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

• Photo editor online / free image editing direct in your browser - Pixlr.com

  pixlr.com

  Pixlr Editor is a free online photo editor with a prefessional touch. Fix, adjust and filter your images. Manage your images in your browser, no registration required jump right in!

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.