Location and Time: Fine Arts 047; TTH 11 AM -12:40 PM
Instructor: Robert Schneider
Conatct Info:
- email: robert.schneider@lehman.cuny.edu
- web page: comet.lehman.cuny.edu/schneider/
- office hours: TTH 9:30-11 Gillet 200 and by appointment
Grading Policy:
Field Trips:
- Projects and Reports on trips-65%
- collaborations encouraged
- Final- 35%
- proficiency in techniques taught
- during time allocated for final
- We will arrange several field trips during semester to see works of photographers or to take photographs. We will also have shooting sessions in interesting areas after we warm up our techniques and the environment gets more friendly (even though shooting in extreme conditions can be very rewarding)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art. Keep a diary and ticket stub to hand in. My questions are minimal for what you should write about. Many of these exhibits end February 16. Reports due February 17.
- Struth Exhibit
- comment on lighting and texture of photographs
- Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection
- Make sure you also examine the photographs of the Lauder rooms with the art work displayed. What do you think of the light and the effect.
- Could we collage layers of photos like the cubists?
- Thomas Hart Benton"s America Today Mural Rediscovered-- in American Wing
- Versailles Panorama -- in American Wing
- What lighting conditions were used in this painting?
Course Objectives:
Equipment and Software:
- Understand concepts of computational photography
- Creative application of these concepts
- Preparation for future changes
- Camera with ability to set aperture, shutter speed, focus, iso manually. Good if can shoot raw.
- cell phone cameras are getting better and better. Apps like Camera FV-5 for Android and ios8 give some control that in a pinch could experiment with in course.
- Tripod
- we have several you can borrow but you will find you want to have one that you totally know
- student used tripods tend to develop problems
- Cable release
- Lightroom/Photoshop-- we have in labs
- You can get one month free on your own computer. Afterwards it is around $10 a month as a subscription.
- Constantly changing especially in the areas we will cover
- need a good computer but lab computers should be great
- Various software I will talk about. You typically can get a month free trial. Do not start trial till I have introduced features and you are ready to try it out.
- Photomatix-- hdr software
- autopano giga --- panoramic software
- zerene stacker -- focus stacking software
Accommodating Disabilities:
- Lehman College is committed to providing access to all programs and curricula to all students. Students with disabilities who may need classroom accommodations are encouraged to register with the Office of Student Disability Services. For more info, please contact the Office of Student Disability Services, Shuster Hall, Room 238, phone number, 718-960-8441.
Resources and Idealized Course Outline
Intro
- step through using Lightroom and Photoshop for HDR. Probably too big an overview and will be chaotic. Will redo.
- Assignment: Get equipment and take several differently exposed pictures of a scene with high light variability (high dynamic range). Use different shutter speeds. Try different apertures, isos. You can do this handheld but try not to shake or move the camera too much. Modern software can account for small variations. Take pictures as raw if you can. Bring in photos. This first phase is also meant to see the range of backgrounds and what I must review.
- Feb 5 : Show process of acquisition with my camera tripod. Talk about processing and ghosting.
- See if we can get head shots with overexposed backgrounds
HDR Imaging, Camera Raw and Tone Mapping
- Gallery of photos from HDRsoft
- not my style at the moment but color variations traditional -Fauve movement
- Some HDR Panoramas from project with Professor Gillison
- dawn - traditional good time
- dusk/night exciting too
- With good photos one can get very involved in examination -- Blow-Up
- Major use in lighting-- Debevec
- Little lecture about hdr
- Feb 15
- Go over student work
- HW assignment
- Start with panoramas
- April 29-- Preliminary Graded Project Presentation
Panoramas:
- panoramas with hdr
- hdr is a natural for panoramas as lighting can change drastically in a large sweep
Focus Stacking:
- New concept of camera in Lytro
- what can we do now in preparation for computational photography focus manipulation cameras
- creating totally focused photos
- creating photos with several regions of focus
- focus conveys an attitude
- statue three young women
- The Graduate
3d from many 2d:
- Noah Snavely
- Photosynth
- autodesk 123d catch is free app that lets you use cellphone to create 3d model from pictures
Printing and Display