An interesting and brief article on photo critique
and another
one more
and finally a rather more detailed and informative guide.
However here are the ten most annoying critiques!
Photograph: Joe McElderry - 'Climb' artwork on iTunes
Although I'm not a fan of manufactured music and hope this cover version does not become the xmas number one I love the photography, and again with album artwork I'm not sure who the photographer is...
Digital Imaging on a Shoestring
I can't actually remember where I was when digital imaging became a force to be reckoned with, but I don't think it was in 1998, the year of the article. I can remember my first digital camera, a Fuji FinePix 4800 from Currys in Folkestone that cost over £500 and had 3 megapixels. It was made of an all metal body and designed by F.A.Porsche who designed the 911.
The Golden Rule of always working from a copy still applies today as does always backing up.
Finally I like the part where a 640x480 pixel image can be printed at 2.6x2.0 inches on paper at 240ppi, or use a higher resolution image in the first place. The image above was taken using my Fuji in February 2002 at 1.1MP and I recently managed to print it and others at 8x6 inches and was very happy with the results...
Moscow: Shooting it Like a Pro
Lenin's Tomb has a bizarre rule that states that photographers may not shoot with a lens longer than 77mm mounted on their camera unless they pay a fee! A Time Magazine Photo-Guide to Moscow gives ideas of what to look for that can be applied in your own city...
Photographer: Robert Capa
Photoshop Tutorial
Retro Surf Logo Design - this is a great tutorial and technique may be used in 'Urban Montage' for Introduction to Digital Imaging.
I Dreamed A Dream
Photographer: Gianni Galassi
I stumbled across the work of Gianni Galassi and admire the invention and creativity. An interesting article on what constitutes a photograph follows a blog article on The Online Photographer website stemming from Galassi's work.
Photographer: James Nachtwey
Getting into photography as a professional appears very hard, having read this article it must be virtually impossible. This is a job advert where you work for free to gain experience and the photography hiring you doesn't have to pay. I wonder how many thousands of applications he gets?
Photo of the Day: The Hot Melts (2009)
Harinezumi Camera
Digital Harinezumi: Lo-fi coolness! USA Video Blog from Some Like It Shot on Vimeo.
"Creating warm, dreamy and surprising videos, the tiny Harinezumi camera by Superheadz was inspired by the Super 8mm silent film of the '60s and can take two hours of footage (without sound), whilst being compact enough to carry with you just about anywhere. Don't feel like filming? The Harinezumi also takes colour-saturated, dreamy still photos." - Urban Outfitters
Hard to find in the UK at the moment and expensive to ship from the US but this camera is what I am looking at for the Dreamland Visual Research project and could also be used in Photography in Context for the next project.
Photoshop
- Lightroom 3 beta available
- Photoshop iPhone App/website
- Other artists - Tim Marrs & Stuart Michael Bruce
- Adrian Brannan
Camera Obscura
- Camera = Room
- Obscura = Dark
- Camera Obscura = Dark Room
- So contemporary cameras are tiny dark rooms!
- Camera Lucida = Light Room
- Jeff Curto - Photo History Podcast
Tutorials
Small group discussions
- Settling in okay despite missing first project "Making Strange"
- Enjoyed practical Polaroid sessions
- Like large group critique sessions but don't like viewing images on projection screen
- Learning to critique other peoples photographs
- Okay to keep "Critical Journal" by blog as long as archives available
Critical Journals
- Test shots
- Putting into practice
- Evidence
- Mistakes!
- Printing
- Recent or re-shoot only
- Pin sharp/clear
- Nice composition
- Show relationship between aperture and shutter
- Prints need to be protected
Colouring a Black & White Photograph
- Skin: adj layer > curves
- RGB > Red
- Draw line curve up
- RGB > Blue
- Draw line curve down
- Ok > "Ctrl+i" (to invert)
- Lips: Red line up, blue & green line down
- Panorama: File > Automate > Photomerge > Choose Open Images > Auto
- Layer blending to remove objects (open all photos)
- File > Scripts (loads files in stacks) > Add open > attempt & create both click yes
- Layer > Smart Objects > Stack Mode - Median
- Clone Tool - Rid, healing tools
Ghost Ships
- Ghost Ships - personal work by Bryan Hawkins
- Ships made from objects found from the sea
- Second assignment - Dreamland
- Working towards an outcome
Camera Raw
- Basic tools include advanced heal and clone plus straighten tool
- Tone Curve > Points > Medium Contrast
- Tone Curve > Parametrics > (adj mid points)
- Split toning
- Printers are ALF22 = LaserJet, ALF22Printer2 = Epsom
- Print > Output > Color Management
- Printer Profile?
- CMYK - TIFF - High quality print
- RGB - JPG
- Assignment on a CD, minimum of 5 photographs, A3 montage, 500 word evaluation
- Evaluation - why composition, how, new goals and aims
- 3 Photographers who inspired the piece in some way
Photography in Context
- Photography Exhibition 9th December 6:30pm
- Next week sessions is small group tutorials (3:40pm)
- 2 of 3 images, interim sign-off
- Mixed media/mixing mediums
- Develop a criteria in own mind
- allocate a weekly budget to printing, we should all be printing
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