JUST FYI

I'm BORED. I'm sure there's plenty I should be doing. just don't seem to be in the mood. I'm sure no one is planning to check this so I guess I'm basically talking to myself.

btw the price of Pepsi is going up.

c ya all later

HELLLLLPPPPP

OK SO WE HAVE 2 SERVERS HERE AT WORK AND ONE OF THEM JUST CRASHED . ONE OF THEM IS ALWAYS BACKED UP THE OTHER NOT ... MURPHEYS LAW WHICH ONE CRASHES, YOU GOT IT THE ONE NOT BACKED UP AND OF COURSE WHOS JOB IS IT TO BACK UP??? YOU GOT THAT ONE TOO... HELLLLLLPPPPPP

Reviving our Blog

Hi guys, in case you check this site more than onlysimchas (which is highly unlikely) i wanted to post here and invite all of you to my vort tomorrow (tuesday) night. I know it's a touro night and the vort's in lakewood but you can't say i didn't invite y'all.
see you thursday!

Class notes AGAIN - rollovers the right way

Okay I know everyone doesn't really care but this is the best way for us to know how to make rollovers on the final

slice everything in photoshop, make sure to right click on each slice and name them, also make sure there are no extra slices between each slice
go to image ready
use web content pallete, click the right slice and layer and then click create rollover style on the bottom of the web content pallete
click twice to create an over and a down button
then you can mutate the style of that slice or text or whatever

And there you have it - slicing lesson in 30 seconds! what were we doing til now?!

Have A Ksiva V'chasima Tova Everyone

and a year of only simchos and brachos!!!

see you all next year

Registration

ahhh so whats everyones schedule??
So i spoke to fink today by registration and he added the small business course as an elective on thursday night at 6:00
The course info is: MCD 451 FE special topics for desktop publishing . It is gonna be taught by professor gardner (who i hear is supposed to be good)

So they didnt let me actually register for it today cuz it wasnt added to the system in time so u have to go back next week and do it .

so whos planning on graduating in jan? they gave me a form there is a 200 dollar graduation fee for them to "process e/t" crazy! anyways they say u have to set up an appointment with someone so they can do a "graduation check" on u or something.

Graphic Designer must haves

sick of touro - heres some important stuff:)

ok so wuts it gonna be?

wuts everyones final choice on the elective?

Cute no?

Mazal Tov :)

We got another one! Mazal Tov Rochel on ur engagement to Shneur Belsky!!

IMPT Q!!!!

does anyone know of a professor who taught bio or something. his name is Schister. someone wanted to know about him. if anyone knows anything about him or knows someone that does. PLS let me know. todah rabba!!!

on a diff note:
soo changing the sched def sounds lk a good idea. also maybe we can switch the Tues 10:30 class to thurs at 6.

this is getting WAY too complicated

new question

k i have a diffrenet question ? what elective are we supposed to take if this childrens book illustration thing doesnt happen? what kind of course is it anyways? i think its really unfair that we have to go looking for electives and have to settle to take courses that dont really have to do with anything just because they cant accomodate us with a normal schedule. am i the only one that feels this way? i mean we are such a small class and so are the other desktop publsihing classes that you would think they would make the program be good so that we can reccomend it to future students. i think i want to take that small business course but when is he gonna let us know if he is making that small business course for graphic design? cuz then we are gonig to register for the same thing twice ? also i see on thursday at 820 there is a course called aesthetics in modern art - i tihnk that is counted as an elective for us if anyones interested but it sounds really boring ..... i may take it tho if theres no other choice.
what is everyone else planning on donig ?
thanks adina for going back and forth with fink your so nice!!

Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace...

DID NOT send this - need to hear from everyone b4 sending it...
whacha think is it worth it ? is this what everyone wants??

Hi Professor,
I'm really sorry to make you crazy, and I really appreciate the work you are going through to put together the Small Business course we requested. Some girls just received their fall schedules now and realized if we would take this class on Thursday at 8:15 we'd be in Touro Tues and Thurs until 10:30 which is very long and rigorous. I know its probably not plausible to schedule the class at 6 otherwise you would of mentioned that as an option. We did notice that there was a Children's book illustration course on Sunday - would that count as an elective? If so, then those who choose to, can take the regular small business course offered at 6 (which wont count as an elective, but can still be gained from) on Thurs and the child book illustration on sun for the elective.

fall schedule!!!!!!!!!

Helllo I am very not impressed with this new schedule that I just got in the mail....
If this bussiness class is only offered on Thurs at 8.... there is NO WAY in the world I'm staying till 10:30 both nights. anyone echo my sentiments??
also u think children's book illustration would count as an elective?

Buy your degree at Touro!

OMG did anyone see that article in the NY post it was on the front page! That Touro in manhatten , some of the administrators were selling degrees to people for 1,000's of dollars! Some of the ppl never even stepped foot into touro , while others just bought like the remaining 20 credits or so that they needed to graduate.

we could have got a degree without sitting through all these boring classes can you imagine?!? lololol

but seriously its such an embarrasement for touro. it said one of the directors from the touro on kings highway computer location was involved also.

HELLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOO

anyone there????

just checking

Happy Independence Day!

Hope you enjoyed and didnt get too wet!
(was actually at the actual macys fireworks but my camera died so no pics to prove it... but was realllllly cool!)

Reunion

Hi ! What do you guys think of going out to eat or something one of these days? I miss everyone!! Whats everybodys summer plans anything exciting?

IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey everyone can u all send me your complete address and telephone numbers asap!! Email them to me at tder3@aol.com thanx a bunch!!

breaking news!!

Hey everyone guess what???? It doesnt look like ill be living in la so i guess ill be finishing up with you guys after all!!

FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Hi everyone.

U enjoying your vacation???
a.o have any exciting plans. none here. internship :)

After reading everyones posts i had to burst out laughing! Seeing that everyone is freaking out, allow me to help you feel better. I DID NOT START!!! You heard me its 11 p.m. the night before and i have no begun either project! Ok im off to work just thought id share that with you guys lol

Finnels Ads

ok quick question, it has to be three DIFFERENT ads, but for the same product? or are any of you doing the exact same thing for each one just in a different size? pleeeeease let me know thanks a mil

Buttons

OK guys i agree about buttons. None of mine work normally. How do i do this??????
Someone help. Give us a tutorial or something. PLEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZ!

Finnel Final

I take NO responsibility for any errors!

• cap height is 65-75% off the point size
• sans serif
• formal script face, ie wedding invitation
• informal- ie handwriting
• slab serif face-ie Rockwell
• Three categories of serif 1. Modern-most dif between thick and thin ie Bodoni 2. Old Style-lease dif between thick and thin ie Berkely 3. Transitional-in between-ie Baskerville
• Display Faces- Specialty faces ie Crackhouse
• ITC Garamond: larger proportional x-height to cap height
• Cap height-height of capital letter
• X-height-heigh of lower case letter
• Ascender/Descender-above and below
• M-Space-size of the font
• Pi-Font- dingbats
• Preflight-check for fonts, resolution etc
• Distortion on soup can-distort-arc with a negative value
• Package- gather together all elements of file in one folder
• Plug in-adds features that the program doesnt have
• If you not packaging images, send a high res PDF
• Basic rule for determing the effection resolution of a psd image 1.5-2xLPI, .5LPI
• Paper is the most expensive part of a printing job
• Dot Gain- tendency of ink to spread
• Newsprint paper is the cheapest paper
• Weight of a ream of paper of a standard size sheet is known as basis weight
• Grain- the direction of paper fiber alignment. Best to fold paper in the direction of the grain for a smooth fold
• Smallest to largest order- Safety, Trim, Bleed
• Smallest to largest order- point, pica, inchprinting job that requires 150LPI- psd image needs to have a resolution of 600
• Contract proof- Prepress proof used to ensure correct colorGood campaign does not need to have the same size ad
• Saddle stitching

aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Okay HELOOOOOOOO it is 2:18 AM !
How crazy is that and I am working on HW!!

kay does this thing really have to have 6 pages?

Also does there have to be animations on every single pages or not really ?

somebody helppp is anyone else onlnie this is scary my whole house is sleeping

REALLY cool flash site

http://fubon.co.uk/

umm help!

anything actually due today? or is it justt the last class and you must have everything by next week. in other words wut is going on in class tonight

hey who changed our background?? think i wouldnt notice...

heres a good flash tutorial i found (i think im going to be teaching a lot if this to myself...)
http://www.entheosweb.com/tutorials.asp

-will post more as i find them cuz i dont know bout u but i need them....

Question

Hey everyone , I think this has been asked before, but, How do you preserve transparacies / gradients when importing photoshop and illustrator files into flash?

(Now, don't be fooled by this question by thinking I am up to that point when in fact I have JUST started. I was just wondering before I start if I should bother with anything complicated)

Thanks!!
Have a great yom tov!

MY VORT!!!

Ok guys here it is, the address is 4609 bay parkway. Now to find it its where bay pkwy intersects with ocean pkwy, (btwn avenue I and J, coming from I) You cant miss it! And if you do well keep looking cuz i expect to see each one of you there on May 28, aka Memorial Day--no excuses (except you Adina) Cant wait to see you guys there and give each of you two kisses (one for each cheek) and one HUGE hug!! Oh rite and a personal introduction to my hubby to be. (and any cute guys you wanna know bout, although i should warn you most of them are underage lol)

Love you guys!!
P.S. If you have any questions call me at 917-583-8619

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

My website is NOT WORKING. this is bad news! for some reason everything I try just wont do what it's supposed to.
now is she serious about 6 pages???? she'll be lucky if I'm done by the fall
anyone else seem to be having issues or is this just me???
have a good shabbos all

Web II

So.... anyone have any idea what the hw for web is?? would be immensely helpful to know.

Apparantly I am slow.

Ok so since I didnt even know Tova was engaged until like two days ago, I am posting my own special mazel tov.
MAZEL TOV!!!!!!
so exciting!!!!!!!!
You guys look really really cute together , may you always be as happy as you are now and share in many more years together of brocha , hatzlacha , parnassah and everything good!!!!! (say amen!)

To everyone else:
Hope this gets the ball rolling and be the start of many more simchos!

:):):):):):):)

i myself still dont believe it hehehe!!

Hey guys AHHHHHH thank you so much for all those well wishes and i hope that my breaking the curse speeds stuff up a bit lol anywho see u tuesday with all the juicy details

MAZEL TOV

OMG. I went to surf onlysimchas and guess who i see there!
I won't spoil the surprise!
So aanyways i freak out and wonder why this isn't posted.
First one in out class! A humongo mazel tov again!!!!

someone broke the curse....

Ahhh the curse has been broken....
go to onlysimchas to find out.... and sign away :)
we're so excited for u!!! may this be the start of many more to come amen...

Whats for lunch?

K so since this blog is dead, I am going to attempt to start a topic.
Whats everyone eating for lunch?
lol k im really bored.

I am eating mini pizzas and salad!
YUM!

Happy Pesach

Happy Pesach enjoy ur vacation see ya all in 2 weeks

FLASH!!

omg is anyone else going insance from this? Guess what I had to change my whole entire idea and start from scratch because the whole thing just wasnt working. so now i only did about 7 seconds worth and it is almost 12 am and i just cant do it anymore i have been sitting in front of my computer a whole night! im just telling her i cant give it tomorrow im not maknig myself nuts.

anyone else having issues??
lets all share in the suffering!

GRADUATION PLEASE?

Ok, hi everyone. Here is the topic I'd like to bring up. What do you think of asking for our last three classes in the summer? We'd still be officially graduating in January but wouldn't have to take them during the fall. Honestly, I don't think they will let us...but if we all agree and really really want it...ya never know!
Thoughts?

Funny Billboards

http://bored.com/billboards/index.php

check out this site for really good billboards.

For example:

Guy Cleaning Teeth on Orbit Billboard

Finnel's Midterm

HERE ARE THE TOPICS FOR THE MIDTERM
I didn't have any other notes

Spot color > new spot channel in photoshop
Legibility vs readability
Typographic dos and don’ts
Tracking, leading…
Color
Environment (paste into)
Fonts:

Serif – old style – least dif. In thick and thing, crossbar on e not straight, transitional - e is straight and some difference between thick and thin
Modern – very big dif. Between thick and thing
Slab serif – ex. Rockwell
Pi font – webding, picture fonts….
ITC faces- have a bigger x height in ratio to the cap height
Scrip faces – handwriting,
Display faces –

HELP

I need help with finnel's project...
anyone?

attention all coffee-aholics

It's ADAR

These kids look like we do in class. So much for Purim spirit!

for all those that wanted to see the famous freezer...

autographs available for privaledged characters

Me again :)

k whats for homework for tomorrow?
what idd we learn last class? the main points...cuz i have this huge book and wanna look over what we did.
any help would be appreciated thanks !!!

galagar hw

anyone know whats for hw in glalger? i have no patience i am not fully back into the school mode yet....blahhh

I'm a little confused about the textbook for Gallagher b/c the author for doesn't seem to match the author she listed. well oh well b/c I ordered it already.

did a/o else find that, or am I missing s/t?

btw the cheapest site seems to be http://powells.com/ got it for lk $25 w/ shipping.

internship anybody?

In case anyone's still checking this even though it's vacation, Prof. DeCastro told me she has an internship available in a design place in Brooklyn. It's from one of the girls from last year, so you can probably check it out with them. If anyone's interested, get in touch with DeCastro.

umm???

dreamweaver...is there a written test or just bring the website?

PLEASE HELP

Can someone please explain the resolution equation? I really do not understand it.

Photography Final

1) diff b/w advertising photography and editorial & documentary – advertising is selling something, not looking to show the truth, and make more $ as an advertising photographer.

2) Advertising photography categories:
- Still life – either product OR food
- Fashion – either fashion (about clothes) OR beauty (about makeup)

3) Rule of thirds – Section scene into thirds and subject should be in criss-crosses of middle (where black circles are, NOT smack in middle)

4) to keep ppl interested in photo – keep viewers eye moving in a circle by composition – don’t give viewer way to escape photo ex: one object in photo going out of photo / one side bright etc…
-Ansel Adams darkened outside of photos to keep eye inside of photo.

5) “Alternative” Processes – Non silver processes (made photo without other elements rather than silver)
One Process – Gum Bichromate, making exposure with sunlight. Process it in water.
-Edward Steichen made a shot of a pond at moonlight, and it was the most expensive photo sold at an auction, sold for $2.929 Million.

6) Food Stylist stuff that you remember

7) Archival - term used to describe matting and framing photograph to make it last forever.
-all materials must be acid free
- matt must be cut and put over photo so it doesn’t touch the glass.

Contracts
8) All photographers have a contract that must be signed b4 shooting.
- for copyright protection and so you get paid.
- It specifies who owns the photo (usually the photographer does)
- agencies wont pay without contracts, and they take 90 days to pay you.
- Photographer has a rep who takes 15-25% and they handle this stuff.
- client pays for your meals, an assistant, studio, equipment, and your fee.

- contract specifies:
Usage – how they’ll use the photo. Ex: billboard, subway ad, bus stop ads, magazine spread… each pay different amounts.
How long – specifies how long they can use photo. Client can decide to do a buyout – they can use it forever, for whatever they want (starts at about $30,000)

-model has to sign a model release – you own that image.

Photography Final

if anyone would like to post the notes online, I would be 4ever greatful.

thanks a bunch

Finnel's Final

There are 25 short questions on test
Get ready because here they come:

1. Size of standard em space is size of type
2. Leaders = dots leading to price
3. Leading = space between lines, measured baseline to baseline
4. Set solid– same size and leading ex. 14/14
5. Cap height is 65-70 percent of point size
6. 12 points per pica, 6 picas per inch, 72 points per inch
7. 10/12 = leading is 12, size is 10
8. Sans serif – without the lines
a. Ex. Arial, Helvetica…
9. Serif – with the lines
a. Ex. Times new roman…
10. Tracking = the space between a range of letters
11. Kerning = subtracting or adding space between two letters
12. CMYK = 4 process colors
a. K = black b/c key color
13. Don’t add return (enter) between lines, use space before and space after
14. 2 page layout programs = indesign, quark
15. Never use autoleading (on test it will be: What is wrong with this picture?)
16. Never put two word spaces after a period only one
17. Never condense type = it distorts type
18. In order not to provide a font every time it’s printed, make sure it’s outlined
a. Select type, ctrl + shift + I and import it
19. Best to import EPS and TIFF in printing
20. Trapping in prepress = amount overprinting colors overlapped in order to eliminate white space
21. Preflight – checks e/t to make sure it’s ready to print
22. Converting art with tonal gradation (photograph) to a series of dots to create allusion of continuous tone is called Halftoning
23. Separation: Producing a series of plates that produces sep. ink colors
24. Resolution = fineness or coarseness of printing

Plus don't forget to bring in a your duotone brochure and c alendar and a cd of it in an envelope.

FINAL SCHEDULE

Does anyone know our final schedule? If so, can you post it?
I would really appreciate it!
Tizku Lmitzvos!

Fisher class?

Someone tell me please if we're having class on Thursday.
Anyone have his e-mail?

CREATING WEBSITES

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/super%20tutorial%202/website.htm
This is a really good tutorial for creating a website by importing it from imageready to dreamweaver. btw, it shows a much easier way for creating rollovers than the one we learned...go figure!

Fake or Real Smile?

Take this test to see if you're good at spotting a fake or real smile.... interesting.... I got 13/20 correct.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/

Shainys Interview!!

ok shainy, since you claim you do not know how to post, I created this post just for you so that you can comment! I now give the floor over to you .....

Let us know all the details!
Hope it went well!

Photography Class

Last class we learnt A LOT. We had a food stylist speak to us.

How a food stylist would make something like :
1. ice cream –
1 lb of confectionary sugar 1 stick of margarine
Some karo syrup
Can put chocolate syrup for chocolate, strawberries and food coloring or chocolate chips





2. cereal – use only whole pieces
Spoon Crisco into bowl for milk on bottom, make it as flat as possible
then stick whole cornflakes into it the Crisco
then put drops of Elmer’s glue on top to make splashy milk

3. frozen box take a box
Use Desenex (foot powder) and spray the box
Then spray dry ice on it
Then put fake snow on it (can make it wet so it’s slushy)
Also can useWater with some dried ice , wait a few minutes and it makes crushed ice

4. cold bottle 1/3 glycerin and 1/3 water to make a spray and spray with some type of sprayer the glass with it
Or can use light corn syrup on glass
Put fake ice cubes and fill with soda

For homework make a fake food and take a picture of it

Photoshop help!

Hi I missed last class in photoshop, can anyone fill me in on what we learned i heard i missed a major class ...is any of it in the book? what did we learn? slicing ? or more?
any homework ?

I'm gonig to try to be studious tonight!!

OUR FIELD TRIP!!

so we went on our field trip on sunday and actually had fun!! first we went to this art gallery of photography and pretended that we were all artsy and culteral with all the other ppl that were looking around. (key word: pretended)

Then our professor said sometihng very disturbing (to me at least) - that like 90% of the pictures that were in the gallery photoshopped!!! im like ok so whats the big deal then?? anyone can do that! he's like some ppl think like u , but other ppl like me are totally cool with that. ( the type for him to say no)

so then we went ot bryant park after and attempted to take pictures of the ice skaters, but basically i got blurs. then me and sara b. went shopppppping . We were walking down the street taking pictures liek tourists! heres some of our pics :

ATT ICE CREAM WEBSITE PPL!

hi guys , just wanted to let you know that i unfortunately will not be able ot make it to tomorow nights class! (i have a frends wedding) but i am working on my page dont worry! just dont want u to think i ditched you guys. adina- your page looks good!
let me know if theres something else i should do !
thanks

Internship

Ok, so here is the situation; we're all supposed to be registering for this internship next semester, but NO ONE IS EXPLAINING TO US WHAT IT IS! Hello??? So Professor Fink said that you have to be working with a professional graphic designer...does that mean I have to quit my job? HELP! Is anyone else feeling a little overwhelmed?

Spring 2007 classes

Does anyone know what's happening with Intro to Modern Art (or whatever its called) next semester? Does it even seem likely that there will be a class?
Please post before tuesday! Thanx

Photography Class – 12/7/06

Archival Framing– use materials that are all acid free and 100& rag (paper made from cotton rather than a tree)
-Put a mat around the frame to keep glass from touching photo.
-don’t place it where the sun will hit it.

- nice to use cream / white mat around photo, and create a hinge mat: tape photograph (around edges of pic, good to rather put photo corners) with acid free tape to mat, then fold over the front onto the pic.

- sign your photograph, used to only be able to use India Ink now can use pencil too (but not worth as much in an auction).

HW:
Create a series of photographs.
Should be amazing pics
Min: 6 pics
Due next class – typed form of what will do and how will develop it.

Examples:
paper bag
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~nalamper/miller/photographs.html

billboard
http://www.mindspring.com/~intherealm/fifty.html

domestic grace
http://members.aol.com/domesgrace/index.html

globe az
http://www.jmmgarza.com/html/Globe_Arizona.html

aftermath
http://www.joelmeyerowitz.com/photography/aftermath_slide.html

Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope you all have a great vacation!

Enjoy your Turkey

very cool...

Click below and write your name or nickname and watch to the very end...
Click Here

anything happen in photography after I left? any HW?

HELP PLEASE!

Hi everyone, in case you missed me Thursday night I was busy cramming for my statistics test. Anyway, someone PLEASE give me an idea for my CD cover?! I didn't start yet...and anyone who wants to show me theirs please email me tzibaa178@aol.com... sometimes when I see other people it inspires me...also do we have to do the inside pages or just a front and back? And does anyone know what the dimensions are? Ok I'll stop now I hope someone helps me!

strangly addictive game

ok just trying to avoid my economic online hw so just thought i'd share this strangly addictive game with you: (ps i copied the html coding from emj...)
Stork Game!

add your house to 'Touro Street'

Hi,
I found this site called drawAhouse.com and by drawing a house it analyzes your personality.

Click here to add your house to Touro Street!
When you have drawn your house it will be added to my street (called 'touro')
which is a collection of all the houses people on this forum have drawn.

WEB MIDTERM

well ohara posted the web info on blackboard - a load of help it does me since all it does is reference the books i never bought...big mistake... well i thought someone should at least benefit from these...


MCD 263 Web Design 1
Midterm Review
Fall 2006

Please refer to the pages in the two textbooks which will be covered in the midterm
Terms:
Internet – HTML 4

World Wide Web-HTML6.

Web Servers-HTML 6
URL- HTML 9
Intranet and Extranet-HTML 7
Web Browsers-HTML 9
Hypertext Markup Language- HTML 9
Start tag, End tag
Web Development Cycle- HTML 14
Web site structures: linear, hierarchical, webbed, broad, and deep- HTML 16
Hexadecimal Colors- HTML 55
Image Types: JPEG, GIF, PNG- HTML 51 and Dreamweaver 3-20
Alt Tag- HTML 51-52

Dreamweaver
Root folder-The folder where all html pages and graphics are stored
Home page- The first Web page that appears when viewers go to a Web site

Site map-Dreamweaver 1-30
Design View and Code View- Dreamweaver 1-5
Defining a Web site- Dreamweaver 1-16 and 1-20
Adding folders and pages- Dreamweaver 1-22
Head Content- Dreamweaver 2-4
Background color- Dreamweaver 2-5
Background Image Dreamweaver 3-34
Text formatting- Dreamweaver 3-4 to 3-9
Cascading style sheets- Dreamweaver 3-10
Links: external and internal- Dreamweaver 1-30
History panel- Dreamweaver 2-24

Shidduch Music Video

hi this video is pretty old but someone just emailed it to me again recently so it reminded me of it. its really funny check it out:

Click here!

i just did that link using the html from the book! how cool it works!

Reminder:

hey everyone just reminding those who dont know ( i am suprised that i even know. )
O'haras midterm is tomorrow!
It's on :
1. the html book chapters 1, 2 ,3
2. the dreamweaver book. (did you know that i just discovered that its called dreamWEAVER and not WAVER) ch 1 - 4 i think , but not 100 percent sure.

well good luck all!
see ya tomorow

Alternative Photography – “Non-Silver” Photography

1) Gum Bichromate Printing – Potassium Dichromate (orange powder) mixed with water, this becomes light sensitive so it has to be kept in a dark bottle in a dark closet. Add this mixture to gum arabic, plus some watercolor (blue, red, green and black) paint paper with this substance in dark room.

-Making a digital negative: in photoshop turn the image into grayscale and then choose image, adjustments, invert WALA! you have a negative. Then print this on wet media acetate.

-put the digital negative with the watercolor paper in a contact printer. Then put it outside for 3-6 min, then put it in water and you do this 4 times, each with a different color watercolor and at the end you’ll have a print!

- Edward Steichen – 1900’s created gum prints. Made a platinum print (most permanent print possible) on watercolor, and then gum print on top. He made photograph of flatiron building. His print of a pond auctioned off for the most in photography history – 3million!!


HW: shoot something very colorful
min-3 different ones

Photography class Nov 2 #6

Commercial Art- selling s/t
Diff b/w commercial and fine arts is. Fine arts can take whatever interests you. Commercial, you have to do what they want you to do.

Commercial, you hired by:

1- editorial - magazines -make $ - day rate 500-1000
2- advertising – ads -make $$$ - 2500-5000

Magazines pay by the page. Less all photographers have reps. The rep keeps your portfolio and gets you jobs, but you have to pay them 25%.

(But could get 1 job a week) camera calls 30,000 to lease. Camera is big and bigger chip than reg camera.

2 categories of photographs:

1-still life – an object
a. food
2-fashion – take of pple
a. Beauty- about the makeup

Person does either type. Photographers don’t do both types.
Commercial photo. a lot of pressure.
Art director decides what you take pics of
Photographer has to hire a stylist- stylist has to go buy the props. Brings choices and then the art director picks and approves everything.
Photographer asks retoucher if they do certain things, if they can be fixed.
Make sure that you leave room for the text when shooting pic for an ad.

Sometimes, art director doesn’t come if they know that the photographer will do what they want. Just leave directions.

Rep takes care of all money issues. They just send you a check
Art directors don’t know how to take pics so they just assume you can do anything for them.

Photography

Hey folks
so basically for Thurs we only have the midterm. we don't have to take any pics?
maybe... that means when we finish we leave?
that would be nice

S.O.S.!!!!

helppppp
i have not been in college in a million years and have no clue whats flying. will someone please fill me in on :

1. o haras class? do we have any hw? whens our midterm and what is on it ?
2. finell- hw and whens our midterm and whats on it?
3. photography- ditto
4. fisher- chani and shevy how did our project go ?
whats due for this week ?

thanks !!!

Photography – Midterm
1- b4 photography was invented, what did painters use?
A: Camera Obscura

2- who made first photo?
A: Neeps

3- who was credited with the invention of photography?
A: Daguerrer – his process was degaurerrotype
Drawback-exposure took very long, & it couldn’t be duplicated

4- who invented another process the same time as Dagerrer?
A: Henry Fox Talbot – he made a negative that could be reproduced

5- who revolutionized photography?
A: Goerge Eastman – Kodak company. He mass produced cheap box cameras, and made roll films for amateurs

6- Apature – in front of lens and controls light and focus

7- Shutter – controls Motion, its behind the lens and in front of the film/chip

8- ISO/film speed – low ISO = for bright days
High speed/high # = dark, disadvantage it adds grain / noise to image

9- Resolution = dots per inch (dpi)
Web - 72 dpi
Print - 300dpi

10- 2 main types of light – Natural & Artificial
Natural – side lighting, diffused, backlighting
-best to shoot in the morn and eve NOT noon
Artificial – on camera flash, off camera flash, ambient light

11- Fine Arts – Art made purely for the reason of aesthetic expression

12- First movements in photography – Pictorialism = copied painting’s style

13- Alfred Siegletz – started the photo secession group
Went away from pictorialism

14- responsible for processing the photography process - Ansel Adams

Photography Notes #5

Contemporary Photography

Ansel Adams was a modern photographer that took gorgeous pictures. He made edges of pictures darker so your eye is pulled to the middle.He shot in black and white with a big camera.
Developed the Zone System - he got 10 zones out of a negative so all the detail was there.

Irving Penn shot for vogue in 1943 and became famous (mainly for his lighting) Shot in sepia, black and white, Is still living in Manhattan and is in his 80s

Lee Friedlander – shot in nyc in 50s Was a street photographer
He Took some interesting pictures and Broke rules that we shouldn’t do.

Joel Meyerowitz – 1980s Has a good eye for pictures, took color Very clean, good time of day, perfect saturation, huge prints – some of things made him famous
Richard Selesnick and Nicholas Kahn – 2004 Took pictures of scenes and made it into a world By photoshoping it



For homework take 6 photos that look like art – preferably outside, not family

HW ANYONE?

hi everyone what do we have for homework for tomorrow? for finnel/ o hara? anything new?

help i did not start my brochure!!!!
is anyone else in the same boat as me ?

Photography Class #4 - 10/5/06

Photography Class #4
10/5/06

Fine Arts Photography – Art made purely for the reason of expression, not for any purpose such as commercial, decorative, or illustrative
-Art for art’s sake

Late 1800’s-1930’s: photography wasn’t accepted as an art – so the photographers tried to make their pics look like paintings, they started a movement dubbed: Pictorialism. They would put things in front of the lens to soften the photograph, or paint the pic all red/blue.

Famous Pictorialism Photographers:
1-Julia Margaret Cameron – became one of the best portrait photographers and did a lot of famous ppl. She was the first to do close cropped portraits (she began at age 48).
2-Rev. Charles Litwidge Dodgson – (pen name: Lewis Carroll, he wrote Alice in Wonderland) also a good portrait photographer
3-Alfred Stieglitz – (he studied photography in Germany) he convinced the population that photography was an art. He worked at a magazine: ‘American Amateur Photography’ but they fired him, so he went to a camera club – ‘The Camera Club of NY’ where he started a newsletter – ‘camera work’ which he took with him when he left the club, to start an invitation only group for serious photographers, called the ‘Photo Sessesion Group’ – they wanted to break away from conventional pictorialism. They continued ‘camera work’ which became famous. He started the 291 Gallery (291 5th Ave)He shoots realistic photography

HW-shoot a portrait photograph, thinking about the bakround and outfir of person OR do like Sielistz (a reality photograph)
MIN 3 photographs

Dr Suess

The Laws of the Sukkah according to Dr. Suess Rules of the Sukkah (with numbered footnotes)

You can build it very small (1)
You can build it very tall (2)
You can build it very large (3)
You can build it on a barge

You can build it on a ship (4)
Or on a roof but please don't slip (5)
You can build it in an alley (6)
You shouldn't build it in a valley (7)

You can build it on a wagon (8)
You can build it on a dragon (9)
You can make the skakh of wood (10)
Woud you, could you, yes you should

Make the skakh from leaves of tree
You shouldn't bend it at the knee
(11) Build your Sukkah tall or short
No Sukkah is built in the Temple Court

You can build it somewhat soon
You cannot build it in the month of June (12)
If your Sukkah is well made
You'll have the right amount of shade (13)

You can build it very wide
You can not build it on its side
Build if your name is Jim
Or Bob or Sam or even Tim

Build it if your name is Sue (14)
Do you build it?Yes you do!
From the Sukkah you can roam
But you should treat it as your home (15)

You can invite some special guests
Don't stay in it if there are pests
You can sleep upon some rugs
Don't you build it where there's bugs

In the Sukkah you should sit
And eat and drink but never spit
If in the Sukkah it should rain
To stay there would be such a pain (16)

And if it should be very cold
Stay there only if you're bold
So build a Sukkah one and all
Make it large or make it small
Sukkah rules are short and snappy
Enjoy Sukkot, rejoice be happy.

Footnotes:
1. Maimonides (RMBM) Mishne Torah, Hilchot Sukkah, Chapter 4, Section 1. The minimum height of a Sukkah is 10 tefachim. A tefach is a measure of the width of the four fingers of one's hand. My hand is 3 1/4 inches wide for a minimum Sukkah height of 32 1/2 inches. The minimum allowable width is 7 tefachim by 7 tefachim. This would result in a Sukkah of 22 3/4 inches by 22 3/4 inches. 2. The maximum height is 20 Amot. An Amah is the length from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. My Amah is 15 1/2 inches for a maximum height of 25 feet. Others say that 30 feet is the maximum. 3. According to RMBM the Sukkah can be built to a width of several miles. Shulchan Aruch also says there is no limit on the size of the width. 4. RMBM Hilchot Sukkah Chapter 4, Section 6.5. RMBM Hilchot Sukkah Chapter 4, Section 11. RMBM states that one may construct a Sukkah by wedging poles in the four corners of the roof and suspending scakh from the poles. The walls of the building underneath are considered to reach upward to the edge of the scakh. 6. RMBM Hilchot Sukkah Chapter 4, Section 8-10 discusses the ins and outs of building your Sukkah in an alley or passageway. 7. There is a location referred to in the Talmud called Ashtarot Karnayim. According to the discussion there are two hills, with a valley in between where the Sun does not reach. Therefore it is impossible to sit in the shade of the roof of the Sukkah. I can't find the reference...hopefully next year. 8. RMBM Hilchot Sukkah Chapter 4, Section 6. You can go into a Sukkah built on a wagon or a ship even on Yom Tov. 9. RMBM Hilchot Sukkah Chapter 4, Section 6. OK, RMBM says a camel but dragon rhymes with wagon a lot better, don't you agree. Anyway, RMBM says you can build your Sukkah on a wagon or in the crown of a tree, but you can't go into it on Yom Tov. There is a general rule against riding a beast or ascending into the crown of a tree on Yom Tov. 10. Chapter 5 deals with the rules for the scakh. Basically, you can use that which has grown from the ground, and is completely detached from the ground. So, for example, you cannot bend the branches of a tree over the Sukkah to form the scakh. But you can cut the branches from a tree and use them as scakh. 11. This would be a violation of the rule cited in the prior footnote.12. Shulchan Aruch, Hilchot Sukkah, Perek 636, Section 1. The Sukkah should not be built sooner than 30 days before the Hag. However, if the structure is built prior to 30 days, as long as something new is added within the 30 days, the Sukkah is kosher. 13. Of course it's a well known rule that you must sit in the shade from the roof of the Sukkah and not in the shade that may be cast by the walls. It seems that this might affect the height of the walls, depending on the longitude of the location where you are building your Sukkah. 14. Technically, women, servants and minors are exempt from the Mitzvah of Sukkah. In our day we hope we know better than to read out half the Jewish people from the observance of Mitzvot. Of course, that's just a personal opinion of the author. 15. RMBM ibid Chapter 6, Section 6 explains that you should eat, drink and live in the Sukkah for the 7 days as you live in your own home. One should not even take a nap outside of the Sukkah.
16. RMBM ibid, Section 10. If it rains one should go into the house. How does one know if it is raining hard enough? If sufficient raindrops fall through the scakh (roof covering) and into the food so that the food is spoiled - go inside!

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…

Strange yet entertaining

here's a strange, yet oddly entertaining game. enjoy! http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/40255643/

Kesiva Vachasima Tova!

Just wanted to wish everyone a kesivah vachasima tova and a happy and healthy year!
May this year be a year of weddings ! Say Amen!!

Photography class - 9/21/06

Photography – 9/21/06

Aperture – determines how much light comes through
It decides how small to make the hole. Shuts down to a certain size hole. Aperture goes from smaller, if bright, to big, if it’s light out.
Depth of field- how much is in focus when take pic. The smaller the hole, the more is in focus. If want a lot in focus- (things close and far) choose to make aperture smaller. (in front of lens)

Shutter - controls motion. Shutter is behind lense. Moves across in amount of time exposure calls for. In dark room takes more shutter time. Bright day shutter speed 1/60 of a second. In darker place shutter could be open for one second until enough light comes in.

ISO = “SPEED” OF FILM
- higher the number-less exposure time – better for Dark (adds noise, looks grainy)
- lower, the longer the exposure – better for Bright
- good to stay around 50 (can go to 100)

-good to go click halfway down on button first – and camera takes all measurements and then when click all the way down, it instantly takes pic.

Resolution = Pixels = dots per inch
-screen only reads max 72dpi (good to keep camera at the highest setting-find where this is in camera manual)
Resolutions - 1)256x256 (cell phone cameras)
2)640x480 – Low
3)1216x912 - 1 megapixel camera (cant even get good 4x6 print from this)
4)1600x1200 - 2 megapixel camera (good 4x6 print)
5)2240x1680 - 4 megapixel camera (good 8x10 print)

Jpg- file format using compression, used by cameras

LIGHTING TECHNIQUES: diff b/w good & bad pics
2 types of light – Natural (sunlight) and Artificial (man-made)
-ppl think best time to take pics is 12noon - Wrong!
-Best to shoot in morn (sunrise) until 10:30am
-For night shots – 2hrs b4 sunset
-these times give golden light and good shadows

Natural Light – 1) Backlighting – sun shining behind subject of photo, this highlights subject’s figure and using flash fills in the details of the person –called “Fill” Flash.
2) Side Lighting – sun shining on side of the photo – giving a dramatic shadow to side of subject. If it’s too much of a shadow, hold a white posterboard on the other side of subject –opp. of sun (called a “Fill” Card) which reflects light back on the person.
3) Diffused Lighting – if shooting at noon, photographer & subject stand in the shade, diffusing the light. OR can use big white umbrella / white screens.

Artificial Light – 1) On Camera Flash – (flash inside camera) causes shadow behind subject, so move subject away from wall (so shadow falls on floor)
2) Off Camera Flash – additional flash (can buy one that screws onto side of camera), tilt the flash up, so its not straight on the subject but rather bounces off the ceiling.
3) Ambient Light – taking pic with existing light in room (no flash used)

Parallel Parking

See how good you are at parallel parkng!

WARNING : THIS IS HIGHLY ADDICTIVE!!!!!

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Treadmill Dance

This is so cool! First lets get ourselves on the actual treadmill, forget about maknig up dances on it !

LOST ALREADY--SHOCKER I KNOW!!

Hey everyone,
Ok so true to my name i didnt show to thursday nights class --but dont worry i had a valid excuse!! Anyway i was wondering if someone can fill me in on wat happened --any homework we have?? oh and also just exactly wat was the assignment from the previous class?? Were we supposed to finish wat we did in class and just have some pictures for our project--HELP!

photography class notes

PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS – 9/14/06

TIMELINE:
350BC – Aristotle
1600’s - Camera Obscura
1802 – Thomas Wedgewood
1826 – Niepce
1829 & 1839– Daugere
1833 – Niepce dies
1850 – Archer
1870 – dry plate
1888 – celluloid
1889 – Kodak

350BC – Aristotle looked at an eclipse through a strainer and the image of the sun was projected on the ground
-got ppl curious, and interested in capturing an image the way it ‘was’ rather than just painting

1600’s - Camera Obscura – developed Aristotle’s strainer into a box with glass (called a camera obscura), that would project the scene outside onto the glass, so you could trace it exactly. The painter stood behind the box with cloth over his head (so no light came in).
-they discovered that if you adjusted the glass it would make the scene in focus
-the next thing they came up with was to put mirrors in the box to see the image in different places (guy doesn’t have to stand behind box anymore)
-next they put a lens on the front instead of the mere hole, then they added an adjuster knob for the lens

1700’s – the term photography is used with this camera contraption.
The term comes from 2 Greek words: Photo – light & Graphois - drawing
- Scientists saw that silver nitrate got dark from the sun (they thought it was heat rather then the truth – light)

1802 – Thomas Wedgewood – wanted to capture an image without tracing
-he soaked leather into silver nitrate and put leaves on it and let it sit in the sun and used oils, and tada – an image (of the leaves) appeared on the leather!
-his prob: wasn’t able to ‘fix’ the image, it wasn’t permanent, so he had to show e/t in candlelight b/c the sun would turn his images black

1826 – Niepce – he left metal in sun and treated it with aromatic oils and his image stays! His image was the first photograph ever (of some building in france)

1829 – Daugere and Niepce get together to standardize the process of photography for the general public, but in 1833 Niepce dies.

1839 – Daguarre invents the Daugarreotype - which takes 1 hr to make an exposure. Cons – its one time use and can’t make prints from it or mass produce it.
(ppl. were held in chairs so they wouldn’t move for that hr)

-At the same time – Fox Talbot comes up with a process called Calotype (or Talbotype) which gives a negative to make positives from. He puts paper wet with silver nitrate into the camera obscura which accelerates the time to a 10 min exposure. He uses chemicals to fix the image and can take this image into a darkroom and shine a light through it to create a duplicate.

- Daguarre gets credit for photography; even though Talbot was a little b4 him; some say Talbot’s mom talked him out of going public with his idea and to get a real job instead!!

1850 – Archer – a sculptor who takes Talbot’s process of negatives on paper, and instead puts negative on wet glass.

1870 – Dry plate was invented – dry glass was put into the camera, now they can just take the plates with them instead of the whole lab with all the processing equipment – begg. of true modern photography.

1888 – Celluloid (plastic) – plastic plates are invented (basically what we use today)
-Thomas Edison invents the movie camera at this time (strip of plastic run through a projector) con- always caught on fire…

1889/90 – Kodak – George Eastman modernized the film process, he stopped making plates and just put film on plastic – he made up the name Kodak for his company (no meaning!)
-he came up with the first box cameras for home use and the first film in rolls
-he made a red circle on the camera box (film doesn’t pick up red) and as the film rolled past the red circle a pre-written number popped up so he knew when to stop rolling.
-Kodak corners the market!
-Eastman and Edison worked together on the first motion pictures & cameras.
-Edison was working on a big 70mm film, and asked Eastman to cut it in half for him, creating the 35mm film and camera which became the standard.
-Kodak focuses on the public rather than the professionals.

Funny Comic

http://www.080674.com/blog/uploaded_images/comic-734300.gif

Mac Joke

Hey guys I saw this joke in time magazine. It was so cute i had to post it:

"Apple has issued a recall onseveral models of Mac laptops because the battery can overheat and catch fire. Experts say a Mac fire is just like a PC fire, except it's more hip and condescending" by Conan O'Brien

Mini Reunion

Me and Adina has a little reunion a few weeks ago and we decided to take a picture specially for our blog!! (I have been trying to post this for days already but my computer isnt working...) Anyways it was cute ..

Cant wait to see everyone tomorrow!

Hi everyone!

If anyone is interested, O'hara is teaching web design. I asked him at registration. Can't wait to see y'all on Thursday!