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Monday, October 29, 2018
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Tutorial assignment for Thursday (10/25)
This Thursday (10/25), you should be prepared to give the class a photoshop tutorial, on any topic or effect you'd like to research. Google something you'd like to learn, or click around in the links on the "my blog list" column on the righthand side of this page (there are lots of good tutorials on those blogs). Remember, step yourself through it BEFORE you come to class, to make sure you understand all the steps, and have all the materials you need. You should be able to make your demonstration in about five to ten minutes.
Don't pick something too complicated to do in ten minutes, but don't get too simple, either. If you just correct some redeye or something, or review something we've already covered in class, you're not going to get a good grade (though it might be something that builds on things we've learned in class, there should be at least some new element getting you to the end product). Try to hit that sweet spot of "moderately difficult" tutorial.
Post a link or a one-sentence description of the tutorial you'd like to do in the "comments" to this blog post, checking to make sure no one else has picked the same tutorial before you.
Don't pick something too complicated to do in ten minutes, but don't get too simple, either. If you just correct some redeye or something, or review something we've already covered in class, you're not going to get a good grade (though it might be something that builds on things we've learned in class, there should be at least some new element getting you to the end product). Try to hit that sweet spot of "moderately difficult" tutorial.
Post a link or a one-sentence description of the tutorial you'd like to do in the "comments" to this blog post, checking to make sure no one else has picked the same tutorial before you.
Friday, October 19, 2018
Assignment: response to Tahoe Timescape panel discussion
There was only time for three questions at the panel, so only Deja snuck in under the wire - she's the only one who doesn't have to do a short written response to the panel discussion.Instead of posting video (which would be boring to watch), I've posted an audio file. So you can listen to it while you're having dinner or sweeping or whatever. I'll give you about a week to listen to this and turn in your printed responses - they're due on Tues, Oct. 30.
Here are the questions I want you to answer. Take at least a paragraph to answer each:
1. We've discussed the idea behind the exhibition in class. Jonathon explained more about the project _ what was something new you learned about the project, or some new (for you) thought/idea about the project, that came out of the panel discussion?
2. What did you think of what the scientist on the panel, Geoff Schladow, had to say? How does his data-driven relationship to the lake connect to some of the artistic ideas in the exhibition, and how is that relationship different from the kind of artistic ideas behind the exhibition?
3. Deja asked a question about how youth could be engaged in the issues of looking toward the future, particularly in relationship to how embedded they are in technology. Please summarize Jonathon's answer to her question - and explain if you found the answer to be a convincing one or not.
Link to the audio file:
Here are the questions I want you to answer. Take at least a paragraph to answer each:
1. We've discussed the idea behind the exhibition in class. Jonathon explained more about the project _ what was something new you learned about the project, or some new (for you) thought/idea about the project, that came out of the panel discussion?
2. What did you think of what the scientist on the panel, Geoff Schladow, had to say? How does his data-driven relationship to the lake connect to some of the artistic ideas in the exhibition, and how is that relationship different from the kind of artistic ideas behind the exhibition?
3. Deja asked a question about how youth could be engaged in the issues of looking toward the future, particularly in relationship to how embedded they are in technology. Please summarize Jonathon's answer to her question - and explain if you found the answer to be a convincing one or not.
Link to the audio file:
Sunday, October 14, 2018
Assignment for Tuesday (10/16)
"Multiple You"
The next assignment is to create a picture that will have five (or more) images of yourself in one single environment. Put another way, it'll be a picture of some space -- a room, landscape, whatever -- in which there are at least five images of you, realistically inhabiting the space. There should also be some overlapping among at least three of the "yous."
Part of this assignment is technical - thinking of how you are going to best execute your idea, making sure the lighting works in the way you want it to, making sure you've staged the scene in a way that works, utilizing a tripod perhaps in stabilizng your multiple shots. The other part of the assignment is creative -- thinking through what the realtionship between your five (or more) selves might be, and what their relationship to the environment might be. It will be relatively easy to just position yourself in a room in five different poses, and just piece the five photos together. But there should be some sort of drama that is expressed in the picture.
You can dress in different costume for your five or more selves, so that the multiple yous are multiple characters. Or you could take the multiple yous as different expressions of the same central personality. Is one version of you the ego, and the other the id? Is one a voice undermining you, and is another a contrary voice of optimism and hope? What are the different faces of your personality, and what sorts of relationships or conflicts do they have with one another? How could those relationships/conflicts be expressed through action, through expression, through gesture?
This doesn't have to be heavy at all -- you can have a comical take on the problem -- but the bottom line is that there should be some psychological relationship betwen the multiple "characters." It doesn't have to be obvious or over-the-top -- there's room for ambiguity and mystery -- but it does have to be there, somewhere.
You'll need to have your photos taken before next class -- which wil be a work period for combining the photos. It might be a good strategy to pair with someone else in class; it'll be a good way of covering people who don't have access to a digital camera, and it will be far easier to compose and shoot yourself properly with someone other than you taking the pictures.
The next assignment is to create a picture that will have five (or more) images of yourself in one single environment. Put another way, it'll be a picture of some space -- a room, landscape, whatever -- in which there are at least five images of you, realistically inhabiting the space. There should also be some overlapping among at least three of the "yous."
Part of this assignment is technical - thinking of how you are going to best execute your idea, making sure the lighting works in the way you want it to, making sure you've staged the scene in a way that works, utilizing a tripod perhaps in stabilizng your multiple shots. The other part of the assignment is creative -- thinking through what the realtionship between your five (or more) selves might be, and what their relationship to the environment might be. It will be relatively easy to just position yourself in a room in five different poses, and just piece the five photos together. But there should be some sort of drama that is expressed in the picture.
You can dress in different costume for your five or more selves, so that the multiple yous are multiple characters. Or you could take the multiple yous as different expressions of the same central personality. Is one version of you the ego, and the other the id? Is one a voice undermining you, and is another a contrary voice of optimism and hope? What are the different faces of your personality, and what sorts of relationships or conflicts do they have with one another? How could those relationships/conflicts be expressed through action, through expression, through gesture?
This doesn't have to be heavy at all -- you can have a comical take on the problem -- but the bottom line is that there should be some psychological relationship betwen the multiple "characters." It doesn't have to be obvious or over-the-top -- there's room for ambiguity and mystery -- but it does have to be there, somewhere.
You'll need to have your photos taken before next class -- which wil be a work period for combining the photos. It might be a good strategy to pair with someone else in class; it'll be a good way of covering people who don't have access to a digital camera, and it will be far easier to compose and shoot yourself properly with someone other than you taking the pictures.
Thursday, October 4, 2018
For Thursday (Oct 4)
This is your last in-class opportunity to work on your 1000-year vision of Ryland's photographs. On Tuesday, we'll print them out.
I did want to share one tutorial for a tool that might be useful for eliminating the background of images you want to composite – though it only works effectively for images that have pretty uniform backgrounds. It's the Background Eraser tool – check it out:
I did want to share one tutorial for a tool that might be useful for eliminating the background of images you want to composite – though it only works effectively for images that have pretty uniform backgrounds. It's the Background Eraser tool – check it out:
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
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