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. 

Week 4: Adobe LR/PS, Portraits, and Aplhabets... Oh My!

Nicola Kuperus

Today in class we went over art opportunities, basic Lightroom editting, and basic photoshop layers. If you are behind on blogposts, please get these up to date no later than this weekend. 

Assignment for this week: "Portraits of Self, Portraits of Others"

1. I would like you to go through the portraits that we shot in class the other day, and chose 5 of your favorite images. 1 portrait must be a self-portrait. And 1 portrait must be of someone else. The remaining 3 are your choice, (Self or Other). You will take these 5 images and process them in Lightroom:
• If you do not feel confident about the portraits you have taken, please RESHOOT. You should feel good about your work. Shoot until you do. 

• In Lightroom: Make sure to do your White Balance, color corrections, exposure, contrast, and any cropping. And then EXPORT the images as jpegs. 

• You will then post these 5 images to your blog prior to next class, 9/27. Post should be titled "Portraits of Self, Portraits of Others." The day of the class, please bring these images on a harddrive / thumbdrive to turn in, we will be projecting them for the critique. 

• Please label images in the following format: lastnamefirstname_portraits_001.jpg. 
• Ex: SmithKristina_portrait_001.jpg, SmithKristina_portrait_002.jpg, etc. 

Monica Ruzansky, Dicen Que

2. I would like you to continue shooting for the Alphabet assignment. 

• You will photograph a minimum of two complete sets of the alphabet. 

• (Remember, there are 26 letters in the alphabet. 1 image for each letter. Each complete set must be different, So at least 52 images total.)   

• You will process one alphabet set in color and one in black and white. The letters should be made from your image composition, and not from shooting actual letters or typefaces that you may find on signs! Two sets are due, the friday after next, on October 4. We will process these in class on Friday, September 27, so please have something to work with. And the final image will be posted to your blog as one final image. 
• See the example below:

                                           

Lightroom

Today in class we talked a bit about Photography workflow, the difference between Lightroom and Photoshop, and the difference in file formats. (JPEG, RAW, DNG) We also looked at importing images into a library, creating catalogs, and organizing images. You should have the previous assignment, (the Questionare and Portrait posts) complete and uploaded to your blog. 

Check out this great link about Lightroom.

ASSIGNMENT For this week: 

• Screenshot: I'd like you to create the file archive system that we in reviewed in class and take a screenshot of it (command*shift*4) and post it to your blog.

• Blog/Article Review: I want you to look at an art/photography blog, (suggested links to the right), and look it over, and post to your blog the following about a recent (past few months) post:
• Blog Name
• Title of the article or artist
• Image from the article or artist
• 1 short paragraph 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 short paragraph addressing the article/artist. 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

• Alphabet and Portraits: The entire alphabet is is not due next class period, but I would like you to begin shooting and challenge yourself to begin seeing the lines and shapes around you differently. You should be continuing to shoot portraits of yourself and others, and now start to find and shoot "found" alphabets. Next class period, I will show you a bit on Photoshop and how to size images, create a layer, work in color/BW and crop your images to create a single final image. These techniques will come in handy for the remainder of the assignments. Check the blog this week to for more posts!

Portraits of Self, Portraits of Others

Emmit Gowin

Today, I will show you some great portraits and we'll get in groups and we'll start planning to photograph one another. Find five great portrait photographers online, tell me who took the pictures and why you like the images, and add them to your blog before next class. Your goal is to make five great portraits of each person in your group, including yourself. The photograph needs to be strong compositionally, be interesting to look at, and should tell us something about the person being photographed. A pretty tall order, sounds a lot like a collaboration between the subject and the photographer to me...


Make sure you bring your pictures with you to next class, on your hard drive. 
ALL OF THEM. 

The following images were made by Edward Curtis, he is the fellow on the right with the fine hat and goatee. He started this project to record the way of life of the North American Indian in 1907, and made more than 40,000 images of them. You can see many of them at the Library of Congress.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=edward%20curtis

Questionare

Questions please...

Please take some time to fill out this questionnaire and include in on your blog. It's due on your blog before the next class.


1. What’s your major? What year will you graduate?

2. Why did you choose a photography class (or photography as a major), and what do you hope to learn from school in general and this class specifically?

3. What are your goals after graduation? Please list your goals in reverse order, starting five years out, then three, two, one, and six months.

4. What artists, musicians, photographers, writers, movies, books have influenced you/your work?

5. Are there any important websites that you are referencing for art/photo competitions and/or information?

6. What museums and/or galleries have you been to in the past year?

7. Have you had any photo projects and/ or training in the past?

8. What is the value of art for the artist?

9. What is the value of art for the audience?

10. Is photography a vocation or an avocation?

11. What is your passion?

12.What are you afraid of? What makes you uncomfortable?

13. Do you have a passport? Are you a traveller?

14. Who is your favorite artist? And why?

15. Why did you sign up for this class? What do you hope to learn from it?

Assignment 1 – My World

My World Assignment

William Eggleston

For this assignment, I want you to take photographs of your world. These images may be of your neighborhood, hobbies, home, culture, and/or really anything that you would like to share about your life, interests, and personality. For this project, you will be required to shoot everyday and use any available digital camera. Try to shoot at least 5-10 images each day.

When making your daily photographs, consider photographing something that you weren’t expecting to see, something you enjoy seeing everyday, the places, people, and things around you. Think about how photography can elevate the ordinary or how the camera can be used like a visual diary. Shoot several photographs throughout the day and then select your favorite from each day to post to your blog and turn in for critique. You will do this for five CONSECUTIVE days. Be thoughtful about your photographs and shoot with intention.

Hint: For images to be successful, you will need to slow down and shoot a lot of images. 

Things to ask yourself when shooting:

·   How is the photograph framed and why?

·   Is the light quality working for you or against you?

·   What would happen if you stepped back 10 feet or got closer to your subject? Or if you stood on a chair or    

    were to lie on the ground?

·   Why are you interested in the photograph you just made – and if you are not interested in it, why and what   

    could you do to change that? 

Assignments Criteria:

·       Shoot Everyday – To complete this assignment on time you must begin by Monday, September 5, 2013

·       At the end of each day, Review your photographs

·       Select the photograph you are the most excited about from each day – Even if you are excited about multiple photographs from one day (which I hope is the case!) you still must select only one photograph

·       Upload your 5 Fav photos to your blog in 1 blog post: Title post as “My World”

The final work work will be evaluated on concept and composition. We will not be printing these images.

Due:   Friday, September 6, 2013

Post your favorite 5 images (1 from each day) on your blog BEFORE class on September 6th.

And bring the files from ALL your daily images on your hard drive to class on Friday. We will use these files for our first lab exercise in LightRoom and PhotoShop.

You will be graded on:

·       Shooting consecutively (I will review the metadata on your photographs, which indicates the date shot)

               –  Remember, your metadata will show when the images were taken and they must have been taken  

                  between August 31 and September 6, 2013.

·       Ability to upload your photographs to your blog by the deadline.

·       Content / Intentionality of your images

For the critique:   1. Bring in all 5 files saved as screen resolution jpegs and named:

       LASTNAME_myworld1.jpg, LASTNAME_myworld2.jpg.

       You will turn these files into me and project them in class for critique

  2.  Bring remaining images in on a hard drive.