Digital Photography
SPRING 2010
Section 4206 - MW 9:00am-12:00pm - Barnett RM 1261 - 01/11-05/12

Class Schedule: 
Monday/Wednesday - 9:00am-12:00pm

Location:
Barnett 1261

Office Hours:
Tuesdays 12:00 - 1:00 by appointment.

Instructor:  John Sappington - john@basearts.com


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

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

ANALY HALL - ART COMPUTER LAB HOURS

Tuesday and Thursdays 1:30 -4:30

Analy Hall - Shooting Studio by Appointment

Mon/Wed - 12-4 | 4:30 - 7

REPEAT Students <---CLICK HERE

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.
  
  
• Required Text -A Short Course in Photography, Barbara London and Jim Stone 7th Edition, Prentice-Hall ISBN #0136031870
  
  
• 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 5-10 Digital Camera images between the first and the second class meeting
  - Bring these to share on the 2nd class meeting. - (1)
  
  
• Begin JOURNAL of questionable functions, settings, usage, portfolio ideas, reading notes etc...
  
  
• Email john@basearts.com with your current email address
  - include SRJC Digital Photo and your section number in the subject line.

Reading:

Chapters 1 and 9
A Short Course in Photography, Barbara London and Jim Stone 7th Edition, Prentice-Hall ISBN #0136031870

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

Camera / Scanner
Scanning Procedures - Flat Art

Transferring images from camera/media to system.

Begin fundamentals of camera technology/exposure.

Lab:

Establish Home Directories
Work with camera connection / file transfer

Assignment:

Shooting in Low Light without a flash. - (7)

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

Reading:

Local Galleries and Suppliers

Moholy-Nagy - From Pigment to Light - 1936

Artists:

Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
Man Ray
David Hockney

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

Bruce Conner
David Hockney

Lecture:

• Camera Operation:

  • Best Practices - Beginning Camera Setup
  • Exposure basics
  • Beginning Vocabulary
  
  
  
  
• Photoshop Introduction
  File Browser - Bridge
  File Types, Format

Lab

First File Transfers

Assignment:

Objects for Scanning - 3 Dimensional Objects as well as prints or flat art that you may want to digitize. - (2)

Review Historical Photograms/Montage works:

Photograms and Montage Samples
Niko Robinson - Student Scanner work
more scanner work - various

Bracketing Exposures

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

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.

Discussion:

Moholy-Nagy - From Pigment to Light - 1936

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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Sites:

Sebastopol Center for the Arts

Juried Photography Exhibition DEADLINE 3-6 pm TODAY

Submission Information
http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/SCA_throughthelens.pdf
This exhibition is open to photographs created in all methods including traditional darkroom, digital, alternative, experimental or mixed processes in any theme or subject matter. Work may be B&W or color, and can include other media (painting, collage, installation, etc.) as long as photography is the primary component. Video and film should be submitted as a DVD in no loops longer than 4 minutes; selected artists will need to supply their own equipment for display.

Juror: Drew Johnson, Curator of Photography, Oakland Museum of California.

Lecture:

Equivalent Exposures Continues ...

• Layers Palette Introduction
• Adjustment Layers
• Levels Adjustment Layers

Lecture:

• Adjustment Layers
• Levels Adjustment Layers
• Histogram
  
• Size / Resize / Resolution

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.

Lab:

Assignment:

Contact Sheets of Brackets/Equivalents

Create a minimum of 3 contact sheets documenting bracketing exposure experiments. - (6)

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Reading:

Henri Cartier-Bresson - .PDF - 234KB


Artists:

Lauren Greenfield
http://www.creativephotography.org/education/educatorsGuides/girlculturefacultyguide/

Henry Wessel
http://www.renabranstengallery.com/wessel.html

Stephen Shore
http://www.masters-of-fine-art-photography.com/02/artphotogallery/photographers/stephen_shore_13.html

Todd Hido
Larry Sultan


Sites:

Lecture:

• Curves - Adjustment Layers
• Channel Mixer- Adjustment Layers
  
• Size/Resize/Resolution
  
• Shadows and Hightlights
• Working with layers as masks
  

Assignment:

1st Critique- 10-15 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.

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Lab:


Critiques - 5 pnts.

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

Artists:

Diane Arbus
Lorna Simpson
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Gregory Crewdson

Reading:

Robert Adams - Truth
Robert Adams - Beauty

Sites:

Blog journal the class by Glen R. Erspamer Jr. "JR"
www.tripoddiaries.blogspot.com

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

• Photoshop: Printing
  
  Processing a Digital Image REV 03.10.pdf
  
  Printer Profile File Names: profilenames
  
  

Assignment:

Following review of print images - print 1 image for Student Show

LAB:

Critique - Current progress on portfolios - (5 pnts)
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Printing continues through to the end...

Artists:

Harold Edgerton
Richard Avedon
Irving Penn

Edward Burtynsky

Lab

Camera RAW
HDR - High Dynamic Range Imaging
Stiching - Photomerge


Resource Links for Camera Raw and HDR -& software

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/
  
  Angle of View:
  Fig 1
  
  
• Lighting
  
  - Utilizing Ambient Light
  - Flash
  
  
• Composition
  
  -tone
  -balance
  -line
  -framing
  

Wed. 04.14 - Guest, Sean Ledbetter on HDR

Reading:

REVIEW - Chapters 2 and 4 , READ CHAPTER 7
A Short Course in Photography, Barbara London and Jim Stone 7th Edition, Prentice-Hall ISBN #0136031870


Susan Sontag Melancholy Objects.pdf


Artists:

Diane Arbus
Jeff Wall
Richard Barnes


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Matt Williams 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/

Assorted:

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

-CANCELLED-

A Studio Day -

Family of Angles from:
Light--science & magic: an introduction to photographic lighting
By Fil Hunter, Steven Biver, Paul Fuqua

Lecture:

Batch and Automation

Legal / Copyright Issues

Protecting your images
Respecting the work of others

Legal and Photorelease - Handout

Photographers Rights - pdfs

Photography - Model Release Examples

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Usage and Licensing (GETTING PAID)

American society of Media Photographers

(National) http://asmp.org/

American society of Media Photographers

(Local)
http://www.asmpnorcal.org/

Reading:

Artists: