Hamburger Eyes/Epicenter Field Trip!

Ok, folks! We are confirmed for the field trip on 2/23/09 to the Photo Epicenter, the gallery and darkroom in San Francisco run by Ray and Dave Potes who founded & produce Hamburger Eyes "the most epic magazine ever!" This is going to be an awesome opportunity to check out some incredible work and see a fantastic facility that houses a diverse photographic community of people making art. You will love their sites so check em out ASAP! Details about when and where to meet will follow in the next few weeks...

Map of Photo Epicenter: 26 Lilac Street, San Francisco, CA

See you Friday for Decisive Moment crit. I will be there at 9a to assist with the drop box. Be early or at least on time! I will also give the next assignment A Day in the Life, which will be due 3/6/09. If there is time I will also try to fit in the flash demo so bring your flashes, if you have em!

See you then...

How I Made a 1,474-Megapixel Photo During President Obama’s Inaugural Address

How I Made a 1,474-Megapixel Photo During President Obama’s Inaugural Address

Event assignment - DUE 2/13

Your next assignment is to research and shoot at least 100 images of an event either on campus or in your community (keep it very local). Be sure to take careful notes so you can include captions with your five final images posted to your blog. This assignment is due 2/13.

In addition to the slide show in class here are some links of some photo essays documenting the Obama Inauguration. Please feel free to post additional links (inaugural or other events/news photos) in the comments to this blog.

NewsWeek.com

Magnum Road to Inauguration

NYTimes.com reader photos

Here are a few links to some photo essays of other well known events:

NY Magazine 9/11 photographs

Columbine Photos

Here are some links to random events:

Cosmo New Year's Eve 2009 party pics!

Greg Kesseler New Year's Eve 2009

Official SF Canaval site photo gallery

Oakland Riots Photos

This set is on Flickr by Thomas Hawk









This is a set of blogs and images on wordpress.

Decisive Moment

Welcome to my Digital Documentary blog. Look here in the future for info on assignments, links, resources, and images to inspire. I might also post some images I take along the way. We'll see...

So your first assignment is to photograph the "Decisive Moment" a phrase coined by Henri Cartier-Bresson. As he said in the movie The Impassioned Eye, "Yes, no, yes, no, no, yes." You must shoot at least 250 images RAW and pick one that captures that exact moment where everything is perfectly in sync. Turn in digital contacts of all images shot along with one image as a tiff file. This assignment is due 1/30 at the start of class.

Please bring in a small portfolio of your images to share in the next class. I will also assign the next assignment "Campus Event" and have some open lab time to go over your images for Decisive Moment and research an even to photograph on campus. The image I am posting is the one I was telling you about taken with an iphone. Look, ma! No shutter!

Please do not forget to start your blog or if you already have one then just start posting to it for this class. Be sure to set up your account to notify me when you post (I can help with this if you need it).

Some links I shared today:

Magnum Photo
BoingBoing.net
Flickr.com - (DVC Group)
Blogger.com
Hamburger Eyes

Some photographers to look at:
Weegee
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Nan Goldin
Corrine Day
Robert Frank
Lauren Greenfield
Jim Goldberg