FPA 365 Photography II, Schedule, Spring 2005

Instructor: Judy Radul

TA: Amanda Christie

jaradul@sfu.ca
604 255 3557 (Alexander Studio)
604 253 3599 (Alexander Office)


Mon/Weds 2:30-5:20
Alexander Center/Harbour Centre
Publishing Lab 2960
You will need to get a copy card to make prints from the black and white laser printer


Schedule


Week 1
Monday Jan. 10
introduction to course and course work
quiz and review


Wednesday Jan 13
Getting the correct Exposure: Review
In Class Shooting Assignment (B&W)


Week 2
Monday Jan 17
Continue in class shooting assignment


Wednesday Jan 20
Review film development/contact sheet
Contemporary photography: slide discussion


Week 3
Monday Jan 24
Finish film Development

Contact sheet printing demo

Lenses and Colour
Intro to Digital Camera/Digital photography
Basic Colour (ink jet) Printing in the Alexander Lab


Wednesday Jan 27
Light Meters and the Medium Format Camera
in class shooting with D70 and Coolpix, Film Scanning and Printing assignments.Break into 4 groups.

due for workbook: shoot one roll of 35 mm b& w film. Develop and Contact print. Choose a film speed you haven't worked with before. Make notes about your exposures when shooting. Make sure negs are kept in your workbook in a neg. sheet (avail in darkroom).


Week 4
Meet at Harbour Center: Required Text Adobe Classroom in a book for Photoshop CS
Monday Jan 31
-bring blank CD R’s or CD RW’s for saving work
-begin to gather several images which you want to bring together in photoshop. We will be working in black and white and colour
-into to Mac Computer and Photoshop
-save to disc
-scanning
-Photoshop tour
-getting to know the work area
-on line help
-Lesson 3: Basic Photo Corrections
-health: take brakes, rest eyes, check posture, don’t press on wrist


Wednesday Feb 2
-resolution basics
-Lesson 4 Working with Selections
-Lesson 5 Layer Basics
workbook assignment:output service labs
re: digital output options, file formats, media, resolution, mounting options, costs, etc.

for your workbook: independent work/create 3 photoshop collages—explore, use as many tools and techniques as you want—but be precise, make it look as smooth as you can. Note what tools do what. Keep a log. Save or print various versions. The collages should represent at least 4 hrs work. They can be printed or given to me in digital form on CD.

in class hand out quiz one (camera, exposure, developing, lighting etc.)

Week 5
Monday Feb 7

-quiz one
-lesson 6 Masks and Channels
-lesson 7 Retouching and Repairing
-hand in three photoshop works (extraction: ie background, insertion, and open) as discussed in class

Wednesday Feb 9
-Lesson 8 Painting
-Lesson 9 Basic Pen tool Techniques

Week 6
Monday Feb 14
-discuss mid term piece with Judy, have a proposal including images/sketches and a budget ready
-Lesson 10: Vector Masks, Paths and Shapes
-Lesson 11: Advanced Layers

-hand out photoshop quiz


Wednesday Feb 16

-Lesson 19, 20 Colour Management

-discuss reading one: Roland Barthes "The Photographic Message"

-quotes for discussion: Roland Barthes, Stanley Cavel


Week 7
Monday Feb 21

-Photoshop quiz in class
-workbooks due (no exceptions)


Wednesday Feb 23
-discuss reading two Jeff Wall: "Marks of Indifference..."


Week 8
Monday Feb 28
-mid-term crits at Alexander Center
-work must be up and ready to view at 2:30


Wednesday Mar 2
-mid-term crits at Alexander Center
-work must be up and ready to view at 2:30

Week 9
Monday Mar 7
-one on one mid term meetings/whole class/at Alexander Center
-Lighting workshop


Wednesday Mar 9
-Lighting cont. in class assignments (bring an subject for a lighting assignment), medium format (group of 4)

Week 10
Monday Mar 14
-Flash photography

Wednesday Mar 16
-Discuss Kate Bush "The Latest Picture" (on reserve in "Prof Copies" at Harbour Center) and Image Structures: Photography and Sculpture
Mark Godfrey (handout)

-lighting experiment slides due (suggestions: using different lighting set ups, using mixed colour temperature lighting, experimenting with hard to light objects such as glass, working with diffues and specular lighting, selectively lighting parts of the image, night photography (for film: http://www.lostamerica.com/lostframe.html for digital: http://www.photoxels.com/tutorial-night-photography.html)

-Finishing Prints: mounting, matting, framing


Week 11
Monday Mar 21
To Be Confirmed: In Class Shoot with Strobe Lighting


Wednesday Mar 23
In class working session

proposal for final piece due


Week 12
Monday Mar 28(Easter Break No Classes)


Wednesday Mar 30
In class working session

Workbooks due (no exceptions)

Week 13
Monday April 4
-final crits work must be up and ready to view at 2:30

Wednesday April 6
-final crits-work must be up and ready to view at 2:30

-workbooks returned


*this schedule is subject to revision, students will be notified of any significant changes.


Assignments


1)Workbook: Your workbook is like a sketch book. In terms of film photography it contains information on the research you did on technical questions, including types of film, test shots/test prints, planning sketches, lighting sketches, budgets etc. In relation to your digital work, the workbook contains notes on what settings, filters, etc. that you used.
You will also be assigned exercises for your workbook. The idea is that the book is useful for your instructors to see both your technical and conceptual development and it is also useful for you to develop ideas and be clear about your technical process. Label everything or we won’t know what we are looking at.


2)Further investigations: your workbook must reflect further (reasonably developed) investigations which you have pursued in two of the areas introduced (lenses, lighting, different types of film, different shooting conditions, close up, macro, underwater, different camera formats, etc.) in class or which are relevant to your individual projects . Therefore your workbook will show further experiments with outputting to transparency, film, tiled images, prints on different types of material,, series, sizes, resolutions. These may be individual experiments or work which informs your mid-term/final piece.


3)Readings/notes on readings: During the semester you are required to read and take notes on two the readings on reserve in the library. Notes should be neatly written if not typed. Notes should be approx. 500 words per reading, point form is fine, quotes are OK, but try to express in your own words as well.Use images, sketches, clippings, be visual.


4)Short in class quizzes


6)Mid-term and final work: A piece or body of work which reflects your committed engagement with the ideas and techniques offered in the class. An ongoing investigation of your medium as well as a development of individual subject matter. The piece should be ready and installed for crit. Your preparedness is part of your grade.


Grading


Mid term and final projects 50 %
Workbook 20%
Quizzes 20%
Attendance and Participation 10%


Marks are based on:
-your considered and imaginative response to each project or assignment
-completion of each project or assignment
-the relative growth and development of the conceptual, technical and aesthetic aspects of your work during the course
-a demonstration of your understanding of the project or assignment requirements
-participation in group discussions
-lab/studio practice and consideration of the classroom environment
-attendance

On Line Photo Readings and Resources (Technical)
PHOTOGRAPHY Eighth Edition
By Barbara London, John Upton, Jim Stone, Ken Kobre, and Betsey Brill
http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_london_photo_8
This website (which supports the book) is linked to many good resources organized according to subject headings which correspond to aspects of photography we are focusing on in this course

 

Adobe Photoshop CS Classroom in a book download as PDFs

Nikon Tutorails/Info on using Nikon D70 camera

Nikon Tutorials/Info on Coolpix 8400

Nikon D70 Camera manual in PDF

Coolpixpix manuals in pdf

 

 

 

Understanding Exposure

12 essential facts, formulas, and photographic rules

5 Advanced Flash Techniques

 

Vancouver Photo Labs/Photo Supplies (always ask about a student discount)

The Lab 108 West 1st Avenue for processing and printing

ABC Photocolour 1618 West 4th Avenue (Ask for Bill Boutin on the professional services side) for processing and printing

Beau Photo 1520 W. 6th Ave for supplies (film etc.) equipment rental and purchase

Leo's Cameras 1055 Granville St., 604-685-5331for film, supplies and equipment purchase.

London Drugs City Wide

On Line Articles, Essays and Reviews
Review "The Last Picture Show": Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
ArtForum, Feb, 2004, by David Deitcher
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_6_42/ai_113389511

Article "Frames of reference" Jeff Wall, Vancouver based artisitic photographer
ArtForum, Sept, 2003, by Jeff Wall
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_1_42/ai_108691801


Essay "History is photography: the afterimage of Walter Benjamin"
Afterimage, Sept-Oct, 1998, by Jeannene M. Przyblyski
<http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2479/is_n2_v26/ai_21187359>

Related Sites
Photography Now: Artist and Event Listings
http://en.photography-now.com/


For further research: A long list of various artists who use photography taken from the exhibition: "Veronica's Revenge"


Doug Aitken
Janine Antoni
Nobuyoshi Araki
David Armstrong
John Baldessari
Matthew Barney
Bernd & Hilla Becher
Vanessa Beecroft
Joseph Beuys
O. Boberg
Christian Boltanski
Marcel Broodthaers
Victor Burgin
Jean-Marc Bustamante
Claude Cahun
Sophie Calle
Larry Clark
Gregory Crewdson
Jeanne Dunning
Tracey Emin
Walker Evans
Peter & David Fischli & Weiss
Robert Frank
Hamish Fulton
Gilbert & George
Robert Gober
Nan Goldin
Felix Gonzales-Torres
Rodney Graham
Forge Gunter
Andreas Gursky
Mona Hatoum
Damien Hirst
Roni Horn
Gary Hume
S Jones
Seydou Keita
Mike Kelley
Jeff Koons
Barbara Kruger
Louise Lawler
Zoe Leonard
Sherrie Levine
Sarah Lucas
Man Ray
Robert Mapplethorpe
Gordon Matta-Clark
Paul McCarthy
Allan McCollum
Annette Messager
Tracey Moffatt
Pieter Laurens Mol
Jean-Luc Mylayne
Catherine Opie
Gabriel Orozco
Tony Oursler
Pierre & Gillles
Steven Pippen
Sigmar Polke
Richard Prince
Charles Ray
Gerhard Richter
Pippilotti Rist
Robins & Becher
Ugo Rondinone
Thomas Ruff
Sam Samore
Thomas Schütte
Andres Serrano
Cindy Sherman
Cindy & Richard Sherman & Prince
Laurie Simmons
Kiki Smith
Thomas Struth
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Sam Taylor-Wood
Wolfgang Tillmans
Rosemarie Trockel
F. Tuggar
Inez van Lamsweerde
Jeff Wall
Andy Warhol
James Welling
Jane & Louise Wilson