Saturday, May 20, 2017

FINAL JUNE 3 9am


White balance symbols


Identify these cameras ( Rangefinder(Leica), SLR, Field Camera, View Camera, Medium Format camera (Hasselblad)

Grey card 18% grey value
Identify Spot Meter, Matrix/Evaluative, and Center Weighted Meter
Ambient/Incident unique type of meter that reads light falling on subject.
• Rule of Thirds

• Noise random speckles and grain or variation of brightness or color info in pictures.
• Exposure amount of light that reaches your film or sensor when you take your picture.
• Contrast difference in Values in photograph
• Lens speed refers to the maximum aperture diameter, or minimum f-number, of a photographic lens.

• Robert Frank (Photographer who roamed the United States in the 1950’s and is associated with the beat generation.)

Pieter Hugo (Photographer interested in the issues connected with Africa.)

• Seydou Keita (Commercial photographer in Africa who worked in the 1950’s & 1960’s whose work rose to the level of art.)

• Jacqueline Hassink (Photographs critiqued corporate boardrooms and how woman were used to sell cars.)

Carrie Mae Weems (Photographer whose primary concern in art, as in politics, is with the status and place of African-Americans.)

• Cindy Sherman ( Photographs use post modern ideas to critique female gender stereotypes )

Andreas Gursky (Photographer who is interested not in the individual, but the human environment.  Images focus on globalism.)

• William Eggleston ( Photographed the American South using color film & had what he called a democratic way of looking.)

Tomatsu Shomie (Photographer that photographed objects, locations, and the people of Nagasaki.)

Gary Winnogrand (Street photographer who used a range finder camera to capture the drama theater of the street.)
Catherine Opie (Documents the people of Southern California by focusing on football players and surf culture and local Los Angeles shopkeepers.)

Saturday, May 6, 2017

Notebook Checklist DUE MAY 20


ALL CLASS NOTES
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:: Artists sketches and notes
:: Camera terms
:: Sketches from 2 gallery visits at library



PHOTOGRAPHY EXERCISES
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:: Lighting ( Same scene/place with overcast and sunny light ) 2 photographs

:: Portrait/composition ( 4 poses ) 4 photographs

:: Shutter speed ( double exposure, hand held long exposure, & same scene shutter slow and fast ) 4 photographs

:: Aperture ( shallow depth of field ) 1 photograph

:: Bracketing ( photographing scene with different exposures ) 5 photographs

:: White balance ( normal, blue, yellow/orange ) 3 photographs

:: BW with silhouette, shadow, reflection, sign, & self portrait ) 5 photographs

:: Composition ideas ( Line, shape, and texture ) 3 pictures

:: Meter (Meter shadow snap picture then meter a highlight take same picture)  2 pictures