photo contest

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PHOTO CONTEST


http://www.collegeseen.org/

some resources for the final

# 1

http://www.lulu.com/

http://www.my100books.com/

http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/#prints

to name a few-keep deadlines in mind-

# 2

http://www.davidlachapelle.com/home.html
http://www.manray-photo.com/catalog/index.php

more in class on wednesday

final project: CHOICES

Digital Photography
Kirstyn Russell

Final Assignment: Choices

1. Book Project-
Create a 15 page (at least) double-sided page book. You will come up with one theme and explore it thoroughly and thoughtfully. You will work on sequencing, sizing, and content. You will utilize your color correction skills. Feel free to scan images (i.e. Polaroid’s, found images, etc) to include in your book. All digital images must be shot in RAW-you should shoot extensively for the project and depending on what your project is-450 images would not be unreasonable.

2.Collage Project-
You will create three images with clear and consistent themes made from at least two different sources: your own shooting, one found image (web, magazine, book, old photos.) These sources may include: digital images from cameras, scanned images: your own or found, scanned hand rendered materials, scanned objects, text (found or written for the project), elements rendered in Photoshop. This would give you an opportunity to combine other interest...writing, drawing, painting. You will print the images on 11x17 paper.

Written proposal due in class on Monday, April 21

This assignment is due at the beginning of class on: Wednesday, May 14
Critiques will be on Wednesday, May 14 and Monday May 19 Assignments returned from 6:30-7:30 Wednesday, May 21

A diptych (pronounced "dip-tick" IPA: [ dip'tik] (or US: [ 'dɪp.tɪk ]) from the Greek δίπτυχο [ ði'pti.xo ] di- "two" + ptychē "fold")

People, Places, Things



For this assignment you will create 5 diptychs. Use your 400 shots to photograph PEOPLE, PLACES, and THINGS—you should shoot at least three rolls for each topic. Pay attention to quality of light—try shooting in the early evening, in the fog, in various kinds of artificial light, at night with long shutter speeds, etc. Remember to make INTERESTING IMAGES that will work well in pairs.

Your first 40 shots should be 400 ISO or less and should be shot between the hours of 10am and 2pm outside on a bright day. Make sure to make contact sheets of all your images.
40 must be slower than 400 ISO
40 must be 400 ISO
40 must be 800 ISO or above
The rest of the shots are your choice.

Over the next few class you will be bringing in Raw images to work on using Adobe Raw. The images will be placed next to each other in diptychs. Examples will be shown in class.. You will be outputting onto 8.5x11 paper using the Epson printer.

Print Day Mon March 31/7Wed April 2


Project due : Beginning of Class Monday, April 7

For Monday March 3rd

Hi there,
Bring in your camera and a small object to photograph

Some great videos

http://www.kqed.org/arts/people/spark/profile.jsp?id=6820

and

http://www.kqed.org/arts/people/spark/profile.jsp?id=6700


sorry just look up Todd Hido+ Spark to see video of the artist at work

CLICK

click@sanfranmag.com.


for examples check out

www.sanfranmag.com


file should be big enough to fit on a two page spread

interesting blog

http://www.thephotographsnottaken.com/

CNN Eclipse Pics

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/02/21/eclipse.irpt/index.html

20 Shots

First 20 Shots Bracketing Assignment

Shoot using ISO 400
Choose situations where the lighting will stay virtually the same while you shoot. You will be photographing each given situation without moving the position or orientation of the camera.

Bracketing

Photograph your subject in direct sunlight. Note the frame, the meter reading (indicated f/stop and shutter speed for the ‘correct’ exposure), the actual exposure (the f/stop and shutter speed that you actually used), and your understanding of the affect of your actual exposure (i.e. is it overexposed one stop, underexposed one stop)

Take an exposure based on your in camera light meter reading. From the same place take two more frames underexposing your film a stop in each frame then take two more pictures overexposing your film a stop in each frame. Do this by adjusting your shutter speed.

Photograph in the shade and repeat the same process. This time adjust the under and over exposure using the lens aperture (f-stop).

At the end of this process, you will have shot ten frames.

Equivalent Exposure

Place your subject in a moderate lighting situation. Take a meter reading for the correct exposure with your aperture at f4 and record the shutter speed. Shoot a frame at this exposure. Proceed to make four additional exposures, each time changing the aperture (f-stop) by closing it down and adjusting the shutter speed accordingly to get the correct exposure each time. You should end up with five different frames of the same subject that are at the same exposure, all using five different combinations of f-stops and shutter speeds. Your f-stops should be f4, f5.6, f8, and f11, and your equivalent shutter speeds should be getting slower and slower.

Repeat this process in another setting.

At the end of this process, you will have shot ten more frames (20 frames total).

*NOTE: Some of your cameras have aperture settings that fall in between complete stops—familiarize yourself with the standard f-stops so that you know which apertures constitute a full stop. The equivalent exposure dial in the following pages should help with this.

For Wednesday's Class

Shoot one portrait Raw setting Use Manual functions on your camera.
Look at the artist Chuck Close for inspiration

http://www.paceprints.com/artistportfolio/artistportfolio.asp?aID=18

http://visualarts.walkerart.org/detail.wac?id=2036&title=Articles

Bring in your camera and manual-

Read/re-read sections in the book dealing with exposure

Non-Class Related

100% on the citizenship test so with luck I will be citizen by March!

ONE MORE THING....

Go to Bridge

Go to Tools

Photoshop

Photomerge


try it out.....

Making Life Much Easier

1. Open a file.
2. In the Actions palette, click the Create New Action button , or choose New Action from the Actions palette menu.
3. Enter an action name, select an action set, and set additional options:
4. Record Action (Resize)
5. Save As
   

Making life easier

1. Do one of the following:

   • Choose File > Automate > Batch (Photoshop)

   • Choose Tools > Photoshop > Batch (Bridge)

2. Specify the action you want to use to process files from the Set and Action pop‑up menus. The menus display actions available in the Actions palette. You may need to choose a different set or load a set in the palette if you don’t see your action.
3. Choose the files to process from the Source pop‑up menu:

   Folder

   Processes files in a folder you specify. Click Choose to locate and select the folder.

   Bridge

   Processes selected files in Adobe Bridge. If no files are selected, the files in the current Bridge folder are processed.
   

   4. Process Files
   

some sites and images to look at for the Hockney assignement.

www.davidhockney.com

www.hockneypictures.com

Article

"Malicious software code has turned up on a wide range of popular electronics, from digital photo frames to compact flash cards to MP3 players - even MP3-playing sunglasses - and retailers are scrambling to respond."


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/01/26/MNE7UHOOQ.DTL

Class

Assignment # 1 Twenty Four Hours

100 Pictures in 24 HOURS!



This assignment is an opportunity for you to photograph and experiment with your digital camera. Take 100 pictures switching between the automatic and manual settings on your camera in a 24 hour period do not delete any of your photographs. Try changing the ISO. Try taking pictures at night. Make sure that some of the images are taken without your flash. While doing all this try to make interesting images that create a story. Next class we will edit these images down to 25 images and sequence them into a slide show using I-Photo.You will need to bring some of your favorite music on cd to accompany your slide show.








Shoot using the J-Peg setting on your camera.



Due in class Wed January 23