Photo Arts: 2010

3D

Hey guys Im not sure if anyone still looks at this, but if youre reading I hope youre having a great summer. I started doing a portrait project with everyone on staff with me wearing 3D glasses with no lenses. It started as a joke, but its something to do and Im having fun with them. Here are a couple that I like so far. Also I would highly recommend toy stroy 3. Hope all is well. miss you all!

Summer transfer newbies - check them out....

Only 6 in our class and we are having fun - well, I am anyways:)

Great group - think you all will like working with them in the Fall...

How are your summers so far?

Any work to share???

http://summerphotoarts.blogspot.com/

Dinner

Thanks for dinner Patti! You are the best!

DINNER Friday night

Hi all,

just a reminder

24 Burkedale crescent

Rochester

14625

North Landing Rd between Blossom and Penfield rd

Turn from North Landing onto Klink Rd

Only right turn off Klink is Burkedale - turn here

Second house on the left - #24 White box with lots of trees and gardens

385-2993

those who have asked about bringing something - suggested that anyone who would like to can contribute parts for a salad or a munchie.

Shoudl have lots of food, and you are all busy - so not a requirement!

Please let me know if you are NOT attending - counting heads to be sure there is enough.

AND

if you have special food needs - LET ME KNOW ASAP!

Final

I have to choose one of the above images for part of my final. Any thoughts?

the new green shoe

Christian and Alex had a little too much fun in the kodak quad...

Book

People & Their Hobbies by Brennah Rosenthal | BOOK INFO

The book is finally done!! Let me know what you think.

collabs- future social networking art

http://ic-collabs.deviantart.com/

people post simple color patterns / designs and then everyone in an image thread takes time to manipulate / draw and scan / illustrator / optimize it over the course of the thread (it could go from 20 minutes to an hourish)

i've attached an example of a starting picture

pretty interesting

Photoshop CS5 Trial

After watching the video that Brennah posted about the Content - Aware Fill, I decided to google Adobe CS5 to see when the release date was, and I was sent to cs5.org, the unofficial CS5 blog. First thing I saw was an add for a CS5 trial. Thinking it was too good to be true I clicked the link and it sent me to the adobe website where you can download any CS5 program as a trial. Here's the link for the Photoshop CS5 trial.

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=photoshop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI

Patti is this real? This is crazy!

Some recent work

Here are a few of my recent photos using a Bronica 6x7 film camera.

I'm pretty happy with them, which is nice because things have been kind of foggy lately.
I hope everything's going well for everyone.

-Caitlin :0)

final and such

This is one of the pictures from my final of environmental portraits. I'm doing about 10 of these.

Alex, this is for you.

Maggie, this is for you.

Final Project

Heres my final project in a preview. My dad works at JP Morgan and I'm following him around and shooting. Feedback would be great!

Liz

Book In Progress

I'm currently working on putting my book together and man it's a work in progress!! I'm stating to absolutely love Adobe InDesign. To go along with pictures, I'm scanning objects and sheets of paper where people have hand written what their hobby means to them. Here is what I have for the cover and the first 2 spreads.

George Eastman House

Reminder that I hope you will be able to join us at the GEH on friday afternoon 4/23

1 pm - entrance is at the back of the building, by the grape pergola.

here is the agenda from Jeff Stoiber who works with the Selznick Film School:

I’ll show that film preservation DVD first, it runs about 30 minutes and then we’ll break the students into two groups – one will tour the Stills vault with Nancy and I’ll take the other to the safety film vault and then we’ll swap groups. After the tours we can meet in the screening room and answer any questions your students may have.

Of course, you will be able to go thru the galleries as well as the house and gardens!

Plan on spending the afternoon.

ROCO 6 x 6 2010

http://www.rochestercontemporary.org/6x6x2010.html

Think about submitting work - PLEASE?

TwiddleDee

Hello everyone.

I haven't posted in quite awhile, and might I just say that I miss the days of our photo class.

I'd love to see everyone's newest work, and if you'd like to see some of mine...check it out over here: FLICKR

I'd love any feedback, criticism, or pieces of apple pie that you might have.

Have a lovely night.

PA_3 Classblog

http://photoarts3.blogspot.com/

FYI - please check this one too!

Hobbies

So the reason I asked what your hobbies were...I'm doing a book for my final project on people and their hobbies! I took pictures of Seren today here's what they look like, let me know what you think. (Sorry Seren for embarrassing you)

a lot of cara time

So I'm home for this week and today I needed to break out of my room so I walked to a park near my house with three sets of clothes a camera and a tripod. This is what came of it. The only one I really like is the actual play ground, but im thinking it might be a final project in the making because its something to keep me busy this week that I can continue when I get back to school. Hope everyone is doing well. I miss RIT.

Interesting watch

Happy Accidents - 2001

(Copyright issues) Photogs Nix Google Books

http://www.graphicartsonline.com/article/455757-Photogs_Nix_Google_Books.php?nid=3470&source=link&rid=7669208

Blurb Widget Makes Online Book Previews Easy

http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/blog/

See JP's blog for all the latest on Blurb and making books

Blurb’s new book preview Widget lets you preview as much or as little of your Blurb book as you like online. You can embed it on any blog or webpage.
Visitors can view your book as a virtual page turning book or as thumbnails.
They can check Full Screen for a larger preview.
They can click the Share button and help you spread the word.
They can click the Comment button and give you instant feedback.
Or, they can click the Purchase button and get a copy of your book.

This HTML code generates the widget.

You can scale the display by changing the dimension numbers.
It’s easy to implement and use.
Here’s more on how to install the widget.
Find out more about how to Share, Promote, Sell your Blurb books here.
Find out more about my Blurb seminar April 29.

Mark your claendar - FIELD TRIP _ GEH

Friday April 23

George Eastman House

Afternoon of gallery and house and ground looking

Tour of the archives - film stills and maybe more!

Will meet at the GEH at 1 pm.

Can you come?

Please let me know - I will send a missive when the date gets closer

allegory...

Here's a little preview of how our allegory shoots went yesterday...

Hobbies

Please post your hobbies as a comment to this post! I need all of you I can get for my final project!

How To Make a Gorgeous Photo Book – Blurb

I think you all will enjoy this.

http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/blog/?p=2881&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JohnPaulCaponigroBlog+%28John+Paul+Caponigro+Blog%29

Blurb recently released a great overview of all the issues you need to consider to produce a great photo book – from concept to execution and promotion. Read it and make all your books better.
“Beautiful photo books don’t happen by accident. Talented people invest time and intent using proven design tenets, and the results can be spectacular. To help you up your bookmaking game, we’ve tapped our network of photographers and book designers and collected their best advice on everything from sequencing and layouts to typography and cover design. How to Make a Gorgeous Photo Book includes plenty of tips, tricks, and information to push your creative edge and help you design beautiful books that showcase your best work.”

happy bunny day

Polaroid Scarves

Someone is printing polaroid images on silk to be worn as scarves... see more here: Reborn

no RIT email

Hi Patti,
If you have any emails to send our class this weekend, could you post them on the blog? I can't access my email using another university's wireless it seems.
Thanks!
Chloe

water sculpture

this is what i've been looking at all history and anesthetics of photo

http://www.liquidsculpture.com/fine_art/image.htm?title=Threadbare#

check it out, it's the bomb diggity

Why We Are Obsessed With the iPad

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/apple-ipad-hands-on

Say nothing. Just bark. Bark expressively....

http://strobist.blogspot.com/

"I am the hand next door"

My friend showed me this a while ago. The first woman is a total nut job, haha.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viyj_ewUbsY

Hope you find her as ridiculous as I do.
-Caitlin :0)

Alright I need a little more help please! Do you like the first or the second set better?

Here's my final of the other one!

last minute- help?

Hey guys, would any of you be willing/able to go down to the MAG sometime tomorrow and photograph Patti's friend Andrea who's having a show there? I told Patti I would, but my work schedule unexpectedly changed and I'm busy all day tomorrow. Thanks!

last project

I just wanted to post some of the photos I've been taking recently, why not right? Self promotion can't hurt. I was assigned the project of displaying RIT spas students in a more natural or telling way than what is currently on the RIT photography website. I find the first one the most successful, the other two met what I wanted to do, but I want to redo them.

I like seeing people's work, so I'd love to see people doing more of this again. I was inspired by the post earlier to do the same.

also, shamelessly, my website is up and live BrettCarlsen.com , Very excited that it happened finally, waited way too long to do this. I really need feedback to see what works/doesn't works for everyone, want to find out before I pay the web designer.

also, (last thing I swear) brettcarlsen.com/daily is my daily photo blog for my fine art elements class.

Help! I need some constructive criticism on this. So I shot these in the studio with a spoon and corn syrup...our teacher refrained to tell us that a shutter speed over 1/250 makes the picture totally not work, I figured that out the hard way.

HDR Help

So Nanette went over the HDR assignment today in M&P and even though the assignment isn't up on mycourses yet, I'm willing to help out anyone who wants/needs help.

Delicious Food and Good Company

Took a few pics tonight with my point and shoot...dinner was amazing thank you Patti!!

Pathetic.

When I got home from work today, I impulsively bought a rabbit. Not totally impulsively, I've been wanting one for a long time. The guy at the shop told me it was a boy, but I think it's a girl since I can't find its wee wee. Anyone wanna help me name it?
Note: anyone suggesting names like Angel, Fluffy, Chocolate, Mr. Snuffles, etc., will be shot.

And yesterday I went to Home Depot with Christian because he still hasn't finished his damn bathroom, and I bought some plants. Why am I such a damn woman? Gah.

What do you think?

Is Photography an ends to a mean?
or
A particular way of doing it?

Is it process driven or practice driven?
Process being - how - format, analog, digital, color, b/w ....
Practice being making images.

How do you see it?

Do you see yourself as a visual artist with a practice in photography?
Does the process dictate the discipline and the practice?
Does the process result from the known practice of photography?

Musings - Nostalgia and humans

Being vintage, I grew up on film and "real" photo paper, you know the kind that was around before resin coated paper, took hours to wash and then dry. Getting a true glossy surface meant ferrotyping (sp?) a print = having a big, shiny, hot, metal drum that you attached the print to by having a big cotton blanket tightly adhered to it and "baking" the shine onto the emulsion.

4 x 5 and 8 x 10 were commonplace, 2 1/4 and 35 mm were not really serious photography... especially if it was in color!

Personally, photographs on paper were of little interest to me when I was in college.

I hated color photography since it never felt like I saw color.

Consequently, I was in love with original photographic processes and spent most of my time making emulsions from hard to find and decipher formulas.

This WAS - REAL photography!

I could then coat all kinds of materials and substrates...

I then spent many years painting and drawing on all my b/w photographs to create color the way I felt, saw it.

In grad school, one of my professors was a proponent of 35 mm photography.

He believed that if you used a point light source (very focused beam of light) in the enlarger, you could make large prints that were equivalent to a similar print made from a 4 x 5 negative. The focused light wrapped itself around the fine grain film in a way that allowed one to make big prints from a small negative. In many ways, the Point Source method was akin to Clarity, and correct sharpening in digital workflows. Warren Stevens was a VERY smart man.

His hypothesis and procedures were correct of course.

We all did it (Point Source Photography) - mostly to please him.

The results were evident, especially if you followed his workflow (one needed to be meticulous and precise and there was the issue of dust and the subsequent hours of spotting - each print - sigh...)

BUT - we all coveted our Hasselblad negative, and (the becoming vintage) large format films.

After all, 35mm could not be serious enough! We missed the struggles of "real photography" even though this then new fangled thing required more intense "realness and seriousness".

This Professor was a veteran war photographer. He had photographed WWII carrying an 8 x 10 and

4 x 5 camera around. He knew the joys of large format, but knew its limitations and how it held photographic explorations hostage in many ways. Needless to say what it did to his body parts.

Warren (my professor) understood the need to romanticize, love of nostalgia, the exuberance of youth.

He understood that the grass is always greener.

And he truly understood that what goes around comes around. But things only come full circle when we are ready for it.

Using a 4 x5 is valid and important - but the same skill sets can be developed and honed with current technology.

This I believe!

And yes - we will do exercises in 4 x 5 when it is time later in the qtr:)

Is all instant a Polaroid? Is every copy a Xerox?

I always find it curious:
how we are seduced by nostalgia
anything that seems "better" is remembered fondly
coin things based on most prevalent tag lines
that the "grass is always greener" ...

Yes - a couple PA teachers are using 4x5 as a tool. Some do it early on, others wait until later.
Yes - they are using Fuji instant film.
Goes with the instantaneous nature that digital gives.
Polaroid has gone out of business. A company did buy up many of its assets and I really don't know if it is back in business or not.
Kodak spent many years making instant film as did other companies.

Haloid made the first copy machine (there are still a few in use in the Rochester area by local artists) and then it morphed into Xerox/Haloid and then simply Xerox. A xerox is a company, not a copy of something.

our culture tends to adapt language as we see fit.
Coin a phrase to suit our needs.

Hence
all copies can become a "Xerox" when it is really a copy - photo, electrostatic, laser ...
All instant analogue images can become a "Polaroid" when they are an instant, analogue, image...

here is the link for the Fuji instant film or "FujiPolaroid" datasheet
http://www.fujifilm.com/products/instant_photo/pdf/fp_100c_datasheet.pdf

The red barn hill

4x5

So, it's been a little while since I've posted on here, but I've been doing 4x5 like every day and I'm super excited about it. I spent yesterday afternoon working with it in the studio doing self portraits with fuji polaroids, just still trying to get a feel for it. It would've been easier had I remembered the cable release, but I got some pretty neat motion in them.

Anyway, I've never been that big on self portraits, but I think I want to try to continue them using a 4x5, mainly because it's so cumbersome. It slows me down and keeps me from taking stupid random pictures of myself.

So that's where I am right now...

burning bush

I was walking around one night over break with a couple of my friends from home and shooting. My friend George told me to set up my tripod in a dark place because he has a "surprise" then he proceeded to pull a giant firework sparkler hybrid out of his pocket and swing it around.

I had no idea what he was going to do so i had my camera set at an 8 second exposure. It wasnt till about 5 seconds in that we realized he had set someone's bush on fire. He had to hit it with our coats and throw snow on it and then run away with my camera still on my fully extended tripod.

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