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
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