthal
Diane Arbus
Dieter Appelt
Duane Michaels
Eadweard Muybridge
Edward Ruscha
Edward Weston
Eudora Welty
Francesca Woodman
Fredrick Sommer
Gilbert and George
Harry Callahan
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henry Wessel
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Homma Takashi
Irving Penn
Jack Fulton
Jan Dibbets
Jan Groover
Jeff Wall
Jerry Uelsmann
Jock Reynolds
Jock Sturges
Joel Meyerowitz
John Baldessari
Josef Sudek
Karl Blossfelt
Kimiko
Lee Friedlander
Linda Connor
Local
Man Ray
Martha Cooper
Martin Parr
Mary Ellen Mark
Michael Ackerman
Minor White
Misha Gordin
Moholy-Nagy
Moriyama Daido
Nan Goldin
Nick Waplington
Nobuyoshi Araki
Philip- Lorea diCorcia
Regan Louie
Richard Avedon
Richard Misrach
Richard Prince
Robert Adams
Robert Frank
Sally Mann
Sherry Levine
Sigmar Polke
Stephen Prina
Stephen Shore
Thomas Demand
Thomas Ruff
Thomas Struth
Tina Modotti
Todd Hido
Urs Luhti
Uta Barth
W. Eugene Smith
Weegee
William Klein

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.

Depending on what you may or may not know regarding ISO, experiment with this setting in your camera as well.

Bracketing Exposures -

3 Subjects - 3-5 exposures for each with alternate exposure.

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.

Alternate Assignments:


Cropping 5-n-1 - Take an existing file and crop to create 5 different image files. Focus is on re-framing and composing. Not compositing.

Composite - 1 in 5 - Create one image file from the components or pieces of minimum 5 image files. Create multiple variations on the composition at will.

Overview

Intro

Self
Student

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

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email address to basearts.com

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

 

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

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