Faces of Coal

Outed! FACES of Coal Are Just Stock Photos

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The dirty tricks of food photographers

Link

Olivia Parker

Link

Food Photography

Howard Shooter
Lou Manna
Carl Warner
Dominic Davies: Fat Duck Cookbook
Maria Robledo
Jim Scherer
Martha Stewart Living: Food
Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida
Christine Chin
Edward Weston
James Reynolds: Last Suppers
Chad Person: Leftover Breakfast

Oct 1

Have assignment 2 uploaded to the webshare as specified on the assignment sheet. There will be a class critique, discussion on food photography, and Photohop demonstrations.

Assignment 2 Portraits

H1N1 Pandemic

Class on Saturday Sept 26

I am proposing that I open the studio for this one Saturday and this Saturday only AND for our class only. I will have the lab open from 12PM to 3:15PM, no more no less. For this to happen I need 3/4 of the class to attend [9 of you]. This is not additional open lab time... This is additional studio class time and is only being offer to my class because of my professional schedule conflicting with my teaching schedule. I will be showing a 30 minute video about Hollywood lighting at the start of the 'class' and those wanting to use the studio must attend the viewing. AGAIN I NEED 3/4 OF THE CLASS TO TAKE UP THE OFFER AND THIS IS ADDITIONAL STUDIO CLASS TIME AND NOT OPEN LAB HOURS.

Sept 22 and 24

The other two parts to the portrait assignment, along with links to articles and artist, are on the web blog. Feel free to make decisions based on the assignments for what you may want to do in class on Tuesday and Thursday. Tuesday we will start shooting at about 4:30 after a short critique and discussion about the assignments. Thursday be ready to hit the ground running, if you need help with printing or Black and White conversion, please see me on Thursday. All four parts will be due in full on Thursday Oct 1st. Remember that there will be no class on Tuesday Sept 29th, but I am available for meetings by appointment.

Jeremy Cowart

This photographer has some interesting studio/location portraits with lighting.

http://www.jeremycowart.com

Sept 15

Have your RAW files, flatten tiffs, and jpegs [saved for web] in the web share, given the effect of the limited lab hours I will accept files turned in any time prior to class. NO PRINTS

Read Chapters 8 and 9

Margaret Stratton

Checkout her still life work

Link

Sept 8 & 10

Read chapters 4 and 5.

Bring RAW files to class.

We will meet up stairs in Cooley 3. Refresher on RAW and a little retouching.

Also have sketch and object to shoot for the last 2 hours of class. You may work in pairs but be aware that this will cut down on your class time.

I'll be helping you guys out as well as discussing potential solution to your still lifes.

Sept 10 is a shooting day be prepared to just jump in there and get started. Anju will be available to assist you guys.

I'll be out of town from Wednesday until Sunday afternoon. Feel free to call upon me for assistance after I return.

More Links for Still Life

David Latchman
BetterPhotos.com
UseFilm.com
Apogee Photo Magazine

More on Reserve

Hicks, Roger (Roger William)
Food shots / Roger Hicks and Frances Schultz.
TR656.5 .H53 1994
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Beauty shots / Alex Larg and Jane Wood.
Guide to professional lighting techniques
TR600 .L371 1997
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Product shots / Roger Hicks and Frances Schultz.
TR600 .H53x 1994
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Special effects / Roger Hicks and Frances Schultz.
TR148 .H53 1995
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Still life / Roger Hicks and Frances Schultz.
TR620 .H524 1996
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Brackenbury, John.
Close up : creative techniques for successful
macrophotography / John Brackenbury.
TR683 .B72 2004
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Marchesi, Jost J.
Professional lighting technique / Jost J. Marchesi ;
[translated by L. Andrew Mannheim]
TR590 .M37 1996
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Still life and special effects photography : a guide to
professional lighting techniques / [Roger Hicks and
Frances Schultz].
TR656.5 .H53 2002
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The best of Dean Collins on lighting [videorecording] / produced by Software Cinema.
DVD
TR590 .C644 2006 Disc 1&2
TR590 .C644 2006 Disc 3&4

Sept 3

Read Chapter 3 and Chapter 1&2 if you hadn't.

Upload to webshare your two picks from the first studio shoot.
Place the images in the webshare > ***Class Dropbox > FirstStudioShoot
Label each image firstnameLastname.tif

Bring example images or weblinks of still lifes that interest you.

No Cameras needed for class, but remember to wear your closed toe shoes.

Lobster People and Brightness

Everyone,

An issue has cropped up with the monitor calibration. Some people are getting skin tones looking like cooked lobster.

The problem is a defective i1 monitor calibrator. Once the computer is calibrated with a good calibrator the problem goes away. Nancy and I are trying to track down the problem computers and replace the bad profile. Please report any computers having the problem.

We have settled on setting the brightness for the monitors as indicated bellow. Set it to the right of 1200 and to the left of Brightness.

Ken