PHO 111 IDM Show Monday

Don't forget about the show on Monday at the Sam Rayburn Student Center.  Drop by sometime between 4-6.  You don't have to stay.  Take a peek at the work from the other classes this semester.

You can pick up and take your pictures from the 2nd floor on Monday.  Everything is graded and ready to hand back.  I won't have your final grades done until everyone has turned in their self assessment for the class.  If you don't pick them up, I'll leave them in the print lab in one of the cubby holes for you.  The print lab throws everything away at the beginning of each semester so if you want your  pictures, you might want to pick them up.

Great job on Friday.  What a great critique.  Everyone did their very best.  I am so proud of each and everyone of you.


If I don't see you again, it was a joy being your instructor.  Keep in touch.  I want to know how you are doing.

A little bit worried...

I am just a little bit worried since I will not be talking to the class before the final.

After grading the images this weekend from Aaron Siskand, I want to make sure that if you choose to turn in some Aaron Siskand images for the final you understand the assignment.

Some people seem to be confusing minimalism with abstract expressionism.  The Aaron Siskand images should be in the realm of abstract expressionism.

min·i·mal·ism n.

1. A school of painting and sculpture that emphasizes extreme simplification of form, as by the use of basic shapes and monochromatic palettes of primary colors, objectivity, and anonymity of style. Also called minimal art, reductivism, rejective art.

2. Use of the fewest and barest essentials or elements, as in the arts, literature, or design.

 

abstract expressionism n. A school of painting that flourished after World War II until the early 1960s, characterized by the view that art is nonrepresentational and chiefly improvisational.

Self Assessment due on November 30th

Self Assessment Essay due on Friday, November 30th at the end of class.

Please write a short 4 paragraph self-assessment based on what you learned/did not learn in Photography 111 Introduction to Digital Media class.

 

Paragraph 1 - Values: 

What value did this Photo 111 Introduction to Digital Media offer to you this semester?

Some examples of what you might want to consider in your value statement are listed below.

• How did you perceive yourself as a photographer at the beginning of class and how do you perceive yourself now?
• What do you like/dislike about your experience in this class?
• What were your strengths/weaknesses in photography at the beginning of class compared to the end of the semester?
• Is photography/digital media important to you? Do you think it will be in the future?
• How did you feel about this course before you started it? Did you think you would enjoy it? Did you think it would be hard, or easy? How do you feel about the course now you are almost finished?
• What do you like about this particular class?
• Did any particular photography technique prove useful? If so, how?

Paragraph 2 - Interest:
Was the class content interesting? What did you find interesting?  What did you find boring?

Paragraph 3 - Skills:
What skills did you learn?  Are there any skills you wish you had learned but you were not offered the information.

Some examples of skills learned this semester might include:
-Composition
-Printing
-Presentation
-How to take a picture
-How to use a camera
- Information on photographers
-How to critique a photograph
-How to mat.

Paragraph 4 - Grade for the semester
Finally, please give yourself a grade for the semester you feel that you have earned based on attendance, projects, participation in critiques, participation on the class blog and your final presentation.  Explain why you feel you deserve the grade you have given yourself.

Please print this out and hand it in on Friday, November 30th or email it to me at gsisco@yahoo.com

 

You won't receive a grade on this exercise.  This is a class writing participation grade.  It is a simple do it and you get a 100, don't do it and it  is non-participation.  I will be using your feedback as I try to plan for the next PHO 111 class.  Thanks so much for your input.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Have a great Thanksgiving and come back safely.

The final for this class is Friday, Nov 30th at 1:00.  Please come with 10 final prints matted and ready for formal critique.  The final prints must be from the class assignments.  The images can be all of one assignment or a mixture of all of the assignments.  The mats must by 16x20 except for the panoramics.  If you choose to show your panoramic(s), go ahead and cut the mat to fit your image.  The images need to be printed as a10x15 (except for the panoramic images).

Everyone did such a great job in critique today.  I am so proud of each and every one of you.

Don't forget to have your blogs up-to-date by the final.

See you then.

 

Next Assignment: Aaron Siskand

For the Aaron Siskand assignment, you will print four 10x15 really strong images. For the critique, two of the four must be matted!  This assignment is due on Friday, November 16 at 1 pm for formal critique.

 

This Friday, 9 Nov 2012, will be a print lab and image mounting day.  I will be on hand to help you edit any of your pictures you want to improve for the final 10.  If you need help, I'll go out with you and help with your Aaron Siskand pictures.  You can also use this class time to begin matting images for the final.  If your class blog is not up to date, you might want to use some of this time to update your blog.

 

Your class blog should have the following elements viewable by Friday, November 30, 2012.

•        Self Portrait images

•        Portraits of Classmate images

•        Critique of Kierra Faber's work

•        The Alphabet images

•        David Hockney images

•        Panoramic images

•        Multiple Me images

•        Levitation images

•        Aaron Siskand images

Turn in the written self assessment essay by Friday, December 7, 2012.  I will hand out the form to you on November 30th.

Thanks for all of your hard work.  I appreciate it!

3 printed images due on Friday

3 printed images are due at 1 pm on Friday, November 2nd.

1. Panoramic
2. Multiple Me
3. Levitation

You might want to bring your camera to class on Friday along with your prints.  We are going to start on our next assignment after the critique.  We will go outside and do some shooting.  

The next assignment will be due on November 16th.  There is no class on November 23rd.

The final will be 10 matted prints of your best images over the semester.  These will be due on Friday, November 30th at 1 pm.  November 9th will be print lab time set aside for you to mat and print.  You will also have lab time after critique on the 16th for matting and printing.

So, you will be finished with this class at the end of November.  I am not sure when but these images will be taken over to the student center for a show in December.  I'll keep you posted as I learn more about the time frame.

Next Assignment: Panorama, Multiple Me and Levitation

David will finish the Powerpoint on how to complete this assignment on Friday, October 26. It might be a good idea to bring your cameras and tripods to class and help one another out on the Levitation assignment. 

Panoramic:

Take a series of single images; then using Bridge/PhotoShop’s merge engine to make a seamless panoramic image. Think ahead. Shoot more variations than you may need. It works best with no less than four vertical images and try to keep the horizon line level. One print due with longest dimension 15 inches. 

Multiple Me:

Take a series of images of yourself. Merge images into one photograph. One print due as a 10x15. 

Levitation:

Take an image of yourself levitating. Be creative! One print due as a 10x15 .

 

Three total printed images are due on Friday, November 2^nd at 1 pm.