Tuesday, October 15

PHOTO DIARY:
Shoot three strangers in the style of Yo Imae. http://www.yoimae.com/subtle/index.html Shoot on a dark background. Center your subject in the frame. Shoot from the upper thigh up and make sure there is breathing room for the head in the frame. Make sure that your three strangers stand at the same mark and that you the photographer stand in the same place for every stranger that you shoot. Turn to B&W and bring the files to class on a hard drive.

PORTRAIT CRITIQUE
Three photos (environmental portrait / casual portrait (mid range with less background info) / close up).
Put your favorite under glass (get your frames out of hallway and off the table outside of my office in A17 in the humanities suite). The other two will go in your binder. You can keep your old project in the binder. Organize in the same order as the last set.
From the front
1. Photo Summary (tell why this person made a good subject...challenges and successes)
2. Negatives
3. Contact Sheet
4. Two Final Prints (and one under glass)

We will critique in the same manner as last time with one framed displayed the other across the set. Remember I am looking for the tone in all three photographs to be similar. Should think about getting the same value scheme to match across the prints.

The lab is open all break long if you need it. Good luck and have a safe fall break!

Tuesday, Oct. 8

MORNING CLASS -  A bunch of you all left your hard drives in the lab. You might want to come and get them sometime in the next couple of days before the next assignment.

PHOTO DIARY - Please have your Irving Penn portrait in B&W (this is a casual portrait / white or blank wall / light source from a window) Take one photo to get lighting and only one photo for the portrait. Also this weekend take a "portrait" of a time and place. Those of you going on the art retreat take 36 exposures of the art retreat...these must be in order and take over the span of the weekend. Those of you not going on the art retreat give us a "portrait" of your weekend in college life. You will look back on these portraits years later and smile:)

Bring your Penn portrait on a flash drive for class on Tuesday along with your 36 photos of Portrait of a Place / Time assignment from the weekend.

Keep shooting and come prepped to print on Tuesday to give yourself some time in the lab. Bring your digital camera to class on Tuesday along with your printing gear.

Thursday, October 3

Please bring your work photos on a flash drive to class. Please have your images converted to black and white. Bring your digital to class for Thursday. I would consider shooting your project and developing outside of class so you can use Thursday and Tuesday next week for printing. You will have lab time for the project on both these days. 

Tuesday, October 1

PHOTO DIARY

Please take two self portraits. One with you in an environment that shows your passion. This will have a long depth of field. The other photo will be a short depth of field and focus on yourself. You will compose the shot and your partner will just be clicking the shutter. Please email to Ms Posey by noon on Monday.

ASSIGNMENT 2 

Choose a subject that you can show their personality and passions with the three prints. You select your subject for Tuesdays class. We will shoot to have this project finished before fall break. 

Three prints

1. Environmental portrait ( subject in environment)

2. Casual portrait (short depth of field)

3. Detail portrait (detail of subject that completes the story)

Thursday, Sept. 26

Great job in critique today!! Proud of you all! 

Morning class - please come an hour later to class. Photo 3 is having their crit in the gallery an you are more than welcome to come and visit at 10:50 am. 

Afternoon class - you will meet at the normal time. 

Both classes - please bring your digital camera to class on Thursday. We will be introducing your next assignment and getting back on the photo diary habit. 

Tuesday critique day

Here is what you need for critique.

NOTEBOOK / 1 is at the back
1. Final prints (3 prints / abstract / realized and motion in a landscape)
2. Contact sheets
3. Negatives
4. Photo Summary (one page / single spaced / one paragraph for each print. Talk about composition choices and how this fits the assignment)

Favorite one needs to be mounted under glass with white 8x10 cut  matte. See syllabi for details on the frame. Hobby Lobby 40 percent off is your friend. You will show the other two on the magnet board and then put back in your folder. We will look over all three photos in critique.

We will meet in the photo house and start at the beginning of class so have everything ready to go. No putting things in frames when you get there...will get points off your critique grade if you are not ready when you step in the front door. Don't need to dress up. See you then!

Thursday Sept 19

Work day for Thursday. Bring your paper to print your film developed so that you can spend the bulk of your time in the lab on Thursday printing what you need. Remember critique on Tuesday next week.