Art 83 - Intermediate Digital Photography

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		ART 83 - Intermediate Digital Photography Fall 2017-18 Class Schedule: Tues /Thurs - 1pm - 4pm Office Hours : 4-5 by Appointment 2926 Magggini Hall Location: 2926 Maggini Hall, Santa Rosa Campus Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 4-5pm - by appointment Instructor: John Sappington - jsappington@santarosa.edu - john@basearts.com Online Syllabus (This Document) : T/Th - 3.0 - http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/SRJC.Intermediate.DigitalPhoto.htm Outline: http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/IntermedDigPhotoOutline.html Current Course Description: https://portal.santarosa.edu/SRWeb/SR_CourseOutlines.aspx?mode=1&CVID=36800&Semester=20177 Overview : http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/intermedDigPhotoOverview.html Pre-Requisite Course Syllabus- Art 82 Beginning Digital Photography http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/SRJC.DigitalPhoto.htm bASEARTS Announcement List Subscription Name: E-mail: Confirm E-mail:
Digital Photography Schedule (subject to change)		Online Photography Resources CURRENT News and Events Blog: http://blog.basearts.com Class Notes http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/notes/ Generalized Selection of Photo resources available online and local http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/Res.Photo.htm A broad spectrum list of working/historical photographers http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/photographerslisting.htm A recommended reading list centered around photography and imaging http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/Res.ReadingList.htm basearts selection of resources lists http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/resources.html
Week 1	8.22	Expectations, Requirements, Objectives, Best Practices. Assignments: Bring Camera to every class meeting including drives, cables (usb/firewire), or card reader. Locate and begin reading Camera Manual - Cover to Cover. Keep JOURNAL of questionable functions, settings, usage, portfolio ideas, reading notes etc... Required Text - TBD Set Camera to Camera RAW (+ JPEG optional) Set Camera to Manual Mode Set ISO to lowest Backup all images on working media/card and FORMAT card prior to first shooting assignment. (1) 10-20 Digital Camera images to the second class meeting - Images should represent prior Portfolio, Projects and current interests.
Artists: Reading: Supplimental Sites and Web Resources : Local Galleries and Suppliers Camera Reviews http://dpreview.com http://www.keh.com
Week 2	8.29	Lecture/Lab : Begin Camera Raw Workflow - Workflow Basics & Editing Lightroom Library Module: Setting up Quick Collections Camera RAW Plug-in Photoshop Comparison	Assignment: Twilight - # 1 - (5 pnts) 5-8 Images
Reading: William Henry Fox Talbot - Pencil of Nature This site contains the full text of William Henry Fox Talbot’s writings contained in The Pencil of Nature published in London between 1844 and 1846. http://www.thepencilofnature.com/ Artists: Todd Hido Jim Goldberg Henry Wessel Linda Connor Regan Louie Student Intro Presentations Online: Tanya Braunstein http://www.tanyabraunstein.com Mortiz Faehse http://www.mortizfaehse.com Niko Robinson nikorobinson.weebly.com Niko Robinson Scanner work Austin Reynolds http://www.austinreynolds.net/
Resource Links for Lightroom & Camera Raw Adobe TV : Why You Should Set Photoshop to Open Your JPGs in Adobe Camera RAW Enhancing Raw Images http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-photoshop-cs6/enhancing-raw-images/ Easily merge JPEGS into a 32-bit TIFF you can open in Photoshop with access to the full controls of Camera Raw. http://tv.adobe.com/watch/cs6-creative-cloud-feature-tour-for-web/32bit-hdr-and-camera-raw/ Recovering detail in raw images by Richard Harrington http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-photoshop-cs5/recovering-detail-in-raw-images/ Adobe Camera Raw workflow by Russell Brown - http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/ACRBridgeToBridge_SM.mov Adobe Lightroom : Develop Module Introduction http://www.lynda.com/Lightroom-tutorials/Develop-module-overview/124393/141813-4.html Understanding White Balance and Color Temperature http://www.lynda.com/Lightroom-tutorials/Understanding-white-balance-color-temperature/124393/141819-4.html Using the Histogram to Correct Exposure http://www.lynda.com/Lightroom-tutorials/Using-histogram-correct-exposure/124393/141827-4.html Understanding Vibrance and Saturation http://www.lynda.com/Lightroom-tutorials/Understanding-vibrance-saturation/124393/141836-4.html
Week 3	9.5	Lecture/Lab : Lightroom basics - Workflow / Editing - Develop Module	Assignment: *the bay area* - #2 (5 pnts) 5-8 Images which represent/illustrate/communicate your sense of the bay area -
Reading: Italiano Calvino - Adventures of a Photographer *Wear Good Shoes, Advice from Magnum Photographers* Artists:
Vivan Maier Vivian Maier - John Maloof Collection http://www.vivianmaier.com/ the wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier Finding Vivian Maier - the film http://www.findingvivianmaier.com/ http://www.vivianmaier.com/film-finding-vivian-maier/ the controversial print collection - Jeffrey Goldstein Collection http://www.vivianmaierprints.com/vivian-maier-images.html Chicago Tonight Series: http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2012/07/31/vivian-maier http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2012/08/02/searching-vivian-maier http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2012/08/01/meteoric-rise-vivian-maier The New Yorker - Vivian Maier and the Problem of Difficult Women BY ROSE LICHTER-MARCK http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/vivian-maier-and-the-problem-of-difficult-women PBS - Bringing a portrait of private artist Vivian Maier to the big screen http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/bringing-portrait-private-artist-vivian-maier-big-screen/ PBS - From glamorous to ordinary, Vivian Maier’s street photography captured America’s mid-century urban life. - BY DAVID COLES http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/from-streets-scenes-of-the-50s-and-60s-to-neighborhood-characters-photographer-vivian-maier-captured-it-all/
Week 4	9.12	Lecture: Shooting Camera RAW for Gray Scale / Black and White - Conversion Methods - Lightroom working with Gray scale presets - Previsualization / Exposure, Tonal Considerations This weeks shooting assignment requires that you configure your camera for Camera RAW capture. This is a setting found in the image Image Quality menu. When shooting in Camera RAW you can generate both a RAW file and a JPEG file - the resulting images are displayed as B/W in the LCD but in editing will contain all color channels and data. If you are not using either Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom - you may want to shoot in this dual file mode so that you will have access to the JPEGs prior to processing. Note: all manufacturers generally include a software application for converting RAW files. When shooting for black and white images, never shoot with camera's black and white modes. These "creative" modes are almost always reduced data exposures. Always shoot full color and convert your images in the post process through either the camera raw processor or Photoshops many conversion methods. The only exception to this is when shooting in RAW. If you have configured for Camera RAW files then you are able to shoot in the cameras Black and White /Grayscale mode - the resulting images are displayed as B/W in the LCD but in editing will contain all color channels and data. Submit and comment on 3-5 images you make which would be appropriate to convert to gray scale or black and white as it is known historically. Submit both the original color image and the gray scale image, if converted. Black/White or Gray Scale images can be converted using the Channel Mixer, the Black and White Adjustment layer or the Hue and Saturations adjustment layer. Include both the color and the black and white image. Add commentary that describes your thinking and your method of conversion. What makes the images suitable for black and white? Why shoot in black and white when you can shoot full color? ---------- Here are optional online tutorials for black and white conversion in Lightroom and Photoshop: Foundations of Photography: Black and White with Ben Long http://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-CS5-tutorials/Foundations-of-Photography-Black-and-White/80300-2.html Converting to black and white From: Photoshop Artist in Action: Tim Grey's Abandoned Farmhouse with Tim Grey http://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-tutorials/Converting-black-white/123556/133465-4.html Converting color to black and white with Julieanne Kost http://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-tutorials/Converting-color-black-white/122999/137813-4.html Black and White with Lightroom and Photoshop with Bryan O'Neil Hughes http://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-tutorials/Thinking-black-white/122444/131805-4.html	Assignment: Black and White - #3 - (5 pnts) Shooting for Black and White / Gray Scale Camera RAW for Black&White Mode ONLY! Contact Sheets - #4 - (1 pnt. per shooting assignment) 10-12 selected images of all shooting assignments
Reading: Current PDN http://digitalmag.pdnonline.com/pdnonline/october_2017?sub_id=CcHGqTblrCBHg&pg=1#pg1 Pier 24 Grain of the Present Educational Materials http://pier24.org/exhibition/the-grain-of-the-present/educational-materials/ ---- Italiano Calvino - Adventures of a Photographer *Wear Good Shoes, Advice from Magnum Photographers* Artists:
Thurs. Field Trip - meet outside Pier 24 as close to 3:10 as possible. Pier 24 - The Grain of the Present *Sept 21 3:15-5* Shooting on the bay follows.
Week 5	9.19	Lecture/Lab : LightRoom vs. Photoshop LightRoom Basic Tab for Exposure - Camera Raw continues... Contact Sheets - Designing with the Print Module Creating a Contact Sheet: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-lightroom-5/creating-a-contact-sheet/	Assignment: In SF - #5 - (3 pnts) shoot the trip - as we will be in the city shoot the trip down and back - hoping to have time for some shooing along the bay.
Reading: Artists: Review the artists from the exhibition we are visiting on Thursday. Pier 24 Grain of the Present, Educational Materials http://pier24.org/exhibition/the-grain-of-the-present/educational-materials/
Week 6	9.26	Lecture/Lab : Lightroom Workflow Continues ... Cropping and Composing --------- Reviewing images from the Grain of the Present Field Trip	Assignment(s): Self Portraits - #6 - (5 pnts) Developing Strategies for your Selfies Ongoing: Review - SF shots from the Field trip Black and White - Shooting for Black and White / Gray Scale Contact Sheets : Selections per assignment
Artists: Francesca Woodman Cindy Sherman Tseng Kwong Chi Self in Portraits - Work, Home, Hobby, Nationality?) see http://www.tsengkwongchi.com/ (Links to an external site.) Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duery10DKB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsxDSyBa3iA
Week 7	10.3	Lecture/Lab : Lightroom Workflow Continues ... Selective Adjustments	Assignment(s)Ongoing : Self Portraits : Developing Strategies for your Selfies - Begin Crit/Review Black and White - Shooting for Black and White / Gray Scale Contact Sheets : 10-12 selections of all shooting assignments
Stephen Shore William Eggleston Wim Wenders Reading: The Nature of Photography, by Stephen Shore A Primer
Visiting Lecturer Ray Mawbry - Lightroom Certified Advanced Lightroom Techniques R. Mabry Photography http://www.rmabryphotography.com
Week 8	10.24	Lecture/Lab : Lightroom Workflow Continues ...	Assignment(s): Software Assignment # 1 : 5 of 1 Take an existing file and crop to create 5 variations ofÏ the composition. Focus is on re-framing and composing. Not compositing. Ongoing: Self Portraits - Contacts - Critiques Black and White - Contacts - Critiques
Back to School Reading: Susan Sontag - On Photography Read to Page 6, Summarize + 5 points of discussion in 2 weeks. In Plato's Cave http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/PDF/Readings/SusanSontag.pdf Artists: Rahubir Singh http://www.raghubirsingh.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raghubir_Singh_(photographer) https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/raghubir-singh-photographs http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/masters/Raghubir Singh/
Week 9	10.31	Lecture/Lab : Assignment: Midterm Portfolio Critiques / Proposals continue Thursday. REVISED- 2 Topics/Subjects/Concepts - 12 - 15 first images
Reading: Susan Sontag - Read to Page 6, Summarize + 5 points of discussion. In Plato's Cave http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/PDF/Readings/SusanSontag.pdf Artists: Eudora Welty Catherine Wagner Gordon Parks
Week 10	11.7	LAB: Review Book Module Blurb /BookWright http://www.blurb.com/ Artifact Uprising https://www.artifactuprising.com/photo-books	Assignment: Mid term critiques continue... ?
Reading: Review /Discuss Sontag continuing... Artists: David Seymour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Seymour_(photographer) Duane Michals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_Michals
Mini excursion to the Drone Lab with Donald Laird 11/9 @ 1:30
Week 11	11.14	Lecture/Lab : Lightroom - Sensor / Lens Spotting - Selective Corrections Image Work Flow - Select an image - Review Work Flow	Assignment: Portfolio progress critiques continue through end of semester.
Reading: Read Page 6 to 12, Summarize + 5 points of discussion following Thanksgiving break. Susan Sontag - In Plato's Cave http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/PDF/Readings/SusanSontag.pdf
Thanksgiving Holiday - 11.20-26 Shoot your Thanksgiving Meal - regardless of whether you are following the American traditional or conventional menu. Consider your approach to the meal whether you are working with it as still life, photo story or event. Where ever you are, make 18-20 photographs. Try various perspectives of the meal, the preparation, the social interactions, the ordering, the placement, the dishes at the end of the meal or even the dirty dishes after the meal has finished. Be aware this week of the images of food around around you, where do you find images of food in your day to day? Shopping, advertisements, billboards, magazines? How is food staged? Resources: National Geographic : Photographing Food http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-tips/photographing-food/ Photoshelter: The Professionals Guide to Food Photography http://blog.photoshelter.com/2015/10/new-resource-the-professionals-guide-to-food-photography/
Week 12	11.28	Lecture/Lab : Archiving Cloud / Disk Backup --- 1st Draft Book Critiques	Assignments: Deadline Book / Print (Output ) Submissions 1st Due Date !
Reading: Blurb Instructional Resources http://blog.basearts.com/2017/11/19/blurb-instructional-resources/ Discussion: Family of Man Exhibition - Edward Steichen, Curator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_of_Man
Week 13	12.5	Lecture/Lab : Lightroom and final prep for Blurb & Submissions What makes an image pop? Final considerations for portfolio.	Assignments: Shoot in the Style of ... Choose your photographer, identify important elements of their aesthetic present 20 images and strategy to class.
Reading: The Family of Man - Exhibition Catalogue - Review The Photographers Eye - John Szarkowski --- Current PDN Online: http://digitalmag.pdnonline.com/pdnonline/december_2017?sub_id=CcHGqTblrCBHg&pg=1#pg1 Fine Art Photography On Blurb: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/c-fine-art-photography Artists:
Week 14	12.12	Lecture/Lab : Final Presentation Processing and Portfolio Preparations Output options Lightroom / Adobe Bridge / Photoshop	Assignments: - Shooting in the Style of ... - Last critiques
Reading: Artists:
Week 15	12.19	Final Critiques
Reading: Artists: