SP '10 WEEK 8

photo by DOROTHEA LANGE / FSA

1. Let's look, ASSIGNMENT #08 CITY or TOWN
2. History of Photojournalism; FSA, DOROTHEA LANGE and her MIGRANT MOTHER, WEEGEE, LIFE MAGAZINE
3. Proposal for your final project due.
4. Paper due
   
5. REMINDER: Exam 4/19/10 -no make-ups given.
   
6. National Geographic photo essays
7. Audio

ASSIGNMENT #08 CITY OR TOWN (PART 2)

(Due 4/5/10)
Photo essay on a selected place, continued

PART 1.
READING:
History of Photojournalism; ( see photographers bios or the Blog)
1. MAGNUM
2. ROBERT CAPA

PART 2.
Study National Geographic photo essays
http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/archives.html

PART 3.
SHOOTING ASSIGNMENT
Continue shooting the interesting town, place, or neighborhood, in the manner of a National Geographic photo essay, see the "Places of a Lifetime."

Go to same location, but at a different time of day/night, as this is a multiple-week assignment. Explore the place, further and produce a diverse set of images.
Try to go at time of day/night when lighting is most dramatic; sunrise or early morning, sunset or late afternoon, or night time after dark.

Shoot photos at various times of the day and night. Use all the techniques and strategies we've discussed in class. Focus on the people, not just the places.
use your flash if necessary.

*FOR NEXT WEEK, students must submit:
1. Select (10-15) ADDITIONAL best photos.
2. Caption photos.
3. SLUG PHOTO AS FOLLOWS:
Last name_townname_01.jpg, Last name_townname_02.jpg
EXAMPLE: franklin_ hoboken.jpg
4. Place images in the “drop folder.”

PART 4
Select a piece of music, original or not, and bring to class in MP3 format. WAVE files are OK also. Select and appropriate piece that goes well with you subject.

SP '10 WEEK #07

THOMAS E. FRANKLIN \ Great Falls in Paterson, NJ

TODAY'S AGENDA

1. Let's look, ASSIGNMENT #7; ALBUM COVER; using Flash
2. Editing photos
3. Look at former students final projects
4. REMINDER: Photojournalist Paper
5. Due NEXT WEEK
6. Lauren Greenfield's Girl Culture
7. Final Projects; submit proposal
   

VIDEO: At the Great Falls in Paterson, NJ

ASSIGNMENT #08 CITY OR TOWN

(Due 03/29/10) -Photo essay on a selected place

PART 1.

READING:

History of Photojournalism; (see photographers bios or the Blog)

1. FSA

2. WEEGEE

3. LIFE MAGAZINE

PART 2

Log onto the National; Geographic website; "Places of a Lifetime."

Study some of the photo essays.

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/places-of-a-lifetime.html

PART 3

SHOOTING ASSIGNMENT

Select an interesting town, place, or neighborhood, and shoot a photo essay in the manner of a National Geographic photo essay, see the "places of a lifetime."

Be sure you select a location you can go back to next week, as this is a multiple-week assignment. Be sure you select a location that is visual and interesting. Explore the place, and produce a diverse set of images.

Shoot photos at various times of the day and night. Use all the techniques and strategies we've discussed in class. Focus on the people, not just the places.

use your flash if necessary.

*FOR NEXT WEEK, students must submit:

1. Select (10-15) best photos.

2. Caption photos.

3. SLUG PHOTO AS FOLLOWS:

Last name_townname_01.jpg, Last name_townname_02.jpg

EXAMPLE: franklin_ hoboken.jpg

4. Place images in the “drop folder.”

LAUREN GREENFIELD -Girl Culture

Mirror, Mirror… by Lauren Greenfield click here

Girl Culture has been my journey as a photographer, as an observer of culture, as part of the media, as a media critic, as a woman, as a girl. These photographs are both very personal and very public. They are about what is private and what is public and where the line that divides the two lies, when that line exists at all anymore. They are about the popular culture we share and the way the culture leaves its imprint on individuals in their most public and private moments. They are about the girls I photographed. They are also about me. I was enmeshed in girl culture before I was a photographer, and I was photographing girl culture before I realized I was working on Girl Culture. In this work, I have been drawn to the pathological in the everyday. I am interested in the tyranny of the popular and thin girls over the ones who don’t fit that mold. I am interested in the competition suffered by the popular girls, and their sense that being popular is not as satisfying as it appears. I am interested in the costly and time-consuming beauty rituals that are an integral part of daily life. I am interested in the fact that to fall outside the ideal body type is to be a modern-day pariah. I am interested in how girls’ feelings of frustration, anger, and sadness are expressed in physical and self-destructive ways: controlling their food intake, cutting their bodies, being sexually promiscuous. Most of all, I am interested in the element of performance and exhibitionism that seems to define the contemporary experience of being a girl. These interests, my own memories, and a genuine love for girls, gossip, female bonding, and the idiosyncratic rituals of girl culture, have motivated this five-year photographic journey. There are girls and women in my photographs whom viewers may see as marginal or whose lives may be perceived as extreme. In effect, the popular culture has caused the ordinary to become inextricably intertwined with what to many seems extraordinary. Most girls are familiar with “marginal” experiences from television, magazines, and music. A suburban teenager says she would like to become an exotic dancer. A prepubescent girl mimics the sexualized moves and revealing clothing that she sees on MTV. Understanding the dialectic between the extreme and the mainstream—the anorexic and the dieter, the stripper and the teenager who bares her midriff or wears a thong—is essential to understanding contemporary feminine identity. The body has become the primary canvas on which girls express their identities, insecurities, ambitions, and struggles. It has become a palimpsest on which many of our culture’s conflicting messages about femininity are written and rewritten.
Photography is an ideal medium with which to explore the role of image in our culture. The camera renders an illusion of objective representation, just like a mirror. But as every woman knows, a mirror provides data that, filtered through a mind and moods, is subject to wildly differing interpretations. This project has been my mirror and my attempt to deconstruct the illusions that make up our reality. -Lauren Greenfield

More on Girl Culture:
Websiste
Interview Canada’s Sex TV
Project Fast Forward

SP '10 Week 6

photo by THOMAS E. FRANKLIN / The Record
LOCATION LIGHTING. Was a camera flash used in this photo, in mid-day sun?

TODAY'S AGENDA

1. Photos of the Week; MSNBC
   
2. Let's look, ASSIGNMENT #5; Light
3. Due next week: ASSIGNMENT #6; Covering a Live Event
4. Lesson; LIGHT part II; Flash Use
5. History of Photojournalism; Jacob Riis & Lewis Hine
6. UPSTATE NY; Brenda Ann Kenneally
7. CROSSES; Carmine Galasso
8. DISCUSS: ideas for your final project for discussion.
9. Bring your camera to class next week, ready to use.

ASSIGNMENT #07 FLASH USE/ALBUM COVER

(Due 3/15/10)
Flash Usage (2 parts) Rock Star

PART 1.
READING:
National Geographic Ultimate Field Guide
Read pages 25, 95-103, 103-117

Guide to Photojournalism
By Brian Horton
Read pages 79-101“Features and Portraits; Seeing the World Around Us.”

Visual Journalism
By Christopher R. Harris & Paul Martin Lester
Read pages 63-86“Technical Considerations.”

PART 2
History of Photojournalism; FSA ( see photographers bios or the Blog)

PART 3
SHOOTING ASSIGNMENT (2) PARTS
Find a musician(s) to photograph, or an actor(s) to play a musician, and make an album/CD cover shots USING YOUR FLASH both indoors and outdoors. Also, add album title/artist text using Adobe photoshop. Plan your text placement before composing your images. Save image as Photoshop document

PART A
Photograph your musician indoors using a camera flash.
Be creative, and make personality driven images, highlighted by excellent lighting. Make well-composed and expressive photos of a person using your flash. Must be taken indoors.
***You will be graded on your creativity and use of flash.***
-Flash use should be executed perfectly.
-Set proper white balance setting be sure to have correct white balance usage.
-Use bounce flash whenever possible.
-AVOID: red eye, shadows behind heads, and other forms of sloppy flash use.

Keep in mind some of the elements of good composition, avoiding; cluttered and distracting backgrounds, objects appearing behind heads, dead space, etc. Fill the frame, making interesting, personality-filled photos, that have impact.
Composition, positioning, background, lighting, and lens selection should all be taken into consideration.
-consider the various flash techniques, such as: bounce flash, fill-flash, diffused flash.

PART B
Photograph your musician outdoors using a camera flash. This should be a different set-up than the indoor images.
Can be taken during daytime, night-time, or twilight.
Be creative, and make personality driven images. Make well-composed and expressive photos of a person using your flash. Must be taken indoors.
***You will be graded on your creativity and use of flash.***
-Flash use should be executed perfectly.
-Set proper white balance setting, be sure to have correct white balance usage.
-Use bounce flash whenever possible.
-AVOID: red eye, shadows behind heads, and other forms of sloppy flash use.

Keep in mind some of the elements of good composition, avoiding; cluttered and distracting backgrounds, objects appearing behind heads, dead space, etc. Fill the frame, making interesting, personality-filled photos, that have impact.
Composition, positioning, background, lighting, and lens selection should all be taken into consideration.
-consider the various flash techniques, such as: bounce flash, fill-flash, diffused flash.

*Study methods discussed in class and in reading material.

*Students must complete:

1. Select (1) best photo for each part.
2. Add text: album title and artist name
3. Save image as Photoshop document, NOT JPG.
4. SLUG PHOTO AS FOLLOWS:
Last name_flash00.jpg
EXAMPLE: franklin_ flash01.psd
franklin_ flash02.psd
5. Place images in the “drop folder.”