Final Project Proposal

I propose that for my final project, I want to recreate old photos. This includes:

- Recreating childhood photos of my mom and dad, baby pictures of my brothers, and old pictures of my friends
- Buying baby photographs from the Depot and falsely representing what they turned out to be

I wish to do this because I am interested in progression and the nature of change and growth. I want to represent the growth of children into adults, children into teenagers, and also guess about the growth of children I don't know.

At this point I do not know how many prints I wish to do or what size.

Chapter 10 Notes

(Oh my god, this chapter is 110 pages! >___<)

- General preferences panel contains options that are not specific to any particular area of the program. This includes: Color Picker (should be set to Adobe), Image Interpolation (refers to the method by which pixels are created or thrown away), History States (an advanced undo command that allows you to undo many steps), Dynamic Color Slides (affects behaviour of color bars), Save Palette Locations (leave it turned on), and History Log (allows you to save a record of your activity).
- A digital image is made up of a grid of pixels, with each pixel's color or tone is represented by the number. In RGB, each color has 3 number values, each of which tells how much Red, Green, and Blue is in this color.
- A "working space" defines how the program interprets the color numbers and also helps consistency.
- Adobe RGB (1998) is the preferred working space and the books recommends it for digital photographers, as it has the largest color gamut of any of the four, which is Adobe RGB (1998), AppleRGB, ColorMatch RGB,and sRGB
- Many digital cameras allow you to choose a color space for your images in the camera and one of them is Adobe RGB 1998. The only drawback is that the gamut extends into brightly saturated greens which would be impossible to reproduce.
- ColorMatch RGB is based on the gamut of an actual device, the Radius PressView monitor; it has a much smaller gamut than Adobe RGB 1998, it does include most of the common CMYK gamuts and does not contain as many intense saturated colors as Adobe
- sRGB is Photoshop's default working space. they developed it to represent the gamut of a "typical" monitor. sRGB is not ideal for people working with color digital photography.
- In Full Screen Grey mode the image is centered on a background of neutral grey so that one may evaluate the colors in the photo by comparing the neutral grey
- Exposure is usually one of the first thing that we evaluate. If underexposed, you will have a hard timne lightening it without noise. If its overexposed than you need to make sure it still retains detail while adjusting
- Color Balance - warmness or coolness of the photos
- The Eyedropper tool can help you see the tones that are represented in the photo and you can sample a color or color value or a tonal value
- You can control clipped tones using the output level sliders, by moving the output levels hightlight slider toward the left

Chapter Nine Notes

- Two ways to get the photos off of the camera: connect the camera to the computer with a cord (this consumes batteries and you can't use it to photograph, also your camera will not be in your bag) or use a card reader
- USB stands for Universal Serial Bus, using a USB a typical jpg would take 1-2 seconds to transfer to the computer as the USB transfers 1 MB per second. A raw would take about 10 seconds
- USB 2.0 raises transfer speed 480 Mbps or about 50 mb per second
- Fire wire can also be used to transfer files and supports a speed of400 Mbps, Firewire 800 has speeds up to 800 Mbps
- A card reader is available for less than $30 and is recommended by the book
- Downloader Pro is a Widnows only software that allows you to download images and suports only Canons if you plug your camera into the computer.
- iPhoto is another program that allows you to download and organize images, it comes with Mac OS X. The books says that iPhoto does not support RAW, but actually it does, I know this cause I used it to handle my RAW images today and make my slideshow...
- ImageStore is Windows only and it can download images from multiple cards and you can organize your images in the process.
- Editing photographs is not only modifying them on Photoshop but also going through them, as if on a light table, and taking out the ones that are faulty or the ones that suck
- The File Browser in Photoshop provides a convenient solution for editing your images and provides all the basic tools you need
- Once you have viewed all your images you need to get rid of "outtakes", for instance, images with bad exposure and stuff like that. Check for motion blur. Make sure they are in focus if intended. To do this go close up on Photoshop

Picture Slideshow

Our latest assignment was to make a slideshow out of our favorite shots from the Forgotten Places assigment. This is my slideshow:

EDIT: I realized that the quality is TERRIBLE. My bad. Sorry. :(



(The song is Criminal Piece by Ted Leo & the Pharmacists.)

Forgotten Places

We went to the Alameda Naval Air Station for our field trip today. These pictures were taken under the theme of "Forgotten Places". Of course I'm going to take more this weekend, these are just from Alameda. Gahh... I spent long enough putting these on the damn CD's. >___< I was after class for about 40 minutes.

Homework: Notes on Chapter 6

- RAW files are captured at the largest size and without compression, so ISO is the only setting that will effect the image quality
- Image size determines how large of a print you can make
- Shooting with a larger image size gives you better quality if you need to crop later
- With JPEG you can choose how much compression you want
- Choose the best JPEG setting to produce the best quality files which are compressed the least
- Most consumer level digital cameras only offer JPEG
- TIFF is not compressed and JPEG is
- TIFF occupies more space
- RAW gives you greater flexibility than film
- ISO determines the camera's sensitivity to light
- On a digital camera you can change the ISO each shot while on film the whole roll of film has the same ISO
- You should shoot ISO 100 in sunlight
- A higher ISO setting increases the noise on the photograph
- If you are shooting indoors or at night without a flash you should use high ISO settings like 1600 and 3200
- Color temperature is used to describe the color of light
- Color temperature is measured in Kelvins (K) and it describes the relative intensity of red to blue light
- 1000 K, would be candlelight or firelight, while 10,000 K would be overcast skies, 5000 K would be typical daylight
- Some lightings produce illumination that's "warmer" or "colder"
- All digital cameras offer AWB (auto white balance). The camera finds the brightest point and assumes that this point is white. White balance can also be fine tuned in Photoshop.
- The aperture can be adjusted to let more or less light hit the sensor

Scans

These are some of the scans that I took for the alphabet project. The idea of this project was to find an object that represented each letter of the alphabet. (For instance I had a telephone, which was "T", and a rabbit, that was "R". I also had a round bracelet that looked like an "O".) I think these following ones came out really nicely. However some of them were replaced because they didn't look right with the rest of the collage (which is at the end of the post).

K for Knitting:


I for Israel (yeah, I know that's a strech):


U for Umbrellas:


"O":


This is the final product of this project:

The pictures were taken using a scanner and were then compiled into this collage using Photoshop. I like the way it came out.