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Digital Photography Location: Office Hours: 3-4 Wednesday by appointment. Instructor: John Sappington - john@basearts.com |
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Syllabus (this page): http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/SRJC.DigitalPhoto.htm DESCRIPTION: Topics and Scope: Assignments: Recommended Technical Texts: Recommended Photography Texts: Students are required to obtain backup media to store class example files and work in progress. Optional media types are: - 100MB/250 Mb Zip disks - CD ROM/DVD-R, RW, Write-once or Re Writable: Approx. capacity 700+MB - Flash cards, memory sticks, etc.. Students are also required to have an e-mail account. This can be accessed through the lab and may be a free account like those available from Hotmail, Yahoo, Freemail, Excite, etc. The instructor will assist students in obtaining an e-mail account if necessary. Students will be expected to check this e-mail account at least twice a week. General class announcements will be reported via e-mail. EVALUATION: 40% of student grades will be based on class participation. Students must attend class in order to effectively participate. 50% of student grades will be based on the completion of evaluative assignments and one shooting field trip. These assignments will not be graded for content, but will be evaluated for technical completion. 10% of the student grade will be determined by the final portfolio presentation. ATTENDANCE POLICY:Students are expected to attend all of every class meeting unless they have received prior permission from the instructor. Attendance will be taken at the beginning of each class meeting. Anyone absent when attendance is taken will be assumed absent from the class. If you are late to class it is your responsibility to make sure your attendance is acknowledged by talking to the instructor. If
you are intending to drop the class, please notify the instructor. You should not assume that the instructor
will automatically drop you because of absences. If you stop
attending classes and you do not drop the class, and the instructor
has not dropped you from the class; the instructor may be required
to give you a grade of F for the class. |
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Digital Photography |
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| Week 1 |
Syllabus Overview Expectations, Requirements, Objectives, Best Practices. |
Assignment:
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| Reading: Adobe Photoshop CS2 - What's New Brief and New Features Expanded Artists: William Henry Fox Talbot Diane Arbus Andreas Gursky Sites: Masters of Photography - Good starter site for Analogue Masters http://www.masters-of-photography.com/ Lomographic Society |
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Reading:
Fraenkel Gallery Haines Gallery Tel: 415-397-8114 Tuesday - Friday 10:30am - 5:30pm Saturday 10:30am - 5:00pm
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| Week 3 |
Lecture: Camera Operation - Exposure basics Photoshop Introduction
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Lab First File Transfers Assignment: Bracketed Exposures - 10 pnts. Choose 2 subjects and make 5 bracketed exposures of each. *Be sure to make notes of the exposures in your journal. Experiment with the shutter speeds + and or - one shutter speed is equal to a full stop. |
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| Week 4 | 02.06.06 |
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Tour Analy Hall Digital Lab Facility - SCANNER DEMO |
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Reading: Supported
Cameras Page
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| Week 5 | 02.13.06 |
Lecture: Photoshop:
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02.20 & 21.06 NO CLASS |
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| 4185 Only | 02.22.06 | Lab / Discussion
Reading: "The Camera and the Pencil", Marcus Aurelius Root |
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| Week 6 |
02.27.06 |
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David Hockney |
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| Week 7 |
03.06.06 |
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Reading: Artists: Historical: Contemporary: Nan Goldin |
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| Week 8 |
03.13.06 |
4185:
3:45 KC T Wednesday - Lecture /Disussion 4-6 Evaluation Form <--click here Photoshop:
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| Week 9 |
03.20.06 |
Lecture:
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7724:
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Artists: Historical: Harold Edgerton http://www.edgerton.org/biography.html Contemporary:
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| Week 10 |
03.27.06 |
Lecture: Lighting Continued... |
Lab Assignment: Be sure to also experiment with the flash in daylight. What impact does it have ... ?
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Historical:
B&H - Flash Gel and Diffusion Samples This book has alot of filters for diffusion. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=45184&is=REG This book has more colors. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=45189&is=REG Only have to pay $.01 plus shipping ($4), no gimmick. |
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| Week 11 |
04.03.06 |
Lecture: Photoshop: Printing
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Date: April 6 Adobe InDesign presentation / demonstration / introduction to layout with graphics, photo graphics and/or text - This would apply to artists, designers and scrap bookers or amateurs with an interest in producing pamphlets, flyers or just photo collections for home use. Get a jump start on the next step in your production workflow and stop by for a free lecture. |
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| Week 12 |
04.10.06 |
Lecture Photoshop: Printing
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Printing Demonstration in Analy - Epson Printer Driver Final Prints for Student Show & Hanging on 5 prints - 5 pnts. - 8x10 minimum |
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Printers
- Materials - Supplies PS Print (LA based commercial printer) Preparing
files for print - Pagemaker, Illustrator Urban Digtial Color (SF, printer) http://www.inksupply.com/bwpage.cfm MIS ULTRACHROME EQUIVALENT CARTRIDGES - These cartridges contain MIS 7600 MIS PRO CARTRIDGES - These cartridges contain MIS PRO Archival color ink. http://www.inksupply.com/epsoncarts_xx.cfm http://www.inksupply.com/quadtone.cfm Below is the workflow provided by Paul Roark for making Variable Tone Currently, the main vendors for quadtone inks are MIS Associates, http://www.completedigitalphotography.com/index.php?p=32 |
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| Week 13 |
04.24.06 |
Lecture: Discussion : Susan Sontag, "In Plato's Cave" |
Lab: Printing |
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| Week 14 |
05.01.06 |
Lecture
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Lab Printing |
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| Week 15 | 05.08.06 |
Lecture: Photoshop: Web Output
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| Week 16 | 05.15.06 |
Lecture:
Protecting your images |
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Reading: Electronic Frontier Foundation The Free Expression Policy Project Artists: Historical:
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05.22 & 23 .06 |
Final Critique
Presentations of selections from individual portfolios 10-20 images. Beginning at 4:00 |
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