Leah Rhianne Matthews
M.F.A. Integrated Design
Fall 2009: Professor Julie Simon
Course Objective:
The objective of this course is to explore advanced techniques in digital photography and photoshop manipulation in order to refine the photographic portion of my portfolio. As a photographer I have found that once comfortable with a technique I tend to stick with it. It has been difficult for me to then branch off and try new things. Since I last took a digital class there have been many techniques I’ve seen utilized that I would like to explore. With this independent study my primary goal is to challenge myself.
There are five core areas I plan to explore:
1. Photographic Techniques:
Specifically:
- Night Photography
- Long-Exposure Photography
2. Processing Methods:
Specifically:
- Digital Coloring
- HDR Imaging
- Digital Infrared Photography
3. Retouching:
- Explore a variety of methods different from those I currently use
(example: skin smoothing, anti-aging, eyes, make-up etc...)
4. Manipulation:
Specifically:
- Seamless Compositing (professional-quality)
- Stylized Manipulation using filters and blending modes (ex: high-pass filter)
- Photography-based Digital Painting
5. Promotion:
- Brand myself as a Photography Professional by designing business cards, letterheads etc...
- Update and re-structure my web portfolios
Assignments/Presentation:
Each week I will upload my finished works, works-in-progress and a blurb about what I have learned and what I’m working on to a blog-style link. I will send this link to the sponsoring professor for revision/analysis. Each assignment will include full documentation of any tutorials, references or inspirations used.
Proposed Grading Rubric and Explanation:
1. Completion & Quality of Weekly Postings.................................................. 30%
2. Photographic Explorations (night/long-exposure).................................... 15%
3. Processing Explorations................................................................................. 15%
3. Retouching Explorations................................................................................ 15%
4. Manipulation Explorations............................................................................. 15%
5. Promotion.........................................................................................................10%
Since this class is not structured to meet on a weekly basis, I feel as though the completion and quality of the weekly postings should be most heavily weighted because they will demonstrate the level of work being put into the class. All three of the areas I plan to explore (photographic technique, processing, retouching and manipulation) are evenly weighted at 15% while promotion is weighted least heavily at 10%. The reason for this is that I do have a web-portfolio in place for this portion of the course and my efforts would be to improve upon what I already have created rather than design from scratch.
Leah, I want you to ftp you images to the Independent Study folder on my FTP site. Here are the directions http://raven.ubalt.edu/staff/simon/digiphoto/assign/submittingHome.html.
ReplyDeleteI want to see work in progress every Friday beginning next week. Post the image and the text (what you're trying to do) to the blog... works in progress are fine... and the original psd file with all its size and layers to the ftp site.
Leah -
ReplyDeletePlease send me something every week to see. Post a small image on the blog with notes about what you're trying to achieve.. and the psd file to my ftp site folder Independent Study.
http://raven.ubalt.edu/staff/simon/digiphoto/assign/submittingHome.html