upcoming exhibitions & events

image by Toni Pepe

NOVEMBER 8, 5-8pm:

Opening Reception for new exhibitions at the Center for Photography at Woodstock.
6pm: talk with solo exhibition artist Toni Pepe
7pm: panel discussion about group exhibition Converging Margins with artists and curator Leah Oates.

Free food!
59 Tinker Street
Woodstock, NY 12498
learn more here.

NOVEMBER 20, 5-7pm:

FacultyWorks
art by SUNY Ulster's fine art faculty
Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery

Portrait Lighting

Portrait lighting demonstrations and shooting in class this week...

samples from assignment #1

This assignment was all about exploring how light & shadow shape the world around us. In a photograph, light & shadow can be used to represent our emotions and/or a narrative we are trying to tell.

For the first part of the assignment, students were asked to shoot 50-75 shots. For every one of these shots, they were to find a scene where shadows make interesting patterns or shapes.


I suggested that they would have the best luck with this assignment if they shoot when the sun is out and the light bright, but not directly overhead (not to shoot between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m).

After they finished Part 1 of this assignment, they were required to shoot another 50-75 shots. This time, they were to look at light and shadow as a tool to emphasize the elements of your picture and evoke a mood, rather than using them as a distinct design element.

We welcome your feedback and suggestions. Please leave comments.

This includes 2 selections from each of several students:

Tricia




Kelly

Robin

Emily

Adam

Phil

Debra

Leah

Amie

Sidney

Cailin

first critique

here are a few images from our first critique. it was a great night and i think everyone has come a long way. i will post student work from the assignment Exploring Light and Shadow next week.

Group photo of students from Photo 1

working hard in the lab- up until the last minute.

reviewing work is challenging but offers a valuable learning experience for everyone.

more to come...so stay posted...

interesting websites

image by Vincent Laforet

these are some websites that I wanted to share...just click on the name for the link.

Vincent Laforet

Scott Strazzante

image by Scott Strazzante

posted by Cailin O'Neal.

student work from in-class assignment

The in-class assignment was to use the scanner as camera and create a photograph. The students were put in groups of 2 or 3 and spent about 30 minutes on the project. They used Epson scanners provided by the digital lab at SUNY Ulster. Feel free to leave comments.

Emily & Robert

Kelly

Debra, Sid & Christen

Tricia & Amie

Norma, Susan & RJ

Kaitlyn, Cailin & Phil

Photographer Elliot Landy to speak at SUNY Ulster

Photography Lecture at SUNY Ulster

with Acclaimed Photographer Elliott Landy

Thursday, September 25 7:00 p.m.

Elliott Landy, best known for his documentation of the anti-Vietnam War movement and the rock culture of the late 1960s, will discuss photography in the digital era and his work as a “photopersonalist” sharing his life experiences through photography on Thursday, September 25, at 7:00 p.m. in Vanderlyn Hall, Student Lounge on the Stone Ridge campus of SUNY Ulster. The event is free and open to the public. Landy was the Spring 2008 Larry Berk Artist-in-Residence at SUNY Ulster and had a solo exhibition at the college’s Muroff Kotler Gallery.

An internationally acclaimed photographer, Landy began his career in the turbulent 1960s and gained fame as a chronicler of anti-war protests and for his portraits of rock stars and bands of that era, including Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and the Band. He was the official photographer of the original Woodstock Festival in 1969, producing classic images still collected today. Landy continues to publish photographs in Rolling Stone, Life, the Saturday Evening Post, and other major magazines and has collected photographs in several books, including Woodstock Vision, Spirit of a Generation (also in CD format) and Woodstock 69, the First Festival, which he co-authored with Jerry Garcia. His photographs appear in museum exhibitions throughout the United States and Canada and in gallery shows worldwide. His most recent work includes motion and kaleidoscopic photography in both still and film formats. Landy’s photographs have been given solo exhibitions in seven countries and continue to appear in major museum exhibitions in the United States and Canada.

For more information on this event, call the Office of Community Relations at 845-687-5262.

Photograms & Scanograms

In-class project: PHOTOGRAMS & SCAN-O-GRAMS

Photograms are photographic images made (without a camera) by placing objects directly onto the surface of a photo-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light. The result is a silhouetted image varying in darkness based on the transparency of the objects used, with areas of the paper that have not received any light appearing light and those that have appearing dark, according to the laws of photosensitivity. The image obtained is hence a negative and the effect is often quite similar to an x-ray.

In the digital photography world the equivalent to this process would be called scan-o-grams. The process works essentially the same as photograms but the objects are placed on a flat bed scanner. This process is sometimes also called "scanner as camera".

Here are some examples of both photograms and scanograms. Can you tell the difference?

MAN RAY:

ADAM FUSS:

MAGGIE TAYLOR:


CHAD KLEITSCH:


OTHER SCAN-O-GRAMS