Final Critique / Tuesday, May 5 from 10:30am - 12:30pm

Final critique on Tuesday, May 5 from 10:30am - 12:30pm on Zoom.  Invitation and Meeting ID sent via email.

Week 15 / April 28 and April 30

Your final project submissions are due on Thursday, April 30 and please follow all of the instructions outlined in this message.  Your 8 (minimum) images should be accompanied by a final project statement based on the proposal you submitted previously.  Please revise this statement to reflect the completed series.  I will also follow up soon with an invitation to join a final critique on Zoom on Thursday, May 7 from 6 - 8pm. 

Part of your grade for the project will be based on following all of these steps for submission. Submissions received after April 30 will be marked down ½ letter grade per day late. 

Attach 8 (minimum) images directly to an email (or multiple emails if necessary) as JPEGS– you don’t need to use OneDrive 

Images should be renamed with your full name and numbers 1 - 12 like this: temastauffer_01.jpeg, temastauffer_02.jpeg, temastauffer_03.jpeg

Images must be saved a JPEGS and resized with a resolution of 72ppi and 800px on the longest side

The only exception for renaming and resizing files is for those who shot and need to send images directly from their phones – if this is a case, please note this in your email 

Include your project statementas a Word Doc attachment with your JPEGS files

Put in subject line of email: Your name / Final Project

Week 14 / Tuesday, April 21 and Thursday, April 23

Thank you to everyone who sent me your images last week and completed your SAIs for the course. Please send me approximately 3-5 images again this week to review your work-in-progress.  I will send out instructions next week about how to submit your final images ahead of the deadline on April 30.

It’s important to send me images this week. Failure to send work-in-progress will negatively impact your grade for your final project.

Also, for those whose projects are focusing on how the pandemic is changing our lives and social landscape, please read information at the link below about contributing your images to an archive called Telling Your Story: Documenting COVID-19 in East Tennessee.  You are invited to contribute your perspective and become a part of history.

Telling Your Story: https://www.etsu.edu/cas/cass/archives/covid19story.php

Week 13 / Tuesday, April 14 and Thursday, April 16

Please send me approximately 3-5 images this week to review your work-in-progress.  These are not your final image submissions which will be due on April 30 after you have edited your work to a final selection accompanied with a final project statement. 

Please make sure to resize your jpegs before sending them to me as jpeg attachments.  Follow these steps to resize images.

Go to Image and then select Image Size

Enter 72ppi for Resolution

Enter approximately 800 Pixels for the longest edge (Width or Height depending on Horizontal or Vertical Image) 

Enter (OK)

Choose Save As rather than Save to save a new version of this file as a reduced-sized jpeg

Your file should be 1MG or less 

Keep this small jpeg for emails and the web in addition to your larger version for print

See screenshot above 

If you still can’t attach all of your jpegs in a single email, please send a few in separate emails.

Please complete your SAIs for Digital Photography I this week. 

Week 12 / Tuesday, April 7 and Thursday, April 9

Final project proposals (one paragraph in a Word Doc attached to emaill) are due on Tuesday, April 7.

Our critique of Assignment #4: Documenting Daily Lives is scheduled for 2pm on April 7 on Zoom.

Selected images from each student below:

Noah Parker

Carson Haley

Cyerra Wilburn

Sierra Stanley

Raven Cordy

Rachael Haley

Olivia Myers

Nikki Higgins 

Marcie Gonzales 

Mackayla McBrien

Katy Hall

Alexis Jennings

Jordan Redd

Alex Alder

Alicia Roe

Brad Owens

Caroline Gibson 

Lauren Webb

Week 11 / Tuesday, March 31 and Thursday, April 2

10 jpegs from Shooting Assignment #4 / Documenting Your Daily Lives are due this week on Thursday, April 2 at 2:15pm.  I will select one image from each student to post on the blog by the following week. 

An optional Zoom meeting is scheduled next week on Tuesday, April 7 at 2 pm.  I know that not everyone will be able to have internet access at that time, but hopefully most of you will.  Please keep an eye out for an invitation to this meeting coming soon and do your best to join us if you can.  This will be a good opportunity for some discussion about how you are all doing and about your work that will be posted.

Final project proposals are due by Tuesday, April 7.  Please submit these as one paragraph (in a Word document attached to an email) describing a single theme that you want to explore for the remainder of the class.  Please outline the theme: who, what, where you will shoot this series taking into consideration the limitations on what you can accomplish during this time. 12 jpegs from this series are due by Thursday, April 30.  We will have an optional Zoom meeting for a final critique on Tuesday, May 5 from 10:30am – 12:30pm. 

Online Resources and Topics in Photography

Olivia Myers

A Search for Something Fresh

In this interview article, Samantha Cooper talks about her work in portraiture photography. One thing that she mentions many times throughout the interview is that a photograph of a person should generate a feeling in the viewer. She says that this is the photographer’s job to come prepared and learn how to connect with the person he or she is shooting so that the end results gives the viewer something to not only see, but also react to. I really enjoyed this interview article, as portraiture amazes me. 

 Nikki Higgins

Breast Cancer Treatment Photographs 

This article is about a woman that was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 29. She is documenting her treatment. She wanted to "break the stigma around the diagnosis and allow people to better understand what a person facing serious disease feels like". 

 Sierra Stanley & Jordan Redd

Dorothea Lange Reconsidered 

This article is about Sam Contis discussing the work of Dorothea Lange's unpublished lesser known photos which have never been seen before. Dorothea Lange is a famous great depression photographer known for her photos of the migrant mother. Contis published the lesser known photos in their book called "day sleeper" and these photos are how they fell in love with Lange's work. (Sierra) 

Dorothea is a professional photographer in taking pictures of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl migrants in the 20^thcentury.  In one of her famous images called, The Day Sleeper, shows her son sleeping with a cloth over his eyes. In this image, Dorothea explains, “his eyes are covered because we’re cut off from the interior world.” (Jordan) 

Lauren Webb

Urban Street Portraits 

The article is about the Swiss photographer, Jens Krauer's, street photography. The article explains Krauer's ideas and opinions of urban street photography, which is to document urban life, not to judge or "observe" the subjects. The article explains Krauer's tactics which include the importance of blending in with the street environment to create truly candid moments, as well as the importance of establishing trust within the urban environment. The article also tells us that according to Jens Krauer, it is vital to keep a positive mindset while working with street photography.

Cyerra Wilburn

Photobook: How (not) to Shoot a Black Dog

I found this article hilarious; it comments on how before we had “smart cameras”, the difficulty this couple had in taking proper photo of their beloved jet-black fur baby. It’s hilarious in the sense that I have yet to master the DSLR camera and I would likely take the same photo this poorly. This article also comments on the fact that today everyone posts “ah-door-ah-ble” photos so easily of their furry friends on social media. Oh, how the times have changed!! (Plus, who doesn’t love a photo series staring a big fluggy fur baby?!)

Alicia Roe

Westminster Dog Show Photos 

This photography article shows what goes on behind the scenes specifically at the Westminster Dog Show. It highlights the grooming process, dog glamor shots and the dog owners with their dogs.

Kathryn Jennings

Mycelium Microcosm: Mushrooms Links Science with Art 

My article was "Mycelium Microcosm: Mushrooms Link Science with Art" By ClydaJane Dansdill. The article explores the use of mushrooms in photography and how the use has changed through the years. Photographing mushrooms was for science at first and now it is being used to promote clothing, being edited into photographs and used as the central subject.  Artist have found amazing ways to incorporate mushrooms in a fantastical way. 

Marcie Gonzoles

Dawoud Bey: An American Project 

For this assignment, I read the article “Dawoud Bey: An American Project”.  Dawoud wanted to make photographs that represented the community of Harlem not only in the past, but the present.  Within his work, he wants the emotional response to be communicated from the subject.  Bey sees people, not just visually, but emotionally.  

Mackayla McBrien

Immerse Yourself in Signe Pierce's neon hyperreality 

The article that I chose was an interview with Signe Pierce about her body of work titled Faux Realities. The series of photographs was highly hyper realistic that had themes surrounding the presence of technology and used many tones of purple and pink. Her work is described as “exposing the absurdities of femininity.” While many of Pierce’s photographs has a strong aesthetic to them, she embellishes them with deeper undertones that are primarily left to the interpretation of the reader and are intended to leave you with questions. 

Carson Haley

Boris Loder's Particles 

I chose Concrete, Plastic, and Future Landscapes: Boris Loder's Particles from americansuburbx.com as my article. In the article, Boris Loder takes inspiration from the movie WALL-E, gathering pieces of trash from public environments and packs it into a plexiglass cube. With the plexiglass being removed digitally, his cubes give us a glimpse into how our human landscape looks. 

Alex Alder

Shahidul Alam: Truth to Power 

Times magazine person of the year 2018 has made an impact through this powerful photography. Capturing the "majority world" as he called it representing a country and cultures who are often misunderstood and misrepresented.

Caroline Gibson 

Hausthor & Guilmoth: Sleep Creek, Gauze-Eyed Gothic 

This article goes in depth about the emotional weight of this collection of photos. The author describes the feeling of old ancient horror of what lies beyond in our brains and our universe. The slight nods to esoterism and german expressionism are successful in this sense, and the author makes it clear that these tropes are used properly to elicit fear, and not to be edgy. I really enjoyed this article, as classic horrors such as Poe and Byron are very close to my heart so I love to see this aesthetic so successfully recreated.

Brad Owens

Redefining Street Photography with Alex and Rebecca Norris Webb

The article is an interview with the photographers. Alex and Rebecca Norris Webb seem to want new ideas, subjects and perspectives interjected into the traditional street photography genre. Rebecca mentions combining sparse text with her images in order to create a more “spacious” product. Alex talks about the difficulties inherent in controlling light. He says street photography requires careful thought about light intensity. They finish by both reiterating their desire to see something new in street photography, including private moments in semi-public spaces, and subjects that push the boundaries of what could be considered street photography.

Katy Hall

The role of photography in the society 

The article I chose is about the way photography has changed everything in lives and society. We now have photos from wars and other significant events to express the damage and after shocks the way words can't. People also tend to be more drawn to pictures than pages on pages of words, and photography helps to bring attention in and give a better direct look on certain topics like politics. 

Raven Cordy

Columbine Gun Violence Campaign 

-The article entitled "Columbine Students Want to Share Images of Gun Violence" in Time magazine, Fred Ritchin discusses the controversial subject of photographing and sharing to the public images of people who have been killed. It states how in the past there have been instances in which this has been implemented, including violent murders and war atrocities. The Columbine students feel that sharing these photographs to social media could be a useful tool in making people more aware of reality of the horrors of school shootings.

Rachael Haley

If You Licked These Photos, They Would Taste Like New York. (So Don't Lick Them.)

In this article, The Times staffed photographers capture a realistic glimpse of what New York is like in every day life. This article screams, “If you’ve seen it or done it, a photographer has most likely captured it.” This article is very interesting because the pictures that are featured have been captured throughout many different years, and not just from one time period.

Week 10 / Tuesday, March 24 and Thursday, March 26

Due to the precautions about the safety of the ETSU community, all classes will be conducted online for the remainder of the spring semester. Please see the adapted assignments and expectations below.

Links to Articles on Topics in Photography

Over Spring Break, you were asked to research an article on a topic in photography from the Online Resources on the blog. Please send me a link to the article and summarize the content of the article in 2-3 sentences by Thursday, March 26 at 2:15pm. 

Respond to Four Questions 

In the same email due Thursday, March 26 at 2:15pm, please answer these questions:

A)   Do you have access to a computer, tablet or smart phone at home?

B)   Do you have internet access at home? 

C)   Does your digital device have a camera and microphone?

D)   Is there anything else that I should know about your ability to access the internet and complete assignments online?

Shooting Assignment #4 / Documenting Your Daily Lives 

I have adapted your original assignment due to the current circumstances so that you will submit 10 jpegs to me by email rather than creating a PowerPoint presentation of 20 images. Please shoot a series of 10 images portraying your daily reality from morning to night. For most of you, this will mean describing your lives at home.  You should shoot these images as jpegs rather than as raw files.  If you don’t have access to a DSLR camera, you can use your cell phone. Please rename the files with your name and numbers 1-10 so that the file names look this this: 1_YourName.jpeg, 2_YourName.jpeg, and so on. Please send me these files to me by email before Thursday, April 2at 2:15pm.  I will select one image from each student to post on the blog for all students to see. 

Please let me know if you have any questions and please also make safe choices about what and where you take pictures.  All ETSU students have remote access to the Abode Creative Cloud and I will include information about how to access this below.

1. Visit https://creativecloud.adobe.com and use your school credentials to sign in.

2. If prompted, select Company or School Account and then enter your password. Or provide your credentials in your school’s login screen.

3. From the Creative Cloud website, browse for and download your desired app. Click Apps on the top of the page to view all apps.

For more information on how to download or install apps, see Download and Install Creative Cloud apps.