Street photography readings and links

READING Assignments:
Each group is responsible for doing one of the following readings. You need to be prepared to summarize the main points for class on Thursday. Be ready to explain:

• How photographers capture the Decisive Moment.
• What are some elements of good street photos?
• What are some key tips for creating them?

Group 1. Cartier-Bresson, Henri. Study the photos in a book by HCB.

Group 2. Howarth, Sophie. Street Photography Now. Pages 9-15 plus excerpts. (This reading is in the class pickup folder on SpaceInvaders. Or read the book in Fine Arts 221.)

Group 3. 2Point8. Ways of Working: http://2point8.whileseated.org/wow-footer/

Group 4. Recent discussions from the Street Photography Now forum:
http://2point8.whileseated.org/2006/05/18/the-phylums-of-street-photography/

http://www.flickr.com/groups/instruction21/discuss/72157626093596558/

DUE DATE: Thurs. 3/29 in class.

PHOTO IDEA Assignment:
Browse some contemporary street photography. Post 1 photo on your photo idea page. Here are some good sites:

1. http://www.in-public.com/
2. http://www.flickr.com/groups/onthestreet/
3. http://jpgmag.com/blog/2010/05/best-of-photo-challenge-inspired-by-henri-cartier-bresson.html
4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/latitudes/galleries/72157622386738788/
5. http://streetphotographynowproject.wordpress.com/project-archive/
6. More links here and still more here.
DUE DATE: Every Thursday.

Samples of photo series

In class this week we will talk about 3 types of photography series:

Catalog or Typology:
Bernd and Hilda Becher
Penelope Umbrico
Jonathan Blaustein

Photo Essay:
Doug Dubois
Craig Walker

Sequential Narrative:
Elliott Erwitt. His new book Sequentially Yours is a great example.
Markku Lahdesmaki

Suzanne Szucs
Calhoun County Journal. Although it shows chronology, I'd say this one is not very well done. What do you think?
Find more examples and ideas in John Ingledew's book The Creative Photographer, pages 90-91.

You can take a sequence of photos and put them together to create a stop-action video:
Eyal Landseman
Mickey Keinetz

Lightroom contact sheets

Here are some further instructions for printing your contact sheets in Lightroom.

In the Print module:
Choose Contact Sheet/Grid.
Do not select Zoom to Fill.
In the Layout tab, set the Page Grid to Rows 5, Columns 4.
Adjust the Cell Spacing and Cell Size to fill the page.
In the Overlays tab, select:
Page Options: Page Numbers,
Photo Info: Filename.
Page Setup is in the bottom left corner. Format for: Adobe PDF 9.0
Print or Print One and save a pdf.

Is that clear?

Lightroom tutorials

In class today I will give an introduction to Lightroom. You can find many useful tutorials to Lightroom on the Adobe website:

• Main tutorial page: http://www.adobe.com/support/photoshoplightroom/gettingstarted/index.html
• Main help page: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/3.0/Using/index.html

• Overview tutorial: http://bit.ly/hkwgm2
• Metadata tutorial: http://thelightroomlab.com/2008/11/working-with-metadata-presets-in-lightroom/
• Full manual: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/3.0/Using/lightroom_3_help.pdf

• Training videos: http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-lightroom-3
• Video on importing: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-lightroom-3/be-organized/
• Video on editing: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-lightroom-3/select-rate-and-prioritize-your-images/