Week 10: Individual Meetings

This week we will be having individual meetings during class. You'll be meeting with me individually in the classroom, to review your progress in class. Your blog should be complete and have all the assignments assigned on it and up to date. If you missed class last week and did not make an appointment to see me, we can meet between 2:15 and 3:00 pm.

Today is an open lab day, apart from our meeting. (Meaning: You are only required to be in class for your scheduled meeting time.) And I will be here to help you with whatever you need, but please do use this time to your advantage, and work on your final portfolio assignment.

11:00 – 11:15   Carmen Ramos

11:15 – 11:30   Nicole Acosta

11:30 – 11:45   Aaron Hwang

11:45 – 12:00   Chul Yim

12:00 – 12:15   Neci Williams

12:15 – 12:30   Jalen Jones

12:30 – 12:45   Jered Willoughby

12:45 – 1:00     Jack Jones

1:00 – 1:15       Lorrie Walton

1:15 – 1:30       Rachael Hildebrandt

1:30 – 1:45       Chance Scroggins

1:45 – 2:00       Kalynn Hudmann

2:00 – 2:15       Dayton Gifford

Call for Entries, Due Soon!

Call for Entries:

Here are a few art opportunities that I've come across recently:

• Choose Your Own Adventure: An Exhibition Without Borders     Due Oct 26, No Entry Fee
• 3rd Annual "Open" Call: Light Space Gallery     Due Oct 27, 1-2 images for $12
• No Big Heads: 28th Annual National Self-Portrait Juried Exhibition     Due Oct 27, $14 per entry
• Lunch Ticket     Due Oct 31, No Entry Fee
• Reason for Being     Due Nov 1, No Entry Fee
• Art Inter/National: Here and Abroad     Due Nov 1, No Entry Fee
• Peripheral ARTeries     Due Nov 7, No Entry Fee 
• Art Under $200     Due Nov 12, 2 entries for $15 

Final Project

Week 8: Photoshop continued, and FINAL PROJECT OVERVIEW

Susan Swihart

This week in class we looked at our blog posts as inspiration. We also went over more features in photoshop and started "Retouching." The final project was also introduced.   

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Semester Long/Final Project: Self-Assigned

For this assignment you will be required to create a photographic project of your own choosing on a Single Theme. You will be working on this assignment throughout the duration of the semester. This should be a thoughtful investigation/exploration of something important to you or that you are interested in.  Your photographic project will include 10 - 15 final images and will be printed and matted as a portfolio.

Timeline:

DUE October 25: Project Proposal

We will have individual meetings to review your proposal. 

            1. This proposal should be between one paragraph long and one page long, but no longer than one page
            2. You should address WHAT/WHY/HOW: 
                              a.  WHAT: the subject matter/topic you are interested in exploring
                              b.  WHY: why you are interested in the topic, why it is significant
                              c.  HOW: ideas of how you plan to visualize/investigate these ideas photographically
            3. Print two copies of this proposal to turn in during your individual meeting.

DUE November 15: Mid-way/ Progress Critique due

Individual meetings to review your progress

            1. 5 digital files for semester long project posted to your blog. Bring your files on a flash drive or hard drive to your individual meetings

DUE November 15: First Print
            1.     During class, print one of your final project images

DUE December 6: Final Critique

All of your 10 -15 images must be posted on your blog
            1.   All of your final project files to uploaded to your blog
            2.     Prints matted for presentation



Intro to Digital Media Exhibition: TBA

Multiple Me

Assignment #3: Multiple Me or Multiple Places

For this project you will create 2 images that composite different (multiple) photographs together.

It's very similar to the "Levitation" images we made using PS layers. 

• TIP: When you're shooting, be sure to set your camera exposure and focus to manual. And DO NOT move your camera! 

You want your two final photographs to be connected visually and thematically. 

• TIP: Be thoughtful about the content – what ideas are you addressing? How does the composited image facilitate these ideas? Is the work narrative-based – do you want to tell a story? Are you interested in blurring the boundaries between fantasy and reality? Etc.

We'll all do several in class, then you will do two more on your own. One of them should use you as the subject.

Assignment:
You will post your 2 photographs to your blog and bring in your 2 photographs to project in class for critique.

DUE: October 25

For inspiration look at artists: Kelli Connell, Anthony Goicolea, Deborah Oropollo, Peter Funch
  

The Space Between from "Double Life," Kelli Connell

Vimeo

Getting Up from "Double Life," Kelli Connell

From the series "You and What Army" by Anthony Goicolea

From the series "Deja Vu" by Peter Funch

Care Taker from the series "Babel Tales" by Peter Funch

From the series "Rapport" by Claudia Rogge

Think combination or montaged images are only a recent development from the advent of Photoshop?

Check these out: 

Oscar Gustave Rejlander's allegorical tableaux The Two Ways of Life consisted of over 32 negatives. 1857 

Henry Peach Robinson's famous morbid image Fading Away. 1858

Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop

Helpful Guides:

• http://content.photojojo.com/inspiration/a-digital-guide-to-cloning-yourself/
• http://paintthemoon.net/blog/2011/07/photoshop-actions-how-to-creating-a-composite-image-combining-multiple-photos-to-create-magic/

More inspiration:

• Danielle Khoury
• Elva Salinas

Reminder: Blog / Article Reviews

Articles Reviews

Ticka-Arts

Blog / Article Review Posts: 

• Blog/Article Review: I want you to look at an art/photography blog, (links and dates listed below), and look it over, and post to your blog the following about a recent (within last 3 months) post:
• Blog Name
• Title of the article or artist and date posted
• Image from the article or artist
• A few sentences addressing the blog as a whole. Some talking points to consider:
• Who is the blogger? How is the site organized? Is it easy to read/visually appealing? How often do they post and what are their main posts about? Is it an art blog or just photography?
• 1 or 2 short paragraphs addressing the article. Some talking points:
• What is the article about? Who is the artist? What kind of work do they do? Were you interested, excited, curious, disinterested by what you read? If so, why? 
• Link to the blog/article

Below is a list of due dates and their corresponding websites to find articles. By each due date (due at the end of the day) you must have read a current article from the website and completed your blog post. 

 10/18   –  Lenscratch –  http://lenscratch.com/

 10/25  –  Glasstire – http://glasstire.com/

 11/1 –  Aperture Magazine Blog – http://www.aperture.org/blog/

 11/8   –  Light Leaked –  http://www.lightleaked.com/

 11/22 –  FotoFilmic – http://fotofilmic.com/

Reminder: Art Opportunities Assignment

Art Opportunities Assignment

Installation view from "Direct Objects: Still Life as Subject" at the Vermont PhotoPlace Gallery

By December 6th you will need to have applied to two art exhibition or art opportunities.

On December 6th you will submit documentation of these submissions which can be:
  * application materials
  * emailed receipt from online application
  * email notification of online application
  * list of information of where the work was sent and details of what was sent

Please bring me a printed copy of this information.

Some resources for art opportunities:

Society for Photographic Education: http://www.spenational.org/
College Art Association http://www.collegeart.org/opportunities/
ArtShow: www.artshow.com
Call for Entry: https://www.callforentry.org/
Art Deadlines: http://www.artdeadlines.com 
TAMUC Art Dept website:http://www.tamuc.edu/academics/colleges/humanitiesSocialSciencesArts/departments/art/news/competitions.aspx
Texas Commission on the arts: http://www.arts.state.tx.us/ 

Upcoming:
Joyce Elaine Grant juried exhibition:
http://www.joyceelainegrant.com/
November 4 deadline

Week 6: Levitation

Today in class we reviewed our blogs and looked at our Triptych and Alphabet projects. Great job guys! These look really good. 

(Remember if you haven't uploaded to your blog yet, make sure to do this prior to next class in order to receive late credit.)

We also went over the next project, Levitation!

Example of historical levitation photography

Remember, photographers have been manipulating images long before photoshop!

Falling Teacher

Now that we have each made one Levitation image in class, and each of you is now a pro... For the next assignment, you will create one amazing Levitation image! Using either yourself or a model for the image. (It must contain a person)

• Think about the story you will try to tell. Consider the background, lighting, color, costume, hair, props, and accessories... I want an AWESOME ONE!

Here are some helpful links for inspiration and tutorials: 

http://yowayowacamera.com/
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/levitation-photography/
http://giveawaytuesdays.wonderhowto.com/inspiration/levitation-challenge-5-tutorials-for-defying-gravity-0127500/
http://www.missaniela.com/
http://www.photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-manipulation/breathtaking-underwater-apartment-photo-manipulation/

Inspiration Images/Links:

Student Example

Student Example

Blake Jacobsen

Chelsey LeBlanc

Emillie 

Kylie Woon (Somewhere Lovely)

Stu Mayhew

Natsumi Hayashi

Luke Sharratt

Assignment for this week: "Levitation"

• I want you to upload the Levitation image to your blog that we did in class. Title your post: Levitation - Class.

1. For the weekly assignment, You will take a minimum of two photographs. One of the empty scene and one with you "levitating."
2. Locate your images. 
• Process in Lightroom. (make sure color/exposure/density is the same!)
3. Open both images in Photoshop.
• Locate your empty scene image. Hit (Command)⌘A to select all, and then ⌘C to copy. Locate your Levitating image and ⌘V to paste.
4. In the Layers Palette, make sure the empty scene is selected. Drag this layer onto the layer mask icon to create a layer mask.

5. It should now look like this: 

6. Hit ⌘I to invert the layer. Your screen should now look like this:

7. Select your brush tool (B) and make sure that your painting with white. Using 100% opacity, paint out the object to erase from view. 

• As you get closer to your body, you can lower the brush hardness, as well as the opacity and flow. This will allow for a cleaner erase and a more realistic "Levitation."

1.  When finished, save one copy with the layers as a PSD. This is for your records, in case you want to go in and change anything later. 
• Now go to Layer -- and Flatten Image.
• Save this copy as a JPEG, to upload to blog.
1. Lastly, upload both images (In Class and Weekly Assignment) to your blog no later than before class on 10/11.