Photography Class #3

Photography Class
9/28/06

Photoshop Stuff:
Interpolation – This occurs when resample image is checked off in the ‘Image Size’ menu
photoshop takes the photograph and interprets the pixel and adds more pixels, guessing the color of the pixels – NOT GOOD! Pic becomes pixilated
-the best interpolation is bicubic – looks in 4 directions for pixels
-bilinear option is ok, it looks at 2 pixels
-nearest neighbor option -bad! Just looks at the neighboring pixel

-To avoid this, UNCHECK resample image, which makes the image smaller while upping the pixel amount.

-to make a 5x7 print: click the crop tool and enter 5 in the width and 7 in hight and adjust the crop box as you see fit. Press enter if you like it, escape if you don’t.

-Removing red eye – under the crop tool, just click the tool, go on the eye and poof! red eye gone!

Printing Photos:
-Prints should be 300dpi
-Epson is the best photo printer, and most use ink-jet printers, rather than laser.
-Archival Inks & Paper: papers and inks with acidic levels (PH levels) that let the photo last and not fade. Epson gaurentees their prints (with their inks) last 72–100 yrs
-Iris Printer – best archival prints

Documentary photographs:
Mathew Brady – one of the first to shoot documentary photography, he shot images of the Civil War
-During the Depression the USA hired a group of photographers from a faction of the govt called the FSA (Farm Security Administration) to document the depression.
2 of those photographers: Dorothea Lange & Walker Evans
They were required to turn in their negative to the govt. who stores them in the Library of Congress (164,000 negative in total!!)

LINKS TO DUCOMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHERS:
mathew brady
http://www.multimedialibrary.com/FramesML/IM11/IM11.asp

fsa
http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fatop1.html

dorothea lange
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/index.html

walker evans
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap04.html

library of congress negatives

evans
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/f?fsaall:0:./temp/~ammem_cxA6:


lange
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/f?fsaall:0:./temp/~ammem_JmOd:

HOMEWORK: document your community telling a story, 5 pics in total (minimum)
ex: pics of sukkos OR dirty area of city and take pics of garbage on street etc…