| 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.