Wednesday, Nov. 3

Please bring your camera to class. No photo diary today. Thanks for good critique look forward to seeing the rest of your images. See you on Wednesday.

Also please remember to lift these people up in prayer this week -
Jill / for grandfather's passing and friend going through hard time
Josh R / for health and continued recovery
Olivia / for tooth recovery

Critique on Monday

IN CLASS PHOTO DIARY - Jason Travis photographs / shoot people and their possessions. Please lay them out in an organized manner similar to how Jason shoots his photos. Here is a link to the shots that we saw in class today.

http://design.org/blog/personified-photo-series-people-and-possessions-jason-travis

Don't forget critique is on Monday. You will need a summary describing your subject and the reasons why you shot them for the assignment. You need to have one photo framed and under glass. The other photo from the previous assignment needs to be in your folder with the last assignment. You will need to have your folder organized in this order...

1. Project #2 Summary
2. Negatives
3. Contact Sheet
4. Final Print (best print should be under glass)

Be ready to talk about these on Monday and get introduced to the next assignment.

Wednesday, October 26th

If you guys could be keeping an eye on the thermostat while you work. If it get's too hot turn on the air or too cold turn on the heat. It's odd temps these days and we are trying to save this developer issues we are having by keeping an eye on things. If you are last man out make sure to turn things off and make sure that the temp is good to go while you are gone. Wednesday will be a work day in class. Also bring your cameras for we will be talking about more photographers to look at.

PHOTO DIARY: Don't forget you have two assignments (one in class photo diary) Yo Imae - subject standing on dark background, not smiling just looking at the camera. If you didn't get this in class try shooting this again. Also you need to shoot in the style of Rineke Dijkstra. Please make your background abstract planes of color similar to the vistas of the sea side or the solider shots. Shoot your subject in a moment before something happens and after.

Check out this interview and work for inspiration...
http://www.popphoto.com/how-to/2008/12/conversation-rineke-dijkstra

Monday, October 24

PHOTO DIARY: Please take a photograph of someone you don't know working. Adventure to places you have never been on campus. (please don't just shoot your roomie on this one...find someone doing some physical labor). Make this individual look like they are important to making the machine operate just like Lewis Hine's Powerhouse Mechanic. This photo in your diary will be black and white.

Here's some examples of Lewis Hine's work for reference. http://www.multimedialibrary.com/framesml/IM12/IM12page2.asp
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/picturing_the_century/portfolios/port_hine.html

Your assignment of the portrait project will be due next Wednesday. Please have your folder updated and your new portrait hung in the hallway for Wednesday, Oct. 26th class. Best one in the frame, the other in the folder. Don't forget to write a summary. Describe in detail why you took this photograph - why was this subject was interesting and how that informed your shots. There should be new developer in both the film and print lab - so we should be good to go for next week. See you on Monday!

Wondering how to photograph someone and tell their story check out this online magazine set about legends...
http://www.pictorymag.com/showcases/local-legends/
Also take a look at the stories that they write about their subject...this is a little glimpse of how your summaries should show us the interesting story that these people have to tell.

Wednesday, October 12

PHOTO DIARY ASSIGNMENT: Shoot a person with an interesting face. Someone that will stare the camera down. Do not get them smiling. Have them set up with standard lighting and a white background (white wall). Convert the final image for this diary entry into a black and white photo. If you are familiar with photoshop and would like to add a black border similar to Richard's photographs that would be great...but only if you are familiar with photoshop.

Check out this link for the In the West series: http://www.richardavedon.com/#s=0&mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&p=7&a=0&at=0

Wednesday class will be a work day in the darkroom and more photo greats to look at.

Monday, October 10th

Don't forget to turn in your proposals...this has to be done before the end of today, October 6th! For Monday please bring a drive with your self portraits on them. We are going to take a look at these in class so don't forget. Here's the details of your next assignment...

ASSIGNMENT #2: PORTRAIT
Two photographs will be due
1. Close up
2. One Enviornmental

You must submit a proposal to Ms. Posey by the 6th to get approval of subject.
You will need to have negatives / contact sheets / summary turned in with your folder.
One print will be under glass in the hallway for critique of this project.

PHOTO DIARY (Again don't forget these must be in digital format and hopefully you are keeping track and keeping up)
Photograph a person that you don't know. Find out a little about their story and shoot them in a way that gives them dignity.

Interested in Diane Arbus...watch this interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTR2nuxy_8M&feature=related

Wednesday, October 5th

Don't forget to bring your digital camera to class on Wednesday also your cars if you have them. We will be heading off campus for a photo shoot. Also for those of you that are art majors...don't forget about the art retreat this weekend and be planning to take pictures there to document our time at the retreat. We might even use some of those for the website:) See you on Wednesday!