Julianne Kost explains the contact sheet process in Bridge

Hey Folks,
As a follow up to Amy's post of creating a contact sheet in Bridge, Julianne Kost (Photoshop genius) explains it in this video post:

Julieanne Kost explains the Bridge Contact sheet features in this video: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/the-complete-picture-with-julieanne-kost/creating-web-galleries-and-pdf-files/

Seems in the CS4 and CS5 versions of Photoshop, they have dropped the original contact sheet feature. Bummer. So, it seems we can make them in bridge, but apparently its not as good.

if you do have CS3, go to File > Automate > contact Sheet II > select your parameters and images and BINGO!! it does it for you.

best,
Annie

Leigh Ledare

Annie already posted the full list of artist talks this semester, but I wanted to do a reminder about tonight. Leigh Ledare, who's work is currently up in the CSB Gallery is speaking tonight. He's pretty interesting, with work based around his relationship with his mother, which is very close. Personally, I'm not sure what I make of it on an internal level, when you know the content. I think, especially since we don't get many photography speakers, he'd be someone to check out this evening.

Contact Sheet

I can't figure out how to post just this video but this is a tutorial of how to make a contact sheet in Bridge

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WS42C3020A-DAD1-4f92-8014-012263F3A51D.html

Sara Greenberger Rafferty

As a branch off from my previous post, I wanted to directly introduce Sara Greenberger Rafferty. I saw her work in person in the Lower East Side earlier this fall. Then again when I came across The Anxiety of Photography, at the Moma. The work shown for the Aspen Art Museum exhibition was the same work I saw in New York. Her most recent works, which I love, are a variety of c-prints which she alters with liquid to create a beautiful atmosphere of colors.

The Anxiety of Photography

The Anxiety of Photography is a publication based on an exhibition shown by the Aspen Art Museum from May 13 - July 11, 2011. There are over 40 images, and approximately 16 photographers. The book addresses working artists, and their interpretation of photography as a modern medium.

Below is a link to the description; check it out

The Anxiety of Photography

We were talking about HDR photography in class and i found this really cool image blog

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/10/35-fantastic-hdr-pictures/

Applied carefully, High Dynamic Range-technique (HDR) can create incredibly beautiful pictures which blur our sense of the difference between reality and illusion. In graphics HDR imaging is a set of techniques that allow a far greater dynamic range of exposures than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes, ranging from direct sunlight to the deepest shadows. This is usually achieved by modifying photos with image processing software for tone-mapping. And the results can be really incredible; in fact, many artists and designers come up with some pretty fancy results.

This post covers 35 extremely beautiful and perfectly executed HDR-pictures. Some of them might look surreal, too colorful, even magic or fake, but they are not — keep in mind that they’ve all been developed out of usual photos, and not a single image is an illustration.

making a contact sheet in photoshop

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WS42C3020A-DAD1-4f92-8014-012263F3A51D.html

Joakim Eskildsen

Awesome photographer I found.

Definitely check his stuff out!

http://lightbox.time.com/2011/11/17/below-the-line-portraits-of-american-poverty/#31

http://fantastic-dl.blogspot.com/2009/03/joakim-eskildsen-copenhagen.html

http://www.joakimeskildsen.com/default.asp?Action=Menu&Item=125

Curves for the Advanced Class for digital negatives

Hey Folks from 3A,
as we are doing the cyanotype workshop when we get back, here is a curve that you can place on your image that will help you get the best detail out of your digital negative.

A curve could be described as the representation of all the tones in an image, from highlights to shadows. Photoshop curves are a great tool for creating a balanced digital negative. They help you control the tonal values and contrast of an image or a negative.

See here:

http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/negatives/curve-corner-photoshop-curves

If you have problems downloading the curves:
On a PC: Right-click with the mouse on the link and select "Save Target As"
On a mac: Hold down the Ctrl key and click on the link. Select "Download Link to Disk".


also, to load it into photoshop, keep reading down the page and there is an example of how to save it to photoshop and use for your image.


best,


Annie

John Baldessari

Below i the link to the art 21 on john baldessari. Its really interesting because he is such a conceptual artist and he really goes into his creative process.

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/john-baldessari

Photography Exhibition

My friend who interns at Alfa Art Gallery (off of George Street) told me they are trying to hold a photography exhibition. It would probably be sometime around January or February, but they want people to submit work as soon as possible. Send photos to Kat Mecca, the curator, at kathryn@alfaArt.org.

Some interesting places in Brooklyn

There are some pretty interesting places in Brooklyn I thought I should spread the word about.
Momenta Art 56 Bogart Street Brooklyn, NY 112006 (Andy Monk is the Gallery Director) www.momentaart.org
This gallery only shows artists that haven't shown their work in too many places. It helps beginning artists to get their name out there.


3rd Ward 195 Morgan Ave. Brooklyn, NY www.3rdward.com/visit 
3rd Ward is a place where artists can work or continue their education in their field. It's member-based, but worth it because they have things that would be typically hard to get in the city like wood shops, metal shops, photo studios, etc. They also have classes in things like the latest version of photoshop, lighting etc. 
Cool places to check out if in a closet sized apartment in the city :)

Polaroid Printer

Found this on Freecycle so thought I'd share it with everyone.  Seems like a cool device, and it's free


http://groups.freecycle.org/freecycleruhub/posts/15688455/Polaroid%20p-500ir%20portable%20digital%20photo%20printer

Yayoi Kusama

Annie Recnetly told me to look at the work of this artist. Her work is really immersive, and very intriguing. Her work focuses primarily on her mental disability, and allows this to dictate its content.

Yayoi Kusama arrived in New York in 1958 and quickly became known as an artist there. Her work includes sculptures, books, performance art, installations and photo collages. Although Kusama showed with influential artists in New York, she never achieved long term critical or financial support and returned to Tokyo in the mid-seventies.

Kusama began her career by showing paintings in New York. These "net paintings" were large works with circular repetitive patterns. Her first sculpture (probably 1961) was an armchair covered with stuffed fabric phallic shapes and painted white. More objects covered with these phalluses followed. Kusama has also covered objects such as suitcases, coats and mannequins with macaroni and paint. Her installations often feature mirrors and polka dotted objects. The installation Narcissus Garden is comprised of 1500 mirror balls floating in water.

Yayoi Kusama's mental illness began in childhood when she began hallucinating the dots, nets and flowers which subsequently appear in her paintings and sculptures. Today, she voluntarily resides in a mental institution in Japan. Kusama's most noted work was created between 1958-1968 in New York City. In 1998, she had a retrospective called Love Forever at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Black Rhino Flight

I feel like this could have been done differently........

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/black-rhino-given-new-home-1320690336-slideshow/#crsl=%252Fphotos%252Fblack-rhino-given-new-home-1320690336-slideshow%252Fblack-rhino-photo-1320690260.html



Vivian Maier

This nanny who has now wowed the world with her photography, and who incidentally recorded some of the most interesting marvels and peculiarities of Urban America in the second half of the twentieth century is seemingly beyond belief.

An American of French and Austro-Hungarian extraction, Vivian bounced between Europe and the United States before coming back to New York City in 1951. Having picked up photography just two years earlier, she would comb the streets of the Big Apple refining her artistic craft. By 1956 Vivian left the East Coast for Chicago, where she’d spend most of the rest of her life working as a caregiver. In her leisure Vivian would shoot photos that she zealously hid from the eyes of others. Taking snapshots into the late 1990′s, Maier would leave behind a body of work comprising over 100,000 negatives. Additionally Vivian’s passion for documenting extended to a series of homemade documentary films and audio recordings. Interesting bits of Americana, the demolition of historic landmarks for new development, the unseen lives of ethnics and the destitute, as well as some of Chicago’s most cherished sites were all meticulously catalogued by Vivian Maier.

A free spirit but also a proud soul, Vivian became poor and was ultimately saved by three of the children she had nannied earlier in her life. Fondly remembering Maier as a second mother, they pooled together to pay for an apartment and took the best of care for her. Unbeknownst to them, one of Vivian’s storage lockers was auctioned off due to delinquent payments. In those storage lockers lay the massive hoard of negatives Maier secretly stashed throughout her lifetime.

Maier’s massive body of work would come to light when in 2007 her work was discovered at a local thrift auction house on Chicago’s Northwest Side. From there, it would eventually impact the world over and change the life of the man who championed her work and brought it to the public eye, John Maloof.

Currently, Vivian Maier’s body of work is being archived and cataloged for the enjoyment of others and for future generations. John Maloof is at the core of this project after reconstructing most of the archive, having been previously dispersed to the various buyers attending that auction. Now, with roughly 90% of her archive reconstructed, Vivian’s work is part of a renaissance in interest in the art of Street Photography.

http://www.vivianmaier.com/

WW2 Canopy

Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant during WW2 This is a version of special effects during the 1940's. I have never seen these pictures or knew that we had gone this far to protect ourselves. During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a possible Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air.  They had fake houses, trees, etc. and moved parked cars around so it looked like a residential area from the skies overhead.  It was strong enough to walk on and they hired people to ride bicycles and move around as if they lived there to make it look authentic.

Otherworldly

This is the exhibition that was at the MAD Museum (Museum Of Arts and Design) in New York about artists who make Scale models and some of them photograph them when they are done.
Lori Nix is one of my favorites and what pains me so much is that when she is done with them she usually destroys the models.
anyway, here is the link and it has videos and photos.
http://collections.madmuseum.org/html/exhibitions/530.html

here is a direct link to the Lori Nix video
http://collections.madmuseum.org/code/emuseum.asp?emu_action=media&id=9382&mediaid=36127