SYLLABUS: Digital Photo Sketchbook Spring 2018
Experimental Contemporary Photographic Practices
digital :: mobile :: documentary :: experimental
FLEXIBILITY is of utmost importance in the class. Please note that this syllabus is PROVISIONAL. We will want to take advantage of opportunities as they arise.
Each week you will shoot and process a different photo series sketch and post the photos on your blog. It’s great if you can carry a camera at all times, similar to a sketchbook.
Eat, drink, sleep, dream photography . . .
TWO RULES:
1. In this class, NEVER, ever, import your photos to iPhoto!!
2. HOW TO NEVER LOSE YOUR PHOTOS
ALWAYS create a folder for your photos on your hard drive.
2. Transfer photos from your card to your folder.
3, Then, import your photos from your folder from the hard drive into Lightroom, NOT from your camera.
4, That way, you’ll know for sure you have a copy of all your photos.
WEEK 1 01-23
SKETCH 1 Beginning self-portraiture: on your BLOG, you will write something about yourself: your work, your passion, your mission in life. Why did you enroll in this particular class. What do you hope to accomplish this semester in the class?
INTRODUCTIONS: Names & Course requirements, objectives, and learning outcomes.
TUTORIALS:
Julieanne Kost: Principal Digital Imaging Evangelist, Adobe: ignore tutorials re Mobile: you’ll be using DSLR cameras, not your iPhone, etc.
Lightroom: Getting Started Series: USE THIS
Adobe Creative Cloud Lightroom free trial
SCREEN:
Dorothea Lange video: internment segment: to prepare you for your homework:
1. Paul Kitagaki Jr., Photographer Seventy years after Japanese-Americans first arrived at the Tanforan Assembly Center in San Bruno, CA, photographs of those men, women and children — taken in 1942 by photographers such as Dorothea Lange — and taken in recent years through 2012 by photographer Paul Kitagaki Jr. — were displayed side by side at the BART system’s San Bruno Station. The station is next to Tanforan, where a World War II internment camp that held up to 8,000 people was created within a racetrack’s horse stalls.
Lange took her photos as an employee of the U.S. War Relocation Authority and was tasked with documenting the internment process in the Pacific Coast area. The exhibition of Kitagaki’s photo pairings is titled They Wore Their Best: The Japanese American Evacuation and After.
After Kitagaki found out his father’s family was one of the many photographed by Dorothea Lange on the eve of their internment, he began researching these photos in the National Archive’s U.S. War Relocation Authority collection. Later he identified other surviving people who agreed to be photographed in ways that reflect the original locations or groupings in which they appeared in 1942, when their lives were about to change for the duration of World War II.
Keep this in mind for inspiration for our Portrait Sketch Weeks
2. Wrinkles of the City:
“Since 2004, the French artist JR has traveled the world flyposting colossal black-and-white portraits of ordinary citizens on the walls of city buildings. His most recent project, The Wrinkles of the City, began in Cartagena, Spain, where he photographed the city’s oldest inhabitants, imagining their wrinkles as metaphors of urban texture and history. He has subsequently reprised the project in Shanghai, China and Los Angeles.
In May 2012, JR collaborates with American artist José Parlá on the latest iteration of The Wrinkles of the City: a huge mural installation in Havana, undertaken for the Havana Biennale, for which JR and Parlá photographed and recorded 25 senior citizens who had lived through the Cuban revolution, creating portraits which Parlá, who is of Cuban descent, interlaced with palimpsestic calligraphic writings and paintings.Parlá’s markings echo the distressed surfaces of the walls he inscribes, and offer commentary on the lives of Cuba’s elders; together, JR and Parlá’s murals marvelously animate a city whose walls are otherwise adorned only by images of its leaders. A film documenting the project appears in 2013.Based in Paris, JR exhibits freely in public sites in the cities around world. His projects include Portraits of a Generation (2004-2006), Face2Face (2007) and Women Are Heroes (2008). In 2011 he was awarded the TED Prize.
José Parlá studied painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, and the New World School of the arts in Miami, and lives and works in Brooklyn, new York. A recent project is a special commission for the Brooklyn Academy of Music. His most recent monograph is Walls, Diaries and Paintings (Hatje Cantz, 2011).”
CREATE: a BLOG at wordpress.com
REVIEW:
Former Student Blogs for DPS
Laila Basquez
Gavin Hedges
Gavin Portfolio Website
HOMEWORK:
BRING: your external storage device to the next class. Also bring a folder of several photos shot with any camera.
BRING several photos to work on next week in class in Lightroom
WATCH video: DOROTHEA LANGE: Grab a Hunk of Lightning:
rent on Amazon. It’s $1.99 on Amazon. There will be a QUIZ on the film next Tuesday
BLOG about what you are compelled by in the Lange film. What can you use in your own photo/art practice.
WATCH: Begin to watch Library Module videos from Julieanne Kost to prepare for next week. Very Important!! Lightroom: Getting Started Series
You do NOT need to watch the Importing Photos section, as I will show you how to import your photos rom your SD cards.
WEEK 2 01-30
QUIZ on the Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning video
SKETCH 2 Environmental Portrait Series inspired by Dorothea Lange
Hung Lui and American Dream paintings
DISCUSS: Your Blog Post about Lange; add images
CHANGE: Blog set up in dashboard:
1. add subtitle with your name
2. set up comments so we can respond easily; like buttons
3. widgets
4, Remember to italicize names of films, books, magazines. Abolish the word interesting in your posts. Use a spellcheck.
SET UP: LIGHTROOM CATALOG on you external hard drive
SCREEN:
Exposure Trinity: Muench: shutter speed, aperture, ISO
HOMEWORK
1. WATCH: Continue with Julieanne Kost tutorials re Library and Develop Module in Lightroom
2. SHOOT for SKETCH 2: Environmental Portrait Series: One Subject: Outdoors if possible, shoot environmental portrait photos that tell a story about your subject. Perhaps you have a friend who is a skateboarder, a dancer, a cook, a musician, a gardener, a mechanic, a poet, an artist . . . : post 8-10 images, edited and enhanced if you are experienced with Lightroom, on your blogs. If you don’t yet know how to export your images from Lightroom to your blog, I will show you next week.
Use a DSLR or another camera if you must; reflect on how Lange influenced your shots
3. ALWAYS BRING your External Storage Device
4. BRING DSLR CAMERA: We will go over cameras for new people, so bring or check-out a DSLR next week if you are a new person to the cameras
WEEK 3 02-06
DEMONSTRATE: Develop module: editing and enhancing images; exporting them from Lightroom to your blogs
VIEW: your environmental portrait series
REVIEW:
Technical Trinity
Catalog Set-up
Camera Camera Basics: Canon T4i & T5i basics with John Greengo
How to learn your camera: youtube, Canon quickstart guides and manuals
Canon T5i: quickstart guide
full-length canon manual
Canon T3i quickstart quide
SKETCH 3: Elements of Design: Pattern, Texture, Line, Light
SCREEN: Art Wolfe: Elements of Design
RESEARCH: Edward Burtynsky
Develop Module: Marc Muench and Julieanne Kost
HOMEWORK:
1. TUTORIAL: Continue with Develop Module Basics, Julieanne Kost
2. SHOOT and POST for Sketch #3 : photos that highlight Elements of Design: Pattern, Texture, Line, Light (inspired by Art Wolfe video)
3. BRING to next class: External Storage Device and DSLR CAMERAS for a quick outdoor photo shoot next week. Tripods very handy in low light as well. Practice changing the ISO, minimum shutter speed possible, wide open apertures
4. REVIEW: quickstart guides for use of your particular camera to prepare for CSUSM outdoor photo shoot
WEEK 4 02-13
SKETCH 4: Pushing / Playing your Photos: An exploration of filters in Lightroom
CSUSM OUTDOOR PHOTO SHOOT: at 5 pm sharp: pushing the light: shooting in low light
Look for extra lighting locations as it gets dark: street lights, building lights, etc,
1. raise ISO
2. use a low F/stop = wide open aperture for more light, e.g. 2.8
3. try a wide range of shots: mid-range, full-body, close-ups. Think about Lange as portrait photographer.
EDIT & ENHANCE: in Lightroom outdoor photo shoot photos in Lightroom
Pushing the Develop Module Tools: cross-processing, Split Toning, selective coloring
Applying Changes to Multiple Images
Create and Save Presets in Develop
A blog example:
John Chiara inspires Luke Sabin
Matthew Brandt: artists who push
Wai’anae
Lakes and Reservoirs
Jerry Slough
SHOW: SKETCH 3: Elements of Design: Pattern, Texture, Line, Light to the class on the computers
DISCUSS: Loading images to Blogs, creating galleries, paragraphing, spellchecks, like buttons, etc.
HOMEWORK:
1. TUTORIALS: Julieanne Kost on Develop Module
2. SHOOT more photos either on or off campus: Post the best of your edited and enhanced photos to your blog for a total of @10 photos. You can also use different versions of the same photo if you think more than one version is compelling. EDIT and enhance your photographs in Lightroom using some of the DEVELOP Module techniques: cross-processing, toning, selective coloring, etc. Remember Julieanne Kost.
4. BLOGS: Post your images: Everyone will be showing their blogs up on the faculty computer to the class starting at 5:00 pm for our next class meeting
Week 5 02-20
SKETCH 4: View your PUSHING YOUR PHOTOS from 2 different blog posts:
1. CSUSM outdoor shoot
2. Homework shoot
WRITING CENTER: Even if you did not receive a notice to go to the Writing Center, many of you would benefit from writing assistance. If you are a second language learner, you can make an appointment with Jayne Braman. Her hours for tutoring are Tues/Thurs 11:00 – 2:00. If she is already booked up, please make an appointment with another tutor, but schedule ahead with Jayne Braman
Kellogg 1103
760-750-4168
writing@csusm.edu
https://www.csusm.edu/writingcenter/index.html
SKETCH 5: Food / Culture /Shallow Depth of Field / Aerial views of food
Food photography: What is your relationship to food: forager, gardener, cook, chef, consumer, fast food, slow food . . . farmer’s market, restaurants, spices, buffets, your own kitchen, people and their food, cooking, CSUSM Fieldhouse
INSPIRATION:
Penny de los Santos The Photographic and Other Moments
Penny de los Santos: Portfolio
Vanessa Rees photography
Sara Remington: website
Sara Remington on shooting food
See Saveur finalists
See Saveur winners 2015
See Saveur blog winners 2016
See Saveur travel and food winners 2016
Peden + Munk
Experiment with shallow depth of field: small numbered F-stop = wide aperture, and aerial wide-angle shots
HOMEWORK:
SHOOT food and POST on blogs: photograph in a restaurant, in your home, at the farmer’s market, in the dumpster. You are required to also set up a still life situation, similar to one of our photographers this week.
What is the “hero” in you photo. What are you trying to accomplish?
We will view your food photos posted on your blogs at the beginning of class.
Week 6 02-27
REVIEW:
Changing overall tone in Lightroom
Leveling images, horizontally and vertically
CLASS ASSIGNMENT: break up into groups and VIEW Food Blogs and choose the most compelling food series
8 groups of 3; 4 groups will do blogs 1-13, 4 will do 14-26
You have 1/2 hour to review the blogs and choose your top 3.
You will then present the top 3.
Everyone will choose their most compelling image to present in full screen at the computers.
REVIEW: Print Module in Lightroom to create different configurations of images as diptychs, triptychs, and grids, and output as jpeg.
Think about juxtaposition: single image, or cinematic filmstrip, diptych, triptych, polyptych:
How to tell your stories visually.
Many food photographers use the diptych. Why? People + Food? Still life + interaction?
SUPER SKETCH 6 & 7: The Grid Project
Michael Wolf
Michael Wolf’s work in series, Bastard Chairs project that he combines as GRIDS:
Chairs and other topics video
ARchitecture of Density video
Joshua White
Survey of the American Yard
Annenberg video
Create a series of images, then create a large grid in Lightroom, say 16″ x 24″. Vertical will work best for your blogs. Integrate your images using toning, B&W, etc.
HOMEWORK:
SHOOT & POST: your series inspired by Joshua White and/or Michael Wolf:
put them together as a grid. Upload the grid and images as a carousel to your blog.
Week 7 03-6 NO CLASS SESSION: IN COUGAR COURSES YOU WILL WATCH”
WHAT REMAINS: Sally Mann
WATERMARK: Edward Burtynsky
Week 8 03-13
REVIEW Grid Projects
WRITE & POST one page (250 words) on either What Remains/Sally Mann or Watermark/Burtynsky about three things you will remember about the film a year from now and how those 3 things will influence your photography practice.
ASSIGN SKETCH 8: Urban Decay, Graffiti, etc. Check out back alleys, but go with a buddy. Disguise your cameras . . . Think about Michael Wolf and Bastard Chair project from back alleys.
Richard Misrach: Hurricane Katrina: NPR
“found haikus” Found Urban Text, Graffiti
Richard Misrach: PBS: “poetry, writing, lettering, sheer expressiveness” Short audio from Misrach Destroy This Memory: New Orleans
The Writing on the Wall Richard Misrach video
Brandon Cooley: Decaying California
Jacumba’s Border Fence Deborah Small
Jan Staller: recycling, urban decay
Jan Staller: urban decay
Briana Bryan: CSUSM alumna
VIEW: Julieanne Kost Lightroom videos
HOMEWORK:
1. SHOOT:SKETCH 8: Urban Decay, Graffiti, etc
2. POST: edited and enhanced photographs based on your interpretation of Urban Decay and/or Graffiti/Fount Text
3. WRITE & POST one page (250 words) on the film that you did not about in class, either What Remains/Sally Mann or Watermark/Burtynsky. Write about three things you will remember about the film a year from now and how those three things will influence your photography practice.
Week 9 03-20 SPRING BREAK
SKETCH 9: Your choice of a series of photos for this sketch:If you want to do an extended post on Urban Decay, Graffiti, you can do that.
Otherwise, give yourselves an assignment of something you want to work on, and write a short, one paragraph, proposal for your shoot. Remember, this is a specific series with a subject, theme, topic, technological experiment, etc, NOT just a collection of photos. Then post the one paragraph proposal and your best images from your shoot during the break. You can choose Food Photography, Still Life Photography, Portraiture, Fashion Photography, Landscape Photography, Plant Photography, or any other focus.
Week 10 03-27
REVIEW:
Basic Panel
Everyone work on images to open whites and blacks, etc.
VIEW:
Sketch 8: Urban Decay shoot
Sketch 9: Urban Decay shoot continued, or your choice of assignments. (see above in HOMEWORK). You can choose Food Photography, Still Life Photography, Portraiture, Fashion Photography, Landscape Photography, Plant Photography, or any other focus.
SKETCH 10 : Shooting Sustainability: Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose
VIEW for recycle sketch:
Jan Staller: NY Times
Baja Wine School: repurposed materials: deborah small
This is a restoration place of regional offices ( winemaking , agriculture, agro-industrial processes and cultures ) that seeks to cultivate the elements of this area with sustainable facilities .
Here we use all recycled which at first glance is waste material. The region has wealth in junk status , considering that its placed by the state of California, the most productive region of the world in terms of waste. Here are inherited millions of tons of different materials and wastes that become a rich source of raw material to develop constructive elements. At the Station these residues are transform and reused to produce an unlimited recycling , admitting the garbage that litters this environment in every way .
On the Station, architecture is subject to the function, giving to shape a contemporary character of the new meaning of garbage.
—Future Offices Station: The New Meaning of Garbage
Noah Purifoy in Joshua Tree: KCET story
Noah Purifoy outdoor museum in Joshua Tree
Elmer Long’s Bottle Tree Ranch
Watts Towers
Pedro Reyes: swords into plowshares
Su Stockwell Recycled Nation: ewaste
Bedbook
Rubber
Paper, Glue, Paper, China
Borrowing materials is a recurring element of Susan’s work; in these instances the recycling continues. For example, her exhibition Flood was created from 4 tons of recycled computer components; these were re-invented as an installation in a 13th century church in York. Once the exhibition was over, the computer parts were returned to Secure IT Recycling to begin a new life elsewhere.
Curator Grace Chung gave a pertinent evaluation of Susan’s work in the text for the exhibition B-Side Ecology in Taiwan: “Meticulously hand crafted, the benign sublime beauty in the work belies the devastating effects of our culture and our role in shaping it. Look more closely, and one is confronted by a cultural urgency of global-proportions“.
Six Textile Artists Using Recyled Materials
Photos of: vintage stores, swap meets, scrap yards, good will, salvation army, second hand stores, recyclers, sites by folks who recycle as art, such as Purifoy or Rodia . . .
ANOTHER OPTION: instead of a photo project ABOUT recycling, what if you create a project USING recycled photos / images: more conceptual, sculptural, interactive . . . up to your imaginations and dreamings inspired by SWOON
Recyling photographs: Costco = .06/print for 4 x 6.
Composted photographs
HOMEWORK:
1. SHOOT: Sustainability photos inspired by class viewing materials above
2. POST: edited and enhanced photographs based on your interpretation of the theme: RECYCLE, REUSE, REPURPOSE (sustainability)
3. BRING DSLR cameras for a quick CSUSM Magic Light outdoor photo shoot
Week 11 04-03
Sunset: 7:11 PM: Go Outside from 6:20-@7 pm for Magic Light: CHASE THE LIGHT:
This shoot is not about subject matter as much as it is about the LIGHT!!
VIEW your posts for Sketch 10: Recycle • Upcycle
One artist’s reason why we should recycle, or get rid of plastic entirely:
Chris Jordan
SKETCH 11: REVIEW: how to use Panoramic feature in Lightroom
Julieanne Kost Lightroom PANO
DISCUSS: final project: compilation of best photos for the semester in Lightroom Collections for Book or Website
To make a final Book Project:
Download Booksmart from Blurb to desktop or your external harddrive
Blurb Bookwright Tutorials
To make a final Portfolio Website
22slides
22slides: SofA Photo Archive
22slides: Jeri Perez
22slides: Briana Flores website
22slides: Gavin Hedges portfolio
Format: Haruka Sakaguchi
Format: Haruka Sakaguchi: text/photo diary
SCREEN:
landscape photographers
Phillip Sholtz Rittermann for panos
Edward Burtynsky: the Landscape/Cultural interface
Edward Burtynsky: Water: The Book
remember Dorothea Lange’s photos
HOMEWORK: SKETCH 11
1. SHOOT: Panoramic Landscapes with a TRIPOD
Settings (approximate) with a Tripod:
100 ISO
F11, F16, F22 of higher for deep depth of field
Without a tripod, you may have to raise your ISO, depending on the amount of light when you’re shooting.
You can try HDR as well if you understand how to set exposure bracketing on your camera screen or setup in the camera menu. We can discuss HDR more next week if you need help with setting up exposure bracketing.
2. POST: 1 vertical and 5 horizontal PANORAMAS. Panoramas should be shot by 2, 3, 4 or more shots. Experiment and see what works best for you.
Julieanne Kost Lightroom PANO,
3. ORGANIZE Begin to create your collections in Lightroom of photos for your final project: either a portfolio website at 22slides or final book project at BLURB that we’ll put together next week in class after a demo.
Week 12 04-10
VIEW: Sketch 11 Panoramic Landscapes posted to your blogs:
Some of you need to reshoot
1. use a tripod
2. maller apertures; F11, F16, F22 of higher for deep depth of field and sharpness of the image
3. ISO set at 100 or 200
SKETCH 12 ANALOG:
Demo: Analog Efex Pro from Google Nik Collections:
CREATE and POST your images on your blog, and include in yourportfolio website or book
Demo: 22slides portfolio website. You will be presenting your website in progress to the class next week.
HOMEWORK: No shoot this week. INSTEAD:
1. ORGANIZE IN COLLECTIONS: Most compelling images for each weekly sketch for your PORTFOLIO WEBSITE
2. ADD to your PORTFOLIO WEBSITE: weekly sketches to your Photographic Website Portfolio in 22slides: Add your weekly sketches, including Food, Urban Decay, Recycle, etc.
We will VIEW all portfolios-in-progress next week.
If you are working on a book, continue working in booksmart and blurb and be prepared to show your work-in-progress
22slides
Week 13 04- 17
SHARE: Link up your website portfolios on the blog page in class.
Show Website Portfolios or Book in progress.
CREATE: Please create an OVERVIEW folder to your Photo Portfolio website, where you’ll post your best photographs from Fall 2017 and Spring 2018. They can include photos from all class projects, as well as photos you shot anytime during that timeframe.
From these, you’ll choose your photo submission for the Funes Digital Arts Competition next week to upload in class.
INTRODUCE SKETCH 13: PORTRAITS
STUDY the Sartorialist: street fashion photographer
Catherine Opie: ARTS21 video
Cindy Sherman: ARTS 21 : how to use props for next week’s CSUSM class shoot
HOMEWORK:
1. WORK ON your 22slides Photo Portfolio website OR your BLURB Book up to this point with your Sketches, and whatever else will enhance your website: links, about page, contact page, images of other artwork, photos, etc. This is your website, and I want it to be useful to you!
3. POST: Images from your PORTRAIT SKETCH to your blogs, and add to your Website Portfolio
4. BRING cameras and props for the Outdoor Portrait Shoot on 04-24
a) DSLR cameras, diffusers, reflectors, tripods are optional
b) Props: clothes, hats, shawls, make-up, step-stools, anything for your portraits that you’ll be shooting: you will be modeling for each other. Some students are doing grad portraits. Check out some great backdrop locations on campus for all of your various portraits.
Week 14 04-24
1. SKETCH 14: CSUSM OUTDOOR PORTRAIT SHOOT: first half of class
a) Portraits of each other with DSLR cameras; locations on campus: remember to simplify the light.
One of these portraits can be used on your ABOUT page on your Photo Portfolio Website
b) Clothes: hats, shawls,make-up, anything for your portraits that might enhance them: think Cindy Sherman. see the Sartorialist;
Upload images: last half of class
2. DIRECTIONS: READ THIS CAREFULLY: FUNES DIGITAL ARTS COMPETITION
BY FRIDAY, April 27: UPLOAD your 3 best images for the REQUIRED FUNES DIGITAL ARTS COMPETITION.
The FUNES competition counts for 10% of your grade, please do this correctly with your name, etc on each file, or this can lower your grade. If you have any questions, I am in office hours from 3:30-5:30 WEDS, ARTS 331
9TH ANNUAL FUNES DIGITAL ARTS COMPETITION
CALL FOR ENTRIES: FIVE $100.00 PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED
We are accepting entries from the School of Arts Majors and Minors, as well as students from other majors who are/were enrolled in our Digital Arts classes for the 2017/2018 academic year, for the Ninth Annual Funes Digital Arts Competition.You are encouraged to submit your digital photographs/artworks for the opportunity to be awarded one of five $100.00 prizes.Your artwork will be professionally framed and exhibited as part of the School of Arts Permanent Student Art Collection.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
OPEN TO CURRENTLY ENROLLED SofA MAJORS & MINORS, and others enrolled in our Digital Arts classes
Submitted artwork created in Fall 2017 or Spring 2018
Submit up to 3 files of your digital photographs or graphic designs. All submissions must be created in a digital medium. Digital photographs representing works in other media, such as drawings or paintings, will not be considered.
Size of longest side must not exceed 24 inches; for example, 12×12; 16×24; 12×18; 24×24; 8×24
Submission format: 300 dpi high resolution jpeg. Please include a title and your name and the size of your image in the file name.
Examples:
Elfin_Forest_Adams_Ansel_16x24.jpg
or
Palomar_Mountain_Leibovitz_Annie_12x12.jpg
After the award ceremony, winners will give us a high resolution tiff, raw, or pdf file for printing.
UPLOAD DEADLINE
Upload your 300 dpi jpg files: click on the link below (or copy/past the link):
FUNES DIGITAL PHOTO COMPETITION UPLOAD LINK
Submissions will be accepted until April 27, 2018; 11:59 PDT.
AWARD CEREMONY
Our Juror will select 5 digital photos/artworks, each to be awarded $100.00.There will be 3 Honorable Mentions selected as well. The Award Ceremony will be held at 3:00 pm on May 7 in Arts 239. We will begin the ceremony by projecting images of all submissions before announcing the winners.
HOMEWORK:
1. EDIT & POST to BLOG: portraits from CSUSM Outdoor Photo Shoot
2. POST: best Portraits to your Photography Portfolio Website
Week 15 05-01
SHARE: portraits from CSUSM Outdoor Photo Shoot: you should be prepared to show these from your Photography Portfolio Website and/or Blog
BLOG: make sure you have likes, links to other sites, comments, etc, easily available
REVIEW of Photography Portfolio Website with suggestions from class for additions and enhancements; e.g. About and Contact Pages, Overview page; link to Blog, link to Instagram, Facebook (whatever you already use)
ADD: Photo Portfolio Website link to your Blog
Add link to CLASSES collective BLOG Site if you have not already done this
IMPORTANT: EVERYONE CHECK YOUR LINKS!! FROM THE CLASS WEBSITE!!
DISCUSS:
FUNES Award Ceremony in Arts 239 at 3:00 on Monday, May 7: PLEASE COME!!!
Add Website Portfolio to your Blog
Sketch 15: Complete: Photography Portfolio Website
Blog Posts: make sure you have likes, links to other sites, comments, etc, easily available
Week 15 05-08:
Blog and Photo Portfolios Websites: Final Presentation
IGNORE THIS FROM OTHER SEMESTERS
Digital Photo Sketchbook Blog Posts for the Semester
01 Sketch : Post about you: your work, your passion, your mission in life. What inspires you, your work.
Wrinkles of the City Post (watched in class)
Blog post about Dorothea Lang
02 Sketch: Portrait Series inspired by Dorothea Lange based on watching the film about this incredible photographer
Blog post about Annie Leibovitz Film
Narrative Portraiture with Chris Orwig and Charles Scagg
03 Sketch Environmental Portrait series Post
Catherine Opie Post (in class)
04 Sketch In-class CSUSM Outdoor Photo Shoot Post: Low Light Shoot
Penny de los Santos Post re artist
Unusual Light Post Series
05 Sketch Food / Culture /Shallow Depth of Field / Aerial views of food Post
Food Series Posts I
Graciela Iturbide Post re artist
06 Sketch MOPA INSPIRATION: Think about how your photographer would photograph a series. Think of her/him as your collaborator as you shoot your series.
Blog Post about how s/he influenced your photographic practice and Photo Series Post
07 Sketch Shooting Sustainability: Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose Post
Wasteland Video Post
Jan Staller / Edward Burtynsky Post with Recycled Materials
08 Sketch: Urban Decay
09 Sketch: Spring Break: Your Choice Photo Series Post
10 Sketch Cell Phone Series Post: portraits, macros, etc. Subject is your choice.
Anna Davidson Post from Class
11 Sketch Landscape Panoramas using a TRIPOD
12 Sketch Portrait Series Post
13 Sketch CSUSM Outdoor Portrait Shoot class Post
Portrait Photographer Post
14 Sketch Everyone post 9-10 most compelling Photos from past year Post:
All SofA majors/minors submit top 3 to Funes Digital Arts Competition and Post
15 Sketch Work on Final Project & Final Post for Final Presentation
16 Sketch Final Post with Blurb Book embedded or Portfolio Website post and photos
Week 16 05-9
FINAL presentation of your final Book or Website
FINAL presentation of your Blog
Note for class
Notes:
1. What did dorothea’s second husband do for a living
2. What did dorothea’s first husband do for a living.
3. How did dorothea manage her photography career and taking care of the children.
4. What did dorothea die from.
5. What job was dorothea fired from.
6. Describe Dorothea’s house that she lived in with her second husband, same house she lived in until the end of her life
NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY inspired by Darkness Darkness site (sketch 08 and 09 can be interchangeable)
SHOW:
1. Magic Hour photos Part I posted on your blogs
2. Your choice photos: a specific series with a theme, topic, technological experiment, etc, NOT just a collection of photos
SCREEN: Jan Staller short video
Jan Staller in NY Times
STUDY: Darkness Darkness: choose one artist and write about them (in class exercise)
“Night has always been associated with the darker side of human experiences. Night transforms our notion of the world from one of routine certainty to one of mysterious unknowing. Brave was the ancestor who stepped outside of the light of the fire circle, for he might never return. The interplay of light, shadow, and extremes of contrast heighten this uncertainty – and when the element of time is added in the form of long exposures, the Night Photograph portrays a world unseen by the human eye. Night Photography is a ritual, one that involves the engagement of light and time, creative vision, and circumstance. Darkness, Darkness presents the work of a varied group of artists who have all dedicated much of their creative efforts to exploring the themes of Night Photography.” —Lance Keimig, Curator
Night/Shift: As a photographer, I work the night shift, the time of transition from daylight to night. During this liminal period, natural light gives way to streetlight, moonlight, window light, and advertisement and surveillance lighting. The workday crowds ebb, and the city’s avenues, bridges, parks, and buildings begin to resemble a giant set, a theatrical approximation of a city. Paradoxically, it is only in these moments of dereliction that we can begin to populate the metropolis with our own dreams and fantasies.—Lynn Saville
Phillip Scholz Rittermann: a great pano and night shooter!! and Black and White
Jan Staller: night and industrial landscapes
Jan Staller
Mark Voce: Shadows of Industry: Night
Mark Voce: Venice
Todd Hido
Christopher Becker
Christopher Thomas: Predawn cityscapes
HOMEWORK:
SHOOT:
using a DSLR camera and Tripod, shoot another series of Night shots; edit and enhance in lightroom and be ready to show on your blogs at the beginning of class:
TRIPODS are absolutely necessary!!
Think about dusk and pre-dawn shots as well: those liminal hours. The hour of the wolf is the hour before sunrise . . .
Edit, Enhance, and post your best images on your blogs: long exposures, low ISO’s
HOMEWORK:
1. GRID & TRIPTYCH: portraits printed at Costco, minimum 16 x 20″
2. STUDY: Michael Wolf’s work in series, Bastard Chairs project that he combines as GRIDS:
3.COMPLETE: Everything on your blogs, both photos and writing: select your 3 strongest sketches, and provide links to them on a new post. Be prepared to talk about why they are your strongest, most compelling sketches.
Remember: You’ll be presenting your strongest 3 sketches at the final meeting of class next week and one printed grid or triptych
IMPORTANT POSTS:
You will visit two photography exhibition at MOPA. You will write @250 words (total 500) about two artists who are inspiring to your photographic practice, one from each exhibition. You’ll post your personal narrative and photos on your blog for each artist whom you choose.
MOPA, Museum of Photographic Arts; Balboa Park
Post about Annie Leibovitz film
Post about Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning film:
Post about Wrinkles of the City: screened in class
Post about Waste Land film
Post about Watermark film
Post about an artist from the Darkness Darkness website
SCREEN: Roni Horn, Sally Mann and Catherine Opie: from PBS ART 21
Post about Catherine Opie
Post about Collier Schor
Brian Barry
02-07-17
absent : Frankie, also absent 1-31
3. WATCH video: Waste land with Vic Muniz, free netflix streaming, iTunes for 2.99
THIS IS A DOCUMENTARY, not the action/adventure film that came out in 2015 by the same name
Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores”—self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Director Lucy Walker (DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND, BLINDSIGHT and COUNTDOWN TO ZERO) and co-directors João Jardim and Karen Harley have great access to the entire process and, in the end, offer stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit.—http://www.wastelandmovie.com/synopsis.html
Peter Hujar: Ruins
Directions
Go to book in blurb: go to: my dashboard
Set book up for sale: click Sell My Book
Click Get Started
Fill in Book Details
Click Save and Continue
Fill in Sell & Distribute
Click Save
Click Promote
Under Post your book preview On your website or blog
Embed site
Click Copy button for Blogger or WordPress
Return to WordPress site and Create New Post
Change tab from Visual to HTML on top line under Title
Paste into the field CMD+V (this is what you COPYied from Blurb
Post as normal
Anna Davidson
DISCUSS: Instagram: use of cell phones
Syria to Sandy
The role social-savvy photographers such as Hernandez play in galvanizing communities around a topic, whether it’s a new craft distillery or a vital news event like Sandy, is still very much in its Wild West phase. But examples abound of pioneering shooters who take great images with simple tools, engage online audiences, and ultimately carve out careers for themselves based in some part on photography they make with their smartphones.
One byproduct of the spike in demand for mobile photography is the widespread use of filters and frames on images shared through Instagram and similar apps. They serve to mask the flaws that come with lower-quality images, but filtering has also become its own kind of aesthetic.
Karen Divine
Mobile Masters
INTRODUCE SKETCH 12: PORTRAITS to prepare for next week’s photo shoot: should evoke a particular kind of mood. Experiment with different kinds of shots: long shot, medium, close-up, X-treme close-up. Can sometimes be something besides a face; evocative hands, for example.
SCREEN & POST:
Aaron Huey: People, Shelter, and the Land
http://www.neonsky.com/
Aaron Huey’s website designer site
Sartorialist
Cindy Sherman
“Cindy Sherman was born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Sherman earned a BA from Buffalo State College, State University of New York (1976). In self-reflexive photographs and films, Cindy Sherman invents myriad guises, metamorphosing from Hollywood starlet to clown to society matron. Often with the simplest of means—a camera, a wig, makeup, an outfit—Sherman fashions ambiguous but memorable characters that suggest complex lives that exist outside of the frame. Leaving her works untitled, Sherman refuses to impose descriptive language on her images—relying instead on the viewer’s ability to develop narratives, as an essential component of appreciating the work.
While rarely revealing her private intentions, Sherman’s investigations have a compelling relationship to public images, from kitsch (film stills and centerfolds) to art history (Old Masters and Surrealism) to green-screen technology and the latest advances in digital photography. Sherman’s exhaustive study of portraiture and self-portraiture—often a playful mixture of camp and horror, heightened by gritty realism—provides a new lens through which to examine societal assumptions surrounding gender and the valuation of concept over style . . . Cindy Sherman lives and works in New York. —re Cindy Sherman, PBS
1. SHOOT & POST: SKETCH 13: A series of portraits: try some close-ups, extreme close-ups, mid-shots, full-shots, etc, as well as varied compositions, varying locations, varying perspectives; for example, get down on your knees to take a portrait of someone standing. These can be candid/unposed portraits as well.
Think about lighting the face and eyes. Focus on the eyes.
Deborah Small's Ethnobotany Blog 