Rock Star!
November 21, 2009
Even more practice with the 50mm lens…








More Practice with the 50mm Lens
November 21, 2009
A Borrowed Lens
November 19, 2009
Photoshop Practice
November 19, 2009
Not sure I like the effect… Not sure if that’s because of my poor execution, or if I just don’t like the effect…
I think the underlying picture isn’t grundgy enough to warrant this grundgy frame…
So I played some more with blending and such… can’t remember exactly all I did… then flattened the layers and messed with the smudge tool…
Practicing with Photoshop
November 17, 2009
Class Notes
November 16, 2009
Mark’s brain was mush… still, he introduced us to the following artists before he turned us loose to work on our own projects:
- Robert and Shana Parkeharrison

Robert and Shana create elaborate sets and then also compose the final image from multiple negatives. - Keith Carter

Carter uses tilt-shift lenses to create interesting effects. - Kate Breakey

Mark showed us several photos like this from Kate’s “Small Deaths” series – printed in B&W on cotton rag, then hand-colored. Click the photo to go to her site and look at some of the others, though… Some in the series are more grusome.
Class Notes
November 11, 2009
Class Notes
November 9, 2009
Mark brought his mat cutter and demonstrated how to mat and how to mount photos for display. A handout is promised…
A Lamp
November 7, 2009
Class Notes
November 4, 2009
Mark shared with the class a website that Jennifer had shared with Mark via email… Chris Jordan:

Then we saw the work of Paolo Ventura.

And we saw some rather disturbing photos by Joel-Peter Witkin. I’ll provide the link, but I’m not putting one on this blog… Click –> here.
After this we did a mid-project review on Project 4. We looked at each others’ work to date, and gave feedback to each other on how to proceed. We also had some rather philosophical discussions about what Project 5 might look like… (The Project 5 write-up can be downloaded from Mark’s blog. Click –> here.)











