A couple tips from Mr. Story

Here are my insights from the few weeks we have had in the darkroom...

• You MUST clean up after yourself!!!  Be sure you do not forget your supplies, test strips, negatives etc.
• DO NOT co-mingle the chemicals!!!  Very nice prints and negatives are getting ruined due to chemical mixing!
• ALWAYS PUT THE PAPER POUCH BACK INTO THE BOX!!!  Paper is VERY expensive and can be exposed even by safe lights over time.  PLEASE be sure you take a sheet of paper, close the envelope, and put the sleeve back into the box.  I can not stress this enough.
• Everything we are working with is FRAGILE.  Take care not to force anything.  If you do not think something is working ask me or someone else for help.

Ireland Assignment

Paper Negatives:

http://users.rcn.com/stewoody/darkcam2.htm

• Lay a piece of unexposed paper down with the emulsion side facing up
  
• Place the paper negative, face down, onto the unexposed paper
  
• Place a have piece of plexiglass on top of the papers
  
• Press/squeeze to ensure a good contact with no air bubbles
  
• Expose via your enlarger lamp for a few of seconds (again, you will need to make a test strip - every negative is different)
  
• Process and dry the new image as you would any print

• Thursday March 22nd - First print and contact sheet w/ test strips
• Thursday March 29th - Landscape film should be processed
• Thursday April 12th - Landscape prints (2) and contact sheet
• Thursday April 19th - MOP Essay
• Tuesday May 1st - MOP image

Test strips

REMIDER:

• You need to make a test strip for EVERY picture and EVERY contact sheet.
• The test strips tells you how long to expose your image for
• A test strip should be a SMALL strip of paper so you do not WASTE a whole sheet ($1!)
• You must TURN IN your test strips for the first roll of film (from your contact sheet and print)

These are test strips, little scraps of paper that have a variety of exposures on them to help determine the correct amount of time you need to shed light on your paper to make a nice print.  Your goal is to choose the first exposure which has white and black:

Examples:

Eadweard Muybridge:

His Pic:

Student Example:



Guy Bourdin:

His pic:

Students pic:

Masters of Photo

Once you have selected the photographer of your choice from the list, please determine an image(s) or technique of theirs you would like to try and emulate. Your task is to mimic their photographic style and aesthetic principles with your own photograph. Imitation is the best form of flattery, and this is your task.

Example:

Herman Leonard: known for photographing jazz legends both in portraits and in jazz clubs. Images were black and white with stark contrast and vivid lighting. To mimic his style you could shoot images of an indie band at a show with similar conditions (intense lighting, black and white, high contrast, etc.)

You will be printing out one image of your photographer and one of your own creation in line with their style and technique...

You will also need to type (12pt Times) a one page essay about your photog:

please explain:

• Who you selected and who they are (i.e. when, where, what etc)

• Describe their photography (what is unique about her/his style and technique), what do the photograph, how, why?

• Explain how he/she (or something they did, used, invented or created) has impacted or changed the world of photography.

• Why did you choose this photographer? What do you like about their work/style?

http://learn.shorelineschools.org/shorecrest/bstory/index.php?section=discussion&threadID=32881

Masters of Photo

Masters of Photography...

Today we will be selecting a photographer which you would like to study and emulate. Here is a list of potential photographers, but please feel free to branch out and find someone not on the list, the only requirement is that they have impacted the world of photography in some form...

when choosing a photographer consider their images, style, technique, subject matter etc. Find someone that interests you and you will be interested in studying.

• Abbott, Berenice
• Adams, Ansel
• Adams, Robert
• Alvarez Bravo
• Arbus, Diane
• Atget, Eugene
• Bellocq, E.J.
• Blossfeldt, Karl
• Brandt, Bill
• Brassai
• Callahan, Harry
• Cameron, Julia M.
• Coburn, Alvin L.
• Cunningham,Imogen
• DeCarava, Roy
• Doisneau, Robert
• Eggleston, William
• Evans, Walker
• Friedlander, Lee
• Gutmann, John
• Hine, Lewis
• Kertesz, Andre
• Klein, William
• Koudelka, Josef
• Lange, Dorothea
• Lartigue,Jacques H.
• Laughlin,Clarence J.
• Levitt, Helen
• Mapplethorpe,Robert
• Modotti, Tina
• Muybridge,Eadweard
• Nadar, Felix
• O'Sullivan, Timothy
• Outerbridge, Paul
• Porter,Eliot
• Riis, Jacob
• Rodchenko,Alexander
• Salgado,Sebastio
• Sherman, Cindy
• Smith, W. Eugene
• Sommer, Frederick
• Steichen, Edward
• Stieglitz, Alfred
• Strand, Paul
• Talbot,William H. Fox
• Uelsmann, Jerry
• Weegeehttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
• Weston, Edward
• White, Minor
• Winogrand, Garry
Guy Bourdin
Cartier Bresson
Andreas Gursky
Annie Leibowitz

MORE HERE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographers

Click here to view some of these photographers images


And here for even more


Make sure you like the images of whomever you select, we will have two assignments around the topic of your MOP.

Photo History

1. Who below was the first person to successfully "fix" a photographic image, thus becoming the father of photography?

	A. George Eastman
	B. Thomas Edison
	C. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
	D. Samuel Morse

2. The first photograph ever made by the above gentleman is in the collection of

	A. the Louvre
	B. the Bibliothèque Nationale
	C. the Metropolitan Museum of Art
	D. The University of Texas at Austin

3. A curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art was

	A. Leopold Stokowski
	B. Igor Sikorski
	C. John Szarkowski
	D. Leon Trotsky

4. Who below did not help popularize the nude in photography?

	A. Hugh Hefner
	B. William Mortensen
	C. Bunny Yeager
	D. Wallace Nutting

5. Which name is the most difficult to pronounce?

	A. Gyula Halász
	B. George Hoyningen-Huené
	C. László Moholy-Nagy
	D. They all give pause to even the most photographically literate among us.

6. Really famous people just need one name; which one below is the photographer?

	A. Madonna
	B. Cantinflas
	C. Brassaï
	D. Pelé

7. If Alfred Stieglitz didn’t think you were worthy enough to own a print from his gallery, he would

	A. call 911
	B. not sell it to you
	C. have you taken out the back door
	D. sic Georgia on you

8. Who below was the first to make aerial photographs?

	A. Charles Lindbergh
	B. the Red Baron
	C. Nadar
	D. Timothy Leary

9. What group did Alfred Steiglitz found?

	A. Linked Ring Brotherhood
	B. Photo-Secession
	C. Rat Pack
	D. Association of International Photography Art Dealers, Inc.

10. Which painter below used photography?

	A. Rembrandt
	B. Piet Mondrian
	C. Thomas Eakins
	D. John James Audubon

11. Name a famous photographer's model.

	A. Whistler's mother
	B. Lee Miller
	C. Brenda Lee
	D. Taco Bell chihuahua

12. In attempting to produce the ultimate in photographic quality, the F 64 Group was famous for its members'

	A. opening their lenses up to f 64
	B. stopping their lenses down to f 64
	C. always using tripods
	D. never photographing things that move

13. Which of these other single-name people is associated with fine-art photography?

	A. Fabio
	B. Twinka
	C. Fabian
	D. Liberace 15. The Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art was established in A. 1066 B. 1954 C. 1922 D. 1940 16. Later in his life Ansel Adams used A. a Minox B. an 8 x 10 view camera C. a Hasselblad D. no camera. John Sexton snapped the shutter for him. 17. Name the photographic duo. A. Ferrani and Tycher B. Hill and Adamson C. Gilbert and Sullivan D. Hans and Franz 18. Photographs have a history of mistreatment. For example, some of the glass negatives from the Civil War were used as A. broken glass atop walls to keep out the enemy B. greenhouse roofing tiles C. protection when viewing solar eclipses D. Frisbees 19. Which of the photographers below is not known for using multiple negatives in their imagery? A. Jerry N. Uelsmann B. Angus McBean (what a great name!) C. Allen A. Dutton D. W. Eugene Smith 20. People from which organization below were blacklisted during the McCarthy era? A. Association of International Photography Art Dealers, Inc. B. Photographic Society of America C. Photo League D. American Society of Magazine Photographers 21. Alfred Stieglitz called his cloud photographs A. Similarities B. Equivalents C. Likenesses D. Equalities 22. Eadweard Muybridge proved with his motion study photographs that A. in each stride of a gallop all four hooves of a horse are off the ground at the same time B. in each stride of a gallop a horse's ears lay back to the same angle as its tail C. cameras can indeed be used to determine the winner of a photo-finish D. a horse can outrun a locomotive 23. Which best describes photography gallery owners? A. a great bunch of folks B. weasels C. masochists D. all of the above Here is the last challenge. Match the photographers names on the left with their given names on the right. Clicking the camera icons will show the answers. Answers are below if you don't have java. 1. Man Ray A. David Szymin 2. Nadar B. Otto Umbehr 3. Weegee C. Emmanuel Rudnitzky 4. Eadweard Muybridge D. Andrei Friedmann 5. Umbo E. Gyula Halász 6. David (Chim) Seymour F. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson 7. Robert Capa G. Edward James Muggeridge 8. Brassaï H. Gaspard Félix Tournachon 9. Lewis Carroll I. Arthur Fellig

Photo Paper

BE careful with the photo paper, even safe light will expose it over time.  You MUST be sure to open the box, open the envelope, take a test strip or piece of paper, then put the envelope back and close the box again.

This is imperative as photo paper is EXPENSIVE!

Tasks for Thursday

You have your first options period today.  You will need to work on one of the following:

• Digital Landscapes with FG/MG/BG (If yours are missing or received a poor grade)
• Composition/Developing quiz, if you received a poor grade, study, take again
• Taking pictures, if your first roll of film did not work out, try again (finish by the end of the period)
• Make a contact sheet/test strip
• Make a print of your favorite picture & a test strip
• Check out to shoot your landscape images (our next film assignment)

With only 13 enlargers we need to divide an conquer for us all to have success.  

Landscape tips

http://www.digital-photography-school.com/11-surefire-tips-for-improving-your-landscape-photography

Making your first print

1.  Find an enlarger you like, set the timer to 3 seconds

 

2 Place the negative to be enlarged in the negative carrier of the enlarger.  Turn the enlarging lamp on, and the lens set at maximum aperture, adjust the height of the head (BE SURE IT IS UNLOCKED) so that the image fills the size of the easel you intend using.

3 Focus the image, using a grain focuser, so that the picture looks sharp on the baseboard. You may have to re adjust the head if the focusing action has now made the enlarged image area bigger or smaller than the paper area.

When you use a focus finder it magnifies the grain so it is easier to see when the image is sharp. You will see the grain structure when the image is perfectly focused.

4 Now take out a sheet of paper and make a test strip

5 With the correct exposure determined, place the sheet of printing paper in the enlarging easel, or position it on the baseboard. If your enlarger has a red filter you can swing this under the lens and switch the enlarger on to help position the paper.

6 Make the exposure and when done transfer the paper into the developer. Make sure it is submersed quickly so the whole print gets similar and even development. The print should remain in the developer for two minutes. Agitate the developer gently.

7 When developed the image is visible, but not stable. The print then needs transferring to the stop bath for about 30 seconds. Its still not stable and the paper is still light sensitive. Agitate. 

8 After stop bath slip into the fixer. Leave it in the fixer for two minutes, before washing thoroughly.

9 Once washed (about three minutes for resin coated and 30 minutes for fibre based papers) place the print in a drying rack, hang it up or lay it flat to dry.

Digital Landscape Assignment

In addition to making a contact sheet of your first roll of film, you need to take some practice digital landscapes this week.

You need 8 landscapes that all demonstrate for/mid/background, a horizon line, and the rule of thirds.  You will be labeling FG, MG, BG in photoshop.

Steps to make a contact sheet

Below are the steps to create your first contact sheet:

• cut your negatives into strips of 6 and place them in a clear file (located below turn in slot)
• take negatives & photo paper into darkroom
• get a plate of glass from wood shelves
• zoom enlarger out so light source is larger than paper/negatives
• set aperture to f8
• set timer to 3 seconds
• cut small strip of photo paper (test strip)
• place paper, then negatives (shiny side up), then glass under enlarger
• cover all but 2" of test strip with cardboard envelope
• expose by pressing timer button
• move envelope to uncover 2" more of paper
• expose
• move envelope
• expose
• move
• expose
• Develop test strip (follow times above chemicals)
• rinse for 5 minutes
• dry

Your test strip is going to show you how long you need to expose your full size contact sheet.  Pick the exposure that has both black and white, but is not too dark/light.  The darker the test strip is, the more light was exposed.

be sure to save your test strip, you will be turning this in.

Once you know the amount of time to expose your contact sheet, you are ready to make one!

• Place an entire sheet of paper under your enlarger
• negatives on top
• glass on top
• press timer the number of times indicated on test strip (do not change the timer, just expose that number of "pushes")
• develop through chemicals
• rinse
• dry
• pat yourself on the back if it all worked out!

Landscape in class digital assignment

We are looking for Landscapes.  You need to find 8 good landscapes.  Each must include:

• a horizon line
• a foreground (most important, the anchor!), midground, and background
• follow the rule of thirds, nothing should be centered.
• be interesting!

When you return from shooting you will need to be able to identify each of the above elements.  We will be labeling them in Photoshop.

more on Landscapes

Please do not center the horizon line and try to show something in the foreground, mid-ground, and background.

The trick to landscapes is to show depth:

the secret to getting your images to show depth is to include for/middle/background all in the same image. Let it lead the viewer from something up close to things far away... similar to the leading lines we just shot.

Photography has a couple of compositional rules we will work with this semester. First and most notable is the rule of 1/3. This states that an image can be divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines. The four points formed by the intersections of these lines can be used to align features in the photograph. Additionally the horizon line should be placed on either the upper or lower deviding line.

For landscapes there should also be 3 prominant areas in the photograph, for/mid/background. This will add depth to your images and lead the viewer deeper into the photograph.

Your task is to shoot landscapes... lots and lots of interesting landscapes. Consider changing camera andgles, get closer, farther away, squat down, stand on something tall, and follow the rules above to find great success.

Landscapes

Landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including physical elements such as landforms, living elements of flora and fauna, abstract elements like lighting and weather conditions, and human elements like human activity and the built environment.
















Please do not center the horizon line and try to show something in the foreground, mid-ground, and background.



The trick to landscapes is to show depth:

the secret to getting your images to show depth is to include for/middle/background all in the same image. Let it lead the viewer from something up close to things far away... similar to the leading lines we just shot.

epic examples:
http://www.outdoor-photos.com/