SYLLABUS BEGINNING PHOTOGRAPHY -SHORT SUMMER COURSE

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1 Course: HUA 130 Section: Beginning Photography Rm: B326 Tues/Thurs 9:15-1 pm 1-2pm lab LAGCC CUNY Instructor: Professor Jaimie Lyle Gordon SYLLABUS BEGINNING PHOTOGRAPHY -SHORT SUMMER COURSE Course Blog: Please do not send to my CUNY address, I do not use it. I check my hotmail account once a day, so please be patient if you are waiting for an answer from me. Please put your name and LAGCC into the subject line. Please immediately SEND ME AN with ADD ME in the subject line, SO I CAN ADD YOU TO MY CLASS MAILING LIST and communicate with you. Course Description: This is an introductory level photography course which will introduce students to understanding photography as a visual means of personal self expression. Students will study both the technical and artistic aspects of making photographs, as well as the critical discourse of understanding, editing, and presenting photographs. Photo majors will be expected to work in the darkroom during open lab time to practice their printing skills in preparation for intermediate photography. Contact sheets and basic printing proficiency will be required, additional darkroom printing will be optional for non photo majors, but required for photo majors. All students are required to watch the lab safety lecture and follow lab procedures. This is a very short intensive course, only 6 weeks with 2 sessions per week, so each session will cover a lot of material, and students will have the opportunity to work in both film and digital format Each student will produce a photography book on blurb.com with a theme and demonstration of all assignment techniques, minimum requirement of 30 final images for the book, including the front and back covers. If you already have an idea in mind, please let me know, so you can shoot with more intention towards your final presentation, otherwise, as I edit your photographs with you, we will see the ideas that are emerging from your images. You will not have time to order the book, however, you will show it as a book presentation via projector screen during last class. Students will learn essential photographic techniques via weekly lecture, and assignments. There will be follow up tips, comparisons to master photographs, and suggestions on my blogsite for each assignment. Students will be required to shoot with a film camera using b/w traditional film, but also may choose to work in digital format, as well. There will be a film processing demonstration, and students will have access to process their b/w film during class and during open lab hours. Students will learn digital editing and scanning basics in the computer lab. You will be scanning your negative film and uploading these images into book, or uploading edited digital images directly. You will also have the opportunity to make high quality inkjet prints for b/w film or color digital files. There will be two darkroom session demonstrations of basic fundamentals of black and white printing skills, however, the darkroom will only be available during open lab hours and not during future class time. Areas of study and application will include: b/w film processing and printing, digital basics, lighting concepts, film exposure and camera features/modes, camera and shooting techniques, editing strategies, photographic (narrative and abstract) book design, aesthetics of visual perception, dynamics of composition, and interpretative visual writing methods. Student work will be critiqued on the basis of creative conception, technical execution, effort and intention of your semester book project. Photographic techniques, stylistic trends, and subsequent work and ideas of influential photographers will be shown and discussed throughout the semester in the context of the technical assignments as both inspiration and knowledge, and consideration of subject matter. There will be an emphasis put on the understanding of "snapshot" vs "photograph", and the suggested meanings and interpretations of these descriptions. The structure of seeing, and organization of details, and context of meaning will be examined through example.

2 Course Objective: Through individualized instructor reviews of your photographs, and participation in class critique-discussion sessions and writing exercises, students will gradually begin to develop a visual vocabulary and self awareness about image-making. Analyzing the photographic imagination and technical skills of others will help give the student an ability to articulate their own creative endeavors, thus helping them to create work with greater intention and expertise. The purpose of this course is to serve as the foundation for understanding and utilize photography as an expressive art form. The individual aspiration for each student is to find and communicate their own unique visual viewpoint through conceptual and technical considerations. Course Requirements: The following criteria will be used to evaluate your final grade for this course. If you are having a problem completing any of these requirements, please see me immediately for assistance. I will notify each of you of your progress throughout the semester See below for description of grading requirements and percentages. -Attendance, Effort, Class Participation 5% Missed classes and chronic lateness will affect your overall grade. If you know in advance you will be forced to miss a class, please notify me. More than 1 sequential absence due to a medical reason requires a doctor's note. It is your responsibility to contact a fellow student for help in any missed demonstrations or lectures. Class participation is critical. I need to know you are working steadily, not playing catch-up. I cannot accommodate all students equally, if I need to review too many images at once during a session. - 3 Homework Writing Exercises & critique session 20% You will write about a partner's photographs, in a method I will teach you, that will form the basis for our last critique and presentation session. -BOOK PROJECT, SHOOTING ASSIGNMENTS 75% Subject matter is open. I want you to explore these techniques creatively. Your book will begin to take on a specific theme, and we will edit together to create the strongest presentation for the images. You will present your final book in class session #13 for your final grade evaluation and class review. We will discuss resolution and file types in class. See the scanning and printing pdf help file on my blog, for detailed instructions on how to save your images scanned from b/w film. Inside Page should have the: Your self portrait, Book Title, Author and copyright notice Under this you will put the following info: CUNY LAGCC Photography Student : (your name) All photographs copyrighted 2016 (your name) Photographic Book Project Final Presentation for Beginning Photography Course: CUNY Professor Jaimie Lyle Gordon Shooting Requirements: Minimum 8 rolls of successfully developed b/w 36 exposure film and 8 contact sheets. You may shoot assignments in any order you choose. Subject matter is open. Books will contain b/w images only. You may adjust them in photoshop or create a variation in tone if desired. Your selected negatives for the book will be scanned into computer and used digitally. SHOOTING ASSIGNMENTS Assignment #1: LIGHT & SHADOW This assignment should explore the direct relationship of light falling and the shadow or forms created by it. Assignment #2: TIME & MOTION This assignment should reflect the physical idea of movement, or conceptual idea of passage, growth, or change.

3 Assignment #3: DEPTH OF FIELD This assignment should consist of a photograph that is neither all sharp, nor all blurry should have an obvious attention to selective focus, by consciously choosing to make one part of image sharp (more) or out of focus (less). Assignment #4: SELF PORTRAIT This assignment should consist of images that you shoot of yourself. You may use a tripod, long cable release, self timer, or steady surface and a stand-in only for positioning and focus. Think of how you might relate to a particular environment, and how you envision your inner self at this moment in your life. You may also photograph a representation of yourself, or use mirrors, or reflections. Assignment #5: AN UNGUARDED MOMENT This assignment should be a moment that you capture where your subject is unaware of your presence. Perhaps you want to explore candid street photography or something more covert or voyeuristic in nature. Show us something beneath the surface of your subject, or perhaps reveal the unexpected intimacy between a photographer and stranger. Assignment #6: LANDSCAPE/Urban or Nature This assignment is about describing a place or scene. The place could be urban city like, or of the natural, organic world. It could also be something that might function as one of these, i.e. the shapes of clouds in the sky, or a nude reclining which can imitate natural forms. Assignment #7: INFORMAL PORTRAIT This assignment should be a portrait that you take of someone (or more than one) where they are aware of you, and evident that you are in control of your subject. You want to reveal their character, to capture their gestures at the moment that they reveal their essence to you. Work with someone you know well, because you will be familiar with their body language and capturing their inner spirit. You can also photograph a relationship between people. You will practice on your classmates during our photoshoot walks. Assignment #8: AN INANIMATE OBJECT This assignment should explore the structural elements of form in an object. It can be a "found" object, or you can construct or arrange a still life. Pay close attention to the quality of light, your use of background,and its effects. Assignment #9: ANGLE OF VIEW This assignment should challenge you to photograph from a different physical perspective than eye level or to use a part of the image to frame another part of the scene. Look up, look down, look around, look through. Assignment #10: MANIPULATED IMAGE-ABSTRACTION-DISTORTION-MACRO CLOSE This assignment might be a lucky accident, it might be a photograph that is more like a painting, it might be a texture, it might be a deconstruction of some form into another, it might be completely abstract, or even recognizable. It could also be a sequential pairing of images, or a montage, collage, or double exposure, or a relationship between text and image, or a detail close-up. CLASS CONDUCT: *COMPUTERS IN CLASSROOM ARE ONLY TO BE USED FOR CLASS ASSIGNMENTS AND PHOTO EDITING DURING CLASS TIME. NO UNRELATED INTERNET BROWSING ALLOWED. PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR PHONES, AND NO TEXTING, DURING LECTURE, DEMONSTRATIONS, OR DISCUSSIONS. After lecture period or post. demonstrations, you will work on your scans and meet with me individually, LAST HOUR OF CLASS IS CONSIDERED YOUR Independent LAB HOUR, you will need to vacate the classroom and move into the lab computer lab-as a teacher must be present in the classroom.. Your kindness and helpfulness to one another is appreciated and noticed. There is no cell phone usage allowed in the darkroom or any beverages or food in the lab facility or wearing of open toed shoes.

4 Course: HUA 130 Section: Beginning Photography Rm: B326 Tues/Thurs 9:15-1 pm 1-2pm lab LAGCC CUNY Instructor: Professor Jaimie Lyle Gordon ALL STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO FOLLOW THE CUNY LAGCC POLICY ON ACADEMIC INTEGRITY It is the responsibility of each student to familiarize themselves with the full details of this policy. Below is a brief description. The complete policy including student's rights can be found on the CUNY LAGCC website. -ACADEMIC DISHONESTY-Academic Dishonesty is prohibited in the City University of New York and is punishable by penalties ranging from a grade of "F" on a given test, research paper or assignment, to an "F" in the course, or suspension or expulsion from the College. Academic Dishonesty includes: -CHEATING the unauthorized use or attempted use of material, information, notes,study aids, devices or communication during an academic exercise. -PLAGIARISM the act of presenting another person's ideas, research or writings as your own. -INTERNET PLAGIARISM plagiarism that includes the submitting of downloaded term papers or parts of term papers as a student's own work, paraphrasing or copying information from the internet without citing the source, as well as other forms of "cutting and pasting." -OBTAINING UNFAIR ADVANTAGE any activity that intentionally or unintentionally gives a student an unfair academic advantage over other students. -FALSIFICATION OF RECORDS AND OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS COURSE OUTLINE SPRING II -SUMMER 2017 Review Course Requirements/History of Photo Session 1 Date: TUESDAY Introduction, Review syllabus requirements and blurb.com, Material List, Review student equipment questions Show student books. Demo how to load film onto reels. History of Photography review/image presentation. Being a Photographer in the digital age-we will briefly discuss the complexity of contemporary photography. Lab safety presentation by lab tech, and sign sheet. -Reminder: Bring your film camera, so I can make sure you know how to adjust it, and load film. Borrow or buy film camera. Buy your supplies. -Reminder: Bring 2 rolls of b/w film you shot, to be developed next session -Reminder: Print out Laguardia CC Photo Lab Film Processing Instructions (link on my blogsite) and Sunny 16 Rule Exposure sheet bring to session 2 FILM DEVELOPING SESSION & TECHNIQUES Session 2 Date: THURSDAY Develop 2 rolls of b/w film in a group session. Future rolls developed during open lab hours. Review Techniques. Discuss camera controls, metering and exposure terms, film exposure, film speeds, f-stops, shutter speeds, and camera types. Discuss film vs digital, black/white and color photography approaches. -Reminder:BRING YOUR DEVELOPED NEGATIVES WITH YOUR PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPER SUPPLIES TO THE NEXT SESSION. PRINT OUT DARKROOM PRINTING CHEAT SHEET from my blogsite and bring to next session. DARKROOM DEMO PRINTING SESSION PT 1 Session 3 Date: TUESDAY Introduction to black and white printing. Demo of making a contact sheet, test strip and evaluation, making an enlargement, demo of photograms, dodging and burning, and darkroom equipment and procedures. You will make contact sheets for your developed rolls and show them to me next session. -Reminder: Bring all negatives you have developed and your contact sheets for individual review and selection. You will begin scanning your selected negatives next session after the demo.

5 DARKROOM DEMO PRINTING SESSION PT 2 Session 4 Date: THURSDAY REVIEW & HELP SESSION: Introduction to black and white printing. Demo of making a contact sheet, test strip and evaluation, making an enlargement, demo of photograms, dodging and burning, and darkroom equipment and procedures. You will make contact sheets for your developed rolls and show them to me next session. -Reminder: Bring all negatives you have developed and your contact sheets for individual review and selection. You will begin scanning your selected negatives next session after the demo. MAKE SURE YOU DOWNLOAD SCANNING/PRINTING DOC FROM MY BLOG. NO CLASS TUESDAY Intro to Photoshop-Scanning, Printing, Web Basics Session 5 Date: THURSDAY DEMO LAB Review key concepts and basics of common photoshop tools, retouching, scanning, file formats, resolution, and web image basics. How to scan negative and print will be reviewed, and download handout, and see tutorial. Reminder: If your film did not come out well, make sure you come during open lab, and develop more rolls. Intro to Photoshop-Scanning, Printing, Web Basics Session 6 Date: TUESDAY WORKSHOP REVIEW CLASS WILL CHECK EACH STUDENT FOR SCANNING PROCEDURE ACCURACY. Review key concepts and basics of common photoshop tools, retouching, scanning, file formats, resolution, and web image basics. How to scan negative and print will be reviewed, and download handout, and see tutorial. -Reminder: Bring your b/w negatives to continue scanning next session, or inkjet paper for printing. Make sure you save all your scanned images onto your external HD or flashdrive and put images into corresponding borough folder. Depth of Field, Selective Focus, Tonal Control Session 7 Date: THURSDAY Discuss more camera and exposure techniques. Available Light, Filters, Flash, Photographer's Books Discuss tips for shooting in available light, use of camera filters, flash, and review of several photography monographs and book layout ideas. Review contact sheets and scanning procedures/problems. -Reminder: By the end of this session, you should have shot and processed 4 rolls of film, and scanned 12 images. ELEMENTS OF COMPOSITION Session 8 Date: TUESDAY Discuss elements of composition and aesthetic formal principles. Individually review contact sheets and check scanned image contents in your folders saved on your External Hard Drives or flashdrive. You should begin assembling your book, by placing your scanned saved images into your layout. -Reminder: By the end of session, you should have shot and processed 6 rolls of film and scanned 17 images. ARCHIVAL PRESENTATION, STORAGE, COPYRIGHT Session 9 Date: THURSDAY Discuss different methods of presentation, exhibition, and representation for your photographs, as well as archival protection and storage for photographs. We will also briefly discuss copyright and contract issues for photographers. Individually review contact sheets and check scanned image contents in your folders saved on your external hard drives or flashdrive.

6 CRAFTING AN ARTIST STATEMENT & Sequencing Session 10 Date: TUESDAY Ideas for how to construct an artist statement for inclusion in your book, and other narrative strategies. Review your theme with me and sequencing editing/design/typography ideas. Make sure you have showed me all your contact sheets, and your folders with your scanned images. -Reminder: By the end of this session, you should have shot and processed 7 rolls of film and scanned 24 images and have all your folders ready to upload images into your book layout. Work on your layout during the week, as you will need to save your final layout on blurb.com for review in class next week before it is sent out, and any corrections need to be made. FINALIZE YOUR BOOKS* Session 11 Date: THURSDAY PREVIEW BOOKS.. FIX ANY CHANGES -Reminder: MAKE SURE YOU SEND ME A LINK FOR YOUR BOOK PREVIEW ON BLURB, SO I CAN ADD YOUR BOOK TO MY BLOG BOOKLIST. Make sure you set preview for full preview in your blurb settings. -Reminder: During the week work on b/w darkroom print and inkjet print from same b/w negative for critique #1 writing exercise next session. Writing Exercises Explained & FINLIZE BOOKS Session 12 Date: TUESDAY PREVIEW BOOKS.. FIX ANY CHANGES EXPLANATION OF WRITING EXERCISE 2/3 TAKE HOME ASSIGNMENT (PDF FORM ON MY BLOG) TO BE PRESENTED IN FINAL CLASS PICK A PARTNER AND FOLLOW THE ASSIGNMENT SHEET CHOOSING 2 PHOTOS FROM YOUR PARTNER's BOOK PREVIEW. We will use blurb book previews as basis of 2/3 assignment will explain in class. -Reminder: Bring your finished book to our final session 13 for presentation and review LAST SESSION FINAL BOOK PRESENTATIONS Session 13 Date: THURSDAY CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE #2/3 PRESENTATION & BOOK CRITIQUE EVALUATIONS. As each student shows their book, we will hear their partners critique via writing exercise 2/3 as we view blurb book full preview, and review and discuss the work as a class. We will discuss technique, formal aesthetics, and subject matter/narrative concerns of the photographs. Your class participation is critical to your course grade, and essential to developing a visual vocabulary, and learning the "language" of photography. We will review book previews, discuss it in detail as a group using the writing exercises as critique, followed by my brief synopsis of each student's work. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: -35mm SLR CAMERA with Manual focus and manual exposure (try to borrow one or get one cheaply, so that you can experiment with manual controls and better optical control) Try Craig's list. Search for 35mm manual SLR camera. See below you could get auto exposure/auto focus camera but it needs manual option, however, it will much clunkier to use rather than a dedicated manual camera. Try to get zoom lens 35-70mm or 28-80mm, instead of just 50mm lens. Some models to look for: Pentax k1000, Nikon FM, FM2, FM10, Minolta SRT 101, 201, Olympus OM1, Canon AE-1, Vivitar V3800N, Canon EOS Elan 7----Stay away from the Minolta Maxxum AF cameras, not good at all PORTABLE EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE OR FLASHDRIVE you will need to save your scans and be able to transport your images back and forth from school to home. You will be working with images that are high resolution, so they will require a lot of storage space. See below more info

7 REQUIRED PHOTO SUPPLIES: Prices are approximate call for latest prices REGARDING B/W FILM DEVELOPMENT: All mixing and preparation of film chemicals will be done by a lab photo tech. No outside photo chemistry will be allowed into lab, so do not purchase any photography chemicals. Recommended Photo Supplier: Tell them you are my student ask for discount and show them this list. *** ***K&M Camera Tribeca 368 Broadway (White & Franklin) NYC m-f 10-6 Sat Other photo retailers: -B&H PHOTO 420 9th Ave. (34th St.) NYC m-th 9-7 Fri 9-2 sat closed sun Adorama 42 west 18 th St, (5 th -6 th ave), NYC Sun: 9:30-5:00, Mon- Thur: 9:00-8:00, Fri: 9:00-5: mm SLR Camera with Manual Exposure and Manual Focus Option. Try to get w/zoom 28 or mm lens about $ ONLY buy this if you can't find one on craigslist, ebay, or borrow one. K&M has good used models at about this price point, and they will offer you a warranty on condition which is something you won't get elsewhere. 2. Film Developing Plastic Tank w/ 2 reels Beseler or off brand (get the red flat top) that takes 16 oz. chemicals $17.95 DO NOT BUY Omega Blue top. Paterson tank is ok if that is all they have. Get reels with square flap pieces not ridges only. 3. B&W 35mm 36 exp Film 12 Rolls of film required : GET 8 Rolls of 400 speed and 4 Rolls of 100 speed You can buy Kodak, Ilford or Fuji. Buy whatever is on sale, except do not buy T-MAX or PLUS-X. ***If they have some overdated film cheap, ($1 a roll) buy 1 roll, so you can open it and practice putting it on reels. 4. Inkjet Paper, Matte or Glossy, Epson or Inkpress ONLY!! No rag or special surfaces allowed on lab printers 8 x 10-smallest quantity is fine. You will only be required to make 1 final print, but you have access to lab so you can make more on your own. 5. Binder for Neg's and Prints with RINGS $ Print File Negative Preservers 35-7B 25 sheets $ B/W Photographic Printing Paper MG RC 8x10-35 Sheets Glossy or Pearl --it's on special around $40 DO NOT BUY MG FILTERS YOU DO NOT NEED PRINTING FILTERS!!!!!!!!!! 8. WHITE COTTON GLOVES for scanner few pairs 9. CANNED AIR -ONLY FALCON BRAND 10. Flashdrive, thumbdrive, or portable hd to transfer and save your image scans and edited files back and forth home to school. Get this at staples or Costco, best buy, wherever on sale. BUY from $.99 CENT or VALUE Store: -Plastic Clothespins for hanging film in dryer - Child Scissors round edged -Can opener-simple kind -Apron or smock for clothes - Plastic gloves get vinyl or neoprene (chemical resistant) if you're allergic to latex.