Final Exam/Quiz

Here is the final exam/quiz that everyone must complete. Once there, select File > Download As > Word. Complete the quiz, put your name in the file name when you save it, then email me at seder.burns@utoledo.edu.

Here is the make up Quiz on Exposure. You only have to do this if you aren't happy with your original grade. I will replace your original grade with whatever you get on this quiz.

DUE FRIDAY DECEMBER 16TH BY 3 PM

Final Exam Sessions

MW class your final exam is scheduled for Thursday, December 15th from 12:30-2:30.

TR class your final exam is scheduled for Friday, December 16th from 12:30-2:30.

I will also be around on Wednesday, December 14th from 8:00-10:00am for another exam.

As long as you have turned in your cameras and any other equipment that you have checked out as well as turning in your take home exam (You can just email it to me), then you do not need to attend your final exam session. If you forget to turn in your camera or any other equipment that you have checked out, then you must return it during one of these time periods.

Interpretting Photographs

UNC article about 'reading photographs'.

University of Arizona article on interpreting photographs.


Barrett on the need to teach Interpretation

Libraries and Archives of Canada on interpreting photos

Washington State University article on interpreting photographs

Interpreting Photographic Series

A presentation on Visual Literacy

Criticizing Photographs 3rd edition in it's entirety (scans of a photocopy of the book)

Criticizing Photographs in it's entirety in plain text format (no pictures)

Barretts Chapter 3 Interpretting Photographs

Slideshow of Sally Mann's Immediate Family series.

Article on the Joel Peter Witkin print that we saw at the TMA.


http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/rtonder/PDF%20Files/ASSIGNMENT%20NUMBER%20TWO.pdf

http://innermindcreativity.blogspot.com/2011/02/barrett-chapter-3-interpreting.html

http://vedatkonyali.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/criticism-2-1-interpreting-photographs/

http://linux01.crystalgraphics.com/view/2db0c-MWY4N/Chapter_3_Interpreting_Photographs_What_Does_it_Mean_flash_ppt_presentation

Online Camera Simulators

Kamera Simulator

http://camerasim.com/camera-simulator.html

http://www.photonhead.com/simcam/

http://www.photogyulai.hu/photosimulator/

Tis' the Secor

I have reserved nearly 100 linear feet of wall space for Photography students at Tis' the Secor. This is an annual event held a the Secor building located at 425 Jefferson Ave in downtown Toledo. They are putting up brand new walls for this show. They have recessed lighting as evidenced by the lower of the two photos below. I am only accepting framed work for this. It is going to be a nice show.

Our space will be in a very large room which will also have a stage. Our walls are either side of the stage. Barb Miner's students will have the part of the room opposite the stage. Tom Lingeman's students will have work on the 6th floor. All the artists in the building that have studios there will also have their studios open.

The Reclaiming Toledo exhibit will be in a different gallery in the same building. Because I don't want to step on any toes, you can't exhibit anything that you submitted for that show or anything on the topic of reclamation. I am firm on this.

I would like you all to submit one piece for this show. This is an exhibition opportunity being handed to you. Take it.

The reception date is set for December 3rd.

Weekend Assignments

There is an artist by the name of Miranda July whose work I adore. She is an author, performance artist, conceptual artist, actor, director, and all around amazing. She has a website, Learning to Love You More, which provided assignments for the public to complete. People would then submit their complete work for possible inclusion on the website. No longer active, it is still a fantastic site. I am asking you to complete Assignment #55: Photograph a Significant Outfit. There are lots of examples there. I also want you to complete Assignment #50 from the Learning to Love you More website. Take a flash photo under your bed. These are due on Monday/Wednesday as a RAW files. You will edit it in class then post them to Flickr. I will show you a number of student examples (some better than others) as well as an example that I made.

If you want to read a really excellent collection of short, quirky stories, then I encourage you to read Miranda July's book No One Belongs Here More Than You.

Special Weekend Assignment!!!!!!! In addition to the other one :-)

Though these assignments are based on a technical/creative technique, I still want them to be great images. Please take some time and make some good images. Trick or Treating, other Halloween stuff would be great for this!

1. Panned image. I suggest that you start with a shutter speed of 1/30 or 1/15. Go as slow as you need to get the desired effect. You have to track the motion with the camera (hand held). The trick to panning is the follow through. People tend to stop tracking the subject once they release the shutter. You have to keep tracking it while it is actually exposing the image. Try to avoid having the subject smack in the middle of the frame. Try to leave room for the subject to move into.

2. Zoomed blur. I suggest you start with 1/15 of a second and experiment from that point. If you want the zoom lines to be very clear, then use a tripod. Otherwise, you may have a real mess of an image. Just play around with it. Try to get though the entire zoom range. Start by reading this article on bird photography which has a section on shooting zoom blurred images.

Extra credit oppurtunity

Great opportunity to design Toledo's new bicycle racks. Deadline of November 1st.

http://www.acgt.org/images/documents/call_for_artists/adbr_call_for_artists.pdf

www.acgt.org

Do you know........ where your data is?

Do you have all your data backed up? Is it a current backup? Is it a complete backup? Haven't you lost data at some point in your life? I know you have......
At minimum you should have all the data on your computer backed up. This is to say, you should have a complete copy of all the data on your computer that you care about. There are a variety of ways to do this. You can choose to use an external hard drive hooked up via USB, firewire, or eSATA. You can also back up your data over a network. This can be saved over your local network or remotely on a server. Ideally, you should have an offsite copy of your data. This is to say that it is not on premises. This way, if the worst should happen, a fire or a flood, then your data will still be safe. Online backup has a ton of advantages. It is offsite and if you are using a reputable service, then they are keeping multiple copies of the data at multiple locations. The major drawback of online backup services are that the initial backup of your system can take a very long time. A few of the services offer an initial backup via an external hard drive. Then all subsequent backups are performed online. Mozy.com and a number of other online backup services offer a free 2GB service so that you can back up some data and get a feel for how it works.

Local Backup

Simple device to turn any external hard drive into an automatic backup system

http://www.clickfree.com/

Article on backing up automatically using SyncBack on a PC

http://lifehacker.com/147855/geek-to-live--automatically-back-up-your-hard-drive

Apple Time Capsule

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC343/Time-Capsule-1TB?mco=MTMzNzQ4OTg

Drobo

http://www.drobo.com/

Internal Drives, Network Attached Storage, USB hard drives, firewire, eSata

Introduction to RAID for photographers

http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/raid-for-photoshop.html

Online backup

Good write up on how online back up works

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2288745,00.asp

Comprehensive listing on companies offering online storge

http://www.backupreview.info/2009/06/01/top-75-online-backup-companies-for-june-2009/

Crashplan - This is the service that I use. I have been very happy with it. It allowed me to recover my data after my laptop was stolen.

Mozy

Carbonite

IDrive

SOS Online Backup

iBackup

Sugarsync

https://www.sugarsync.com/

JungleDisk

http://www.jungledisk.com/

Intronis

http://www.intronis.com/

"Free" online backup

http://websearch.about.com/od/web20/a/online-storage.htm

Reclaiming Toledo, etc.

As we discussed in class last week, you next assignment is to create three images for submission to the Reclaiming Toledo gallery show curated by the Gallery Practices class.

Here is a link to the Facebook page with the show details.

You need to submit three images via email by October 16th, so you need to get working on this right away. You have to submit a brief artist statement with the images as well.

October 16th is a Sunday, so you need to have image for a critique by Wednesday 12th/Thursday 13th. Which gives you this one weekend to shoot. Thus, I suggest you get out and shoot as soon as you have a chance.

Some ideas:

The Rails to Trails system which is a path made over former railroad tracks.

The quarries in Sylvania and Bowling Green.

Urban renewal

Critique of Faux Space photos Monday/Tuesday. We will discuss how I want you to prepare the images for submission to me for printing. Wednesday/Thursday class will be a lecture on effect of focal length and composition.

Re-size your image without Photoshop

• Here is some info on resizing your images for your submissions without the use of Photoshop. You can use Pixlr which is a free online image editor similar to Photoshop. www.pixlr.com/editor
  Here is a link to a video tutorial on how to resize an image using Pixlr.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok0g2FLq9iY
  In the case of the CVA Gallery presentation, you would set the pixel dimension to 1000 pixels for the longer dimension. Save the files as JPEGs. Use the highest quality JPEG settings.

  NOTE: Pixlr doesn't work with RAW files, so you have to begin with TIFFs or JPEGs.
  -Seder

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Famous photos recreated with Legos

After seeing how many of you love your Legos, I thought I would share this link to a number of famous photos recreated with Legos.

Summary of things

Next Monday/Tuesday, you will have a critique over your best Space work. I suggest you narrow it down to less than 10 images. Edit those to the best of your ability. YPost them as a set named Space for Crit in to your Flickr account. You don't need to edit all of your photos; only those that are you best.



Please watch the following videos on using Camera RAW:

Homework for the weekend

Shoot for the Moon! That's my way of saying shoot Space photo. Have enough to show the class the direction you are going.

Read the posting below on editing your RAW files. Watch the videos that are linked to. Read Chapter 9 of your book on editing.

Readings

At this point, you should have read Chapters 1-4 in the textbook.

Over the weekend, I want you to read Chapter 7: Color (you can skip pages 148-151) & Chapter 8: Setting Up A Digital Darkroom .

More on completing this Aperture/ DoF assignment

Originally, I suggested that you complete this assignment outside on a nice day. Well, the weather went downhill shortly thereafter. The idea of this assignment is for you to see the change in depth of field as you change your aperture. Of course, as you do so the amount of light that is allowed to reach the sensor changes which necessitates changes to the shutter speed and/or ISO as well. If you were to complete this assignment outside on a sunny day, you would likely be able to complete it by simply changing your shutter speed as you changed your aperture. The general rule of thumb is don't use a higher ISO unless you need to. When do you need to? When your shutter speed drops below 1/60 without the use of tripod.

You can complete this outside in overcast light outside or even indoors. You will just have to increase the ISO at the point that a shutter speed of less than 1/60 is required. Let's say you start out by determining that f3.5 @ 1/125 at ISO 200 is the ideal exposure (the histogram is as far to the right as possible without climbing the wall). You begin by taking that shot. Then you take a shot at f4 @ 1/ 100 at ISO 200. The next in the cycle would be f5.6 @ 1/50 at ISO 200; however, that means a shutter speed of less than 1/60 at which point you risk having a blurry image due to camera movement. So, you would instead go with f5.6 @ 1/100 at ISO 400 which is a reciprocal exposure (it results in an equivalent image in terms of brightness). From there, you would go to f8 @ 1/100 at ISO 800. Then, f11 @ 1/100 at ISO 1600. Then f16 @ 1/100 at ISO 3200. Of course, if you don't have ISO over 1600 available, then you would have to go with f16 @ 1/50 at ISO 1600.

Here is a short article that describes Aperture with a few examples.