Amy Finkel | Parsons • Digital Photo + Video • Summer '19

WEEK 2 | Tue: 7/16 H.W.

HOMEWORK: [Due tomorrow] Your Deep Travels photo essay PRINTED. [Due by Thursday or Friday at the latest] Your Deep Travels photo essay artist’s statement uploaded to your LP (and all of the photos uploaded there, in proper order, too). [Due Thursday] As per usual, take photographs (no flash) of three things in MOMI today and write a…

WEEK 2 | Tue: 7/16 D.O.

AM: From still to motion (from photo to video): Eadweard Muybridge / animal locomotion (late 1870s—“Horse in Motion”, 1878) / Zoopraxiscope (1893) Zootrope Thomas Edison / Kinetoscope (1894) Lumière Brothers’ Cinématographe (1890s) Frame rate + “shooting in twos” (Saturday morning cartoons—3s or 4s…8 or 6 drawings/sec)! Odd and even frame repetition from 24 to 30…on…

WEEK 2 | Mon: 7/15 H.W.

HOMEWORK: Please make sure you have proper Google Slide “share” links for your final “Inspired By” projects on your LP (like I showed you in class on Friday). I want to make sure that we can all go in and view them. Plus, I’ll be linking each of them to your “Final Projects” class page……

WEEK 2 | Mon: 7/15 D.O.

AM: Final Critiques: “Inspired By” Discussion about our trip to the Museum of the Moving Image tomorrow (+ payment to AF)! Bill Owens, if possible? PM: Photoshop!!! File/photo management Correctly starting an edit/color correct/clean-up Layers Basic skin manipulation Color Correction Actions + other automation Adjustment Layers Adding filters that are non-destructive Masking (and quick mask)…

PROJ 2: DEEP TRAVELS

DEEP TRAVELS Due Wednesday July 17th, at 1pm sharp (PRINTED) Become a “Deep Traveller”; a “Flâneur.” Explore one small item….some ‘thing’. Really explore it. Look beyond the facade; discover the details (that to others may go unnoticed). Get closer. Get specific. Get intimate with your ‘thing’. Pay attention to all of your senses. What defines your particular…

WEEK 1 | Fri: 7/12 D.O.

AM: Discussion about Final Project 2 >> “DEEP TRAVELS” First critique: Project 1 » INSPIRED BY! 8 mins total (now two additional minutes!)—approx 3-4 mins per photographer and 4-5 mins to show your photographs and get critique… PM: FIELD TRIP TO… TOP VOTES (from those that I received)—we’ll do a hand vote in class: Bard…

WEEK 1 | Fri: 7/12 H.W.

HOMEWORK: [Due Monday] Please take photos (no flash!) of your three favorite photographs from today’s outing. Write a paragraph about each on your LP; discuss what resonated with you about each photograph and discuss its elements of composition. What makes the photo successful? What is the photographer’s concept and narrative? How do the photographers implement…

WEEK 1 | Thu: 7/11 D.O.

AM: Discussion about humans/approaching humans/what you learned in the process… Discussion about Friday afternoon’s agenda: rain is in the forecast. MoMA is closed for the summer, as is ICP, unfortunately. The Maplethorpe exhibit at the Guggenheim is closed between July 10th and July 24th. So: options are galleries in the rain (if we don’t go…

WEEK 1 | Thu: 7/11 H.W.

HOMEWORK: Final project 1: INSPIRED BY (Due tomorrow and Monday) . Each of you gets SIX minutes to present, not only about your photographer and samples of your photographer’s work (outline/bio/work samples and links shown on your blog—in the final projects category), but also your photographs that emulate that photographer’s work. Plan 2-3 minutes to give…