| 13 | 12.03 |

• Work in class on Final Projects

For next week:

• Bring all negatives and prints form your final project

• One on one meetings – how are you doing?

| 12 | 11.26 |

| 12 | Nov 26:

• Visit to CCNY Print Archives

• Work in LAB on Final Project

| 11 | 11.19 |

• One on one meetings about final projects

• Lectures on FIlms and FIlm Developers (some info here)

• Open LAB

For Next Week:

• Keep working open Final Projects

• Bring images to class to work on

| 10 | 11.12 |

Filed trip to Chelsea Galleries!!

| 9 | 11.05 |

• Critique – 10-20 well exposed and well printed images from the first 4 assignments

For next week:

Field trip to Chelsea galleries!

| 8 | 10.29 |

• In class discussion of Class Blog topic

• In detail: Scanning and printing in color

• FINAL PROJECT guidelines discussed and distributed

• Open LAB



For next week:

• SCAN and PRINT: Your best images from all assignments so far for in class critique on 11/07

| 7 | 10.22 |

• Shooting with Color discussed
• Assignment #3 discussed – Portraits and Mixed Lighting (6 different shots)
• Working with different lenses
• Open LAB

For next week:

• SHOOT: Assignment #3
• DEVELOP: Shots from assignment #3
• SCAN and PRINT: Your best images from all assignments so far for in class critique on 11/05
• READ/ANSWER QUESTIONS: Class Blog discussion topic
• BRING: All your negatives, scans, and prints so far for one on one meetings

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• Working with color negative film
• SLIDESHOW - 1st slideshow about color 
• Film Layers diagram
• Time of day type of light slideshow
• Working with different lenses - lens info
• Lens comparison chart
• Best lens for your shot article
• Lens equivalents chart

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Color 4x5 films available:

Kodak Portra 400 10 sheets - B&H price $39.99 

Kodak Portra 160 10 Sheets - B&H price: $39.95

Kodak Ektar 100 10 Sheets - B&H price: $29.25 

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FILM PROCESSING LABS: ALWAYS ask if they give a student discount

Ask for PROCESS ONLY – DO NOT CUT!  You will cut your film and put it in negative

sleeves.

LTI-Lightside:

34 east 30th street

new york, ny 10016  

phone 212.685.6871 

m-f 9am – 6pm

http://www.lti-lightside.com/

Duggal:

29 West 23rd Street,

New York, NY 10010 –

T (212) 242-7000

Monday-Friday from 8:00am-10:00pm

Saturday and Sunday from 9:00am-6:00pm

http://duggal.com/e-6-c-41-and-bandw.aspx

Coloredge CRC:

20 West 22^nd St

New York, NY 10010

T:212-807-6611

http://www.crc-nyc.com/home.html

Imagination Color Labs

387 Second Avenue, (btwn 22^nd and 23^rd)

New York, NY, 10010

1.212.358.1928
Hours of operation: Monday - Friday 8.00 am - 6.00 pm

http://imaginationphoto.us/

Luster Photo

121 Avenue A,

New York, NY 10009

Tel: 212-979-1669

Mon.~Fri. 10:00am~8:00pm
Sat. 12:00pm~7:00pm

http://www.lusterphoto.com/

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| Assignment #3 |

• Portraits! 
• What is a portrait to you?  Explore shooting in an intimate environment.
• Take a look at these images made by photographers using large format:

- David Hilliard
- Bruce Wrighton
- Christine Osinski
- Fazel Shiek
- Dawoud Bey
- Catherine Opie

- Richard Renaldi

| 6 | Discussion Topic | 

If you have not responded to blog topics 1-5 do so now!!

For topic #5:

1. Look over the above mentioned photographers.
2. Pick an image, and write a short statement about why you think it is a successful image in terms of portraiture
3. Also mention how large format influences its overall structure and feeling (i.e. think about how it might differ as a 35mm, digital, or Medium Format image)

| A few recomendations |

Alexie has work in a group show and the opening is tonight 6-9PM (October 15th)!  Check it out if you can...

Manahatta TODAY
Indigenous Art of N.Y.C.
Oct 13th -Nov. 15th
Gallery of LeRoy Neiman Art Center
2785 Fredrick Douglass Blvd.
New York, NY 10039


Eliza has some links to tech info and an interesting photographer to pass on:

Cheat Sheet: Getting Control over Your Camera in Manual Mode

Costică Acsinte + here

| 6 | 10.15 |

•    In class discussion of Class Blog topic

·       Critique of negatives from Assignment #2

·       Tour and Training: Digital Printing

·       Intro to digital printing

·       Inkjet paper choices discussed

For next week:

·       SCAN: At Least 8 of your negatives from the last two assignments

·       PRINT: At Least 8 of your images from the last assignment

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 HISTOGRAM INFORMATION:

• What is a histogram?

• How to read a histogram: info here and here
• Working with Highlights and Shadows

PRINTING DIGITALLY:

• How to print digitally video (old info but the principles still apply)

• Care of Inkjet Prints - PDF

• Sharpening information:  Simple method / method with more control

• Masking basics in Photoshop video  

Inkjet Media

• "Photo Paper" not good enough for true "Photo Quality". Only "Premium" versions are true photo quality.

• Archivalness of inkjet images article

• Color management workflow chart

• paper surfaces and their reflective properties

Recommended paper types (for now)

(i.e. profies already loaded into computers - printout should look reasonably like the screen):

Epson Ultra Premium Glossy Photo Paper

Epson Premium Semigloss Photo Paper 

Epson Ultra Premium Luster Paper

Epson Semi-Matte Photo Paper (roll only)

Epson Ultra Premium Presentation Paper Matte 

| 5 | 10.08 |

o   In class discussion of Class Blog topic

o   Work in progress critique: in class pin up of prints/projection of scans from Assignment #1

o   Troubleshooting scanning

•   Scanning on the Hassleblad Flextight scanner

o   Bellows adjustments explained

o   Close up shooting and depth-of-field, reciprocity failure, bellows extension

o   Assignment #2 explained 

For next week:

o   SHOOT: Assignment #2- shooting in the studio/still life/interiors: theme - Domesticity

o   DEVELOP: Shots from assignment #2

o READ/ANSWER Class Blog Topic #5

Some photographers to look at in therms of the genre of set up/still life photography:

Irving Penn
Adolphe Braun 
Justine Reyes  
Bernard Voita  
Zeke Berman 
Thomas Demand

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| 5 | DISCUSSION TOPIC |

• Read over this article about the photographer Laura Letinsky
• And take a look at some of her images here

Answer these questions:

1)  What does Letinsky mean when she talks about "the photograph"?

2) What kind of color palette does she work with and why?

3) "She would probably remind me that the photograph is just the expression of a moment, not the moment itself" ....... explain what you think this quote means.

| 4 | 10.01 |

• In class discussion of Class Blog topic 
• In class printing contact sheets from 4x5 negatives 

Class divided in two:
• Enlarging 4x5 negatives in the darkroom.
• Scanning 4x5 negatives (Epson or Hassleblad)
• Using Flexcolor/Epson software

For Next Week:

• Bring your contact sheets, enlarged prints, scans, and negatives for a technical critique.
• Read over and answer Blog Discussion Topic questions


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| 4 | Discussion Topic |



Read about photographer Zanele Muholi and view some of her images here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/16/zanele-muholi_n_4101706.html
http://www.yanceyrichardson.com/artists/zanele-muholi/index.html

Answer these questions:

1) Do you think this work seems "modern" (of the now) or "antiquated" (of the past) or timeless (no particular time period)?  Tell us why you feel this way.

2) Why did this photographer choose to shoot large format?  What advantages did it give them as a studio photographer?

3) Pick an image that speaks to you and describe why.

| - | 09.24 |

No class due to holiday.  NO classes scheduled.  All work due Oct. 1st

| 3 | 09.17 |

• • In class discussion of Class Blog topic
• • In class developing of negatives - 4x5
• • If time allows, In class printing contact sheets from 4x5 negatives
• • If time allows, enlarging 4x5 negatives in the darkroom.
• • Shooting Assignment #1 given (8 negatives using natural light)

For next week:

• • SHOOT: Assignment #1
• • DEVELOP: Assignment #1, have negatives ready to view during class
• • CRITIQUE: Of negatives from Assignment #1 on the light table during the next class
• • READ/ANSWER QUESTIONS: Class Blog discussion topic

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Shooting Assignment #1

Shoot at least 8 B&W negatives that use natural light as their lighting source. 

The subject matter will be open – you can shoot portraits or architecture – whatever works for you and gets you excited.

You can shoot 8 images of the same scene but in different ways – work with angles, close ups, long shots, shoot from above, etc….get to know the camera. 

You can also shoot 8 different scenes.

Have your film developed and ready to print by next week - OCT 1st.

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| 3 | DISCUSSION TOPIC |

-due Oct. 1st before class- 


Read over this short article and take a look at the images from Danny Lyon's project "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"

More pictures from the series can be found here.

1) Why do you think Lyon's used a large format camera for this project?

2) How does the use of natural light effect quality of the images?

3) Pick an image that stands out to you and tell us what qualities you like about it.|\

| 2 | 09.10 |

• In class discussion of Class Blog topic

• In class shoot with 4x5 and 35mm size cameras

• Swing, Tilt, Shift, Rise and Fall introduced

• How to use your exposure meter

• Tour: Darkrooms


For next week:


• SHOOT: AT LEAST 2 more images to add to the two we shot in class.

• READ/ REVIEW: Handout of Chapter 17 “Using the View Camera” and Chapter 4 “Exposure”

• READ/ANSWER QUESTIONS: Class Blog discussion topic

• BRING:  Negatives you shot in class and outside class to develop in class

• BRING: Negative sleeves, B&W printing paper


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| 2 | DISCUSSION TOPIC |

- Due Sept 17th before class -

Take a look at some of the photographs in Richard Avedon's series "The American West" shot in the late 1970's-early 1980's using an 8'x10' camera. (Similar to our 4"x5" cameras but with negatives 4 times as big!)

http://www.theavedonfoundation.net/index.php#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&p=7&a=0&at=0 

then  

Read this article written by one of Richard Avedon's assistants during his "American West" series shoot.

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0406/wilson.html
(this link will take you to a "forbidden" page.  Click once in the address bar and hit Enter, then the page will show up.  I'm not sure why. If it doesn't work for you let me know)

then

Take a look at the behind the scene images of the shoot(s)

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0406/av01.html
(this link will take you to a "forbidden" page.  Click once in the address bar and hit Enter, then the page will show up.  I'm not sure why. If it doesn't work for you let me know)

then

Leave a brief answer for each of these questions:

1) How did Avedon end up pursuing this project?

2) What did he do to prepare for the project?  How did he find his subjects?

3) How did the use of a large format camera effect Avedon's interaction with his subjects?  

4) What kind of set up/lighting was used?

| 1 | 09.03 |

·       Course objectives, requirements, expectations and surveys.

·       Camera assignments

·       Overview of what supplies you need to buy for this course

·       Introduction to the 4x5 camera and how to make an exposure

·       Demonstration: How to load film and zero the camera

·       Handout: Chapter 17 “Using the View Camera”

·       Handout: Toyo CF Manual

         For next week:

·       READ/REVIEW: Materials Check List

·       READ/ REVIEW: Handout of Chapter 17 The View Camera

·       READ/ANSWER QUESTIONS: Class Blog discussion topic

·       BRING: Film holders, B&W film, loupe, cable release, changing bag, light meters, 35mm cameras, 35mm film and/or a DSLR

·       PRACTICE: At home loading film with your eyes closed and setting up the camera

DISCUSSION TOPIC #1: 

During the Large Format Class in Spring 2012 I started a list of photographers who have used large format for at least one of their projects.  I'd like to keep adding to this is and also make the names clickable.

Take a look Page titled Large Format Photographers List.  

1. Choose 5 photographers from the list and in the comments section leave a link to their work so that I can activate their name. (if they already have a link and it is a good one, just put their name)
2. If you know of a photographer who is using large format but is not on the list, please add their name and a link in the comment section
3. Pick ONE photographer that interests you and prepare a short 5 minute oral presentation for the next class focusing on why using a Large Format camera was important for the success of the images.  Choose 5-10 images to show of their work (it can be from one specific project or span many though its probably easier to focus on one project).  Bring the images on a thumb drive and have a hard copy of your presentation to turn in to me.
4. BONUS CREDIT if you also are able to bring a book about that photographer or with some of the photographer's work included in it.