For Wednesday June 1

1) Complete part 3 of the contact sheet for Assignment 2. Bring the images on camera and we will make contact sheets in class.

2) Work on Test Strip Assignment (due on Wednesday as a digital file uploaded to ANGEL). Printed image due with Assignment 2 prints on Thursday.
_________1. Make two test strips.
_________2. One test strip should be for sharpening and the second for tonal adjustments.

For Class Tuesday May 31

1) Complete part 2 of the contact sheet for Assignment 2. Bring the images on camera and we will make contact sheets in class.

2) Remember to post blog responses (to Week 2 blog prompts) by Sunday at midnight.

3) Work on Test Strip Assignment (due on Wednesday as a digital file uploaded to ANGEL). Printed image due with Assignment 2 prints on Thursday.
_________1. Make two test strips.
_________2. One test strip should be for sharpening and the second for tonal adjustments.

For Class Thursday May 26

1) Complete the first part of the contact sheet for Assignment 2. Bring the images on camera. We will make contact sheets together in class.

2) Upload a contact sheet with images from the in-class assignments 4-8. If you haven't finished this, you will have about 30 minutes in class to work on it.

3) Be ready for presentations of Recreation R02, Historical Photographer, & Contemporary photographer.

4) Part 2 of written statement for Assignment 1 due tonight at midnight.

In-Class Image Assignments 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

To turn these images in, just place them all on a contact sheet with labels that indicate the number of the exercise. You can also (not required) pick one from each set, process them, and post them to your blog. Make these quickly, without too much thought. Try to embrace spontaneity and play! Work in groups of two or three so that one person will take the picture and the other person can be the subject.

4) Projection Self-Portrait

1. Pick 1 image (can be found online or one you have taken)

2. Take two photographs of the projection onto yourself

a. 1 should have a fast shutter speed and no subject movement

b. 1 should have slow shutter speed with subject movement

5) Self-Portrait with Text

1. Write something on a piece of white paper that “reveals something about you”
2. Photograph yourself holding this paper in front of you while you are standing in front of the backdrop
3. Take one picture using only 1 light
4. Take another picture using 2 lights
5. Take a third picture with the light angled in a unconventional direction
6. Processing
1. Color correction using the “white balance tool” in Camera Raw
2. Check your histogram
3. Process using Camera Raw adjustments
4. Can be color or black and white

6) Make a Wearable Sculpture to be captured with photography

1. Make an adornment using the paper given to you. Try to create something that emphasizes three-dimensionality so that light hits it in interesting ways and creates odd/unconventional/beautiful shadows.
2. Photograph a subject wearing this sculpture outside
1. Under shade
2. Backlit with the sun facing towards your camera and behind your subject. Try to create a silhouette by exposing for the sky and background instead of the subject.
3. Using a reflector

7) Digitize Yourself using a scanner:

Make a portrait using yourself and a scanner.

8) Chance Encounter with the “Frame”: Think of the frame as the edge of reality, a visual constraint, a demarcation, an empty canvas… Capture a subject’s “chance encounter” with the frame by taking a picture in which you do not look through the viewfinder. Surprise yourself!

For Class Wednesday May 25

1) Please bring your Recreation R02 image on camera. We will download and process in class. Please prepare the writeups for the Historical (recreation image) and Contemporary portrait photographers. You can post them to your blogs prior to class.

2) Please bring your cameras and tripods.

Contemporary Photographer Presentation: Portraits

Pick one photographer from the "Assignment 2: Portrait" file on ANGEL (found in the Assignments 1-5 folder). You can pick any photographer listed on the sheet. Add a comment to this blog entry with the name of the photographer that you have selected to research & present. You DO NOT need to recreate one of this photographer's images for this presentation. However, one of the prompts on Assignment 2 will be a recreation of a contemporary photographer's image, so if you want to start early on this, you can do so.

Recreation R02: Historical Portrait Photograph Recreation

Pick one photographer from the file in the Recreation R02 folder on ANGEL. Add a comment to this blog entry with the name of the photographer's image you have selected to research & recreate.

Photoshop Tutorials

http://psd.tutsplus.com/category/tutorials/photo-effects-tutorials/

http://photo.tutsplus.com/

Blog Prompts Week 2 (#5-10)

#5 Give your thoughts on one or both of the following quotes.

“Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.” ~Edward Steichen




“I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.” ~Mary Ellen Mark




#6 In your opinion, when is it beneficial, ethical, or appropriate to digitally alter photographic portraits? When do you think it is inappropriate or ethically wrong?

#7 Pay close attention to the types and number of photographic portraits you see in one day. Where did you see them? How do you think that the content of the portrait changes based on the context in which you see the image (news, facebook, magazine, advertisement, television, youtube, etc)? In other words, what is the difference between the portraits you see on facebook vs. those on the news? What is the difference between the “viewpoint” of the photographer in each situation? What is the difference between their “intents”?



Please respond to the following three quotes.

#8 “My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.” ~Richard Avedon.

#9 “You don't take a photograph, you make it.” ~Ansel Adams



#10 “All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.” ~John Berger


For Class Tuesday May 23

1) Post 3-5 final images on your blog before class. We will critique them together in class.
2) Part 1 of your written statements is due at midnight on Tuesday May 23. Please write about each image. If you turn in more than 3, you can write about any 3.
3) Please bring your cameras and tripods.

For Class Monday May 23

1) 2 completed "sets" of images for Assignment 1 (total of 50 images in RAW format). You can bring these on your camera or memory card. We will make contact sheets in class together. We will process the images together in class.
2) Print out the Reading Review Questions Set 2.
3) We will process final images in class for Assignment 1.

Falling Photography

http://www.skarbakka.com/portfolios/struggle.htm

For Class Thursday May 19

Please bring the following:

1) 2 completed "sets" of images for Assignment 1 (total of 50 images in RAW format). You can bring these on your camera or memory card. We will make contact sheets in class together. We will process the images together in class.
2) Print out the Reading Review Questions Set 1.
3) We will present Recreation R01 in class. Plan to give a very short review/presentation/discussion of your image and the original image. It can be about 1 minute in length. You only need to paraphrase what you wrote on your blog.
4) If you haven't done so already, please email me with your blog URL.

In-Class Image Assignment 3: Composition

1. Print 6 images from A1 contact sheet.
2. Follow directions given in class....

In-Class Image Assignment 2: Recreation Image 3D sculpture

Print your Recreation R01 image. Cut it up and tape it together to make a 3D sculpture. We will photograph these to learn about exposure. Place your contact sheet and one final image in jpg form on ANGEL.

For Class Wednesday May 18

Please bring the following:

1) 2 completed "sets" of images for Assignment 1 (total of 50 images in RAW format). You can bring these on your camera or memory card. We will make contact sheets in class together. We will process the images together in class.
2) Completed questionnaire.

Summer Printing Hours

Sundays 6-10pm and Wednesdays 6-10pm (other times are available by appointment)
http://www.art.msu.edu/?page_id=339

History of Photography Website (Helpful for Recreations R01)

http://www.all-art.org/history658_photography1.html

Class In-Class Assignment 1 images

Introduce yourself. Tell us:
1) About your image
2) Hometown/Where you are from
3) Your major/concentration
4) Some subject matter/content that you like to photograph

Something I forgot to mention....

Please, Please, Please ask questions during class when they arise. Please do not hesitate because digital media can feel quite foreign and confusing at times.

For Class Tuesday May 17th

Please do the following:

1. Set up a blog site. You can also set up flickr site as well (but it is not mandatory). Email me with the url.
2. Bring your camera and camera manual to class. Look over the Camera Checklist (on ANGEL) to find out if your camera offers these features.
3. Bring an image for Recreation R01 to class. You can bring this image digitally (on your camera) or on a flash drive. You do not need to do any processing prior to class.

Reframing Photography Video

http://reframingphotography.com/content/photo-tutorials

Call for digital pinhole photography

http://voixvisuelle.ca/en/stenope/

In-class Image Assignment 1: “Digitized ID Photo + White Paper + Self + Drawing/Text” captured by the computer’s Photo Booth

Reveal something about yourself through a digital photographic image captured using the Mac’s program Photo Booth.

Include all of the items listed below in the image.

1. Yourself (any part of your physical self)

2. The black and white print-out of your ID photo

3. Something written or drawn using the marker given to you

4. Large piece of white paper (can be used as a backdrop, a costume, or as anything else that you create).

You can deface or embellish your ID photo in any way that you choose. You can write or draw anything that you wish on the white paper, your photo, or yourself. You can include any part of your body or face in the frame. You can take one or “four quick pictures”.

Inspirations

1) Gillian Wearing http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=27083&searchid=10432

2) photobooth art http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/photobooth.htm

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/18,in-pictures,arts-fashion,strip-tease

3) John Baldessari http://www.mariangoodman.com/artists/john-baldessari/

http://artworksmagazine.com/2009/10/the-sum-of-the-parts-equals-john-baldessari/

4) Gregoire Alexandre http://www.gregoirealexandre.com/portfolio.php?ref=53

http://www.gregoirealexandre.com/portfolio.php?ref=6

5) Carte-de-Visite http://notesonphotographs.org/index.php?title=Carte-de-visite

http://content.lib.washington.edu/19thcenturyactorsweb/index.html

Blog Prompts Week 1 (#1-4)

#1: Imagine a world without photographs. Describe what this world would be like.

#2: What does the word "photograph" mean to you?

#3 “Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.”~Duane Michals. Write a brief reaction to this quote. Is this quote applicable to your experience with photography? What does it mean to you? Do you agree with the idea presented or disagree?

#4 “If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.” ~Lewis Hine.

Write a brief reaction to this quote. Is this quote applicable to your experience with photography? What does it mean to you? Do you agree with the idea presented or disagree? Describe situations when photographic images reveal “the story” (as compared to words). Describe situations when words reveal “the story” (as compared to images).

Sweet Station

http://sweet-station.com/blog/category/photos/

Helena Blomqvist

http://www.helenablomqvist.com/

Richard Learoyd

http://www.fraenkelgallery.com/index.php#mi=&pt=1&pi=10000&s=19&p=0&a=16&at=1

Recent Photo Contest

http://pdncuratorawards.com/entries.shtml

Previous Photo 1 Classes

http://bwphotomsu03.blogspot.com/

http://bwphotomsu02.blogspot.com/
http://bwphotomsus2011.blogspot.com/
http://bwphotomsu491.blogspot.com/