Hello Media Arts students!
Remember that on Monday we start our photography unit. Please bring the following items to class- DON'T FORGET!
Gracias, Miss G.
A digital camera (in black and white mode, flash off)
An object to take photos of (medium size)
A camera cable to hook up to the computer to save and edit photos
Warm clothing to go outside.
Extra batteries
2 comments:
Miss George, regarding the "in black and white mode", I think that you can often get better monochrome images if you shoot in color on the camera and do the b&w conversion in Photoshop. Programs like PS and the GIMP, running on PCs instead of cameras, have much more processing power and allow you to apply a wide range of filters and have a great deal of control over the mixdown, as far as what percentage of the red/green/blue channels is used. Some black&white photographers, shooting in black and white, actually even put color filters (red, for example) over their lens sometimes to strengthen the effect. Besides, if you shoot in color and decide that something you shot looks great in color but bad in monochrome, you then have the option of outputting a colour version in post rather than being stuck with the black and white one.
Just my thoughts.
Hey Ben,
I agree with you. However, this note doesn't give the full context of why I ask for B+W. I ask students that are learning to take photos to set their cameras to black and white so that they will focus strictly on composition and following some basic rules without getting distracted by the element of colour- until they become more comfortable with taking good pictures. This is a common way to teach photography. In an ideal world, everybody in the class would be able to shoot in RAW mode and see the picture in black and white on their camera screen while still storing all of the colour information to use later, but we're just really covering the basics in this class.
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