Apologies for the cut & paste blog error about the Darkroom dealdine.
All are welcome to join Group B tomorrow morning (Tuesday 18th) in lecture theatre 2 at 9.45am - looking at other's work and sharing knowledge is an important part of the learning for this project.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Monday 17th CTS
We will look at what is known as the 'Directorial Mode'.
Photographers construct what they want to show - not record what is there. This is a fundamental concept that we looked at right back at the beginning of the course in 'Proof or Fiction' and we have returned to time and again, through the painterly aspirations of 19th century amateurs:
the fakery of Robert Capa's falling soldier:
the utopia of The Family of Man:
the incisiveness of Robert Frank's Leica:
the hyper-reality of Martin Parr's fill-in flash:
- and Chris Killip's imaginative painter on the beach:
Monday's presentation will include Gregory Crewdson, Phillip Lorca di Corcia, David Hilliard, NIcholas Nixon and Sally Mann.
There will be some discussion, so you might want to check them out in advance.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Picture Library Web Sites and Distribution
You all know that having your own web site is a vital marketing tool.
It's a great thing to have basic knowledge of how to make your own and really good fun to do. But there is another way.
Two companies now offer state-of-the-art ways to both give you your own site and at the same time give you a really powerful way of managing and distributing your images.
These companies will let you store all your images in public and private groups. Once you have your images uploaded you will be able to manage your pictures from any web connected PC. And you'll never have to worry about backing up to CD, DVD etc again, (although, really, you still should!)
digitalrailroad and photoshelter are new providers who will let you easily design your own site for a very reasonable fee.
We are in the process of moving the Scottish Viewpoint library of 600 000 images to digitalrailroad.
A basic single photographer account only costs about £300 a year with digitalrailroad. I can't recommend this enough.
There are hundreds of photographers now using these two companies.
Check them out. Photoshelter is cheaper but not as good as digitalrailroad but will still work well for you.
PS... I don't have any financial interest in either of these companies. But I wish I did!
Cheers,
Adam
It's a great thing to have basic knowledge of how to make your own and really good fun to do. But there is another way.
Two companies now offer state-of-the-art ways to both give you your own site and at the same time give you a really powerful way of managing and distributing your images.
These companies will let you store all your images in public and private groups. Once you have your images uploaded you will be able to manage your pictures from any web connected PC. And you'll never have to worry about backing up to CD, DVD etc again, (although, really, you still should!)
digitalrailroad and photoshelter are new providers who will let you easily design your own site for a very reasonable fee.
We are in the process of moving the Scottish Viewpoint library of 600 000 images to digitalrailroad.
A basic single photographer account only costs about £300 a year with digitalrailroad. I can't recommend this enough.
There are hundreds of photographers now using these two companies.
Check them out. Photoshelter is cheaper but not as good as digitalrailroad but will still work well for you.
PS... I don't have any financial interest in either of these companies. But I wish I did!
Cheers,
Adam
Darkroom deadline
Tuesday 18th at 10.00am Lecture theatre 2 at 10.00am
Please bring your mounted BW prints - we will look at all the work and share knowledge.
If you have booked Studio 22 to shoot, please come along for ten minutes or so.
Please bring your mounted BW prints - we will look at all the work and share knowledge.
If you have booked Studio 22 to shoot, please come along for ten minutes or so.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Monday 10th
Mount cutting demonstration in Room 187 at 1.15pm
We will also discuss the allocation of individual tutorials times - half hour slots on Monday afternoons.
FINAL deadline for the Walter Benjamin essay.
We will also discuss the allocation of individual tutorials times - half hour slots on Monday afternoons.
FINAL deadline for the Walter Benjamin essay.
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