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August 10 agenda THE END

1. Your last Photoshop assignment is due around 3. It should up on the server and posted on Tumblr.

How to turn your animation project in:

1. On the server, place the PSD and GIF files in the appropriate folder.

2. Upload each GIF to your Tumblr, making sure it locomotes.

3. Dance like your professor is watching.

2. Grades on Blackboard are up to date except for the last Photoshop assignment and your participation grade. If you see an entry where there is no grade (or a zero), then that means that I could not find any evidence of you completing that assignment.

You have until Thursday, August 11 at 3pm to turn anything in late and receive partial credit. YOU MUST EMAIL COREY when/if you turn in anything late so you will get proper credit. If you fail to email Corey, you may not get credited for it.

Items are to be turned in the same way they are due, so Photoshop assignments go on the server, shooting and writing assignments go on Tumblr.

End of semester business:

1. Grades should be completed through last week’s work. If you see a blank entry (or a zero) that means I could find no evidence of that assignment being turned in. In your writing column, I have left you notes if you’re missing assignment(s). Lastly, in your Attendance and Participation column, I have left you notes detailing your absences, if you have any.

2. Any files you want off the server or the desktops of the classroom should removed by the end of class Wednesday.

3. Any items you checked out from the cage are due back by the end of class on Wednesday!

August 8 agenda

1. We’ll start out the day by looking at your third Photoshop assignment, the constructed landscape that we delayed this from last Wednesday.

2. You also have a Shooting Assignment due today. in your small group, look at your sequence of images and discuss if any of them could be removed, either for clarity of the narrative or for brevity. Post them on Tumblr, one post for each sequence.

3. Lastly, Today will be a a work day on your animation Photoshop assignment. Your animations will be due on Wednesday around 3. Also, some examples from previous semesters to give you some ideas.

End of semester business:

2. Any files you want off the server or the desktops of the classroom should removed by the end of class Wednesday.

3. Any items you checked out from the cage are due back by the end of class on Wednesday!

August 3 agenda

1. We’ll take the first hour or two as a work day for PSA 3, and then:

Your third Photoshop assignment is due around 3.

We will be taking a look at your work as a class, so have them up on the server at the beginning of class so we can get started and finished on time.

NEW THING: When you turn in this assignment, please make sure you save a JPG copy of each PSD file. In Photoshop, select File, Save As…, and change the Format to JPG. set to Quality to at least 10. Place both the JPG and PSD file for each image in the torn work in here folder.

When the class is looking at work, I want everyone to consider these questions:

Describe the sense of space in the image. is it deep, or shallow? Does the depiction of space work or does it hinder the image?

Aesthetically and/or technically, what could have been done differently?

What are you least pleased about?

2. After that we’ll dive head first into the last Photoshop assignment.

Animated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium | Off Book | PBS Digital Studios

Your last Photoshop assignment will be to create animations and Cinemagraphs using Photoshop’s animation tool. Think back to Duane Michals’s work (and the above video) if need examples. Also look at John Baldessari’s sequences (the Getty’s broke ass website no longer has them posted, but GIS does). We’ll use your shooting assignment material to work through the tools and learn how to use them to animate scenes. We’ll also look through a short lesson that it’s the Readings section. 4 animations will be due the last day of class, August 11. They should convey a complete narrative, even if they’re designed to loop.

You’ll find some additional demo files for today on the server.

GIF artists from our reference video:

Reed and Rader

Topher Price

Kevin Berg and Jamie Beck

3. Don’t forget you have a shooting assignment due Monday. We’ll use those to demo the Photoshop assignment.

August 1 Agenda

1. you have a shooting assignment (#3) due today. We’ll spend the first part of class editing those down to the 10 final images, and then:

2. Like last time, we’ll be looking through everyone’s images, while considering the following questions on your Response page:

Out of those images that caused a reaction, did you feel like you had a sense of place in the image? Was that sense of place more informed about you knowing where the image was made, or some other reason?

Did you see any images that handled the assignment in a way that you didn’t consider? What was different about those images from your images?

3. Our next (and last, sniff sniff) shooting assignment:

A photographic image captures a single tiny moment in time. To show a passage of time, there will often be images presented in a sequence. These images will be separated by some indeterminate passage of time.

For this assignment I want you to photograph 5 to 7 images that will serve as a sequence. I would like at least 3 sequences, so a total of 15-21 images will be due. These will give us material to begin our next Photoshop assignment, or at least fart around with it.

Look at Duane Michals ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) for inspiration. Think about the span of time your sequence is depicting.

Also look at Eadweard Muybridge for some historical context, and also Harold Edgerton for some additional technological innovation.

Due Monday August 8 at the beginning of class.

4. The rest of the day will be a demo and work day for the constructed landscape assignment.

July 27 agenda

We’ll take the first hour or two as a work day for PSA 2, and then:

Your second Photoshop assignment is due around 3.

We will be taking a look at your work as a class, so have them up on the server at the beginning of class so we can get started and finished on time.

When the class is looking at your work, I want you to answer these questions:

What are you most pleased about with this work?

What are you least pleased about?

Aesthetically and/or technically, what could have been done differently?

2. Don’t forget you have a shooting assignment due Monday.

3. Lastly, your next Photoshop Assignment:

Photoshop Assignment 3:

Our next Photoshop assignment is going to explore constructing landscapes using (and combining) two techniques: image stitching, and layering of images.

Image stitching is easy to accomplish, as long as the images are photographed correctly. See this reading regarding stitched images.

Artists layering images to create landscapes:

David Hockney (Also, he hates Photoshop)

Maik Wolf 1 2

Dafna Talmor 1 2

Lori Nix 1 2 3

Lastly, Google is can be your friend.

Be considerate about distracting elements in the image. Also, think about how to place elements in the foreground, middle ground and background in the finished image. Think about how to really explore the space of the image using this technique. THESE IMAGES DON’T HAVE TO BE BORING HORIZONTAL IMAGES. They can be vertical, or moving in two directions, and the images could be of interiors, groups of people, and so on.

Due date is August 3 around 3pm. You will complete 4 finished images. Similar to the shooting assignment before it, no exterior images from the UT campus are allowed to be turned in (yes, you can shoot interiors of buildings, but not exteriors). We are close to many interesting things and the bay, use the surrounding environs! When you turn these in, I want the finished PSD files (along with JPG copies to make opening them faster) on the server in the TURN WORK IN HERE folder. We don’t need to see the source files for this project, just the finished images.

LAB WARNING: the 137 lab will be swapped on Friday. Anything saved on your desktop will not be there next Monday. Copy it to the server or your own drive before Friday AM!

July 25 Agenda

1. Today we’ll finish up tech demos on the Photoshop assignment, and I’ll turn you loose to work on it.

You should have brought in some images to get started.

2. Here’s some slightly creepy retouching work to check out.

If you need some fun reading, you can check out the story of the first Photoshopped image. Be sure to watch the video.

3. your next shooting assignment:

Our next shooting assignment deals with landscape and architectural photography.

When you’re composing these images, think about what it is you’re showing. Consider what’s happen in the foreground, middle ground and background. There should be no visual clutter.

Some images/photographers to look at:

Bernd and Hilla Becher 2 3

Berenice Abbott 2

Joel Sternfeld

Clyde Butcher

Ansel Adams

Edward Weston

Only 2 images from the UT campus (including Plant Park) and/or Curtis Hixon Park (the park across the river) are allowed to be turned in. We are close to downtown and the bay, visit the surrounding environs!

You are allowed to crop your images, but if you do, please upload the uncropped image so we can see your decision making process. Please note that it still only counts as one image.

As usual, bring all your images to class, not just the final 10. We’ll look through them and edit them down to 10 in class, and then you’ll upload them to Tumblr.

Due Monday August 1, the beginning of class.

LAB WARNING: the 137 lab will be swapped this Friday. Anything saved on your desktop will not be there next Monday. Copy it to the server or your own drive before Friday AM!

When we hear about retouching these days, we mostly hear about the botched jobs and the toxic cultural impact of manipulating the images we see. Lately, we also hear about the brands and publications pushing back against those practices. But most of us don’t know what a retoucher actually does,

July 20 agenda

1. Your environmental portrait shooting assignment is due today. Like last time, we’ll be editing them down in small groups, then posting them on Tumblr and then: 2. We’ll be looking through everyone’s images, while considering the following on a new response entry:

Find four images that caused you to have a reaction. For each of the images, write a short narrative about the image. Remember that an image is a tiny snippet of time, and consider what happened before, during and after the image was taken. If there needs to be dialog, then create that too.

3. Your next shooting assignment will be done in class next Wednesday. We’ll talk more about it on Monday.

4. The rest of the day will be a demo/work day for your second Photoshop assignment. Demo files are on the server in our class’s folder. I will be circulating to make sure everyone is on track.

July 18 Agenda

1. Your first Photoshop assignment is due around 3. we will be taking a look at your work as a class, so have them up on the server at by then so we can get started and finished on time.

When the class is looking at your work, I want you to answer these questions:

What are you most pleased about with this work? What are you least pleased about?

Aesthetically and/or technically, what could have been done differently?

2. Photoshop Assignment #2

Our second Photoshop assignment is going to focus on retouching, repairing and building images of humans. Our goal with these images is to create something that looks unnatural, and the more subtle the better.

Looking at Loretta Lux, we’re going to work on an assignment that incorporates the techniques she uses in her work.

Some websites showing Loretta Lux’s work:

http://www.lorettalux.de/

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0„1955182,00.html

http://modernartobsession.blogs.com/modern_art_obsession/2006/05/loretta_lux_pho.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Lux

http://www.aperture.org/loretta-lux.html

I also want us to look at Ino Zeljak. Here’s an article detailing his process and his website.

I also want us to pay attention to those artists doing heavy retouching in Photoshop, like M Seth Jones, Glenn Feron and Greg Apodaca.

4 modified images due on Wednesday July 25.

For Wednesday: Shoot some images of different people for material to start the project. Remember to keep their poses fairly similar so the blending process will be smoother.

Readings:

Go read about M Seth Jones’s retouching theory.

It will help you immensely.

Here’s another article about him.

And another.

Also, don’t forget you have a shooting assignment due Wednesday!

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Key presses are: Menu, select Quality, OK, select RAW, OK, Menu, Menu

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How to change our Canon DSLRs into RAW mode

1. turn on the camera, and press DISP if nothing is showing on the screen. If you see L on the lower left, continue below. If you see RAW, then you’re in RAW mode.

2. Press MENU, and use the D pad to select the first red camera icon on the screen. Scroll down to Quality. Press SET.

3. Select the RAW option. Press SET. Press MENU twice to back out of the menu.

4. You’re now in RAW mode!

July 13 Agenda

1. We’ll start the day off by setting up our Lightroom catalogs, and then looking through everyone’s unedited images for the shooting assignment in small groups, and talk and work on editing them down to a set of 8 images.

2. Then we’ll talk about uploading and sorting images on Tumblr. 3. Second, once we have our assignment on our Tumblr sites, I want everyone to look through everyone else’s images.

Once you’ve looked through the images, make a new text entry on your Tumblr and consider these questions:

1. Did you see any images that caused you to have a reaction? What was that reaction?

2. Did you see any images that handled the assignment in a way that you didn’t consider? What was different about those images from your images?

3. Where there any images that had elements you didn’t see immediately? Which images and what where the elements?

Copying image URLs: Right or option click and

Firefox: Copy Image Location

Safari: Copy Image Address

Chrome: Copy Image URL

4. Next, you have a new shooting assignment:

Second Shooting Assignment: Your second shooting assignment is a set of portraits. I want to see 10 final images.

Shoot these images as candid or environmental portraits. In fact, the more people you shoot the better. Refer back to the Seeing like a Camera reading if you need some ideas or pointers.

Try to use the Rule of Thirds in ALL of the images.

As before, bring all your images to class, not just the final 10. We’ll look through them and edit them down to 10 in class, and then you’ll upload them to Tumblr.

Due Wednesday July 20th at the beginning of class.

5. The rest of the day will be spent as work day on your first Photoshop assignment.

July 11 Agenda

1. Your first Photoshop Assignment:

This assignment is based on the work of Kelli Connell and Paul Smith.

Some websites showing Kelli Connell’s and Paul Smith’s work:

Kelli Connell:

http://kelliconnell.com/

http://modernartobsession.blogs.com/modern_art_obsession/2006/09/art_image_of_th.html

Paul Smith:

http://www.artnet.com/artist/15755/paul-smith.html

http://www.paulmsmith.co.uk/portfolio/artist-rifles/artist-rifles.html

We will talk about how to assemble these images in class. You will need to take extra care in the photography part of the process, since it will make your life so much easier if you shoot these correctly the first time. You’ll need to complete five finished images.

Due Date: Monday July 18 at the beginning of class.

2. We’ll go over some relevant Photoshop techniques for the assignment.

3. IF we have time, (and we should) we’ll do a quick demo for the shooting portion of the assignment.

don’t forget you have your first shooting assignment due Wednesday. See the July 8 entry for details.

FOR WEDNESDAY:

Readings:

an essay on Kelli Connell’s work and Rationale Part Two.

Work:

start shooting for the shooting assignment and the Photoshop assignment. USE A TRIPOD.

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How to change our Canon DSLRs into JPG mode

1. turn on the camera, and press DISP if nothing is showing on the screen. If you see RAW on the lower left, continue below. If you see L, then you’re in JPG mode.

2. Press MENU, and use the D pad to select the first red camera icon on the screen. Scroll down to Quality. Press SET.

3. Select the smooth arch next to an L. Press SET. Press MENU twice to back out of the menu.

4. You’re now in JPG mode!

July 8 agenda

1.We’ll start our talk about basic camera functions. The SLR Camera Simulator is a great resource for jogging your memory about f-stops, shutter speeds, and ISOs, in addition to our in class hands on demo.

2. Your first shooting assignment:

For your first assignment, I want you to take pictures showing the following: 1. looking up from ground level 2. looking down from higher up than your usual height I want to see 4 images for each. Take way more than 8 pictures, and bring all of them to class. Please have your images available on some sort of removable media (like a USB flash drive) besides the flash card from the camera, in case the cage doesn’t have a card reader that will read your flash card. If you bring your camera to class, please bring the USB cable it uses to connect to computer in case we don’t have one available in the cage. We will learn how to upload these to Tumblr at the beginning of class on the due date.

Due Wednesday, July 13.

2. Then we’ll do an overview (and then somewhat deeper) exploration of Photoshop.

3. We’ll also take a look at a Adobe Lightroom, which we’ll use to manage our images we shoot for assignments (and other things later on, but today is about management).

REMINDER: Please have your all of your images available on some sort of removable media (like a USB flash drive) besides the flash card from the camera, in case the cage doesn’t have a card reader that will read your flash card. If you bring your own camera to class, please bring the USB cable it uses to connect to computer in case we don’t have one available in the cage.

FOR MONDAY: 1. I want you to spend some time digging through LensCulture and Lenscratch. Find a photographer whose work you have a reaction to, and post a link to your Tumblr. Discuss what drew you to the work, and looking back at the Seeing Like a Camera reading, discuss concepts from that reading that you can apply to the work.

2. Check the blog at http://omgcom381.tumblr.com/SS22016 and make sure your blog URL is correct. If it isn’t, post the correct one here.

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