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