Panoramas - Due Date

Both blocks are DUE on THURSDAY, December 17th.

Both blocks have to put FOUR panoramas on their blogs.

Two of the panoramas will be vertical.

Two of the panoramas will be horizontal.

Both blocks will print out TWO panoramas.

One of the panoramas will be vertical.

One of the panoramas will be horizontal.

IF THERE ARE ANY THAT ARE GOOD, I will print them out large and hang them in the hall.

Tree of Utah #2

On I-80 at mile-marker 36 is this little tree. I went out this morning at 5am to take this photograph. I got there about 30 minutes before the sun cleared the horizon. This image was made about 10 minutes before sunrise. This is the sweet light. I hope you have all seen it by now.



Tree Of Utah #2, Near Wendover, Utah, 2009

Kodachrome

Watch this. It is an interesting story about a type of film that is going extinct.

Click here.

JOBO ATL-3

Look what I got this week!

JOBO ATL-3 testing from Michael Slade on Vimeo.

You'll understand how cool this thing is once you start shooting color and large-format next year. For now, the Juniors and Seniors get to play with the new droid.

Photos From Mars

Take a look at these shots. They are amazing!

Link to article in the Boston Globe.

Today's Shot

Shooting With 11x14, Near Stansbury Island, Great Salt Lake, 2009

Panorama - A Worthy Subject

Here's opening night at the In-N-Out Burger in Draper.

There was some 'camera drift', but I'm OK with that.



Opening Night, In-N-Out Burger, Draper, Utah. 2009

So you think my assignments were hard?

Watch this!

Thanksgiving Challenge - Extra Credit

Pretend you are photographing a big assignment for Gourmet Magazine. Photograph the creation and finished product of your Thanksgiving Feast. Concentrate on LIGHT, getting focus SHARP, good tight composition, and last but not least, TELL ME A STORY. Shoot the people making the food, some portraits of the cook/chef would be nice.

This should be FUN for both you and the people that you are photographing. If you get in the way and are making things worse for everyone, consider backing off and shooting the wide shot. Also consider *HELPING* a little bit. It will go a long way to making those people who are actually *making* the dinner happy with you.

Also, a nice image of the table with all the food spread out, the family in their holiday finery preparing to chow-down would be fun.

Good luck and don't get too sick!

Mini-Final

Put your favorite six images on the blog.

Write something about each image. Why is it your favorite? What worked well? What would you change if you could?

This needs to be on your blog by the end of classes on Tuesday.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving vacation. Remember to give thanks.

Assignment #6 - Portraits

From Wikipedia (yeah, a terrible source, but I liked the definition...)

Portrait:

"A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer."



Three rules to this assignment.

Rule #1: NO MYSPACE PHOTOS - I think you all know what this means. You've seen 'em, you've taken 'em, I don't want 'em.

Rule #2: You need to shoot at least three separate people.

Rule #3: One of those three people MUST be yourself...but, you can't BE yourself...

Here is Cindy Sherman doing her version of Lucille Ball.



Here is a link to the National Portrait Gallery. You will get a lot of good ideas here from paintings, sculpture and photography.

National Portrait Gallery

Here is one of my favorite portrait photographers...Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon Portrait Gallery

Hiroshi Watanabe's gallery has a few sections of portraits that are interesting.

August Sander was a German photographer who made portraits of farmers and working class people near Cologne prior to World War II. After the Nazi's gained power, Sander continued to shoot the people in his city, many of them shown in Nazi military uniforms. Sander's portraits provide possibly the widest cross-section of Germans during that time.

Here is a self-portrait of me as Abraham Lincoln.



Due on Tuesday, November 17th.

C Block: 10 on blog, 5 prints

Z Block: 8 on blog, 4 prints