Workshop and lecture conducted by Lindsay M. McCormick
March 2012
AD267 Digital Photography
Wednesday, January 18, 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.
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
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
Monday, November 21, 2011
Fact and Fiction
Choose one from the two following themes.
Fact and Fiction: 1 Image, Minimum of 12"x16"
It's a Small World:1 Image, Minimum of 12"x16"
Itʼs a Small World allows for the exploration of the studio as a viable part of an artistic practice. Working small will give you the freedom to construct realities, which may have never existed otherwise. The studio is a space to explore the interrelationships of control and experimentation. It stands apart from the social world, but it is indirectly connected. The isolation may allow some to explore ideas that involve identity (self and the construction of meaning), while many others will remake or allegorize the outside world. For all, this is an opportunity for the improvisation and execution of elaborate plans.
Steps Outline:
Your miniature set should not be any larger 3 feet square. Prefabricated sets may be used. ie. dollhouse
Begin with sketch of your potential set. Identify any potential hurtles and accompanying solutions. Identify lighting needs. Construct for set with lighting needs in mind. ie. does a wall need to be transparent or a roof removed. Make at least 4 images you’re your setup(s) and 2 prints for critique.
Materials Ideas:
Cut paper and photographs, dollhouses, snow globes, food, toys, models, clay, play dough.
Lighting Ideas:
Flash Lights, studio strobes, work lights, mirrors, colored lights.
Tips
Plan ahead, and have all of the item in hand and ready before you begin.
Have sketch and/or images that you draw inspiration from.
Sketch lighting setup.Use the hand held meters
Bracket your exposures: +1⁄2, +1, –1⁄2, and –1 stop - Choose an f-stop that gives you the effect that you want - FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS
Due: Dec 8th
Soon after the invention of photography and its subsequent use as an “objective” scientific tool of observation photographs began to be manipulated. While photographic manipulation has a history nearly as long as the process itself, photographs continue to be the mainstay in which we experience history, receive the news and provide evidence of scientific discovery. Many major news publication such as Time magazine, the New York Times and National Geographic, to name a few have manipulated photographs to create a more appealing and dramatic image to a story. Artists such as Joan Foncuberta and Christine Chin have taken advantage of the objective role of photography and have used it to create fictions that are presented as fact.
For this assignment, I would like you to create a photographic hoax with the intention of conveying it as the objective “truth”. Consider how manipulated images in the news have possibly (re)shaped our ideas of historical and cultural events. Invent an event, alternate history or scientific discovery and create a photograph will serve as evidence of the event, history or discovery.
For this assignment, I would like you to create a photographic hoax with the intention of conveying it as the objective “truth”. Consider how manipulated images in the news have possibly (re)shaped our ideas of historical and cultural events. Invent an event, alternate history or scientific discovery and create a photograph will serve as evidence of the event, history or discovery.
Due: Dec 8th
Itʼs a Small World allows for the exploration of the studio as a viable part of an artistic practice. Working small will give you the freedom to construct realities, which may have never existed otherwise. The studio is a space to explore the interrelationships of control and experimentation. It stands apart from the social world, but it is indirectly connected. The isolation may allow some to explore ideas that involve identity (self and the construction of meaning), while many others will remake or allegorize the outside world. For all, this is an opportunity for the improvisation and execution of elaborate plans.
Steps Outline:
Your miniature set should not be any larger 3 feet square. Prefabricated sets may be used. ie. dollhouse
Begin with sketch of your potential set. Identify any potential hurtles and accompanying solutions. Identify lighting needs. Construct for set with lighting needs in mind. ie. does a wall need to be transparent or a roof removed. Make at least 4 images you’re your setup(s) and 2 prints for critique.
Materials Ideas:
Cut paper and photographs, dollhouses, snow globes, food, toys, models, clay, play dough.
Lighting Ideas:
Flash Lights, studio strobes, work lights, mirrors, colored lights.
Tips
Plan ahead, and have all of the item in hand and ready before you begin.
Have sketch and/or images that you draw inspiration from.
Sketch lighting setup.Use the hand held meters
Bracket your exposures: +1⁄2, +1, –1⁄2, and –1 stop - Choose an f-stop that gives you the effect that you want - FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Project 3: Interrupted Landscape
Final
Minimum of 2 final prints
Digital Contact Sheet
Minimum of 60 images shot for editing
The Final Assignment is designed to have you looking at the landscape/society/world that surround you. Most people think of landscapes as being a documentation of pristine beauty as in the photographs of Ansel Adams. However landscapes can include suburbia, urban landscapes, seascapes, futurerama,fairytale landscape, inner landscape, emotional landscape,,,,,you name it. For this assignment, you would be creating a inner landscape that exist in your mind. It could be photographing scenes where the presence of man has altered the natural landscape and you collect them together and edit them to sense of your own landscape; this alteration can be obvious or subtle. Your image could be representation of Utopia or dystopia. Your series of images should have connective thread through use of camera control, light, style, or subject [conceptual or physical]. Please creatively utilize photographs you shot for Shooting Assignment (Exploring a Space and Recognizing light)
Artists:
Gregory Crewson
Thomas Demand
Dainel Kaufmann
Alison Carey
Jeff Wall
Joel Peter Witkins
Richard Misrach
Edward Burtynsky
John Pfhal
Joel Sterfeld
Stephen Shore
Robert Adams
Lewis Baltz
Mark Klett
Patrick Nagatani
Requirements
2 final Minimum 8.5"x11" Maximum 12x16 Prints
2 Final edited images resized for web – 1200 pixels long dimension – jpg format-upload them to your blog
2 final 12x16 Prints
Digital Contact Sheet
If you are in need of help outside of the scheduled class time please see me during my office hours or make an appointment by e-mail. Group appointments to answer technical questions are advised and very much appreciated.
Due by Dec 6th (Thursday)
Due by Dec 6th (Thursday)
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Digital Photography Tutorial
Easy Easy Tutorial to learn the basic Digital Photography and Studio Lighting
Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 1
Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 3
Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 1
Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 3
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
Position available!
Lockheed Martin – Aeronautics Media Products Department is holding a recruiting and information session on October 12, 2011 from 6-8PM in Beering B268 for the following target areas:
· 3D Animation
· Creative Writing
· Graphic Design
· Interactive Media
· Photography
· Video Production
· Web Site Programming and Design
Valerie Brinson, graphic artist with Lockheed has indicated that Lockheed now plans to recruit 7-10 positions annually from CLA. Your help in getting the word to students in these major/target areas is very appreciated. You can find an advertisement for the info session in the October issue of Professional Pathways @ http://www.cla.purdue.edu/students/careers/documents/Oct11%20PDF.pdf for use in your classrooms/departments as well.
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