Location Research

Choose a movie that you know well - or can view again easily.

Make notes about how it starts - and how it ends: both in terms of the narrative (story), and the images.

This link is a good introduction to Classic Hollywood narrative - where there's a clear beginning, development of characters and plot, and a satisfying end that ties up all the threads

Wikipedia on: Classic Hollywood narrative

Click here for inspiration

BW printing

Thanks to those who came to the print demo - hope you got something useful out of it.

Ilford used to publish leaflets about all aspects of BW darkroom techniques. Now they're all .pdfs on their website. Here's their legendary BW printing instructions

Revision

1. Complete this list of apertures:
f2.8 f*? f5.6 f8 f**? f16 f22

2. Which aperture that gives the most depth of field?

3. Complete this list of shutter speeds:
1 sec 1/2 1/*? 1/8 1/15 1/30 1/**? 1/125 1/250 1/***? 1/10000

4. Complete these exposures combinations if f8 @ 1/125 on 100 ISO film

f11 @ 1/**? on 100 ISO
f* @ 1/500 on 100 ISO
f8 @ 1/250 on ***? ISO

5. Which ISO film has the most obvious grain?
100 ISO 200 ISO 400 ISO

6. What are the dimensions of a full-size 35mm frame?
a. 35mm x 50mm
b. 40mm x 40mm
c. 24mm x 36mm

7. What colour light is visible at 700 nanometers?

8. With digital images, what is the optimum dpi resolution for:

a. onscreen use **? dpi
b. print output ***? dpi

Proof or fiction?

Proof or fiction? - follow this link...

Please note your own response to the issues we discussed in your workbook

To remind you:

Robert Capa
The Moonlandings - Real?
The Moonlandings - Fake?
Adnan Hajj (the world's worst photoshopper)

CTS

24th September: Proof or Fiction?
1st October: History 1 - Snaparazzi
8th October: History 2 - The Amateur
22nd October - Naked vs Nude
29th October: History 3 - Modernism
5th November - The Portrait

Lecture Theatre - 10.00am start

Monday 24th September

Critical and Theoretical studies will start at 10.00am in the lecture theatre (where you enrolled)

(NOT the auditorium in the Music Box where we met on the first morning)

Bring your workbook to take notes

For Sale

Nikon Coolscan V

35mm Scanner
4000dpi
Negs/Slide Strips or Mounted Slides
14 bit A/D Converter
Digital ICE 4 (ROC & GEM)

Mint Condition

£350

Contact: mhammond@stevenson.ac.uk

Format

You need one of these - don't argue


In this day and age, you can type in the name of the camera you want to know more about into Google (or Wikipedia) and you'll find all you need, and sometimes more... see 'Medium Format explained' by someone with too much time on their hands

The main point about digital SLRs is how much a smaller chip has the effect of magnifying the image:

The same lens on different cameras gives a wider or narrower angle of view, depending on the size of the chip.

A Canon 1DS MkII (or MkIII) and Canon 5D are full frame digital cameras - allowing you to see and photograph the image indicated by the red outline.

Other cameras - Canon 20D, 30D, 300 & 400D, Nikon D70, D80, D2 & D200 - would give you an image indicated by the yellow or blue outline - because they have smaller chips inside.

We'll return to this subject again - so do some reading.

Favourite pictures

W. Eugene Smith - Epic photo-journalist


Henri Cartier-Bresson - Magnum photo agency founder


Robert Frank - The Americans (1959)
More Robert Frank - The Daddy


Sebastiao Salgado - disciple of W Eugene Smith


David Bailey - style guru

Holiday

College will be closed on Monday 17th September

Tuesday 18th September

For one week only, you will be with Simone O'Callaghan in Room 188 for Digital at 10.00am

Normal timetable for the rest of the week - and for the forseeable future

College Assignment

Make a sequence of pictures of your journey to college
Maximum of ten images
Prints required - any format/technique
Assessment date: Tuesday 25th September

Please choose a workbook and begin to make notes

Here are some links to the photographers and images we looked at today

Duane Michals
The Brown sisters
Michael Hughes

Portraiture

Tues 11th September
4.15pm - 5.30pm
Room 187

Weds 12th September
1.15pm - 4.15pm
Room change Music Box: Room 9

HND structure

Semester 1 runs from September 2007 to January 2008
Semester 2 runs from February 2008 to June 2008

Over the course of the year you will complete the following workshops:

Critical & Theoretical studies (CTS):
An overview of the key ideas and development of visual communication, from cave painting to moblogging; 19th century amateurism to the issues currently facing professionals in business

Theory, Digital and Web Design:
Technical foundations to support your creativity

Portraiture and Social Photography:
Approaches and skills for studio and location portraiture

Constructed Image:
Strategies and techniques affecting image-making: Proof or fiction?

Stock:
Shooting generic material for library submission and sales

Location:
Approaches and skills for shooting assignments on location

Graded Project:
Your chance to produce a piece of work best demonstrating your strengths - for assessment by external examiners against national standards

Tutorials for individuals and small groups will run throughout the year

Welcome

Hello

This is the blog for group B on year 1 of the HND Photography course at Stevenson College Edinburgh

Take a minute to write down or bookmark the URL

This is where you'll find information about timetables, course notes, assessment dates (and holidays)

We'll also post examples of your work

Be sure to check regularly - the blog will update daily