Individual Meetings: Thursday, October 30th

As a reminder, on Thursday, October 30th, class will be individual meetings. Come to my office during your meeting time with five photographs towards your final project to review.

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Lecture tonight at 6pm Wathena 131

We will begin class tonight with visiting artist, Randy Reiger. 

He will be speaking at 6pm in Wathena 131 (the lecture hall on the first floor below our classroom). After his lecture ends we will head upstairs and continue class. 

Project #3: Multiples

Project #3: Multiples

For this assignment you will be required to create 2 composite photographs in the style of Kelli Connell, Anthony Goicolea or Peter Funch.

You will construct a story/emotion/idea using the same person(s) to play all the roles. You may use yourself as the actor or someone else.

Each composite photograph will need to a composite of at least 2 different images. At a minimum you will need 4 photographs to construct your 2 final images.

  

For the critique:

You will post your 2 photographs to your blog and bring in your 2 photographs to project in class for critique.

Due: October 16th

Final Project

Final Project: Self-Assigned

For this assignment you will be required to create a photographic project of your own choosing on a Single Theme. You will be working on this assignment throughout the duration of the semester. This should be a thoughtful investigation/exploration of something important to you or that you are interested in.  Your photographic project will include 10 - 15 final images and will be printed and matted as a portfolio.

  

DUE October 21st: project proposal

  1. This proposal should be about a paragraph long and no longer than one page

  2. You should address:  

         a.  the subject matter/topic you are interested in exploring

         b.  why you are interested in the topic

         c.  ideas of how you plan to visualize these ideas photographically

  3. Print two copies of this proposal to turn in during your individual meeting.

  4. Sign up sheets for individual meetings will be available on October 9th and 14th.

DUE October 30th: mid-way review

  1. 5 digital files for semester long project posted to your blog

  2. Bring those 5 files to my office for an individual meeting to discuss progress

DUE November 11th: First Matted Print

      I will demo printing and matting November 4th and 6th.  

      By Tuesday November 11th you will need to have one photograph printed and matted.

DUE December 2nd: Final Critique:

  1.   All of your final project files to uploaded to your blog

  2.   All photographs must be printed and matted for presentation

  3.   All of your files need to be turned into me as you have done with earlier projects.

Photography Exhibition (December 3rd 1pm-3pm at the student center) : 

  1. Your printed/matted photographs will be on display to public alongside all of 

       the other IDM and advanced Photography classes. 

Tuesday October 7th: Critique of Project #2 and Visiting Artist Lecture

Tuesday's schedule:

The Art Department is hosting a visiting artist, Kristen Cochran, on Tuesday, October 7th.

So that we can see the visiting artist lecture, we will begin class at 6pm in WTFA 131 (the lecture hall on the first floor below our classroom).

Kristen will speak at 6pm and immediately following her presentation (at approximately 7pm), we will go upstairs to critique your projects.

Article and Review - Weather Problems

For any of you who lost power on Thursday due to the storm your article and reviews will not be counted late. Please upload your article and review by the end of the weekend.

Project #2

Night Photography / Long Exposure

For this assignment you will be required to create 6 photographs that experiment with shooting at night or with long exposures of 1 second or longer.

Consider how you can use movement and light to create ephemeral presences in your photographs, or document the surreal ways in which both natural and artificial light illuminate our night landscape.

A tripod will be helpful for this assignment but not necessary. (Tripods are available for check-out.)

  

This may be a great assignment to experiment with the “bulb” setting on your camera. If you do not have a “bulb” option on your camera but are interested in working with that you can always check out one of the digital rebels to work with if you would like to.

Artists to look at for inspiration: Todd Hido, Beau Comeaux, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Michael Wesley, Tokihiro Sato

DUE: October 7, 2014

By the due date,  post your photographs to your blog and bring in your 6 photographs in class to project and turn in.

Tadd Myers Lecture / Gallery Reception Tuesday September 23rd

On Tuesday September 23rd, Tadd Myers will be speaking about his work at 4pm in Wathena 131. Following his artist talk there will be the opening reception for his exhibition in the University Art Gallery from 5 - 7pm.

On Tuesday we will meet in the Photography classroom at 6 pm (so that I can take attendance) and then we will head over to the gallery for the opening reception. 

If you do not have class at 4pm on Tuesday, I encourage you to go to his lecture.

Glasstire

Glasstire.com is an excellent resource to find out what is going on in the arts in the DFW area!

screenshot  from the gallery openings this week from glasstire!

Article and Reviews

Article Review Posts: Below is a list of due dates and websites to find articles. 

By each due date (due at the end of the day) you must have gone to the blogsite, looked for an article/post that interests you, read the article/post and write a very short review.

Each Post should contain:

1.     Blog Name

2.     Link to the article

3.     A few sentences about the article. Please address as many of the following as you can:

·      Was there something compelling about the title of the article or the images that made you select that article?

·      What was the article about

·      Were you interested, excited, disinterested, and/or curious by what you read? If so, why?

Optional: Include a picture from the article in your review – You MUST give credit to who created the photograph/image

9/11 – Glasstire - http://glasstire.com/

9/18   – Lenscratch -  http://www.lenscratch.com/

9/25  - Conscientious - http://cphmag.com/

10/2  - NY Times Art & Design -  http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/design/index.html

10/9 – Aperture Magazine Blog - http://www.aperture.org/blog/

10/16    – Urbanautica - http://www.urbanautica.com/

10/23 – Triangle Triangle – www.triangletriangle.com

10/30 – Booooooom - http://www.booooooom.com/blog/photo/  (their Photo section)

Everyday Project

Due: September 16, 2014

For this assignment you will be required to shoot everyday. When making your daily photographs, consider photographing something that you weren’t expecting to see, something you enjoy seeing everyday, the places, people and things around you. Think about how photography can elevate the ordinary or how the camera can be used like a visual diary. Shoot several photographs throughout the day and select your favorite at the end of each day to post to your blog and turn in for critique. You will do this for ten consecutive days. Be thoughtful about your photographs.  Shoot with intention.

Steps:

·       Shoot everyday for ten consecutive days – To complete this assignment on time you must begin by Friday, September 5, 2014

·       At the end of each day, download/import your photographs onto your harddrive into the following folder structure:

o   Everyday

§  (subfolder) Day1

§  (subfolder)  Day 2

§  So on

·       Review your photographs

·       Select the photograph you are most excited about from each day – Even if you are excited about multiple photographs from one day (hopefully this is the case) you still must select only one photograph

·       Upload your photograph to your blog: Title each post as “Everyday: Day One”, “Everyday: Day Two”, and so on

·       Repeat for 10 days

·       At the end of your 10 days, export your 10 photographs no larger than 1920 pixels on the long side through Lightroom

For inspiration, look at artists: William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, Joel Sternfeld, Alec Soth, Byron Wolf, Whitney Hubbs, and Tracey Baran.

For the critique:   1. Bring in all 10 files saved as jpegs and named:

            LASTNAME_01.jpg, LASTNAME_02.jpg, etc

            You will turn these files into me and project them in class for critique

       2.  Upload these images to your blog daily

       3.  Screen Shot of your folder structure

Scavenger Hunt!

TAMUC Faculty Exhibition!

The TAMUC Faculty exhibition opening reception is September 2nd from 5 - 7pm.

As a reminder, on Tuesday, the 2nd, we will begin class at 6pm in the Art Gallery (located in the main art building). At 6:30 we will meet back in the classroom in Wathena.

Class Blogs!

Check out your fellow classmates blogs!

James: http://jamesbarrans.blogspot.com/
Alec: http://alecrandomimages.blogspot.com
Gizem: http://gizembaydar.blogspot.com/
Jiyun: jiyunsphotoalbum.blogspot.com
Jacob: http://jdanleyart.blogspot.com/
Rebecca: http://rebecca11.blogspot.com/
Joon: http://wkdwnsgus.blogspot.com/
In Gyun: http://bookiejeong.blogspot.com
Ghahyung: http://ghahyung.blogspot.com/
Alexandria: ascales94.blogspot.com
Kristin: http://kristentaylorart.blogspot.com
Bach: http://bachtran237.blogspot.com/
Dereck: http://dereckwalkerart.blogspot.com/
Koteca: kaydeewillis.blogspot.com
Madison: madisonworthington.blogspot.com
Seung chan: http://seungchanyee.blogspot.com/

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