notes from wk 5

producing quality images

• make sure you don't touch the front or rear of a camera lens
• this can make the light refract when the image is being taken making a warped image
• UV filters can be purchased to help fix this!
• also be careful when photographing outside - especially during windy days or rainy days
• take care of equipment!!!!!
• tripods ---
• make sure it's lightweight so it's easy to carry and hold steady!
• no tripod - remember the focal rule! (1/200 or 1/60 <-- second one better option)
• use anything that can help you holding the camera steady!

working with photoshop

• when using bridge - can open any image in the raw window even if it is a jpeg!
• to do that select the image(s) you want, right click and click on the raw option in drop down menu!
• with colours in photography - R.G.B (red green blue)
• 0 of all 3 = black
• 255 of all 3 = white
• photoshop is not a tool that is used to fix mistakes!!! get it right and correct with the camera when taking the shot!
• use photoshop to ENHANCE our images
• photoshop = pixel editing program = can damage/destroy the pixels
• worked and learnt about masking/montage images in photoshop
• open images that you want in photoshop in separate windows --> drag one on to the base one --> layer > mask layer > hide all --> click on the masked layer (black image) in the layers palette --> use white paint brush to reveal moved image/use black paint brush to re-reveal original image! TA-DA!!!!
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overview of wk 4 - typed on wk 5

folio details:

• my show Stepping Out has closed - it closed on saturday nite
• hopefully i have got all the shots that i can use
• i think i may also use some shots that i took for memories and no necessarily for the course!

artist details:

• still researching artist
• most likely will choose Atget - i like his simple photography approach
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notes on artists from wk 4

richard misrach

• colour in his images is phenomenal
• many of his works were about the amount of light and colour
• using a large camera, he doesn't leave anything out!
• his photographs were used as a way to express the relationship between us and the landscape
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richard avedon

• 8 x 10 self portrait series
• made name as fashion photographer
• sometimes made frame to hold negative bigger on purpose to show full image and to prove that nothing has been cropped out, nothing edited!
• this creates a border that sometimes acts like a frame
• spent time travelling in the west (corrrection?) taking photos of 'strange' people
• amount of details is amazing and mind blowing
• in 70's, 80's sometimes, colour photography wasn't the best idea or way to display something
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gregory crendson

• controversial
• creates stories for his work and creates stories within his work
• creates work like a film, figures out lighting, space, hires extras and then captures the scene after much time of planning and setting up
• nothing is left out, what ever is there at the time gets put into the photograph

andreas gursky

• contemporary
• some of his work is lost in translation
• manipulates photos in photoshop to create the uber(spelling?) real and perfect!
• shoots from a great height
• photographed anything from supermarkets to race tracks

jan groover

• kitchen series - photographed things in her own kitchen
• detail was very high, used large camera to photograph everyday things, like her kitchen sink
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other notes:

"all art aspires to the condition of music"

-- Walter Paier (spelling?)

research and notes for the class dfap

wk 4

• still researching different texts for artist for oral presentation
• still researching texts from library, found a few books that i have a few quotes on photography itself but really nothing on artists of interest to me!
• i've taken a lot of images for my final folio but still choosing from them
• also, i've also got 1 week left to take photos at theatre - show finishes on saturday, set being struck on sunday!
• still quite random - my photos, there's no real theme or setup when taking the photos. i see an aspect of backstage and then take a photo (without flash mainly) if i have my camera.
• also have used up to 84% of my space on flickr!
• may have to use this blog to display my images for a few weeks!

work notes from week 3

artists discussed in class on wk 3:

• Eggleston
• rodchencko

notes from class - week 3

• photoshop - photo pixel editing program
• photoshop - great tool for photo montage
• 1024 - blog (maybe)
• 750 - flickr (maybe)

photo measurements

photo: P1242605 (image of mirror with lights on around the frame)

• #1 -
  R 254
  G 254
  B 255
• #2 -
  R 5
  G 6
  B 1
• #3 -
  R 84
  G 67
  B 57
• #4 -
  R 65
  G 55
  B 43
  
  

photo shop resizing:

• image --> image size
• click OFF resample image
• change resolution to 71
• close image size box
• image --> image size
• click ON resample image
• change height --> 768 and width --> 1024
• click okay

to save for web

• file --> save for web and devices
• once window comes up click 4-up tab up the top
• change to jpeg at drop down menu --> change different setting on the 3 view

other photo editing programs

• gimp
• picassa
• bridge

a bit about Eugene Atget

Info from:

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/A/atget/atget_articles2.html

Eugene Atget (1857 - 1927)

• Atget was born in Libourne, in 1857 but then orphaned at an early age.
• in the 1880's Atget undertook acting, performing and entertaining on the stage at provincial theatres. He moved to paris in 1890 to pursue his career of the stage but soon realised this was basically impossible.
• Atget then moved into visual arts, and mainly photography.
• He chose photography because of his limited art training
• he had really not interest in the already happening photography art movement that was occuring at the time he changed to visual arts. instead he wanted to capture the light and shadows and display that to the world rather than try to conform to the movement.
• Atget photographed many different scenes. most likely over 10,000 photographs were taken by him. These were mainly store fronts, private gardens, public spaces, arcades, everyday people on their way to work and things like that, but he never wanted to photograph upper class events or places.
• This created a part legend, part dream, yet profoundly real side to Paris
• When Atget died, Man Ray's technical assisstant, Berenice Abbott raised enough money so she could buy Atget's negatives and prints and took them back to America on he travells home in 1929. Atget's work grabbed the attention of many American photographers and collectors, resulting in 1968, the museum of modern art bought the large and still mainly uncataloged collection of Atget's work and put them on display.

a bit about Alexander Rodchenko

info from:

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/R/rodchenko/rodchenko_articles1.html

Alexander Rodchenko (1891 - 1956)

• a russian born artist
• born in St Petersburg in 1891, then shortly his family moved to Kazan. He died in Moscow 1956
• he studied at Kazan School of Art in Kazan
• before turning to photography and photo montage, Rodchenko was a graphic designer and painter
• to make his artwork stand out, Rodchenko would look at odd and interesting angles when photographing his subjects.
• Rodchenko - "One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again."
• he was influenced by German Dadaists and their photomontages. He used found images until 1924 when he started using his own photographs for his own work
• in 1928 Rodchenko joined the october circle of artists. however he was expelled and been charged with formalism only 3 short years later.
• he turned back to producing paintings in the 1930's and had stopped photographing all together by 1942.

A little bit about Photography (work in progress)

info from:

Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia

Bram, Hendelson and Morse

# 19 PFITZ - PUNIC

• a camera is used as a machine or a way to capture a lighted or illuminated scene or subject in which a roll or film can not be exposed to because of the light