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

CURRENTS:
http://blog.basearts.com

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

Class Notes http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/notes/spring2013/

Compiled Internet Resources:
http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/Res.Photo.htm
http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/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 -Short Course in Digital Photography, A, 2/E Barbara London, Multimedia Learning Jim Stone ISBN-10: 0205066429 ISBN-13: 9780205066421
  
  
• 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/Bring 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

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

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

Assignment:

Shooting in Low Light without a flash. - (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/

Reading:

Local Galleries and Suppliers

Moholy-Nagy - From Pigment to Light - 1936 - (OPTIONAL)

Artists:

Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
Man Ray
David Hockney

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

Bruce Conner
David Hockney

Course Notes : http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/notes/spring2013/

Lecture:

• Camera Operation

  Best Practices - Beginning Camera Setup
  Beginning Vocabulary
  
  Exposure basics

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

Lab:

Camera / Scanner
Scanning Procedures - Flat Art
Photography - Scanning Procedures Epson : SRJC


Assignment:
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

Reading:

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

REVISED FIRST READING

Italiano Calvino - Adventures of a Photographer

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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Rodney Lough Jr.
http://www.rodneyloughjr.com/ - compliments of Jordan

Course Notes :

http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/notes/spring2013/

CHECK THE BLOG *NEW CONTENT*!

http://blog.basearts.com

Dates: February 4 – March 7

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 7, from 4–6 PM, Doyle Library room 4201
Panel Discussion: March 4th at noon in the gallery
Moderated by Karen Peterson, you will be able to hear from the artists themselves about their work, their inspiration, artists who have influenced them and their careers as artists and teachers. They will be joined in the discussion by Michael Schwager, Gallery Director at Sonoma State University Art Gallery.

Curator's Statement

Artist Statments and Slideshow

SRJC Day Under the Oaks: Hit Me With Your Best Shot!

SRJC’s Amateur Photography Exhibit at the Larry Bertolini Day Under the Oaks

All photos must be submitted by Friday, April 12th at 5 pm.

Sunday, May 5th
10-4 pm

http://www.santarosa.edu/foundation/Hit%20Me%20With%20Your%20Best%20Shot.pdf

Participate in an interactive photography exhibit representing photos by SRJC alumni and friends of
images from the SRJC campuses as well as pictures in the community! Stop by the SRJC Alumni &
Friends booth during Day Under the Oaks to see the photos, discover if you won an award and vote for
the Best in Show – Audience Favorite!

Week 5

Lecture:

Exposure basics

Equivalent Exposures Continues ... ?

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/

Interesting gallery compliments of Nemea - http://www.youngprojectsgallery.com/

Lecture:

• Adjustment Layers - http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-photoshop-cs6/the-power-of-adjustment-layers/
• Levels Adjustment Layers - http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-photoshop-cs6/levels-101/
• 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.

Assignment:

- Equivalents: Depth of Field - (5)

3-5 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:

A Short Course in Digital Photography: Chapter 5

Henri Cartier-Bresson - .PDF - 234KB




Artists:

Larry Sultan :

* Katherine Avenue (2010)
* The Valley (2004)
* Pictures from Home (1996)
* Evidence (1977)

Lecture:

Discussion : Adams, Weston and Cartier-Bresson

• Curves - Adjustment Layers
• Channel Mixer- Adjustment Layers
  
• Pixel Based Masks
  
  
• Dual Workflow :
  Adobe Bridge / Camera Raw - preview and editing
  Photoshop - Adjustment Layers / Smart Object Layers
  
  

Assignment:

- Equivalents: Motion / Blur - (6)

3-5 Images which illustrate the side effects of shutter speed / time value selections. - (6)

Shutter / Time Values:
Fig 1

Review :

Photography - EXAMPLE FILES - Shooting Assigments

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

Assignment:

Contact Sheets of Brackets/Equivalents - (7)

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/. - (7)


Critiques - 5 pnts. - (8)

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

Current Notes are posted:
http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/notes/spring2013/

Robert Adams - Good News

Photojojo: Tiltshift on the cheap - Nemea
http://content.photojojo.com/diy/how-to-make-a-tilt-shift-lens/

Artists:

Diane Arbus
William Klein

Richard Prince
David Hockney

What's Going On in This Picture? | Feb. 11, 2013

By THE LEARNING NETWORK

Every Monday morning, we publish a New York Times photo without a caption,
headline or other information about its origins. Join the conversation by posting about what you see and why in our comments section.

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Lytro Camera Review and Related:
A Review of the Lytro Camera By SAM GROBART
http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/a-review-of-the-lytro-camera/?ref=technology

Thoughts About the Lytro and Photojournalism By SAM GROBART
http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/a-review-of-the-lytro-camera/?ref=technology

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.

Photoshop:

Adjustment Layers / Smart Object Layers

Lecture:

• Achival Issues / Backing up
• Roxio Toast - CD and DVD Burning

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

Shooting Assignments Due for Midterm:

(1) - Initial 5-10 Digital Camera images
between the first and the second class meeting - bring these to share on the 2nd class meeting.

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Sample Packs of Inkjet Paper are required for Printing - beginning week after next

Available now at Jeremiah's Photo Corner - $ 9.75
Jeremiah's Photo Corner
http://www.jeremiahsphotocorner.com/Jeremiahs_Photo_Corner/Welcome!.html

Artists:

William Klein
Lorna Simpson
Bernd and Hilla Becher

Reading:

Robert Adams - Truth
Robert Adams - Beauty

Sites:

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

ART REVIEW

A Camera Ravenous for Emotional Depth

By ROBERTA SMITH

The British photographer Bill Brandt, whose work is on view at MoMA, took pictures whose balance of art and humanity is frequently called strange, mysterious and irresistible.

•    Slide Show
  
  

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3.27.13

Shooting Field Trip : Graton, CA.

1-4 pm

Map:
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=active&q=graton+ca&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x80843b055828b2c9:0x70474dfe0823210,Graton,+CA&gl=us&ei=UNJ1UMy_GqjyigLbpoHIDw&sqi=2&ved=0CHUQtgM

LAB:
Signup for time-slots

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)

Reading:

New Postings ---> http://blog.basearts.com

Artists:

Alexander Gronsky
http://alexandergronsky.com/

Reading:

Robert Adams - Truth
Robert Adams - Beauty
Robert Adams - Good News
Robert Adams - Collegues

Sites:

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

DATE: 4.3.13 @ 1 PM

Jeremiah's Photo Corner - LIGHTING DEMO

We will meet at Jeremiah's @ 1pm for a Portrait Lighting Workshop

• Camera RAW Workflow
  
  
• HDR - High Dynamic Range Imaging
• Stiching - Photomerge
  
  

• 
  
  
  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

Reading:

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Discussion:

Robert Adams - Truth
Robert Adams - Beauty
Robert Adams - Good News
Robert Adams - Collegues

Lecture:

Photoshop: Printing

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/curriculum/color/basearts-Photography-color.html

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


Printing Demonstration - Epson R1900

Printer :

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





• Papers
  
  Surface/Finish
  Texture
  Color
  Weight
  
  

Assignment:

Printing
3-5 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

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

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

Discussion:

Robert Adams Essays
Good News
Truth
Beauty
Collegues

Artists:

Harold Edgerton

Richard Avedon
Irving Penn

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

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

Lighting

- Utilizing Ambient Light
- Flash

Photozone for lens reviews
Thom Hogan for Nikon equipment reviews

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New photoshelter guides

For a Business Plan /business plan

Creating a Porfolio /portfolio

Photographers Guide to Copyright /copyright

Artists:

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

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

Lab:

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

READING:

Italiano Calvino - Adventures of a Photographer

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

Wednesday May 8, 2013

SRJC Shone Farm - Shooting Field Trip
1-4pm

Map: http://www.santarosa.edu/map/shone-farm.html

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.

Lab:

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

Artists: Can You Be Sued for Including a Real Person in Your Painting?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-grant/artists-can-you-be-sued_b_1160110.html


-Compliments of Susan Greer

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

Wednesday May 8, 2013

SRJC Shone Farm - Shooting Field Trip
1-4pm

Map: http://www.santarosa.edu/map/shone-farm.html

DISCUSSION:

"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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5.20

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 / 3-5 exposure bracketed shots with alternate exposures for each.

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

(5) - Equivalents: Depth of Field
3-5 Images which illustrate the side effects of aperture selections. -

(6) - Equivalents: Motion / Blur
3-5 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 - Make presentation of 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) - Images of Light - 3-5 - photographs with an attention on the lighting conditions in the image not physical represention.

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

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