Some noteable student resource links

Here are some links to some interesting sites with resources for student photographers that I've uncovered:

Microsoft sponsored "Future Pro Photographer Contest" (submissions accepted until May 15th)

Student Photographic Society
Student Photographic Societies MySpace page

Becoming a Professional Photographer
Women in Photography - Resources page

PhotoMonitor - "Photography, education, technique, culture, profession"

Kenilworth Studios

If you ever have a chance to tour the Kenilworth studios during gallery night, do it! My intro to painting professor, Kay Knight, took us on a tour of her studio today. It is really great to see the work of the people who are teaching and grading you. A bunch of grad student's studios are there as well. I believe the next gallery night is in mid July, so definitly check it out.

-April

Kaleidoscope

I taught myself recently how to take a still picture and turn it into a Kaleidoscope using QuickTime, very cool!!!! This semester I've really enjoyed learning about crossing genres of filmmaker, photographer, artist and doing something unique that you don't see everyone else doing.

In that spirit I give you this work and I hope you like it. :)

Kaleidoscope

Trisha

Ugallery!

Hello- here is an intereting website. http://www.ugallery.com
It has an interesting concept to it and there is a lot of nice art work to look at! :)
Aleyna

Fake Photography??? An Architectural Image

I had the opportunity to visit an architectural and furniture rendering firm in Chicago where I saw some pretty realistic computer renderings. I saw the process involved in creating these photographic-like images and is it time consuming! This complex process really expresses architecture with a realistic flare using the computer. I'm interested to see where realistic imagery will take us in the future.

Check out the website! http://www.imagefiction.com/

hotcakes

If you've never heard of the Hotcakes Gallery in Riverwest (3379 N. Pierce St.) , you may want to check it out. I have not been to the most recent show, but I have seen some pretty crazy/great/awesome shows there.

hotcakes website

For all you mac users, there is even a widget you can download that tells you of all the upcoming shows!

AND...

Vending Machine Art
"Wouldn't it be great if kids spent a dollar on art instead of a candy bar? Imagine how exciting it would be to find a work of art from an artist you admire for $2. Hotcakes rotates shows of work in the gallery's 2 vending machines." For more information about Hotcakes' Map Machine go here...vending machine fun!

Final Project

A few things to think about:
You will need at least ten prints
They are due May 10th and I will accept no late prints
You may do whatever you want as long as you and I agree that is a good idea
Think about what you are truly interested in when you are contemplating this assignment
Remember there are an infinite number of things to photograph - you only need ten of them
Artists:
Sharon Lockhart
W. Wegman
W. Eggleston
Peter Fraser
Katy Grannan
Anna Gaskell

Hey everyone-
I work with a girl who just did a public art project that focused on "clean graffiti" meaning, everything they put up can be cleanly taken down. They made tiny lights using really strong batteries and magnets and stuck them all to the orange sunburst sculpture near the MAM. Apparently, these lights can work for almost 13 days straight because of the crazy tiny battery/magnet. If you have a chance, go check it out! Who knows how long it will be up!
-Aleyna

Laura Letinsky

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More News with - We need your Help!

We are looking for any type of art - PHOTOGRAPHS, DRAWINGS, SCULPTURES...ANYTHING! It's open ended so no restrictions at all. You can give me anything you would like to submit by Tuesday April 24th. All proceeds will go towards Freedom By Design and help out some great families.

Any questions, just talk to me, Amanda!

Henry Lim

As I was surfing the internet looking for inspiration for my graphic design class, I cam across Henry Lim's site. What I like about his images are they (for the most part) are taken at dynamic angles. His photos give a great sense of depth and I like his exploration with very saturated colors and black and white images. Check it out.

henrylim.org

We need your help...

You will probably need to talk to Amanda in our class for more details. But I just thought I would let it be known that Freedom By Design (an organization that helps families or people with disabilities redesign and redo parts of their homes to make them more accessible) is holding a silent auction of art work and would love for you to donate anything you have available to us...thanks a lot!

JPEG Magazine - by and for artists.

jpgmag.com

JPEG magazine is very unique magazine that displays work by photographers that have been chosen through contests by their peers. For each edition of the magazine the website will post themes that photographers can submit to. All registered users of the site (free to register) can feel free to upload photos and also vote on whether or not submissions fit the theme. The photos with the most votes are then judged by the officials and submitted for publication.

The photographer is able to keep tabs on how many views and how many "yes" votes their submission is receiving, you can delete a submission that isn't doing well and submit a different photo all during the open period of the contest. Those features are pretty interesting to see how well your photo is being received, and I believe text comments can also be added by voters for additional feedback.

I find this site helpful and inspiring to see what others are doing for the themes. Check it out!

ps. The site goes through periodic maintenance which can be frustrating, but be patient and try again because it is worth it. :)

-Trisha

Architecture photos

I was just browsing some photos online. Found this guy that has some pretty cool photos of architecture from all over the place. Dunno if anyone else will be interested in them...but I was.

MotherJones - Photo Essays

Photo Essay: Unembedded in Iraq
An unflinching look at the human faces of the war-ravaged country
Photo Essay by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Kael Alford, Thorne Anderson, Rita Leistner
Text by Phillip Robertson

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/12/unembedded.html

MotherJones has a section of photo essays on their website, this particular one is a traveling exhibition of photos taken during the first two years of the Iraq war.

Barbara Probst

Awe! Some! Show at MocP in Chi! Ca! Go!

Pantone Color

Hey everyone, here is a link to the Pantone site. From my understanding Pantone is universal color. There are ID numbers for each color which can be located and used in photoshop. There is some interesting stuff on the site. Check it out.
http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/index.aspx

Thursday, April 12

The due date has changed for the assignment. It is now due Thursday, April 12.

Tuesday will be a lab day. If you are having difficulty printing please come on Tuesday.

Vital Source Magazine

Hey everyone-
If you pick up the Vol.6 Issue 3 April 2007 copy of Vital Source magazine there is info on the very first page about their annual photo contest. You can submit color or black/white photos. They list the categories that they want for photos (portrait, still-life/landscape, action, and abstract). Prizes can be won and it's free to enter! You can find Vital Source at most of the news stands at school I'm pretty sure. :)
-Aleyna

Connections are important, LTLYM site encourages connecting with the world and with others

Here is a link to a website called "Learning to Love You More". The site was conceived by a couple of artists to open up a forum for people to complete specific challenges in order to make specific and meaningful connections in their community. The challenges come in all forms, some are photography related, and once an individual completes one they will then upload the results of the challenge for others to appreciate. It is like an online gallery for artistic expression for the non-professional.

Click here for the website: Learning to Love You More

The specific assignment link I direct you to says to take a picture of the sun, maybe not too exciting but I appreciate the fact that so often I overlook the ordinary or mundane things I see everyday. I should instead stop and appreciate these ordinary things in life and by stopping to take a photo I will slow down and take a deep breath in the midst of stress. This in turn will benefit my ability to create better art.

I encourage anyone to take on one of these challenges and then post the result here on the blog. :)

-Trisha

Now, photography is not a competitive venture, or at least photo classes aren't, but this one will be. A prize will be given for the best work next week.

some good stuff here. also some crap, but what are you going to do, right? merry christmas.

Color Theory

Hello all. This web-site is on my favorites list. Even though its focus is on Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor) the images are really interesting I think. Check it out! :)
http://www.0-halo.net/

Turning stills into moving images

In my Film 116 class we were given the task of going on an exploratory trek and capturing images with a 4mp point and shoot camera. The camera also had video capabilities. Knowing the limitations of the technology we had to propose an image gathering strategy and then go and complete the task. Once we had all of our images we put together 5 "best of" clips and created .mov files from them.

For the first movie I am sharing I used Snap 'N Drag freeware to capture different portions of one still image of a leaf taken no further away than 8" from it and saved the screen captures as sequence files. Then in QuickTime Pro I opened the image sequence and manipulated the repeats, patterns, and overall rythm and look of the short movie.

Click on the image to play the movie.

The second movie used the same close-up strategy, but this time I used multiple stills and manipulated the direction of the photo through rotation as well as grabbing a small portion of an image and in a 3 shot screen capture process gradually included the whole image. These two distinct editing tactics create an interesting visual effect.

Click on the image to play the movie.

I hope you enjoyed these presentations of using still photography to make a movie.
-Trisha

Making instead of Taking

Check out Vik Muniz' very nice website.
Jeff Wall
Gregory Crewdson
Lucas Samaras
Sandy Skoglund

Spring Break Lab Hours

Spring Break 2007
Student Photography Lab Hours
B-84

March 18th to March25th


Sun. Mar. 18th -----------CLOSED-------------

Mon. Mar. 19th (12:00am -5:00pm)


Tues. Mar. 20th (12:00am - 5:00pm)


Weds. Mar. 21st (12:00pm – 4:00pm)


Thurs. Mar. 22nd (12:00am - 5:00pm)


Fri. Mar. 23rd (12:00pm - 4:00pm)

Sat. Mar. 24th--------------CLOSED------------------

Sun. Mar. 25th (12:00pm –10:00pm)

Collage/Photomontage

Now Due Tuesday the 27th. Have a good Spring Break. Take pictures.

Young Photographer

This is just something I came across, and thought it was interesting.
http://news.yahoo.com/page/venice

Collage/Photomontage

Hanna Hoch

The assignment is to make collages digitally - no glue, no exacto knife. The challenge is to make them interesting - I am sure you are up to the challenge. You may use text, found images, old images, new images. On Tuesday I will show many examples from the early 2oth century to contemporary uses of the form. I want you to make five. They will be due Tuesday March, 27.

Children of Men

I hope everyone here has seen Children of Men. When I saw it, I noticed that a lot of the shots had a very photographic quality.

Set in the United Kingdom of 2027, in a dystopian future where two decades of sterility have left the population with less than a century to survive, the resulting societal collapse leads to terrorism, environmental destruction, and millions of refugees. Civil servant Theo Faron must help a pregnant West African refugee named Kee, escape Britain's oppressive new immigration laws and rendezvous with the Human Project, the last hope for humanity.

There were a couple very powerful images in the film, including a visual homage to a Pink Floyd Album as well as the Abu Gharib photographs.

Chelsea, New York

Art.

From the NY Times

The Megapixel Myth

Misfit

Five Color Prints

Your images should convey a feeling of not fitting in - of being an outcast. The way you define “misfit” is up to your interpretation. In the past students have even photographed architecture as misfit. Diane Arbus used the term "freak." An important consideration is the fact that everyone can be a misfit in the right (wrong) circumstances. This assignment is not an excuse to photograph people that you think are losers. It can be an exploration of disfunctionality, feeling like an outcast. With this project you can explore your own experience as a misfit, your friends, or (respectfully) strangers.

Think of my assignments as provocations. They should inspire or provoke ideas.



Artists:
Diane Arbus
Corinne Day
Richard Billingham
Nan Goldin
Bill Jay
Jim Goldberg
Larry Clark

No light? GAHH!

How To Shoot Well in Low Light ...

Neat little tips here, people. GET DOWN!

Epson Paper Name Changes

premium glossy photo paper is now premium photo paper glossy
premium luster photo paper is now ultra premium photo paper luster
enhanced matte paper is now ultra premium presentation paper matte
premium semi-gloss photo paper is now premium photo paper semi-gloss

And from now on, instead of calling me Visiting Assistant Professor Jonathan Sadler, as you all do now, I am called Assistant Professor Jonathan Sadler Visiting.

Blow Up