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

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/

Post Notes: http://www.basearts.com/POSTNOTES.html

Compiled Internet Resources:
http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/Res.Photo.htm
http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/resources.html

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Required Text :
Short Course in Digital Photography, A, 2/E Barbara London, Multimedia Learning Jim Stone ISBN-10: 0205066429 ISBN-13: 9780205066421

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 -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 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:

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

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 - Help File CS5 - 8.5 MB
  File Browser - Bridge -
  File Types, Format
  
  

  First Look at Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended

  By Ron Seifried

  http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/find/newsLetter/Photoshop-CS5-Extended.jsp

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

Discussion:

Sites:

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/

Lecture:

• Adjustment Layers
• Levels Adjustment Layers
• 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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Artists:

Diane Arbus
William Klein

Richard Prince
David Hockney

Reading:

Robert Adams - Good News

-------- Lytro Camera Review and Related:

February 29, 2012, 5:00 PM 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

February 29, 2012, 5:59 PM Thoughts About the Lytro and Photojournalism By SAM GROBART

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.

(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)

(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.

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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/

03.26-28.12

LAB:
Signup for time-slots Wed. 03.28.12

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

Alexander Gronsky
http://alexandergronsky.com/

Robert Adams - Collegues - NEW!

Artists:

William Carlos Williams

Lecture:

• Lecture:

  • Camera RAW Workflow
  • HDR - High Dynamic Range Imaging
  • Stiching - Photomerge
    
    Resource Links for Camera Raw and HDR - plugins/extensions/software

Photoshop: Printing

Printing a Digital Image REV 11.17

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
  
  Printing a Digital Image Handout
  
  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

Canon Printing system / pixima pro - 1 :
http://www.usa.canon.com/CUSA/assets/app/html/pixmapro/printers/pro1/features.html?v=i

New 12 Ink System

12 Inks Expand Your Color Possibilities

Lecture:

Dual Workflow :
Adobe Bridge / Camera Raw - preview and editing

• Camera RAW - Workflow
  
  
• Automations, Scripts, BATCH
  
• HDR - High Dynamic Range Imaging
• Stiching - Photomerge
  
  Resource Links for Camera Raw and HDR - plugins/extensions/software
  

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

Assignment:

3-5 images of light - (10)

- Pre-Visualization
- sensitivity toward the lighting conditions(less focus on subject)

Reading:

A Short Course in Digital Photography: Chapters 8 & 9

Artists:

Gregory Crewdson
Edward Burtynsky

Jeff Wall
Richard Barnes

4.25.12

Jeremiah's Photo Corner - LIGHTING DEMO

We will meet at Jeremiah's @ 9am for a Portrait Lighting Demo

GUEST Lecture:

RENATA BRETH - GUEST CRITIQUE

Everyone needs to have 3 images selected for open class critique.

These could be selected from Motion or Depth of Field bracketing or from the current Images of Light Assignment.

WED. 4.25.12

Jeremiah's Photo Corner - LIGHTING DEMO

We will meet at Jeremiah's @ 9am for a Portrait Lighting Demo

 

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

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

SRJC Shone Farm - Shooting Field Trip

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.

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

Artists:

05.21.12

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)

(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