Advanced Digital Photography: Fieldwork Syllabus 2018
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Deborah’s Ethnobotany blog
ALL POSTS DUE BY SUNDAY NIGHT AT 11:59
Week 01: Feb 22
Wolfe Design Elements Takeaway (in class writing)
Week 02: Feb 29
FILM: Watermark
10 most compelling images
FIELDTRIP: Campus Sunset Shoot
Week 03: Feb 05
Campus Sunset Shoot post
FILM: Chasing Ice
#1 Landscape shoot (your choice of landscapes)
FIELDTRIP: Double Peak Park
Week 04: Feb 12
Double Peak Park post
#2 Landscape shoot (your choice of landscapes)
Write up in class: Mark Muench, Anna Mia Davidson, Tima Link
Week 05: Feb 19
#3 Series of environment / farming / winery / farmer’s market / nursery photos
FIELDTRIP: San Diego Botanic Garden
Week 06: Feb 26
San Diego Botanic Garden POST & Reflection due
Week 07: Mar 5 Ansel Adams Landscape inspired post
Week 08: Mar 12
FIELDTRIP: Elfin Forest: Ethnobotanical Walk and slow shutter speed water photos
Week 9 Mar 19 Spring Break: Fieldtrip of your choosing
Week 01 Mar 26 CSUSM
Week 11: April 02
FIELDTRIP: San Elijo Lagoon
Week 12: April 09 CSUSM
Week 13: April 16 CSUSM
Week 14 April 23
FIELDTRIP: Lake Hodges: Hernandez Hideaway Restaurant (Rancho Road) to Rattlesnake overlook beyond the Dam
REQUIRED UPLOAD: FUNES DIGITAL ARTS COMPETITION: DEADLINE, FRIDAY, APRIL 27
Week 15 April 30 Website text development, add contact and about:
Complete all blog posts, and final website
Week 16 May 07 Final Project Presentation & Funes Digital Arts Competition Slideshow and Ceremony
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
Fieldtrips:
1. DSLR’s, tripods, diffusers, etc.
2. Snacks and water
3. Wear rugged and warm clothing that can get dirty: you will be on the ground.
4. Be Mindful: you’ll learn to identify poison oak and to walk mindfully. And to know what California smells like, a similar plant to the one that Reese Witherspoon/Cheryl Strayed stops along to trail to inhale in the film, Wild.
5. Do not wander off from our group. We will be creating a buddy system, where you are responsible for yourself, and your buddy, who will change from week to week.
WEEK 1 January 22
Tentative Fieldtrip schedule: we need to accommodate wildflowers if it’s a good spring. If we are rained out for one of the fieldtrips, we will do a inside fieldtrip to our incredible CSUSM library.
BLOGS:
Set up on class page: you must have a blog dedicated ONLY to this class. You may not combine this blog with another class’s. You can continue your blog from an earlier semester.
DISCUSS:
Introduce course requirements
C. Julieanne Kost photography
Begin Review of Lightroom CC: Julieanne Kost
Blog Posts: in class we will watch Quick Tip: Printing Multiple Images to a Single JPEG
For your homework, watch several to review, renew, and deepen your commitment and your relationship with Lightroom!!
Camille Seaman at Standing Rock: photographer
Art Wolfe: Design in Photography
Marc Muench: Technical Trinity
HOMEWORK:
BRING or CHECK OUT before class:
DSLR CAMERAS & TRIPODS for Sunset shoot at CSUSM
POST 10 photos in carousel / grid mode on your blog:
On your blog, post what you consider to be 10 of YOUR the MOST COMPELLING photographs you have shot to show next week: the ones where you are the most technically proficient; or, more importantly, the ones most emotionally meaningful (but not your beloved pooch or kittie); or ones that you consider your strongest and might point to the direction you’d like to take with your photography. (POST 10 photos)
WATCH and POST on your blog
Burtynsky’s Watermark (Rent on amazon: click on link, or FREE streaming on Netflix) and WRITE about particular images: why are they so compelling: framing, composition, etc.
It’s very important that you watch this film carefully. This film sets the stage for a deeper understanding several of our fieldtrips to places that are part of our local Escondido Creek watershed, including Elfin Forest and the San Elijo Lagoon.
WEEK 2 January 29
BRING CAMERAS FOR SUNSET SHOOT AT SCHOOL
Discuss your posts on Burtynsky’s Watermark
Waiver/Field Trip Policy
Field Trips Responsibilities
CLASS BUSINESS:
1. Check your CSUSM email at PeopleSoft
2 Reply to me if you received an email requesting you to schedule Writing Center tutoring. I sent this out to several students, but only heard back from 2. Please let me know that you are attending to this.
3. 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
BLOGS:
1. SITE TITLE: Firstname Lastname photography blog (or whatever you want to call it; example: Deborah Small’s Ethnobotany Blog)
2. DELETE the default post
3. MEDIA: images help! your posts, especially when you are speaking of a particular image
4. CAROUSEL format: so we can go through your image.
BLOGS: We will look at your posts of your most meaningful photographs and your new landscape shots.
RESERVE a CAMERA and TRIPOD for next week’s field trip
DISCUSS: Fieldtrip safety issues: poison oak, rattlesnakes, hiking gear, sunscreen, hat, proper shoes. Buddy system: do NOT wander away from the group
SCREEN:
Art Wolfe: 10 Deadly Sins of Composition
HOMEWORK:
RESERVE a CAMERA and TRIPOD for next week’s field trip
1. WATCH and POST Chasing Ice: free on streaming Netflix; $2.99 on Amazon
Environmental photographer James Balog deploys time-lapse cameras to capture a record of the world’s changing glaciers, compressing years into seconds to illustrate how these ice mountains are disappearing at a breathtaking rate.
2. SHOOT & POST a series of landscape photographs inspired by the work of Edward Burtynsky (Watermark), James Balog (Chasing Ice), or Art Wolfe.
Go to a local park, preserve, or lagoon for your shoot. You can research/google your area; for example, if you live in Murrieta or Temecula, you can go to the Santa Rosa Plateau Preserve. If you live near Fallbrook, go to Los Jilgueros Preserve. If you live south of school, visit Torrey Pines State Natural Preserve. If you live near CSUSM, visit Daley Ranch, Discovery Lake, or Felicitas Park in Escondido. If you live near the coast, you can go to Swami’s, etc. These are just suggestions. There are many more places. Try to shoot some wide angle shots to encompass the landscape, as well as more intimate shots.
Edit and enhance in Lightroom/and or Photoshop and post on our blog by next week’s class. In your post, please let us how the artist you have chosen (Wolfe, Burtynsky, and/or Balog) has inspired your photoshoot.
3. WATCH: Lightroom tutorials Panorama and HDR
4. RESERVE a CAMERA and TRIPOD for next week’s field trip DOUBLE PEAK PARK
ADDRESS: 900 Double Peak Dr, San Marcos, CA 92078
BRING: a hat, sun protection, sturdy shoes, sweatshirt for early evening, water, snacks
FOR THE SHOOT: a diffuser if you have one, flashlight if you have one, any props you think might be useful.
WEEK 3 February 5:
DOUBLE PEAK PARK shoot: meet AT THE PARK as close to 2:30 as you can.
ADDRESS: 900 Double Peak Dr, San Marcos, CA 92078
OPEN ⋅ 6AM to 8PM
BUDDY SYSTEM: Do not wander off from our group. We will create a buddy/friend system when everyone arrives, where you are responsible for yourself, and your buddy, who may change from fieldtrip to fieldtrip.
CREATE: Try many different kinds of shots: panorama, HDR shot, shots incorporating silhouettes, handheld, tripod, shallow depth of field, deep depth of field, shots that use people, trees, etc to establish a sense of scale, extreme close-ups, wide-angle, etc.
HOMEWORK:
1. EDIT and enhance photos from Double Peak Park. Post at least 8-10 on your blog. After editing your photos, please reflect about what you learned, what shots you particularly like, what you might do differently, etc.
2. SHOOT and POST a second series of Landscape photographs. Go to a local park, preserve, or lagoon for your shoot. You can research/google your area; for example, if you live in Murrieta or Temecula, you can go to the Santa Rosa Plateau Preserve. If you live south of school, visit Torrey Pines State Natural Preserve. If you live near Fallbrook, go to Los Jilgueros Preserve. If you live near CSUSM, visit Daley Ranch, Discovery Lake, Felicitas Park in Escondido, etc. These are just suggestions. There are many more places. Make sure to shoot some wide angle shots to encompass the landscape, as well as more intimate shots.
Try to figure out what plant communities are present: sage scrub, chaparral, oak woodlands, riparian, marsh, etc. Again, think about Burtynsky, Art Wolfe, James Balog, Camille Seaman.
Edit and enhance in Lightroom/and or Photoshop and post on our blog by next week’s class.
WEEK 4 February 12
CLASS:
DISCUSS : Foodscapes / Farmscapes / Wineryscapes /Farmer’s Marketscapes / Nurseryscapes for next week
Creative Trinity: Mark Muench
Anna Mia Davidson: Human Nature: Land & Farm culture
Weaving Community: Tima Lotah Link
Michael Wolf: Hong Kong Flora
San Diego Botanic Garden, Encinitas
MAP of Garden: meet in the California Garden area by 3pm
MAP of California Section: California Gardenscapes
SDBG Endangered Plants
SHARE: Series inspired by Edward Burtynsky, James Balog, or Art Wolfe: a series of @10 edited and enhanced photos
Gary Scott: Dairy Farm
Li Qiao: Hollandia
Wenjing Li: Torrey Pines
Christopher Robertson: Three Sisters Falls
SHARE: Double Peak Park photos:
Li Ding
Wenjing Li
DISCUSS: Burtynsky’s Watermark, Balog’s Chasing Ice, and our Watershed
The Escondido Creek watershed is formed by the creek of the same name. Beginning at the upper headwaters in Bear Valley above Lake Wohlford, the creek flows more than 26 miles to meet the ocean at San Elijo Lagoon. It’s over 75-square mile watershed includes lands managed by or governed by many jurisdictions, including:
- The City of Escondido
- The City of Encinitas
- The City of San Marcos
- The City of Solana Beach
- The County of San Diego
- Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management
- The Sovereign Nation of The San Pasqual Band of Kumeyaay Indians
Escondido Creek Watershed is part of the larger Carlsbad watershed
HOMEWORK: ALL POSTS DUE BY SUNDAY NIGHT AT 11:59
SHOOT & POST:#3: Series of environment / farming / winery / farmer’s market / nursery photos and post a series of 8-10 photos on your blog.
We are expanding the idea of landscape to include foodscapes, winescapes, farmscapes, nurseryscapes, urban or rural decay:
WRITE about your landscape shoot at the end of your post. Think about Anna Mia Davidson. Did anything she said, or any of her photos, influence your shoot. Also, in terms of Mark Muench‘s Creative Trinity, what is more important in your shooting: subject/content, composition, light. Why? This can vary from photo to photo. How did Tima Link inspire or influence you?
So, you can visit to a local farmer’s market (research your area for date and time), wineries and nurseries as well.
Nurseries: I love Serra Nursery or Myrtle Creek Nursery in Fallbrook. I really love Tree of Life Nursery, but it’s in San Juan Capistrano. There are lots of nurseries everywhere. Please do NOT go to Lowe’s or Home Depot.
Or go to a farm, park, preserve, or lagoon for your shoot. Please research/google your area. Farmer’s markets are everywhere. Wineries as well.
And if you live in Murrieta or Temecula, you can go to the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Preserve (much more wild). If you live south of school, visit Torrey Pines State Natural Preserve. If you live near Fallbrook, go to Los Jilgueros Preserve. If you live near CSUSM, visit Daley Ranch, Dixon Lake, and Felicitas Park in Escondido, etc. These are just suggestions. There are many more places. Make sure to shoot some wide angle shots to encompass the landscape, as well as more intimate shots.
Try to figure out what plant communities are present: sage scrub, chaparral, oak woodlands, riparian, marsh, etc. Again, think about Burtynsky, Art Wolfe, James Balog, Camille Seaman, Anna Mia Davidson, and Mark Muench. Other students in the class may have influenced/inspired your shoot as well. That is all good!
FIELDTRIP: BRING cameras, hats, sunscreen snacks to the San Diego Botanic Garden, Encinitas
Meet in California Gardenscape area: see maps above
WEEK 5 February 19
FIELDTRIP: San Diego Botanic Garden, Encinitas
MEET in California Gardenscape area
Think about what you are trying to achieve with your shots, and when to shoot for shallow or deep depth of field. Think about what lenses you want to bring with you. When to use XCU or CU, and when to use wide angle shots.
Check out the California Native Plants area.
Also check out the WATERFALL and waterfall pond area, and the bamboo area and pond: These are spectacular, and especially after these RAINS!!
$10 for students: Bring ID
The garden should be stunning right now. Tons of blooms.
Make sure to google the location: it’s a pretty easy drive from school, 20-25 minutes or so.
There are bathrooms there.
EDIT & POST and enhance photos from San Diego Botanic Garden: Try editing and enhancing some of your images in Black & White. Please write about what you tried to achieve with your photos, and what you learned.
HOMEWORK: Edit, Enhance, and POST 8-10 images and write a reflection on your trip to the San Diego Botanic Garden. What worked and what did not work for you. Please include your endangered plant photos from the California Garden: Shaw’s agave, nevin’s barberry, and otay mesa rose, among your other photos.
ALSO for your blog post: For 3 photos, edit them in both color and black & white. Which do you think is more compelling? Why? Post both the color and black & white versions. Always ask yourself, what would make this image stronger, more compelling.
DUE BY SUNDAY, FEB 25, AT 11:59 PM
WEEK 6 February 26
INVITE: Tree of Life for Cooking the Native Way Food Tastings
ACCESS : FILMS in Cougar Courses
CLASS: View your photos: Botanic Garden Landscape Photo Shoot
Karl Blossfeldt
Imogen Cunningham
SCREEN:
Richard Misrach: his larger body of work
Misrach Petrochemical America: cultural landscapes
Border Cantos website
Crystal Bridges Museum Lecture : start at 6:20
Prototypes for new wall
Creative Trinity and Misrach: Subject, Composition, Light
Aesthetics & Politics Gerry Badger on Richard Misrach
In the past when I travelled, I used to look for the light, the beautiful forms. Now I cannot escape the fact that every facet of the landscape is suffused with political implications. Richard Misrach quoted in Gerry Badger’s article linked directly below.
. . . many of the recent crop of American landscape photographers, who no longer look to images that reflect only the sublime and transcendent vistas of romantic tradition. The current generation, in their very real appreciation of the western territories, tend to temper wonder with irony, to leaven romanticism with hard nosed reality, and are fully aware both of the land as a site for political action and the landscape as an imagistic construct.— Gerry Badger
. . .the impact of art may be more complex and far-reaching than theory is capable of assessing. To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness and sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation of life and subversively brings us face to face with news from our besieged world.—Richard Misrach quoted in Gerry Badger’s article linked directly above
Composition Art Wolfe
DISCUSS: ELFIN FOREST Fieldtrip on MARCH 8: watershed and native plant communities
Focus of fieldtrip, technically, is using slow shutter speeds to capture the creek as a smooth flowing creek. TRIPODS a must.
Art critic John Szarkowski wrote: Ansel Adams attuned himself more precisely than any photographer before him to a visual understanding of the specific quality of the light that fell on a specific place at a specific moment. For Adams the natural landscape is not a fixed and solid sculpture but an insubstantial image, as transient as the light that continually redefines it. This sensibility to the specificity of light was the motive that forced Adams to develop his legendary photographic technique.
HOMEWORK:
WATCH: ANSEL ADAMS in Cougar Courses
SHOOT & POST
PLAN THIS SHOOT CAREFULLY: Shooting for the Magic Light @ 5-6 pm, or early morning light: go EARLY TO SCOUT
Your shots are about light, with the influence of Ansel Adams. Write about how have you been influenced by Adams, who is all about the light (as well as amazing composition, and subjects). How has your shoot been influenced by Richard Misrach.
Get early to your site to scout what you want to shoot, where you want to shoot, what you want to shoot
WEEK 7 March 5
NO CLASS MEETING: INSTEAD
WATCH Chased by the Light in Cougar Courses with Jim Brandenburg
HOMEWORK
VISIT BALBOA PARK arboretum and gardens
SHOOT & POST: 8-10 edited and enhanced photos, influenced by Adams, Brandenburg, and/or Misrach
FOR NEXT WEEK’S CLASS: MEET AT ELFIN FOREST by 3:30 pm
BRING: DSLR cameras, lenses, and TRIPODS, SNACKS. We will meet at the Elfin Forest Interpretive Center at 8833 Harmony Grove Rd, Escondido, CA 92029 at 3:30 pm. We’ll stay until the end of class, 6:20, to shoot the creek with a long exposure. YOU WILL DEFINITELY NEED A TRIPOD.
WEEK 8 March 12
FIELDTRIP: Elfin Forest Interpretive Center at 8833 Harmony Grove Rd, Escondido, CA 92029
BRING: DSLR cameras, lenses, and TRIPODS, SNACKS. We will meet at 3:30 pm and stay until the end of class. First, we’ll go on a class ethnobotany walk together along the creek at 3:30 to learn about poison oak as well as edible and medicinal native plants.
We’ll stay at least until the end of class at 6:20 to shoot the creek using a long exposure: long shutter speed of at least 1-3 seconds, so you’ll need a TRIPOD, deep depth of field, so your aperture should be F22 or higher and LOW ISO of 100.
8833 Harmony Grove Rd
Escondido, CA 92029
HOMEWORK:
1. EDIT AND ENHANCE photos from Elfin Forest Field Trip for Presentation. You must have at least a few long exposure shots of the creek.
2. POST your Edited and Enhanced Photos to your blogs
3. WRITE & POST one page (250 words) on the Ansel Adams film about three things you will remember about the film a year from now and how those 3 things will influence your photography practice.
4. DUE DATE for Elfin Forest Post and Ansel Adams post are due Sunday, March 18, at 11:59 PM so I can grade them.
WEEK 9 March 19 SPRING BREAK
1. SPRING BREAK SHOOT landscape of your choice that you’re intrigued by: the break IS the time you can venture out a bit further: Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve in Murrieta, Daley Ranch in Escondido, Felicita Park further south in Escondido, Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve towards La Jolla, Los Jilgueros Preserve in Fallbrook, Palomar Mountain State Park, Anza Borrego Desert State Park near Borrego Springs, Joshua Tree National Park, etc. Please DO NOT GO ALONE!
NO MORE PHOTO SHOOTS AT CSUSM!!!
Do some research and find a place that interests you.
2. POST photos from YOUR SPRING BREAK SHOOT. You can continue to work on long exposures for some long exposure shots as the sun goes down.
3. WRITE & POST one page (250 words) on the JIM BRANDENBURG, CHASED BY THE LIGHT film about three things you will remember about the film a year from now and how those 3 things will influence your photography practice.
4. DUE DATE for SPRING BREAK SHOOT AND POST IS Sunday, March 16, BY 11:59 PM so I can grade them.
WEEK 10 March 26
VIEW
1. Photos from Elfin Forest Fieldtrip posted on your blog
2. Photos from your Spring Break Photoshoot homework assignment
03-26-18: In the homework prompt above, I assigned a landscape of your choice, and suggested you perhaps travel further afield. Some of you chose urban landscapes. Sea World? How can the shots be focused to see Sea World as a landscape? Some of the aquarium shots did that, as underwater landscapes, perhaps. Focus of shoot?
3. Discuss Assigned Films: Ansel Adams and Jim Brandenburg
“A worthy subject is the most important discovery for artists—it’s the magnetic passion that burns at the core of their work, attracting or repelling us, and determining whether they will attempt to evoke what is deepest and highest in us.”
—Artist Alex Grey, in Zig Zag Zen
4. DISCUSS
Imogen Cunningham
Jerome Tarver
PHOTOS FOR FIELDTRIP: You’re welcome to work in groups, but each student needs to shoot their own shots. NO cell phone shots, please!
Shoot a 1. close-up, 2. full plant, and 3. plant community/landscape where you found it. Include any insects on the plant. Also shoot some of the flowers as they decay, if possible. What lenses would work best. What apertures for shallow depth of field for the close-up? The plant community/landscape shot?
San Elijo Lagoon WATERSHED
The Escondido Creek Watershed: If you were to follow a raindrop from the mountains to the ocean, you would be following the raindrop through a watershed. A watershed is the area of land and water bodies that collect rainwater. A watershed includes the mountains, valleys, and flatlands, as well as water flowing above ground and underground (groundwater) in creeks, rivers, and aquifers. Most watersheds eventually end at the coast, often at an estuary open to the ocean. Flowing water connects all of the communities in a watershed, and what happens upstream affects those living downstream.
The Escondido Creek watershed starts in Bear Valley above Lake Wohlford and stretches 26 miles through the City of Escondido, past Elfin Forest to Cardiff, and through the San Elijo Lagoon to the Pacific Ocean. Additional communities it touches are Encinitas, Rancho Santa Fe, San Marcos, Solana Beach, and lands of The San Pasqual Band of Kumeyaay Indians. The Escondido Creek watershed covers approximately 54,112 acres in northern San Diego County.
The waters of Escondido Creek reach the coast at Cardiff and flow into the San Elijo Lagoon, a very important natural environment in the Escondido Creek watershed. The San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve covers nearly 1,000 acres that include wetland and upland habitats. The wetlands are some of San Diego’s most diverse and of the few remaining along the CA coast. Here, fresh water meets seawater in a body of water called an estuary. An estuary is partially enclosed and receives fresh water from rainfall and runoff and salt water from tidal flow. This mingling of waters, along with the organisms living here, produces an area high in nutrients.
HOMEWORK:
Instead of a shoot this week, I’d like you to do research on six plants at the San Elijo Lagoon in the Plant Index on their website,
After reading the Overview, Description, Distribution, Classification, Ecology, Human Uses, Interesting Facts, and Photos, write about what you find compelling about the plant and why you chose this particular plant. Focus on the areas in BOLD.
CHOOSE: 3 or more from those in BOLD, and the others from the rest of the list for a total of six plants. Make sure you know what all of your plants look like so you can find them at the lagoon.
Arroyo Willow
Black Sage
Bladderpod
Blue-eyed Grass (on top of Visitor Center)
Bush Monkeyflower
Bush Sunflower
California Buckwheat
California Bulrush
California Dodder
California Poppy
California Sagebrush
California Sycamore
Coast Fiddleneck
Coyote Brush
Deerweed
Laurel Sumac
Lemonade Berry
Mexican Elderberry
Mission Manzanita
Mule Fat
Sacred Datura
Telegraph Weed
Torrey Pine
Western Prickly Pear
Wild Cucumber
Wild Radish
RESEARCH & WRITE & POST
Post Due Sunday, April 1, by 11:59 pm
Post about your research BEFORE the fieldtrip on April 2 at the Lagoon. How will your research inform your photography?
PHOTOS FOR FIELDTRIP: Shoot a 1. close-up, 2. full plant, and 3. plant community/landscape where you found it. Include any insects on the plant. Also shoot some of the flowers as they decay, if possible.
San Elijo Lagoon Fieldtrip: Bring cameras for field trip. Bring food, and dress warmly to stay until end of class. We will not return to CSUSM.Meet at the Nature Center by 3:00.
Trails map. There are large maps available at the Nature Center for you to take with you, or you can print your own.
Also, San Elijo Lagoon Nature Center, Cardiff, CA to Annie’s Canyon Trailhead (park on North Rios)
BEGIN to EDIT, ENHANCE, and ORGANIZE photos from all fieldtrips, class and your own shoots for your FINAL Book or Website Project
WEEK 11 April 2
FIELD TRIP: San Elijo Lagoon, Encinitas: Meet at the Nature Center by 3:00.
ADDRESS
2710 Manchester Avenue
Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA 92007
PHONE
(760) 634-3026
If you get there early, go into the Interpretive Center. When we split up, please walk the trails with someone else from the class. Remember to bring your DSLR’s, warm clothes, etc.
When the Interpretive Center area closes at 5, you can either go to Mushroom Caves / Annie’s Canyon Trailhead, (moderate to strenuous hike} although you can stay in the Lagoon area, and park at the end of North Rios Avenue, see map above, and ask for directions in Interpretive Center.
OR stop off at Double Peak Park on the way back to CSUSM to photograph your plants from the San Elijo Lagoon list above.
Trails map There are large maps available at the Nature Center for you to take with you, or you can print your own. My cell is 760-468-5048.
HOMEWORK:
1. POST & WRITE:
Photographs from San Elijo Lagoon. Make sure to include photos of your six chosen plants.
How did your research inform your photography?
Please be specific and give examples.
2. SHOOT & POST: 8-10 photos: LANDSCAPE (NOT URBAN) of your choice, with or without people in the shots. Hopefully, they will include some of the plants you learned about for the San Elijo Lagoon shoot. Here are some suggestions:
Daley Ranch and/or Dixon Lake in Escondido
Felicita Park, Escondido
Lake Hodges, Escondido
Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve in Murrieta
Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve, La Jolla
Los Jilgueros Preserve in Fallbrook
Palomar Mountain State Park, Palomar Mountain
Anza Borrego Desert State Park near Borrego Springs
Joshua Tree National Park, etc.
Please DO NOT GO ALONE!
3. BEGINORGANIZING: Please start to select your very best photos from class fieldtrips and weekly assignment to upload to your website, which we will discuss in depth next week. I’d suggest using Collections in Lightroom to organize, or make sure that you’ve rated your best images in Lightroom that you want to use on your website.
Collections in Lightroom
You probably have already done a lot of this, as you have selected images for your blog posts. Remember, for your portfolio website: use your best!
Of course, your website can be used with your other photos, videos, etc, but we will start with your photos from the class fieldtrips and fieldtrip homework.
If you already have a website, you can add to that.
Or if you want to produce a book in BLURB instead of a website, that will be OK as well.
We’ll discuss options next class. Either way, you’ll need to select and organize your files.
WEEK 12 April 9
VIEW: PHOTOS and RESEARCH from San Elijo Lagoon.
VIEW: Photos from your homework LANDSCAPE shoot
SCREEN:
ALEX BOYD: website
Alex Boyd: Sonnets
Alex Boyd: video Sonnet shooting
Alex Boyd: inspiration: painter Caspar David Friedrich
Academic Honesty Policy;
Students will be expected to adhere to standards of academic honesty and integrity, as outlined in the Student Academic Honesty Policy. All assignments must be original work, clear and error-free. All ideas/material that are borrowed from other sources must have appropriate references to the original sources. Any quoted material should give credit to the source and be punctuated accordingly.
Academic Honesty and Integrity: Students are responsible for honest completion and representation of their work. Disciplinary action may include the lowering of grades and/or the assignment of a failing grade for an exam, assignment, or the class as a whole.
CREATE: Portfolio Website: Please make sure you’re organized in Lightroom and READY TO GO: you’ll be exporting your photos as 144 dpi jpgs for maximum resolution on hi-end monitors.
22slides
22slides: SofA Photo Archive
22slides: Jeri Perez
22slides: Briana Flores website
22slides: Gavin Hedges portfolio
Format: Haruka Sakaguchi
Format: Haruka Sakaguchi: text/photo diaryJanine Jorge blog
CREATE: a FUNES submissions collection in Lightroom for images that you might submit for the contest: load your 9 best images today into a collection, and post on your blog: we will help you choose . . . your best 3.
HOMEWORK
1. SHOOT & POST: 8-10 photos: LANDSCAPE (NOT URBAN) of your choice, with a friend in some of the shots, influenced by Alex Boyd (Sonnets blog we watched) and/or Nikkole and Nathan (students doing Environmental Therapy blog
Daley Ranch and/or Dixon Lake in Escondido
Felicita Park, Escondido
Lake Hodges, Escondido
Elfin Forest, Escondido
San Elijo Lagoon: Mushroom Caves (park at North Rios Rd trailhead)
Batiquitos Lagoon, South Carlsbad
Agua Hedionda Lagoon, Carlsbad
Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve in Murrieta
Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve, La Jolla
Los Jilgueros Preserve in Fallbrook
Palomar Mountain State Park, Palomar Mountain
Anza Borrego Desert State Park near Borrego Springs
Joshua Tree National Park, etc.
Go with a friend
- MEET at CSUSM next week, April 16
- BRING YOUR HARDRIVE with all of your edited PHOTOS to select for your OVERVIEW / FAVORITES section on your PORTFOLIO WEBSITE & for FUNES DIGITAL ARTS COMPETITION
- RESERVE NOW: the best CAMERA you can: the canon 5Ti or 80D (the best).
also, TELEPHOTO lenses will be great. 70-200, 100-400, or any lens with a longer reach. We’re going to be shooting the dam at lake hodges April 23
WEEK 13 April 16
RESERVE NOW: the best CAMERA you can: the canon 5Ti or 80D (the best).
also, TELEPHOTO lenses will be great. 70-200, 100-400, or any lens with a longer reach. We’re going to be shooting the dam at Lake Hodges next class, April 23.
Trip is from the parking lot across from Hernandez Hideaway Restaurant at Lake Hodges to the Rattlesnake Overlook past the dam. Come prepared for a hike!!
1. VIEW: LANDSCAPE (NOT URBAN) based on places listed in homework above, with a friend in some of the shots, influenced by Alex Boyd (Sonnets blog we watched) and/or Nikkole and Nathan (students doing Environmental Therapy blog.
2. CSUSM class: work on books and websites:
CREATE: OVERVIEW / BEST / FAVORITES SECTION FOR WEBSITE
DISCUSS:
TEXT additions to each folder of your website portfolio
LABELING / captioning photos on your blogs from San Elijo Lagoon, based on your 6 chosen photos, or new ones your learned; It would be great to add these to your Portfolio website as well.
3. CHOOSE PHOTOS for Funes Digital Arts Competition: you will show your selection to the class, and we will go over the protocol to do the online submission
HOMEWORK:
1. FINAL PROJECT: work on Website Portfolio or Book Project in progress.
2. EDIT AND ENHANCE all photos for your portfolio website.
3. SHOOT: a photoshoot to enhance on of your existing segments, Post on blog and website
4. LAKE HODGES FIELDTRIP: meet at 3pm at the parking lot across from Hernandez Hideaway Restaurant at Lake Hodges. If there is no parking in the lot, park in the streets in the general area.
BRING the best camera you can borrow, and a telephoto lens or good quality lens.
If you want to walk to the dam, we’ll be walking along the lake, trails, and fire road to the Rattlesnake Overlook at the Lake Hodges Dam.
This will allow you to take photos of the lake, plants, birds, wildlife, the junked, rusted car, and both sides of the incredible dam. This is about 5-6 miles. Only do this hike if it is within your comfort zone.
ALSO, wear sunscreen, a hat, good walking shoes, snacks, WATER. It’s 4-6 miles round-trip if you walk to the dam. For those of you not used to walking, you can take most of the route on the Fire road that parallels the Lake.
ESSENTIAL:
BRING WATER.
Watch out for Poison Oak on both sides of the trail>,
Rattlesnakes: do not hike on rocks or overturn them.
Trail protocol: stay to the right when there are mountain bikers. Get out of their way!!
The Lake Hodges Dam itself is a no trespassing zone. Violators may be fined. There are security guards on duty at certain times. One was parked there the entire time I spent around the dam.
WEEK 14 April 23
Information for Funes Digital Arts Competition is below the Lake Hodges Fieldtrip
LAKE HODGES FIELDTRIP: meet at 3pm at the parking lot across from Hernandez Hideaway Restaurant at Lake Hodges. If there is no parking in the lot, park in the streets in the general area.
BRING the best camera you can borrow, and a telephoto lens or good quality lens.
If you want to walk to the dam, we’ll be walking along the lake, trails, and fire road to the Rattlesnake Overlook at the Lake Hodges Dam.
This will allow you to take photos of the lake, plants, birds, wildlife, the junked, rusted car, and both sides of the incredible dam. This is about 5-6 miles. Only do this hike if it is within your comfort zone.
ALSO, wear sunscreen, a hat, good walking shoes, snacks, WATER. It’s 4-6 miles round-trip if you walk to the dam. For those of you not used to walking, you can take most of the route on the Fire road that parallels the Lake.
ESSENTIAL:
BRING WATER.
Watch out for Poison Oak on both sides of the trail>,
Rattlesnakes: do not hike on rocks or overturn them.
Trail protocol: stay to the right when there are mountain bikers. Get out of their way!!
The Lake Hodges Dam itself is a no trespassing zone. Violators may be fined. There are security guards on duty at certain times. One was parked there the entire time I spent around the dam.
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: Photos from Lake Hodges Fieldtrip on your BLOG and your WEBSITE
2. SHOOT to add to your Website Photography Portfolio: This shoot can include people, or not, your choice: again, think about the LIGHT, and time of day of your shoot
a. You can enhance a landscape shoot which you’ve already shot and want to add or improve your images for you website portfolio and blog
b. OR, you can choose a new location to add to your website portfolio and blog
3. WORK/PRESENTATION: Website Portfolio:
a. Add an About page, a Contact info page, and an Overview page:
See Jeri’s Website Portfolio as an example at 22slides
b. You will be presenting your website-in-progress next week for suggestions to enhance it from the class for the final.
c. All fieldtrips, including those in class and those done as homework assignments, should be part of your website.
WEEK 15 April 30
Photography Portfolio Website:
1. Work on Adding Text to your Portfolios
2. What can you do to enhance the viewer’s experience of your website. What needs to be emphasized; edited; additions
3. Complete your About and Overview Pages
5. What is your social media strategy for your photography/artwork/future
HOMEWORK:
Finish all Blog entries
Complete Digital Photography Porfolio
WEEK 16 May 7 All Final Projects Due: Blogs and Photo Portfolio complete
1. Funes Digital Arts Competition AWARDS ceremony in ARTS 239 classroom:
I will present a slideshow of ALL submissions, and Carolyn Funes and other faculty members and students will be attending
2. PRESENT: your completed BLOGS! No late blog posts!
3. VIEW: FINAL Website Photography Portfolio presentations.
NOTES
1. Richard Misrach: hugely important and compelling socio-political-cultural landscapes: Border Cantos, with Guillermo Galindo, musician/composer.
Landscape and social justice: “shifting environmental and political landscapes of the American West”
Watch: start at 1:58 to 50:00
POST: a significant blog post about Misrach and Border Cantos: I’m mostly interested in hearing your reactions to the work, and not a summary of what you saw.
What is the difference between a landscape and a cultural landscape? What is different about the goals of the photographer. Landscape as hero, or landscape as actor in a relationship? Or acted upon?
2. Camille Seaman: watch these very short video clips:
POST: on her relationship to the environment and nature, especially in the Polar Ice video
Polar Ice
Storm Chaser
3. Jack Dykinga: check out his photos of Southwest/California & Mexico. You do not need to write a post.
California
Mexico
Videos
KCET
Weaving Community: Tima Lotah Link: How Native Peoples are Rediscovering Their Basketry Traditions, with Nicholas Hummingbird
Gathering Medicine: Kat High, Richard Bugbee & Sage LaPena
Decolonizing the Diet: Lois Connor, Barbara Drake, Lorene Sisquoc, & Craig Torres
Mac Stone: Endangered Everglades
So my job, then, is to use photography as a communication tool, to help bridge the gap between the science and the aesthetics, to get people talking, to get them thinking, and to hopefully, ultimately, get them caring.—Mac Stone
Post re: Robert Adams: landscape photographer
“His refined black-and-white photographs document scenes of the American West of the past four decades, revealing the impact of human activity on the last vestiges of wilderness and open space. Although often devoid of human subjects, or sparsely populated, Adams’s photographs capture the physical traces of human life: a garbage-strewn roadside, a clear-cut forest, a half-built house.
An underlying tension in Adams’s body of work is the contradiction between landscapes visibly transformed or scarred by human presence and the inherent beauty of light and land rendered by the camera. Adams’s complex photographs expose the hollowness of the 19th Century American doctrine of Manifest Destiny, expressing somber indignation at the idea (still alive in the 21st Century) that the West represents an unlimited natural resource for human consumption. But his work also conveys hope that change can be effected, and it speaks with joy of what remains glorious in the West.”
Post re: An-My Lê landscape photographer
“An-My Le was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1960. Lê fled Vietnam with her family as a teenager in 1975, the final year of the war, eventually settling in the United States as a political refugee. Her photographs and films examine the impact, consequences, and representation of war.
Whether in color or black-and-white, her pictures frame a tension between the natural landscape and its violent transformation into battlefields. Suspended between the formal traditions of documentary and staged photography, Lê’s work explores the disjunction between wars as historical events and the ubiquitous representation of war in contemporary entertainment, politics, and collective consciousness”
Films:
Chasing Ice: James Balog: amazon rental
Sebastiao Salgado
Chased by the Light: Jim Brandenburg
Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film, PBS
Edward Burtynsky: Watermark and Manufactured Landscapes: amazon rental
Sally Mann: What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann: amazon rental and prime
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens: amazon rental
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning: amazon rental
Pedro E. Guerrero: amazon rental
Get the Picture: John Morris: amazon rental and prime
War Photographer: James Nachtwey
1000 Times Good Night: fictional account of female photojournalist during war
Ash Thorp: CSUSM graduate: Ender’s game, etc: guest may come to CSUSM
Study contemporary photographers who explore the global “industrial sublime,” as well as photographers who explore are regional ecosystems in California and Baja
Wild, the movie
BJornson: experimental nature
David Maisel: aerial/industrial sublime
This field trip is REQUIRED for everyone. LEAVE EXTRA TIME for driving, as there is construction on Pechanga Parkway.
We will meet at the Pechanga Service Station, which is just beyond the Pechanga Casino.
45000 Pechanga Pkwy, Temecula, CA 92592
(please google for directions)
Everyone needs to be there by 3:40 PM at the latest. We will be getting on a Pechanga bus then. There is a good Mexican take-out restaurant at the gas station if you get there early. Inexpensive too. You can park in the parking lot behind the gas station, or any of the Casino parking lots, but park close to the gas station.
They will then have a small bus for us to visit the Great Oak and the Cove, where there’s a pond and traditional village structures: a giant acorn granary, cedar bark house, ramada, sweat. It’s really beautiful, set against the mountains.
Bring your charged DSLR cameras, tripods, etc. This will be a great photo shoot day.
Please remember we are guests of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians. They are a sovereign nation. There is no public access unless you are invited onto the reservation. This is a great honor and privilege for us, as well as a great photo opportunity!
Please bring warm clothes. We’ll probably be outside until around 6:30 pm.
Photographer David duChemin: The next step on your photographic journey: to make photographs that are much more powerful.
The most powerful photograph is the one that connects with both the heart and mind of the reader. It’s the image that our imaginations keep returning to, and keep asking questions about; the image that stirs something in our emotions. That captivation is what prolongs our experience of the photograph, it’s what grabs our souls and won’t let go. It’s more human.
And more than ever we need photographs that are deeply human, empathetic, insightful . . . We can push past the size of our photographs and create depth. Not bit depth. Emotional depth. Depth of connection. Those will be the images to which we cling, the images that resonate with us and stick.
Once you’ve got your exposure figured out, and can competently focus an image, two things the camera is getting very good at doing, the only thing left is to create something that connects. That’s the human task, the part that requires creativity, soul, and something to say.
We do that with composition, with color, with our choice of moments, and we do it with storytelling.
Human beings are storytelling creatures. We find meaning there, we find hope. It’s how we change minds and stir hearts to action. And knowing how to use your camera won’t help you with this. This part of the photographic journey is done with the heart and the imagination, because it’s the heart and the imagination to which we speak.
We have always, and will always, hunger for stories. That hunger is hard-wired into us. You couldn’t stop it if you tried.
For the photographer wanting to find deeper relevance and connection to her audience, there are ways to do that powerfully, and one of those is storytelling. The more human, the more honest and vulnerable the better.
What story does your work tell? With what bigger story do you feed your audience – on gallery walls, your portfolio, or your Instagram feed? How could you tighten that story, edit it, reduce it to its most powerful elements? How can we make it a little more universal and a little less about ourselves? These are important questions.
Book Proposal
1. Create Book Project Proposal (minimum one page: 250 words) and post on your blog with accompanying photos by shooting a series of images that will help you to present your proposal.
Here are some guidelines: please make sure to answer #2
a. Describe the proposed book project: What is the story that you want to tell through your photographs, the general theme/focus of your project. What is the potential format (size) and anticipated length:
check out blurb.com for choices
b. Relevance of your project to your own life. Why have you chosen to your particular subject for your book project. How will you tell your story to make it compelling, memorable
c. How do you plan to find other artists who might help inspire your project, conceptually, aesthetically, technically.
d. How might research enhance your project
e. How will your book project enhance your learning and growth.
f. What do you anticipate you will learn from creating this project.
g. How will you disseminate your project: how will you promote your project once it is completed
h. What do you want your viewer/reader to remember a year after looking at your book project.
i. Alternative final formats:
Exhibition of a series of prints
and/or photos & text panels
Multimedia project with voice-over, sound, music
Large-scale projection in/outdoors
SHOOT & POST: Shoot some landscape shots in a park nearby you home, inspired by Burtynsky. You may have to google your park. Use a tripod. Have an intention for your shots: I want to try . . .
Get up early, or stay out late to get that great light. POST these to your blogs.
SHOOT & POST: Shoot some landscape shots in a park nearby you home, inspired by Burtynsky. You may have to google your park. Use a tripod. Have an intention for your shots: I want to try . . .
Get up early, or stay out late to get that great light. POST these to your blogs.
SHOOT a series of panos, HDR’s, and portraits in the landscape at the Oceanside Pier, or somewhere comparable. If you live in OB, the OB Pier is fine. Think about your chosen Prix Pictet photographer
Book Project Magazine Format
Blurb:
Refueled magazine Issue 14
Refueled magazine Issue 13
What Liberty Ate magazine
Gabriela Iancu
Online Magazine Site for layout ideas
Book Project Magazine Format
Blurb:
Refueled magazine Issue 14
Refueled magazine Issue 13
What Liberty Ate magazine
Gabriela Iancu
Online Magazine Site for layout ideas
DISCUSS: HDR & auto-exposure bracketing in aperture priority
lynda.com: Up and Running with the Canon Rebel T4i and T5i
DISCUSS: pre-visualization technique
“Making Chasing Ice”: Jeff Orlowski: DVD short film
perseverance, comfort zones, calculated risks
James Balog and Changing Forests series
“A worthy subject is the most important discovery for artists—it’s the magnetic passion that burns at the core of their work, attracting or repelling us, and determining whether they will attempt to evoke what is deepest and highest in us.”
—Artist Alex Grey, in Zig Zag Zen
It isn’t just the desire to climb mountains and hang off cliffs. [James Balog] has the ability to capture it in a way and communicate it.
Observing it and knowing it is one thing.
Sharing it, and sharing it effectively, can change the world.
—Sylvia Earle
SCREEN:
Relationship to Place in San Diego County: firescapes, wildlands, wetlands, wastelands, urban development, urban decay, urban-wild interfaces.
Gathering Medicine: Kat High, Richard Bugbee & Sage LaPena
Decolonizing the Diet: Lois Connor, Barbara Drake, Lorene Sisquoc, & Craig Torres
Mac Stone: Endangered Everglades
So my job, then, is to use photography as a communication tool, to help bridge the gap between the science and the aesthetics, to get people talking, to get them thinking, and to hopefully, ultimately, get them caring.—Mac Stone
Alex Boyd: the Scottish landscape: website
Alex Boyd: short video
Annenberg Space for Photography: choose a photographer to research from this site to inspire you for next week’s shoot nspired by the work of the photographer you research at the Annenberg Space for Photography.
Annenberg Space for Photography: choose a photographer to research from this site to inspire you for next week’s shoot nspired by the work of the photographer you research at the Annenberg Space for Photography.
b. We’ll also look at your series of photographs inspired by the work of your photographer chosen from the Annenberg Space for Photography: you will speak about the relationship between what you learned from your photographer and your series of photos.
ONLINE MENTOR a second online mentor. This person can be from the:
Annenberg Space for Photography
Fahey/Klein Gallery photographers
or a photographer of your choosing who will guide you with your Final Project.
Please write a post about your chosen photographer: how they might help you on your project.
ONLINE MENTOR a second online mentor. This person can be from the:
Annenberg Space for Photography
Fahey/Klein Gallery photographers
or a photographer of your choosing who will guide you with your Final Project.
Please write a post about your chosen photographer: how they might help you on your project.
1. entries for Funes Digital Arts Competition, with 3 prize winners ($100 each) and online submissions
BLURB: And by next week’s class, you also must add your book to your blog as a blurb slideshow:
SHOW ALL PAGES directions below:
To add your books to your blogs as a blurb slideshow: I will demonstrate this in class tonight.
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
BLOG POSTS for the Semester:
Week 2
Post a series of landscape photographs inspired by the work of Seth Boyd, Art Wolfe, or Edward Burtynsky and or Robert Adams post
10 Deadly Sins of Composition Post Art Wolfe Post
Week 3
Fieldtrip: Double Peaks post
Week 4
Chasing Ice video post
Oceanside Pier post
Week 5
Annenberg Photographer inspired landscape post
San Diego Botanic Garden post
Week 6
Flor Garduño exhibition post: include selfie or scan receipt
Black & White photo post inspired by Garduño exhibition
Week 7
Book Project Proposal with First Series of photos to accompany Final Project Proposal
Art Wolfe’s The Human Canvas Post
Jim Brandenburg and Chasing the Light video Post
Second Photographer Inspiration Post
Week 8
Elfin Forest post: stressed long exposures, among other technical details
Week 9 Spring Break
Second Series of photos for Final Project
Week 10
Continue work on Final Project
Week 11
San Elijo Lagoon post
Week 12
Work on Final Project
Week 13
Pechanga Fieldtrip post
Funes Competition: 9-10 compelling images post
Week 14
Funes Competition submission post 3 images
Week 15
Week 16
Final Book Project or Website Portfolio Post
The Great Oak
Wikipedia: Oldest Trees in the World
The Heart of the Oak
The Great Oak is the largest natural-growing, indigenous coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia ) wi’aashal tree in the United States and is estimated to be anywhere from 850 to 1,500 years old, making it one of the oldest oak trees in the world. The tree has been used by countless generations as a gathering place. The Great Oak area, Wi’aasha, is home to numerous culturally sensitive, historical and archaeological sites, including tribal interment sites from time immemorial.
The ancient Great Oak is a living, growing entity. An environmental wonder that continues to branch out, its roots continue to expand to keep it standing. When approaching the tree from a distance, what appear to be smaller trees around a larger tree are really the whole tree’s heavy spreading beams laying on the ground and rising up again in a circle of growth. The dark foliage has provided countless generations with welcome shade from the hot summer sun. In the center is the massive trunk, which is 20 feet around. Each branch, larger than most live oak trunks, rises up 96 feet, comes down to rest on the ground, and then rises up again to form the outer canopy. For all those fortunate enough to see it, the Great Oak truly is an impressive sight.
VISIT: a Park or Lagoon you have not yet been to: Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, (Santa Rosa Plateau wildflowers) in Murrieta, Daley Ranch in Escondido, Felicita Park further south in Escondido, Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve towards La Jolla, etc. Discuss other possibilities, as well as longer range areas: Palomar Mountain, Anza Borrego . . . Think about some of the landscape shots of Misrach (minus the fence) or Seaman (minus the icebergs).
Once again, focus on landscape shots and take a tripod. Try to shoot some really sharp (small aperture) wide angle landscape shots. What plant communities are you shooting. If you go with friends, you can incorporate some of them into your shots.
• Also, lay down on your back to photograph through tree branches, etc, and use the bridge of your nose as your “tripod.” The try lying down on your stomach, and using your elbows as your “tripod” . . .
Fieldtrip: Pechanga Reservation’s GREAT OAK TREE, Cultural Center and Village Site
Meet by 3:20 at the gas station right past the Pechanga Casino. Park behind the gas station in the Pechanga parking lots. There’s a pretty good Mexican take-out in the gas station, and plenty of snacks, water, etc., so get there early if you want to eat . . .
Bring DSLR cameras, etc . . .
Pechanga Service Station
45000 Pechanga Pkwy,
Temecula, CA 92592
D. Plagiarism: Intentionally or knowingly representing the words, ideas, or work of another as one’s own in any academic exercise, including:
(a) the act of incorporating the ideas, words, sentences, paragraphs, or parts thereof, or the specific substance of another’s work, without giving appropriate credit, and representing the product as one’s own work;
(b) the act of putting one’s name as an author on a group project to which no contribution was actually made; and
(c) representing another’s artistic/scholarly works such as musical compositions, computer programs, photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, or similar works as one’s own.
Guidelines:
- Direct Quotation: Every direct quote must be identified by quotation marks, or by appropriate indentation or by other means of identification, and must be properly cited with author(s) name(s), year of publication, page number(s), footnotes and/or endnotes, depending on the citation style used. Proper citation style for academic writing is outlined by such manuals as the MLA handbook for writers of research papers, APA: Publication manual of the American Psychological Association, or Chicago manual of style.
- Paraphrase: Prompt acknowledgment is required when material from another source is paraphrased or summarized in whole or in part in one’s own words. To acknowledge a paraphrase properly, one might state: “to paraphrase Locke’s comment…” and conclude with a citation identifying the exact reference. A citation acknowledging only a directly quoted statement does not suffice to notify the reader of any preceding or succeeding paraphrased material.
- Borrowed Facts or Information: Information obtained in one’s reading or research which is not common knowledge among students in the course must be acknowledged. Examples of common knowledge might include the names of leaders of prominent nations, basic scientific laws, etc.
- Material which contributes only to the student’s general understanding of the subject may be acknowledged in the bibliography and need not be immediately cited. One citation is usually sufficient to acknowledge indebtedness when a number of connected sentences in the paper draw their special information from one source. When direct quotations are used, however, quotation format must be used and prompt acknowledgment is required
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