portrait of a stranger

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Week 2 Day 3 Wrap-Up

Allan Sekula, Dear Bill Gates, 1999

Hi Everybody!

This morning, we took a trip to Central Park to take one last deep dive into Manual Exposure. After, we visited Marian Goodman Gallery to see Allan Sekula: Labor's Persistance.

In the afternoon, we took a closer look at the Photoshop workflow, working with retouching and specific image adjustments. We also worked on putting together the final exhibition portfolio.

(for more details about how to put together your final portfolio, including what is due when, please see the blog post here).

If you haven't already, you will be receiving revisions and suggestions to the first draft of your artist statement just shortly. Please respond to those revisions and send me the second draft before tomorrow's class.

If you have already posted the stranger portrait from this morning to the class blog, there is no new homework, aside from working on your artist statement, as well as capturing any last minute photos or videos for your final portfolio.

We will spend most of tomorrow in an open lab session, so please come prepared with all of your files, just in case.

As always, please reach out with any questions. See you tomorrow!

rando stranger

Final Exhibition & Portfolio Details

Mike Brodie, from the series A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

Here is a break down of what is due over the next two days and how to turn it in:

Due TOMORROW (Thursday) by end of class:

• Your 10 best images for the exhibition:
• Can be any 10 images from this semester, as long as they are part of your series.
• Should be highest-quality versions of these images, ideally saved as processed TIFs.
• Your Self Portrait

If I don't have these by the end of class tomorrow, you will not be included in the exhibition.

Final Artist Statements are due by Thursday night. You will be receiving edits from me between tonight (if you haven't already). Please send the next draft before class tomorrow.

Due by FRIDAY morning (last day of class!):

• A USB drive or DVD labelled with your first and last name, containing the following:
• A folder containing the 20+ final images of your series. 
• Should be highest-quality versions of these images, ideally saved as processed TIFs
• A folder containing all of your homework assignments, separated by week. 
• These should be your original files or processed TIFs, and not images you copied off the blog.
• A folder containing your exported video (exported as H.264) 
• Your Artist Statement

Please see the photo below illustrating how to organize your USB.

Please note that there will not be time during class on Friday to work on putting everything together.

In order to receive credit for the semester, I have to have all of this by Friday latest.

The final USB can be turned in tomorrow if you have everything ready early.

Stranger + Motion Pan

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Stranger Portrait

Aperture: 7.1

iso: 200

Shutter speed: 1/160