ADI: Aperture II
- Shortcuts - i inspector, f full screen
- ALT+SHIFT+H - Highlight Hot & Cold
- Enhance - Global
- Definital - local therefore more subtle
- Adjustment HUD is in workflow order
- Color correction affects the shadows only
- Levels
- Never desaturate for B&W conversion
- When you adjust B&W sliders they must add up to 100% for a balanced image
- Viewer Mode>Compare
- Enhance>Tint
- Curves - more detailed correction than levels
- Beware of saturating skin tones
- Use PSD 8-bit for external editing
APDP: Colour Film & Filters
- Subtle adjustments
- Use opposite colour to balance light
- Tungsten lighting
- Filter for the predominant light source when light is mixed
- Florescent lighting
- Use gels
- When using film everything works different as using a negative
- Overexpose to increase contrast in colour film
- Out-of-date slide film to shoot
Photography in Film: Documentary II
- Sally Mann - 'What Remains'
- Documentary gives us a film about a still subject
- Who is the auteur of the film?
- Filmmaker making a film about a photographer who they are a fan of
- (A scholar of Mann's work)
- Perspective of the filmed (through Mann's camera)
- What, Why, How?
- Emphasis on the locale
- Endorsement
- The things that are close to you - best
- Make art out of the ordinary
- 'Art is everywhere'
- Explore project from two different angles
- End show with uplift - living faces at 'death show'
Documenting the Real: The Photo Essay Seminar
- Agee - Photos were later printed as part of book
- HCB text? Always some text
- Equality text & photos
- Henry - Vietnam - TV War
- Contemporary -Different types of medium. Diegetic sound
ACPP: Portraiture
- Portrait Prize - No-one smiling - Criticism
- August Sander
- Structured way of recording
- Recording different types
- Grouped - Professions/Artists/The Last People
- 'The face of our time' - started 1904
- Dead-pan style
- Photographic inventory - 'Science & Art'
- Available light only
- Photographed the people who were on the periphery
- Circus performers/Disables - Not popular with the Nazis
- Published after the end of Nazi-Germany
- Treated everyone the same, not just poor or rich
- Charlotte Cotton - deadpan aesthetic
- Sander work was reaction to expressionism
- Rineke Djikstra
- Photographed subjects at times of change
- Nothing for the viewer to work our
- Similar pictures, difference are highlighted more
- 'On editing' - video, photographs of friends
- Simon Roberts - 'Motherland'
- Avoids cliches
- Subtle
- 5000 images edited for book
- Website for feedback and new ideas
- Joss McKinley
- Ability to interpret light
- Exposed only for highlights - mood to image
- Don't be afraid of too much shadow
- Deliberately under-exposes film
ADI - Aperture II
- Import
- Import Settings
- Export Settings
- Create a Preset for our metadata
- Preview Prefs > Choose Asterisk
- Working with RAW images
- RAW fine tuning
- F = Full screen, H = HUD (Heads Up Display)
- View > Hot & Cold, do not remove completely as image will flatten but use recovery and black point to balance them
- Color Clipping - Yellow = Clipping in Red & Green
- White = Clipping in All channels
- Lift & Stamp - apply adjustment to all selected images
- Back Up, Back Up, Back Up
- Vault > Add Vault
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