Copyright Infringement Case over Photograph of Obama

Interest in the Obama Poster Shepard Fairey and Mannie Garcia AP photographer, see the story here

#7 Class Notes Lecture _ Self Portrait, Portrait and

Self Portrait, Portrait and the Decisive Moment.

Today we looked at websites featuring photographers work showing:

Self Portraits:
Cindy Sherman : Metro Pictures & Film Stills
Richard Avedon
Helmut Newton
Herb Ritts
Christine Gatti

Portraits:
Arnold Newman Environmental Portraits
Richard Avedon Sixties American West
August Sander Masters of Photography
Diane Arbus
Jill Greenberg Manipulator
Art Kane
Dan Winters

We then viewed the e-Book Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier Bresson.

You Tube Video of Henri Cartier Bresson

Annie Leibovitz Shooting

Other Photographers to check out
Irving Penn
Mary Ellen Mark
Nicholas Nixon
Greg Gorman
Greg Heisler

#6 Class Notes Critique Assignment #1

The First Shooting assignment for the Basic Digital Class:

Texture,
Line,
Quality of Light,
Edge of Frame,
Shallow and Deep Depth of Field
Stop Action and Slow Shutter Speed.

Everyone who completed their assignment did a wonderful job. This is a great stretch assignment as everyone can push themselves at every level to fulfill the assignment.

In addition to the images from class posted here (Coming Soon.)

Here are a couple just uploaded.

Todd's

Olivia's

#5 Class Notes Digital Workflow

Using Bridge to rank select RAW files and then use ACR (adobe camera raw) to make adjustments. -White Balance, including Color and Tint.
-Exposure, Recovery, Fill Light and Black.
-Brightness and Contrast.
-Tone Curve
-Sharpness

Link to Tutorial for using Adobe Camera Raw

We learned to set the parameters for Export by selecting the hyperlink at the bottom of Bridge.

-set color space (Adobe 1998, ProPhoto RGB, Colormatch RGB, sRGB)
Use Adobe 1998 if you are going to continue editing as it is a larger color space, you can always change to sRGB later for the web or for printing at a Photo lab.

Use sRGB if you are going to be uploading to the web or sending to photo lab.

You can set the size, the default is you camera sensor size.

Set the resolution. 72 ppi (pixels per inch) is a common screen resolution. 240-360 ppi is common for printing to inkjet and offset lithography.

Use the save image button as a jpeg, tiff or dng. (which we will go into later in the semester.)

UPDIG 4.0 guidelines for digital photography

We made contact sheets and web galleries in Photoshop.


You can use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to make contact sheets and web galleries

We also discussed the value of Photoshop in preparing work files, working in layers.

To prepare for #6 class download the Words to Think about for Photography.

Here is a guide to critiquing.

#4 Class Notes Using Bridge and Adobe Camera Raw

Someone mentioned some sort of parade for a football team and all hell breaks loose.

Oh well no harm no foul, truth be told, we need to go over this stuff a couple of times and hey everyone who showed up is at the head of the class.

We downloaded some RAW Canon files (cr2) and opened them using Adobe Bridge and Adobe Camera Raw. The images were a variety of exposure brackets to show that the Camera Meter Indicated Exposure (MIE) this is what the meter suggests is just that a suggestion, the photographer decides how to interpret the measurement.

Also included was a range of depth of field examples, and a color balance example.

We will continue with this exercise this week and work on using Photoshop. We will also look at making contact sheets and web galleries.