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Fall 2016

Class Schedule: 
Tues /Thurs - 1pm - 4pm

Location:
2926 Maggini Hall, Santa Rosa Campus

Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 4-5pm - by appointment

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

Syllabus:
http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/SRJC.DigitalPhoto.htm

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

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Online Photography Resources

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

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

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

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

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

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


Week 1 8.23

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, ISBN-13: 978-0205998258  ISBN-10: 0205998259  Edition: 3rd

  • 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.

  • (1) - 5-10 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

Art.com
http://www.art.com/gallery/id--c23946/photography-prints.htm


Camera Reviews


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

 

Print, Sign and Return field trip liability waiver:
http://www.santarosa.edu/for_students/student_affairs/forms/SRJC_Field_Trip_Activity_Liability_Waiver.pdf


Week 2
8.30

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

FINISH Intro Presentations

Assignment:

Shooting in Low Light without a flash.
- 5-10 Images - (2)
Work with the ISO settings, White Balance settings, feel free to experiment, try to find the lowest level of light possible to render a readable image. Use a tripod if you have one, w

Student Examples:

ONLINE SPRING LOW LIGHT SUBMISSIONS
http://basearts.com/curriculum/studentwrk/OnlineSpring2016/2016SpringART82LowLight/

Jesse Klein - nitelight
Karl McJimsey - Flora
Justin Stevick - paintingwlight/celestial

Reading:

William Henry Fox Talbot - Pencil of Nature

This site contains the full text of William Henry Fox Talbot’s writings contained in The Pencil of Nature 
published in London between 1844 and 1846.

http://www.thepencilofnature.com/


Local Galleries and Suppliers

Artists:
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce / Louis Daguerre
William Fox Talbot

John Herschel
Fredrick Scott Archer

Other:

Click to launch the Photography 101: Shooting in Low Light course
Photography 101: Shooting in Low Light

http://www.lynda.com/Photography-Cameras-Gear-tutorials/Photography-101-Shooting-Low-Light/163091-2.html

Light Stenciling, compliments of Carolyn Reed:
Here'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/

Anna Atkins -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Atkins

(née Children; 16 March 1799 – 9 June 1871) was and English botanist and photographer. She is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images. Some sources claim that she was the first woman to create a photograph

DP Review: Readers' Showcase: Astrophotography

Click here to take a look at the gallery of images:

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/3579675465/readers-showcase-astrophotography/

Reserve Textbook available in library


A Short Course in Digital Photography : digital an introduction to photographic technique / Barbara London, Jim Stone.
Third edition.

CALL NO : TR267 .L647 2015


NO CLASS TUESDAY 9.6 - RESUME CLASS THURSDAY 9.8

Week 3 9.8

Assignments:

ISO / White Balance Bracketing -( 3)

- Create sequence of a single shot utilizing all ISO levels - 8-9 exposures
- Create sequence of a single shot utilizing all White Balance setting. 8-9 exposures

Example Student Work:
http://basearts.com/curriculum/studentwrk/OnlineSpring2016/2016SpringISOWhite%20Balance/

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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.


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


Lecture:

Reading:

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

Digital Camera Review - Technical Glossary

http://www.dpreview.com/Glossary/


Artists:

Animated sequence of a race horse galloping. Photos taken by Eadweard Muybridge. The horse's body demonstrates squash and stretch in natural musculature.


Eadweard Muybridge
http://www.eadweardmuybridge.co.uk/
http://www.eadweardmuybridge.co.uk/muybridge_image_and_context/


Paul Strand

http://youtu.be/jSLCTI1BTdw
Manhatta
 (1921) is a short documentary film directed by painter Charles Sheeler and photographer Paul Strand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhatta
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/movies/09kehr.html?_r=0

Eugene Atget

Adobe Bridge Automation Techniques:
PDF based Contact Sheets and Presentations
Multiple Files to Layers - Manual Composite/Contacts

Photoshop:

Scott Kelby's SlideshowTip and Contact Sheet
- http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/online/ContactSheetScottKelby.htm

- Recorded Demonstration - Sappington.Adobe Bridge Contact Sheet II.mp4


GS-01: Switching and saving workspaces
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-photoshop-cs5/gs01-switching-and-saving-workspaces/

The Output Module can offer so much more than slideshows. Here we see how it can be used
to create contact sheets, two-by-two type prints or a customizable Web gallery.

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/understanding-adobe-photoshop-cs6/adobe-output-module-bridge/

SCANNING - OPTIONAL -

Artists:

Peter Krohn - http://photographicakrohn.com/

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Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/moholy-nagy-future-present

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


view course page for Foundations of Photography: Exposure







Foundations of Photography: Exposure

Understand how shutter speed, aperture, and ISO settings relate to one another, and
how these settings expand your artistic options with any photograph.

http://www.lynda.com/Digital-Photography-tutorials/foundations-of-photography-exposure/71923-2.html



Week 4 9.13

Lecture:

Camera Operation
Exposure Factsheet

Field Notes:

Zone System Exposure Chart

Shot Card Rev.2 for field experiments

Zone System Introduction: (Digital Application) Practical
Fig 1
Fig 2

Fig 3

Zone System | Wikipedia Entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_System

 

Assignment:

Contact Sheets of Brackets/Equivalents
- (3)

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/.

Example Student Work :
http://basearts.com/curriculum/studentwrk/OnlineSpring2016/2016Spring2016ContactSheets/

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Bracketing Exposures - (5)

- P mode - Working with the half-step shutter lock - AE-L
- (M)Manual mode - Working with exposure scale in camera manual bracketing. Establish baseline exposure parameters of ISO and White Balance (*manually set)

- AEB - Auto Exposure Bracketing
- EV - Exposure Compensation Value

- 5-15 exposures for each with alternate exposure.


Review and set camera for optional .3/.7 or .5 stop configuration.

1st exposure according to meter reading or on the meter.
2nd + .5 half step or 1/3 stop greater (aperture/ time value / EV - exposure value ) selection or more exposure (over)
3rd + 1 whole step (full stop) or 2/3 stop greater (aperture/ time value / EV - exposure value) selection (over)
4th .5 half step or 1/3 stop smaller (aperture/ time value / EV - exposure value) selection or less exposure (under)
5th - 1 whole step (full stop) or 2/3 stop smaller (aperture/ time value / EV - exposure value) selection or less exposure (under)

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Review :

Example Student Work:
http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/studentwrk/OnlineSpring2015/Art82Spring2015ExposureBracketing/

Additional - EXAMPLE FILES - Shooting Assigments


Reading:

Ansel Adams - .pdf - 344KB - 3 pages

Artists:


Edward Weston
Minor White
Ansel Adams
FRED ARCHER

Robert Adams

About Robert Adams

Robert Adams was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1937. His refined black-and-white photographs document scenes of the American West of the past four decades, revealing the impact of human activity on the last vestiges of wilderness and open space. Although often devoid of human subjects, or sparsely populated, Adams’s photographs capture the physical traces of human life: a garbage-strewn roadside, a clear-cut forest, a half-built house....

continue reading


Steven Sasson invented the first digital camera at Eastman Kodak in 1975

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sasson


Exposure Assignments:

ISO / White Balance Bracketing -( 3)

- Create sequence of a single shot utilizing all ISO levels - 8-9 exposures
- Create sequence of a single shot utilizing all White Balance setting. 8-9 exposures

Example Student Work:
http://basearts.com/curriculum/studentwrk/OnlineSpring2016/2016SpringISOWhite%20Balance/

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Beginning Exposure Beginning Bracketing (4)

Point and Shoot Exposure Adjustment
Simple tonal adjustments utilizing the shutter half step.
(Good time to work with (Point and Shoot) exposure controls)

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


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Bracketing Exposures - (5)

- P mode - Working with the half-step shutter lock - AE-L
- (M)Manual mode - Working with exposure scale in camera manual bracketing. Establish baseline exposure parameters of ISO and White Balance (*manually set)

- AEB - Auto Exposure Bracketing
- EV - Exposure Compensation Value

- 5-15 exposures for each with alternate exposure.


Review and set camera for optional .3/.7 or .5 stop configuration.

1st exposure according to meter reading or on the meter.
2nd + .5 half step or 1/3 stop greater (aperture/ time value / EV - exposure value ) selection or more exposure (over)
3rd + 1 whole step (full stop) or 2/3 stop greater (aperture/ time value / EV - exposure value) selection (over)
4th .5 half step or 1/3 stop smaller (aperture/ time value / EV - exposure value) selection or less exposure (under)
5th - 1 whole step (full stop) or 2/3 stop smaller (aperture/ time value / EV - exposure value) selection or less exposure (under)

Example Student Work:
http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/studentwrk/OnlineSpring2015/Art82Spring2015ExposureBracketing/


Week 5

9.20

Lecture:
Exposure Factsheet

Equivalent Exposures Continues ...


Begin Photoshop:

  • Workflow :

    Adobe Bridge to Adobe Photoshop

Assignment:

Continue to experiment with:

- Manual mode - Working with exposure scale in camera manual bracketing. Establish baseline exposure parameters of ISO and White Balance (*manually set)
- AEB - Auto Exposure Bracketing
- Exposure Compensation Value - EV


Reading:

A Short Course in Digital Photography:Chapters - 2, 3 and 4

Edward Weston -
.pdf - 360KB - 3 pages
(first left hand spread of each essay is last page of that essay)


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DPS:
http://digital-photography-school.com/

Exposure Value Compensation
http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-use-exposure-compensation-to-take-control-of-your-exposure/


Artists:

Jerry Uelsmann
http://www.uelsmann.net/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Uelsmann

http://www.pdngallery.com/legends/uelsmann/


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Hiroshi Sugimoto
http://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/portfolio.html



Week 6 9.27

Lecture:

Photoshop: Layers

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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File Types

File Size Resize Issues


Introduction to Layers:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/how-to/layer-basics-explained.html?set=photoshop--get-started--essential-beginners

Updated! - Adobe TV Photo Editing
http://tv.adobe.com/channel/photography/photo-editing/

Assignment(s):

- Equivalents: Depth of Field - (6)
- Contact Sheet : 5-15 Images in sequence 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

Student Work:

Contact Sheets Spring 2015
http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/studentwrk/OnlineSpring2015/Art82Spring2015ContactSheets/
Depth of Field Spring 2015
http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/studentwrk/OnlineSpring2015/Art82Spring2015DOF/

Additional - EXAMPLE FILES - Shooting Assigments

Reading:

A Short Course in Digital Photography:
Chapter 5

Henri Cartier-Bresson
- .PDF - 234KB

Cartier-Bresson's Camera


Artists:

John Divola
http://www.divola.com/


Larry Sultan
http://larrysultan.com/

Michael Light
http://www.michaellight.net/


Jim Goldberg
on his documentary practice
http://youtu.be/BzDbugn4XDw
on Sensitivity and Polaroids
http://youtu.be/3mfMjPkxePc

Henry Wessel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wessel,_Jr.

Todd Hido
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Hido


Week 7
10.4

Lecture:

Photoshop

Photoshop:

Adobe TV Online Resources for Learning Photoshop - Review Episodes

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-photoshop-cs6/what-is-photoshop-cs6/

http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-photoshop-cs6/

Assignment:

- Equivalents: Motion / Blur - (7)
- Contact Sheet :
5-15 Images in sequence which illustrate the side effects of shutter speed / time value selections. - (7)

Shutter / Time Values:
Fig 1


Student Work :

Motion Blur Spring 2015
http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/studentwrk/OnlineSpring2015/Art82Spring2015MotionBlur/

Photography - EXAMPLE FILES - Shooting Assigments

Bracketing
Equivalents (Shutter and Aperture side effects)
Wrap up current technical experiments


Discussion :
Adams, Weston and Cartier-Bresson

Reading:


Italiano Calvino - Adventures of a Photographer

Artists:


Uta Barth
http://utabarth.net/

John Baldessari
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/john-baldessari/

Lauren Greenfield
http://www.laurengreenfield.com/


Stephen Shore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Shore

Sophie Calle
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/sophie-calle/biography/


Week 8 10.11


Photoshop Continues

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/


DATE: October 13 @ 1pm - meeting there on Main Street - I will wave at you at you come into town from Main Street.
Carpoolers - meet at the the circle drive or somewhere agreed upon on campus at 12:50? to drive out to Graton.

Graton Shooting Field Trip

Graton MAP
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/1501+Mendocino+Ave,+Santa+Rosa,+CA+95401/Willow+Wood+Market+Cafe,+9020+Graton+Road,+Graton,+CA+95444/@38.396643,-122.8917333,11z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x80843875a07d59d3:0x922d3191c7c43b3c!2m2!1d-122.7198213!2d38.454581!1m5!1m1!1s0x80843b1a6c517143:0x7b0cdfd7e7dcb782!2m2!1d-122.868859!2d38.436519!3e0

Graton Shots

Fall 2015

http://www.basearts.com/work/2015/GratonFall2015/index.html


Week 9 10.18

Shooting Camera RAW for  Gray Scale / Black and White


This weeks shooting assignment requires that you configure your camera for Camera RAW capture. This is a setting found in the image Image Quality menu. When shooting in Camera RAW you can generate both a RAW file and a JPEG file - the resulting images are displayed as B/W in the LCD  but in editing will contain all color channels and data.  If you are not using either Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom - you may want to shoot in this dual file  mode so that you will have access to the JPEGs prior to processing. Note: all manufacturers generally include a software application for converting RAW files.

When shooting for black and white images, never shoot with camera's black and white modes. These "creative" modes are almost always reduced data exposures. Always shoot full color and convert your images in the post process through either the camera raw processor or Photoshops many conversion methods.  The only exception to this is when shooting in RAW. If you have configured for Camera RAW files then you are able to shoot in the cameras Black and White /Grayscale mode - the resulting images are displayed as B/W in the LCD  but in editing will contain all color channels and data.  

Submit and comment on 3-5 images you make which would be appropriate to convert to gray scale or black and white as it is known historically. Submit both the original color image and the gray scale image, if converted. Black/White or Gray Scale images  can be converted using the Channel Mixer, the Black and White Adjustment layer or the Hue and Saturations adjustment layer. Include both the color and the black and white image.  

Add commentary that describes your thinking and your method of conversion.  
What makes the images suitable for black and white? 
Why shoot in black and white when you can shoot full color?

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Here are optional online tutorials for black and white conversion in Lightroom and Photoshop:

Foundations of Photography: Black and White with Ben Long
http://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-CS5-tutorials/Foundations-of-Photography-Black-and-White/80300-2.html

Converting to black and white
From: Photoshop Artist in Action: Tim Grey's Abandoned Farmhouse with Tim Grey
http://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-tutorials/Converting-black-white/123556/133465-4.html


Converting color to black and white with Julieanne Kost
http://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-tutorials/Converting-color-black-white/122999/137813-4.html

Black and White with Lightroom and Photoshop with Bryan O'Neil Hughes
http://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-tutorials/Thinking-black-white/122444/131805-4.html

 

Assignment:

Black and White - (8) Shooting for Black and White / Gray Scale
- Contact Sheet : 10-12 selected images alternating b/w & color

Camera RAW for Black&White Mode ONLY!

_ Conversion Methods
_ Previsualization / Exposure, Tonal Considerations


Artists:
Diane Arbus

William Klein
Richard Prince

David Hockney-

Secret Knowledge - Part One (BBC Documentary)
http://youtu.be/ynrnfBnhWSo

Diane Arbus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Arbus

Previously Unseen Arbus, Unearthed Years After Her Death
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/15/arts/design/diane-arbus-met-breuer-in-the-beginning.html

The Diane Arbus You’ve Never Seen MAY 26, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/29/arts/design/diane-arbus-photos-unseen.html

 

How Diane Arbus Became ‘Arbus’ MAY 26, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/arts/design/how-diane-arbus-became-arbus.html

Diane Arbus: The Early Years JULY 6, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/arts/design/diane-arbus-the-early-years.html



Week 10 10.25

LAB:

Mid-Term Critiques - 5 pnts

Prepare a selection of 3-4 ideas for your final portfolio subjects.

All portfolios are comprised of 3 subjects of your own selection.
Each portfolio subject should contain 20 images for a total portfolio size of 60 images. This is a fully digital portfolio no printed submissions are necessary although, alternative approaches to the final submission are encouraged. Each subject should be in a seperate folder within your organized home directory on the art server.

Write up a brief summary description for each portfolio subject and compile this into a statement for submission and review at the final critique or Final.

Assignment:

- All shooting and software assignments should be uploaded to your assignments directories according to classroom directions.
-- see summary below.
- Complete the Midterm Evaluation Form <-- click here

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. - (9)

5 Images - should represent beginnings of portfolio subjects either content or technique.

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)
 - Beginning Exposures

(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)
- Shooting for Grayscale / Black and White
4-8 images you make which would be appropriate to convert to gray scale - include both full color and grayscale image

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

Artists:

William Klein
http://aperture.org/blog/magazine-interview-william-klein/

Lorna Simpson


Bernd and Hilla Becher
Aperture Rememberance
http://aperture.org/blog/remembrance-hilla-becher-tk-2015/


Reading:

Robert Adams - Truth - http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/PDF/Readings/RobertAdamsTruth.pdf
Robert Adams - Beauty - http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/PDF/Readings/RobertAdamsBeauty.pdf

Optional:
Robert Adams - Good News - http://www.basearts.com//curriculum/PDF/Readings/Rbt.Adams.GoodNews.pdf
Robert Adams - Collegues - http://www.basearts.com//curriculum/PDF/Readings/RobertAdams.Collegues.pdf

Susan Sontag - In Plato's Cave- http://www.basearts.com//curriculum/PDF/Readings/SusanSontag.pdf
Susan Sontag - Melancholy Objects - http://www.basearts.com//curriculum/PDF/Readings/SusanSontagMelancholyRev2.pdf

Week 11 11.1

Critiques continue...

Lighting

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

  • HDR - High Dynamic Range Imaging
  • Stiching - Photomerge


Lecture/Lab
:

Advanced techniques:
Camera Raw
Lightroom


Portrait & Controlled Light

Working with Ambient Light
Flash


Seeing through Photographs
, Produced by The Museum of Modern Art
Although taking, sharing, and viewing photographs has become second nature for many of us, our regular engagement with images does not necessarily make us visually literate. This course aims to address the gap between seeing and truly understanding photographs by introducing a diversity of ideas, approaches, and technologies that inform their making. In this course you will look closely at photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art and hear a variety of perspectives on what a photograph is and the ways that photography has been used throughout its nearly 180 year history: as a means of artistic expression, as a tool for science and exploration; as an instrument of documentation; to tell stories and record histories; and as a mode of communication and critique in our ever increasingly visual culture.

Subtitles available in English

https://www.coursera.org/learn/photography/

 

Reading:
Photoshelter - Lighting Handout

Artists:

Francesca Woodman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Woodman

Sharing a Guarded Legacy - NY Times 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/arts/design/francesca-woodman-retrospective.html

Mona Kuhn
https://youtu.be/RDngAUrn-Pk


Zoe Leonard - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoe_Leonard
Zoe Strauss - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoe_Strauss


Alice Shaw

http://www.flysfo.com/museum/exhibitions/alice-shaw-exalted-landscape
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Harold Edgerton

http://edgerton-digital-collections.org/

Interview with Martin Schoeller

Photographer Martin Schoeller speaks with Feature Shoot about the portrait that launched his career, photographing celebrities and advice for emerging photographers. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqvGH9A7VIE


George Hurrell
http://georgehurrell.com/gallery/


Richard Avedon
Irving Penn

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

Philippe Halsman, with Marilyn Monroe in 1959, started asking all his subjects to jump as a way to loosen up


Adobe Lightroom

Camera Raw


Why You Should Set Photoshop to Open Your JPGs in Adobe Camera RAW


Resource Links
for Camera Raw and HDR - plugins/extensions/software

Adobe TV : Why You Should Set Photoshop to Open Your JPGs in Adobe Camera RAW
Enhancing Raw Images
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-photoshop-cs6/enhancing-raw-images/
Easily merge JPEGS into a 32-bit TIFF you can open in Photoshop with access to the full controls of Camera Raw.
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/cs6-creative-cloud-feature-tour-for-web/32bit-hdr-and-camera-raw/
Recovering detail in raw images by Richard Harrington
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-photoshop-cs5/recovering-detail-in-raw-images/
Adobe Camera Raw workflow by Russell Brown -
http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/ACRBridgeToBridge_SM.mov

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


Week
12

11.8

- Discuss Adams Readings -

Lab:

Printing continues through to the end...


Lecture:

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

      adobe RGBsRGB

    • Papers

      Surface/Finish
      Texture
      Color
      Weight


Assignment:

Printing
3-5 prints - 5 pnts. - 8x10 minimum - (11)

Reading:

A Short Course in Digital Photography:
Chapter 6

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Sample Packs of Inkjet Paper are required for Printing -


Available now at Jeremiah's Photo Corner - $ 10.75
Jeremiah's Photo Corner
http://www.jeremiahsphotocorner.com/Jeremiahs_Photo_Corner/Welcome!.html

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Device/Paper Profiles - additional resources:
http://www.basearts.com/Res.Printing.htm

Digital Art Supplies (San Diego based, print supply )
http://www.digitalartsupplies.com

INTERNATIONAL COLOR CONSORTIUM
The purpose of the ICC is to promote the use and adoption of open, vendor-neutral, cross-platform color management systems.
The ICC encourages vendors to support the ICC profile format and the workflows required to use ICC profiles.

http://www.color.org/index.xalter
http://www.color.org/iccprofile.xalter
http://www.color.org/resource2.xalter - Resource Center

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Local printers - Santa Rosa

The Digital Grange
http://www.digitalgrange.com/

Jeremiah's Photo Corner
http://www.jeremiahsphotocorner.com/Jeremiahs_Photo_Corner/Welcome!.html

Color Folio
http://colorfolio.com/index.htm

Skylark Images
http://www.skylarkimages.com/

The Lab
http://www.thelabsantarosa.com

San Francisco Printers

Urban Digital Color
http://www.urbandigitalcolor.com/

Rayko Photo
http://raykophotocenter.com/

Dickerman Prints
http://www.dickermanprints.com/

Photo Works SF
http://www.photoworkssf.com/



Additional Printing Resources:

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

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


African Portrait Photographers : 1900-1960

11.17
Sorry to miss you guys today. I've had a family emergency.

Please continue with preparations for critiques next Tuesday (5-8 images representing and review of the selfies.

Week 13 11.15

Lab:

Printing
continues through to the end...

Lecture:



Assignment:

(10) - Self Portrait - Selfie (10)
Try a variety of techniques and poses. You are you own best model. You know exactly what you want you to do. Experiment wih various strategies; self timer, hand held, reflection.

(Variation on The Selfie 
-
Create a series of 6 images of your self presented in the front of significant locations from your life. Try to create an overall sense of context for the sequence. 

- Work, Home, Hobby, Nationality?) see : Tseng Kwong Chi
http://www.tsengkwongchi.com/

- Aperture, Self Portraiture in the First-Person Age,
http://aperture.org/blog/self-portraiture-first-person-age/

11.17
Sorry to miss you guys today. I've had a family emergency.

Please continue with preparations for critiques next Tuesday and review of the selfies.

Thanksgiving Break - 11.24
Week 14 11.22

Lab:

Printing
continues through to the end...

Lecture:

Lens Selection

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/


Angle of View:
Fig 1

Assignment:

Critique -
(12) -
Make presentation of representative selection of your portfolio subjects
(5-10 of each at minimum 2-3 times throughout the second half of course.

Artists:

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


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


Additional Lens review sources:

Photozone for lens reviews
Thom Hogan for Nikon equipment reviews

Bokeh
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/tips-and-solutions/understanding-bokeh

Depth of Field and Bokeh - more of the science from Zeiss Camera Lens Division, by H.H. Nasse.
http://basearts.com/curriculum/PDF/TechHandouts/ScienceofBokeh.pdf
Week 15 11.29

Lab:

Printing continues through to the end of the semester...

Lecture:

Composition
  • tone
  • balance
  • line
  • framing

Internet Presence / Websites / Automation

  • Image Ready
  • Web Optimization
  • Batch and Automation
  • Scripting
Text - Typography
  • Text tools
  • Vector graphic


Assignment:

5-15 images of light - (12) - consider the characteristics of the light situations you are encounter.
Images with good or interesting light conditions - focus on the light (diffuse, sharp, moody?)- not the content of the image
Is there something within the light you could replicate with artificial means?


Alternative:
At the edges of light and shadow -
Create a series of images exploring the contrast at the edges between shadow and light. Experiment with exposure latitude, extremes between 10am and 2pm with direct natural light. Try the Golden Hour, the Blue Hour.

Artists:

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

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

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


Week 16 12.6 Save the DATE:

SRJC Shone Farm - Shooting Field Trip
Date: 12.13.16

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Lecture:

- Protecting your images
- Respecting the work of others

Copyright and Legal Rights and Responsibilities Resources: 

Legal and Photorelease - Resources Listing

PDFs Legal Advice - Photographers Rights - pdfs

Model Release Examples - plain text

PDN: What Photographers Need to Know About Model Releases

http://www.pdnonline.com/features/What-Photographers-N-10515.shtml


Three experts explain when and why you need model releases, including a variety of uses where, without a signed release, photographers can create trouble for themselves and their clients.

Photoshelter Guide to Copyright /copyright

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Usage and Licensing:

American society of Media Photographers (National) http://asmp.org/

American society of Media Photographers (Local)
http://www.asmpnorcal.org/

Assignment:

Critique -
(12) -
Make presentation of representative selection of your portfolio subjects
(5-10 of each at minimum 2-3 times throughout the second half of course.

Artists:

Margaret Bourke-White
Tina Modotti
Imogen Cunningham
Nan Goldin - Tate Shots-https://youtu.be/r_rVyt-ojpY
Sally Mann
Sherry Levine
Judy Dater
Annie Liebovitz
Graciela Iturbide

Online Storage / Services

http://www.photoshelter.com
http://www.smugmug.com
http://www.zenfolio.com/us
http://www.livedrive.com/
http://www.carbonite.com

Publishing
http://www.lulu.com
http://www.blurb.com
http://www.customink.com


COMMERCIAL / LOCAL:
http://www.svenwiederholt.com/
http://www.peterkoval.com/
http://www.jockmcdonald.com/

SRJC Shone Farm - Shooting Field Trip

Date: 12.13.16 @ 1pm - meeting at the farm not in the classroom
(if you cannot make the field trip the lab on the 2nd floor of Maginni just below our class room will be available. )

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

Shone Farm

http://basearts.com/work/2013/shonefarmfall/


Week 17 12.15 12.13- SRJC Shone Farm - Shooting Field Trip
Meet at the Farm @ 1:00 not in the classroom - UNLESS, its pouring rain!


12.15- Lecture:


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/

New Photoshelter Guides :

For a Business Plan /business plan

2016-photo-business-plan-workbook

Creating a Porfolio /portfolio

Photographers Guide to Copyright /copyright

PhotoShelter Business Plan Worksheet - http://www.photoshelter.com/mkt/research/

Transitioning from Assistant to Pro Photographer: Free White Paper
In this useful packet, assistants explain how they made the leap to shooting
for their own clientele and managed the financial challenges of their first year in the business.
You can download the PDF here.

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/



Week 18

12.20

Shone Farm : http://www.basearts.com/work/2015/ShoneFarmFall2015/

Final Critique - Tuesday 12.20 @ 1-4pm - 2926 Magginni

Final Portfolio, Presentation and Critique
(12)

Presentations of selections from individual portfolios 20 images. = 10 pnts.

Final Exam is here --> TEST

Graton Fall 2016
Graton Fall 2016

Shone Farm Fall 2016
Shone Farm Fall 2016


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 :
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)
 - Beginning Exposures
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)

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

(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)
- Shooting for Grayscale / Black and White
4-8 images you make which would be appropriate to convert to gray scale - include both full color and grayscale image

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

(10) - Self Portrait - Selfie (10)Try a variety of techniques and poses. You are you own best model. You know exactly what you want you to do. Experiment wih various strategies; self timer, hand held, reflection.

(Variation on The Selfie 
- Create a series of 6 images of your self presented in the front of significant locations from your life. Try to create an overall sense of context for the sequence. 
- Work, Home, Hobby, Nationality?) see : Tseng Kwong Chi http://www.tsengkwongchi.com/

Aperture, Self Portraiture in the First-Person Age, http://aperture.org/blog/self-portraiture-first-person-age/

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

(11) - Images of Light
5-15 images of light -- consider the characteristics of the light situations you are encounter. Images with good or interesting light conditions - focus on the light (diffuse, sharp, moody?)

(12) -
Critique II
-
Show progressive state of your portfolio.

(13) - Final Portfolio, Presentation and Critique - 1 Subject Presentation / 3 Subjects Total

3 subjects / 20 images each = 60 Images Total

Alternate Assignments:

Cropping 5-n-1 - Take an existing file and crop to create 5 variations on the composition. Focus is on re-framing and composing. Not compositing. 

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

Bokeh- Create a series of like images of the same subject with various lenses @ largest to smallest aperture bracketed to test bokeh results for all.

Flare / Glare - Create a series of images exploring the selective use of glare /flare with alternate light sources (*sunlight, streetlights (sodium vapor), car lights(halogen).

Tilt Shift - Create a series of landscape images exploring tilt shift or the post focus effect simulating tilt shift. (an optical system (such as a camera) when the lens plane is not parallel to the image plane produces an effect of selective focus. Originally developed to correct for converging parallel lines in aerial photography.

Captioned - Submit 3 images with a brief textual description. Explore the challenges of describing an image to someone with a visual impairement or someone lacking visual acess to the image.


Potential Field Trips:

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DATE: TBD @ 1pm
Jeremiah's Photo Corner - LIGHTING DEMO

We will meet at Jeremiah's @ 1pm for a Portrait Lighting Workshop
Corner of Sebastopol St. and South A