Wow!

Watch this!  This is way cool! 


Lightness Illusion - The top video clips of the week are here

Assignment # 2 1/2 - Before / After

Take your mostest favoriteist photograph from Assignment 2, and retouch it.  Make it beautiful!  Make it sing!  Post the before and the after to your blog and tell me why you are in love with Lightroom and the controls it offers.

Next...print the before and print the after and turn them in with your names on the back.

Due...Friday, October 9th.

Assignment #3 - Monochromatic

Yay, we're now at #3!  It's going to be cool, and so I'm basically going to just give you examples. 

You are going to shoot scenes that are monochromatic.  Mono = one.  Chroma = color.  Monochromatic = Onecolor.

Pick a color, any color.  Try to find objects that are all that same color.  A place to start is your closet.  Find two or three pairs of jeans, find some sweet light in your house, maybe next to a large bay window, arrange the jeans and take a bunch of shots where the jeans fill the entire frame.  THAT is monochromatic...as long as all of the jeans were various shades of blue.  Now do you get what I'm looking for?

I want you to shoot at least 3 different colors for this assignment.  When you are shooting your images DON'T JUST SHOOT ONE FRAME!  Shoot lots of frames of each color.  LOTS!


Y-Block
12 on the blog
6 prints

Z-Block
10 on the blog
5 prints


All must be retouched and made PERFECT.

You must have some images due next Tuesday October 6th.
Prints due the following Friday, October 16th.

Quite a Project

Here is a pretty neat photography project done in Detroit.  Start thinking about what you're going to do...that's right...each of you will do an extended project before the term is over.  It might not be on this grand of a scale, but it will be something that you spend some time on. 

CLICK HERE to see the essay on Time.com.

Sunsets

I hate sunsets...except when they're really cool.  The sunset tonight was really cool.

This shot was made by stitching six images together.  This is looking east from my front doorstep.  That is my dad's old red truck.  It is for sale.  Anyone wanna buy it?

Be sure to click on the image so you can see it larger.

Assignment #2 - Numbers

Assignment number two.  It's really your first real REAL assignment.  Kick some tail.

Here are the requirements:

You will make 100 images. No more...no less.
You will make your first frame contain the number zero (0).
Your second frame will contain the number one (1).
Your third frame will contain the number two (2).
Can you guess what your fourth frame will contain? Yep, a number three (3).

Rinse and repeat.

You will end up with 100 images, starting with number 0, ending with 99.

Remember, no deleting, no re-shooting numbers, if you make a mistake on the exposure, go on to your next number. Fix your exposure for the next number before shooting (duh).

DO NOT TAKE THIS ASSIGNMENT LITERALLY. Be creative in how you represent the numbers you will shoot. Bonus points if you photograph them in braille. Extra bonus points if you can photograph 99 Bigfoots (Bigfeet?) for the final exposure. DO NOT have your parents drive you all over town. DO NOT go walking up and down the street looking for addresses that work. You can shoot this assignment within the comfort of your own home. There are easily 100 sequential numbers in your house.

Also, you need to be aware of controlling your WHITE BALANCE. Most of you know how to do this now. If you do not have a good understanding of how to control it, come see me and we will go over it again. Get your white balance correct in the camera. Remember, no post-production...NO PHOTOSHOP.

DUE DATES:

C Block: Tuesday, September 22nd images are due to be shot AND uploaded.  Prints are due the following Friday, October 2nd.
C Block requirements:  8 prints, 12 on the blog.  Make them perfect in the camera.  I will NOT allow you do to ANY POST-PROCESSING FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT.  Print the most unique ones.

Z Block: Tuesday, September 22nd images are due to be shot AND uploaded.  Prints are due the following Friday, October 2nd.
Z Block requirements:  5 prints, 10 on the blog.  Make them perfect in the camera.  I will NOT allow you do to ANY POST-PROCESSING FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT.  Print the most unique ones.

Quote for the day:

"Photoshop is a crutch for those who are too lazy to get it right in the camera."
I said this, it is my quote. If you quote me, attribute me. If you don't quote me I will be sad.

Good luck!

Guess who shot this?

Yep, yours truly shot this about 3 years ago in Moab for one of my clients.  They have had it in their library for a while and are just now finding a use for it.  I think it's pretty sweet.  They are shipping me the product to photograph very soon...sometime this week, and I don't even know exactly what it is.  I'll share with you in class how the shoot goes.  I can't post any images to the blog until the images are released from the client...top secret and all.