December 13, 2011 • 2:00 pm 0
Four hours. If you’re done, here are a few things you could do in four hours:
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December 13, 2011 • 10:00 am 0
Eight hours left … get to it.
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November 28, 2011 • 4:48 pm 0
Remember that you need to turn in a paper on Thursday, Dec. 1, that talks about what you believe to be the most important photograph ever made and why.
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November 28, 2011 • 4:44 pm 0
Your written story proposal is due at the start of class on Tuesday, Nov. 29. The rest of the class time will be given over to production work for your semester-long documentary project. Please bring your own headphones so you don’t drive the rest of us crazy.
On Thursday, we’ll watch those projects and say our farewells.
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October 27, 2011 • 3:56 pm 0
You need to produce six photos for Tuesday’s class. (I’ll give you the first 30 minutes to process and post to the server.)
With one light, a portrait with the background one stop darker and another, different portrait with the background two stops darker.
With two lights, one with the background one stop darker, one at two stops darker, a third at an even exposure and a fourth with the background two stops brighter.
For each set-up, you need to create a simple lighting diagram – an overhead drawing that shows the location of the camera, subject, background and light(s). You need to measure out the distances between the light and subject and light and background. You need the exposure information from the light meter.
Shoot all of this in a darkened space at ISO 100 – no ambient light on this, all flash. If you want to bounce off of walls instead of the umbrellas for some, that’s fine.
Questions? Shoot them to me …
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September 16, 2011 • 5:32 pm 0
I have generated a page that will let you input your photo requests online. You’ll still need to bring a printed version to class so do that BEFORE you click submit.
We’ll try this for a week, see how it goes.
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September 15, 2011 • 1:31 pm 0
For Thursday, Sept. 22, let’s work on some lit portraits. Use your flash, bounce it off of something, balance your ambient and strobe light. Just play a little, see what happens.
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September 13, 2011 • 2:30 pm 0
Make sure your calendar matches mine …
Aug. 25 – Alan
Sept. 1 – Alyson
Sept. 15 – Lane, Andrea
Sept. 27 – Ashlee, Christina
Oct. 13 – Kimberly, Allison
Oct. 20 – Sarah, Gabriella
Oct. 27 – Michael, Melanie
Nov. 3 – Kristy, Elizabeth
Nov. 10 – Devin, Kathryn
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September 2, 2011 • 2:59 pm 0
For Tuesday, September 6, please read chapter nine in the text on strobes and take a look at the PDF I wrote, In A Flash. We’ll be digging in deep on flash next week, get ready to get confused.
And remember that for Thursday, September 8, you need another general news package (3-5 images) on the server by 2 p.m. We saw some good stuff this week, I want to see more. Ruthless control of backgrounds, great moments, good light and strong visual variety – bring me into a place, show me why I need to care about this and then surprise me with some details.
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August 25, 2011 • 10:54 am 0
For Thursday, Sept. 1, please shoot a 3-5 photo general news package. This needs to be of a newsworthy event. Scour calendars and bulletin boards for something that will work. You should also read chapters two and three in the Kobré book.
A reminder that you need to have your Twitter and WordPress IDs to me by today and you need to have your blog up, running and populated with something by noon tomorrow. Please email me the site and I’ll create a blogroll for everyone to stick int heir RSS reader.
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