week 1 home work (2 assignments in this post)

I. you are to spend time with your camera and manual. buy your sketchbook and take notes on all of the following: (make notes of WHERE things are in your menus even if you don't know how to use them yet.)

1. READ YOUR CAMERA MANUAL. If you need a manual for your camera, look up your make and model on line and you should be able to download a pdf copy. Please feel free to email me with questions if you have problems finding one.

2. Find Format in your menu

3. Find the area in your menu to set the image quality and type (tiff, jpg, raw)

4. Find your ISO/film speed. How many settings do you have?

5. Find your white balance control. How many setting does your camera have, and what do they do?

6. Find your manual functions and spend some time changing your shutter speed and your aperture. How do you change these? Make sure you know where your light meter is located.

7. What sort of recording media does your camera need (cf card, memory stick, etc) How much memory does it have?

8. Take at least 100 photos. Use your auto function for 5 of them. and then practice using the maual functions, and changing the white balance on your camera to take the rest. Take some with and with out your flash.

Don't fret if you aren't sure how to make these work yet, we will be covering exposure!

BRING YOUR CAMERA AND YOUR PHOTOS TO THE NEXT CLASS (the photos can just be on your camera!)


II. Go to the Center for Creative Photography and view the current exhibition. If you need directions, check out their website: www.creativephotography.org

*Pick out one image that you especially liked or one that you especially hated and write a paragraph explaining your feelings about this work. Type it up and hand it in to me at the next class period. This should be separate from your sketchbook as a FINAL thing to hand in. I would suggest taking your sketchbook with you and taking notes as you look. Make sure that you have a pencil because pens are not allowed near the work at the ccp.

Exhibition:
Oh l'amour: Contemporary Photography from the Stéphane Janssen Collection
November 22, 2008 — March 8, 2009

Love — l'amour — is one of art's enduring themes. From classical antiquity to contemporary America, this profound idea, both abstract and physical, has inspired collectors as well as creators. Stéphane Janssen, Belgian by birth and resident in Arizona, is one such collector. Beginning with a love of art that emerged in his teenage years, Janssen went on to assemble an extensive and entirely unique collection that includes almost every creative medium: painting, ceramics, photography, and more. For this exhibition, Janssen generously shares a group of contemporary photographs that reflect his vision as a patron. Sharing elements of fantasy and physicality, exuberance and emotion, these photographs — by artists such as Philip Lorca diCorcia, Sally Mann, Duane Michals, Vik Muniz, and Spencer Tunick, among others — depict love in myriad forms and guises.