Final Critiques

Final critiques on Monday, December 11 from 6-8pm in Room 321

Final projects due with typed project statement

Week 15 / December 4 and December 6

In-class work activity: final projects

An Evening at the Reece Museum with an Emmett Till Painting 
Wednesday, Dec. 6 at 4:30pm

Graduate student interviews for ETSU's Photo Blog are due Dec. 4

Final Critique: Monday, December 11, 6-8pm

Week 14 / November 27 and November 29

In-class work activity: final projects

Week 13 / November 20

In-class work activity: final projects

No class on Wednesday, November 22, Thanksgiving break

Week 12 / November 13 and November 15

Introduce Blurb for self-publishing option and demo book module in Lightroom

In-class work activity: final projects

Week 11 / November 6 and November 8

Assignment #5 presentations on article or post about topic in photography

Final project proposals due

Individual meetings with students to discuss final projects

Demonstration on Sony a7RII

Prepare for Rock the Ball on Thursday, November 7, 5-7pm

Week 10 / October 30 and November 1

Critique Assignment #4

Discuss project proposals and statements (due Monday, November 6)

Assignment #5
Using the Online Photo Resources on the blog (or through another blog or website of your choice), please find an article or post on a photographer or topic in photography that is of interest to you.  It does not have to be the most recent port.  Read the post of article, save the link, write a one-paragraph typed summary of its content, and prepare to discuss and analyze the content in a presentation to class on Monday, November 6.

In-class work activity: research articles for presentations

Week 9 / October 23 and October 25

In-class work activity: Assignment #4

Film screening: 'Southwest of Salem' at Culp Auditorium at 7pm on Monday, October 23rd

Week 8 / October 11

Demonstration on liquify filter

Demonstration on film scanning

Assignment #4:
Change the meaning of a photograph or series of photographs by altering the social, racial, ethnic, sexual/gender identity or age of subject(s). These can be your own images or found images. We will critique the altered files in relation to the original files on Monday, October 30th.

Handouts;
Liquify Filter Basics 
Imacon Scanner 

Week 7 / October 9 and October 11

Midterm presentations

Week 6 / October 2 and October 4

In-class work activity: researching, writing and developing midterm presentations

Week 5 / September 25 & September 27

Critique Assignment #2

Assignment #3: Midterm: 2-page paper and oral presentation with visual support

Using online resources, choose a relevant image, series of images, article or post as the basis to respond to one of the five topics addressed in selected essays from "Photography Changes Everything."

How photography changes ...

• how cultural groups are represented and perceived
• how political messages are packaged
• how we record and respond to social issues
• how cultural history is told
• who we become

Write a 2-page paper discussing one of these topics using your visual content to support your ideas.  You will present your paper and images to class with 25min per student for presentation and discussion on Monday, October 9 and Wednesday, October 11. 

Week 4 / September 18 & September 20

Critique prints from Assignment #1

Review selections and sizing images and black and white conversion methods

Demonstrate compositing images, transform comments, type tool, color picker, and basic mask

Assignment #2: Make at least 4 digital postcards of fictional places meaning you creatively alter one image or composite several images to make a new place - a landscape, urban space, interior, etc. - or it could even be abstract.  You should have at least 5 layers in each new file (content or adjustment layers) including one or more with a Type layer.  Please leave your layers open and save these files as TIFFS or PSDs.  You should resize these files to a postcard size such as 4x6in or 5x7in.  If you would like to print these on your own, make sure your resolution is higher than 150ppi.  We will only view these as digital files during out critique next week so 72ppi is fine for this assignment if you don't intend to print these postcards.  The digital postcards are due for critique on September 25.

Handouts:
Blending Modes
Transformations
Creating Text with Type Tool
Image Editing Tools
Black and White Conversion

Week 3 / September 11 & September 13

Introduction to printing

In-class printing: 4 prints (minimum) due for critique on September 18

Handout: Printing from Lightroom 

Week 2 / September 6

No class on Monday, September 4 / Labor Day / University closed

Introduction to Lightroom Develop Module

Handout:
Develop Module Overview

Meg

Tyler

Amber

Joanna

Jordan

Taylor

Madison

Eric

Meg

Week 1 / Aug. 28 & Aug. 30

Welcome back to the fall semester and Digital Photography II.  In our first class, we will review the syllabus and make introductions and cell phone portraits for the blog.

Presentation: Digital Strategies in Contemporary Art

Assignment #1: Shoot at least 20 RAW files of any subject matter to bring to second class along with storage device (hard drive or USB)

Introduction to importing files, creating catalogs, and Lightroom CC Library Module

Handouts:
Introduction to Adobe Lightroom 
Importing Images
Library Module Overview
Library Module Quick Action Keys
Lightroom Preferences