Tuesday, December 4, 2012

TAF Show Opening !!!!!! Please come to support our seniors in the photo program.
I would expect to see all of you!


Monday, November 26, 2012

Hello Everyone!

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving break.
I have posted corrected version of the assignments both for Shooting assignment and Final.
Under Categories:
Click 'Final' to read the instruction of Final assignment (Interrupted Landscape)
Click 'Shooting Assignment' to read the instruction of shooting assignments (both Recognizing Light and Exploring a Space)

See you.


Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Constructed Photography Artists


Gregory Crewdson
Jeff Wall
Patrick Nagatani
Justin Lane
Joan Foncuberta
Christine Chin
Daniel Kaufmann
Robert Parke-Harrison Use Website
David Leventhall
Andrew Crooks – Use Website
Chad Person
Anthony Giocolea
Lori Nix
Julie Blackmon
Wang Quingsong
Yasumasa Morimura
Cindy Sherman
Yeondoo Jung
Robert Rainey
Anna Gaskell
Simen Johan
Dan Wen
Aziz and Cucher
James Casebere
Thomas Demand
Ruth Thorne-Thomsem
Holly Andres
Alison Carey
Peter Garfield
Hippolyte Bayard
Julia Margaret Cameron
Man Ray
Warren Thompson
Oscar Gustave Reijander
F. Holland Day
Henry Peach Robinson
Carrie Mae Weems
Lewis Carroll
Amy Stein
Bernard Faucon
Laura Letinsky
Richard Ballen

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Hello!
Here is the tutorial of Adam and Eve. http://www.scribd.com/doc/111136026
Finish it up, save, put it in your in class exercise folder in the server. Over the weekend, think about your favorite artist work you want to appropriate and start collecting images you need for the assignment. Here is examples of artists whose work is known for appropriating and post appropriating. Please research these artists to get inspiration.

Marcel Duchamp
Sherrie Levine
Richard Prince
Barbara Kruger
Paul Pfeiffer
Elad Lassry
Alex Prager
Joe Etheridge
Ann Steuernagel

Remember I meet with you individually to discuss your performance and grade next Tuesday in the following order. Each of you gets 10mins.

Kelsey
Meagan
Beckwith
Bronwyn
Mike
Jill
Mykala
Lauren
Rosalba
Yohan
Jesse
Pablo



Monday, October 15, 2012

PLEASE WRITE ARTIST STATEMENT FOR CREATIVE ASSIGNMENT 1 ON YOUR BLOG


Monday, September 3, 2012

David Hockney's photographic collage

http://www.hockneypictures.com/home.php
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hockney/

British painter, draughtsman, printmaker, photographer, and designer. After a brilliant prize-winning career as a student at the Royal College of Art, Hockney had achieved international success by the time he was in his mid-20s, and has since consolidated his position as by far the best-known British artist of his generation. His phenomenal success has been based not only on the flair, wit, and versatility of his work, but also on his colorful personality, which has made him a recognizable figure even to people not particularly interested in art

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Today's class content

We are learning Adobe Bridge and Camera Raw
Bring your card which has 180 raw files.


Thursday, August 23, 2012

Field Trip to IMA

We are meeting in the parking lot in front of Pao Hall at 2, next Tuesday, 28th.

Min is riding with Kelsey and Pablo
Rosalba is eiding with Mykala, Meagan, Jill
Beckwith is with Bronwyn, Lauren, Mike and Jesse

Don't be late!!!!!!!!!


Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Sophomore Review

Hello Everyone!

Here is the criteria for sophomore review. The review is scheduled to take place on Thursday 12th and 13th at B162 (photo digital lab)
We would like to finish the review in one day if at all possible. Please send me your availability on Thursday(12th) and Friday(13th). Each candidate will receive 20 mins for powerpoint presentation and Q&A.

Your powerpoint should include the following:
1. AD119: 9 digital file (720x480, 72dpi)
2. AD267: 9 digital files
3. AD269: 9 digital files

You should also bring physical prints of the following:
1. AD117: 9 prints
2. AD119: 9 prints
3. AD267: 4-5 prints
4. AD269: 9 prints

The powerpoint presentation should be about 10 mins at the maximum.  Leave 10 mins for Q&A.
Be prepare to talk about the statement of intent of your work in most concise, concrete, and succinct way.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Brian Powell

-Lafayette Lighting Guru, Brian Powell, came to our class and gave amazing workshop.
Check his website:  www.brianpowell.info

1. Lighting is about making a good decision
2. Lighting in layers
3. First decision will be Ambient Light, figure Key Light, and add Fill Light
4. Color, Modifier and Triggers
5. More important what you don't light than what you do
6. Speedlites basically act as their own snoot and studio lights are more exposed* reason to bring studio light on location

Key Equipment...
-Flash Bracket
-Super Clamp
-Jobi Gorilla Pod (flexible tripod) for small flash or camera
-Ball Bungees, zip ties, scissors, tape
-Gels to correct for color (most speedlites are daylight balanced) or for EFFECT
-Velcro straps
-Mini Octobox
-Lastolite Easybox (like a soft box 2'x2')
-Painter's pole
-Instead of a speed-ring use a frame
-Trigger (Paul C. Buff for Alien Bees around $70)
-Lumiquest (10'x14' for headshot portrait or details, composite shots)
-Gary Fong
-Sanyo Interloopt (battery) (@ $200)

Getting your own... (options)
-Vivitar 285 (around $200) OR
Nikon SB28
-Optical Slave (flashzebra.com) senses instant light

After Powered ON...
-Modes- ETTL (speedlite is on your camera and flash compensates for camera settings), M (manual-consistant), Multi (stroboscopic you can change how many times it flashes with each exposure)
-Zoom- one hit, then use scroll wheel (zooms the flash head closer or further from the end) SO at 105mm its like using a snoot,  at 24mm its gives you a broader spread, use diffuser panel to act like a catch light
master on (this specific light sends the signal to the other flashes)
slave on (lightning bolt) (this is the light receiving the signal to trigger)
-MANUAL MODE- set (in middle of wheel) at full power 1/1 and all the way down to ex: 1/128th he usually sets his to 1/8 to 1/4 power, rarely uses full
****KNOW YOUR GEAR! READ THE MANUAL! ****
-Test button is called the pilot (to test the recycle time) (if it turns green and then red it takes awhile to get ready) (green=not ready, red=ready)

shutter snitch

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Introduction to Studio Lighting

Workshop and lecture conducted by Lindsay M. McCormick
March 2012

















Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Welcome!

Welcome to the class, AD269 Lighting Fundamentals
Now course syllabus and project descriptions are updated in the blog.
Check Assignment 1,2,3,4,5 to see what you would expect to do in this class.

I wanted to let you know about the reception for Photoworks 2012 exhibit in the Reuff Galleries in Pao. The reception will be on Thursday evening, January 19th from 5-7pm.
Reception is mandatory, especially if you have work in the show. Please, also, try and bring something to share (food-wise) for this event. Cookies, fudge, chips and salsa, veggies and hummus, whatever... Let me know if you can come and what you'd like to bring. Food will need to be there no later than 4:45 so that we can have everything set up before visitors arrive.

BRING THE EQUIPMENTS YOU CHECKED OUT! TOMORROW, WED 18TH