Welcome to PrairieView School of Photography's Photo 1 Blog. This blog is designed to offer you support materials, links, ideas, inspiration and food for thought as you attend your classes at the school. In terms of content, the blog will have more or less the same information as the workbook you received in class. But the blog adds some additional goodies like:
Live Links. All links in this blog should be live. All you have to do is click on them to visit the site they link to.
Cool Photos. We will do our best to add a few more photos, diagrams and illustrations to the blog than are found in the workbook.
Comments. At the bottom of each blog posting you will see a "comments" section. It is a great place to make a comment, ask a question or provide a link to other cool sites that your fellow students may appreciate (sure, go ahead, if you have your own site or flickr album, mention it in the comments section!)
In class 1, following topics were covered:
- How to hold a camera in the proper position for horizontal and vertical photos.
- Where the shutter speed and aperture controls are.
- How to remove and replace the battery and how this can re-set the camera if it freezes .
- How to load a memory card and/or film.
- How to take their lens off/put it back on.
- How to review photos and magnify them (what the “info” button does during review).
- How to delete images and format a card.
- The importance of getting good cards and a good rescue program.
- How to find all the features listed on the My Camera page 6&7 of the workbook.
- Shutter Speeds
- Picture Modes
- Card Types
- Batteries
- Hot Shoes
- Dust control
- Focal lengths
- And MUCH more!
1. City of Winnipeg Libraries. They are fantastic places to find books not only on photographic technique, but especially monographs; books that feature one photographer’s work. Check out some of the classics like Robert Frank, Henri Cartier Bresson, Paul Strand, Imogene Cunningham, Dorthea Lange, as well as some more contemporary guys and gals making waves in photography today.
2. Book Stores: McNally Robinson, Chapters/Indigo
3. Photo Stores: Don’s, Henri’s, Photo Central
4. Websites of interest:
a. www.photo.net
b. www.luminous-landscape.com
c. www.apug.org
d. www.fredmiranda.com
e. www.flickr.com
f. www.sandisk.com
g. http://www.lexar.com/
h. http://recovery-review.com/
i. http://www.file-saver.com/undelete/
j. http://www.pctools.com/file-recover/
k. http://filesalvage.en.softonic.com/mac
Did You Know? That the word ‘Photography’ means writing with light? It is from the ancient Greek for photo = light + graphy = writing.
SARAH H.K. (One of our Diploma and Evening Teachers) SAYS:
Hello Photo One-ders! (get it...wonder/Photo 1...ha! bad puns...)
I'm excited to explore the world of photography with you, and would like to discuss a little about what's "real" in photography. Just to emphasize the idea that although the objects in our photographs exist but the meaning can be misinterpreted, here's a link http://blogs.photopreneur.com/the-worlds-most-famous-photoshop-fakes to some of the most famous (or perhaps 'infamous)' faked photos. Note that some even used film/darkroom techniques!
Do you have any fauxtography of your own? Or maybe you've seen some funny examples!
Feel free to comment with any suggestions! Here's one of my images to get you started (the sky is completely faked)I thought I'd send you a few links of some of my photo heroes, to inspire you to find some favourites of your own.
Ansel Adams
Henri Cartier Bresson
Edward Weston (for those of you who mentioned macro photography, abstraction and finer details, take a look at how he manages to make a fruit look like something else entirely!)
Gregory Crewdson (one of my favourites, I absolutely love his use of lighting, exquisite attention to detail, and bizzare creative vision.)
Joseph Holmes (for his use of colour...and a film shooter to boot!)
Imogen Cunningham (with a photo career spanning no less than SEVEN DECADES, you know she's got to be something special. This legend photographed until her death at age 93!)
Please comment with your own favourites!
TRISTAN (Another of our Diploma and Evening Teachers) SAYS:
Since we are on the topic of sharing great websites, here are a couple of my favourites.
Paul Souders seems to have the ideal photo job that involves traveling around and taking pictures of whatever you want.
Chase Jarvis is the guy if you are at all interested in the commercial or advertising world. Lots of good information on his site.
And lastly, one of my favourite photographers of all time, Elliott Erwitt.
Enjoy!
DUNCAN (Another of our Evening Teachers) SAYS:
One of my all time favourite photographers:
Jerry Uelsmann - www.uelsmann.net
For his technique and his imagination. He took images of ordinary things and turned them into fantastical worlds as well as ironically playful situations. To some extent that's what every photographer tries to do with each photo.
Jerry Uelsmann - www.uelsmann.net
For his technique and his imagination. He took images of ordinary things and turned them into fantastical worlds as well as ironically playful situations. To some extent that's what every photographer tries to do with each photo.
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