Week 4

Wednesday: Preliminary critique, project 1

Next Monday 2/6: Photoshop skills assessment

Depth of field

Deep depth of field. Achieve with small aperture and/or wider angle lens.

Shallow depth of field. Achieve with wide aperture and/or longer (telephoto) lens.

Job Posting: Technical Production Assistant

10-hour/week technical production assistant position in the Department of Art and Art History. Paid the standard hourly, work-study rate.


Preferably 2nd or 3rd year student. No graduating seniors, please. 


Duties would include the following:

• Operation of large-format printing services
• Scheduling and production of printing
• Inventory management of consumables (ink and paper)
•  Lighting studio management, including scheduling of studio space
• Oversee equipment lending in areas of studio lighting
• Regular inventory, condition reporting and maintenance of all digital printing, darkroom, studio, and digital photography-related equipment.
• Occasional lab-monitor substitution duties

Qualifications: 

• Has completed Art 328 (digital photographic arts) or similar digital experience
• Has interest in photo-printing technology
• Customer service or retail experience
• Time management skills
• Proven employment history. 

To apply:

Please forward a letter of intent with a resumé and/or a summary of relevant experience to Professor Jordan:

cjordan@as.ua.edu

Deadline: Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Project : Subject Matter

Preliminary critique: 2/1 (Wednesday)
Final Due: 2/8 (Wednesday)

Generate a concise, idea, concept or approach to a specific subject of interest. The subject should be interesting enough to sustain you for the whole project. Create a group of fresh, original, strong photographs that explores the subject in a compelling way. Factors such as composition, arrangement, point of view, and lighting are important.

Plan to shoot several times per week, generating hundreds of images to choose from. Edit down to the strongest six. The editing process is an important step. Generate enough strong work to make this a creative, rather than a desperate process.

• 6 images, 2 prints. (The two prints chosen from the 6)

Week 3

Topics: Reading Discussion and Quiz; Project 1 Introduction; Global and Local Adjustments; Image Processor; The Server;

Due 1/30 Adjusted Images Exercise. 5 images with appropriate global and local adjustments as demonstrated in class, all layers must be present, psd file, 1200x1200 pixels.

Project 1: Subject Matter, Due 2/8

Week 2

Topics: Short history of digital photography, to be a photographic artist, image capture—cameras, basic adjustments, finding your subject matter

In-class: Review work shot for class, Basic digital workflow and adjustments

Homework:

• Reading: Chapters 1 & 3
• Prepare for Discussion: pages 18-29. Choose 3 of the question/answer combinations that seems most relevant to you, or interesting. Then chose one that you don't agree with or which seems less relevant. Be prepared to defend your views.
• Prepare for Quiz — Wednesday 1/25 (covers pages 3-16; 61-90)
• Shooting: Begin Project 1: subject matter framed. (Have images for Wednesday 1/25)
• Order/purchase paper

Warm-Up Exercise

Pick one of the artists from the links list to the right (except the instructor!) and spend some good quality time looking at their work. What strategies or approaches has the photographer used that you admire? Jot a few things down. Is there anything you have identified that you could use in your own work?

Shoot two separate 60-minute sessions between now and next class (Wednesday 1/18)

Take your camera for a walk somewhere that is visually interesting for you... make it an adventure.

Shoot wide views, close-up details, use interesting and unusual perspectives, as well as strategies identified from above. Shoot quickly. Subject matter is wide-open.

Note any questions or difficulties you might be having with your camera or otherwise. See if you can work them out, or bring concerns to class.

Shoot Camera RAW or if you must, JPEG highest quality. Automatic exposure is fine for now.

Bring camera, tether,  card and card reader to class—some method to download images to computer.

Digital Photographic Arts

(Image: Thornton)

(Image: Marguerite Gray)

(Image: Anne Masline)

(Image: Melissa Palmer)

(Image: Hayden Sloan)

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