Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope you all have a great vacation!

Enjoy your Turkey

very cool...

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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/