Aperture Gallery Opening this Friday 11/19

Friday, November 19, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for

The Spanish National Photography Prize exhibition: Connections and Confrontations

Presented by Aperture Gallery and the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Aperture Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, 4th floor, NY, NY.

Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
Between 10th and 11th Avenues
New York, New York

Gallery and Bookstore hours:
Monday Saturday, 10:00 am–6:00 pm
Sunday, Closed

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photoFEAST: Nov 18th, 6-9pm

Submissions for the Fall 2010 photoFEAST exhibition are now being accepted.

Everyone is invited and all photographic based work is accepted. Please email them at photofeast@gmail.com to register if you plan to participate.

FEAST is organized to bring together the photography departments from several NYC Universities including: LaGuardia Community College, FIT, NYU, SVA, Parsons, Hunter College, Cooper Union, and Pratt for an evening of discussion, common display, and social networking. The environment is casual, as the aim is to focus on the active genesis of work.

FEAST is a pin-up, salon style show. Print submissions to fill allotted 36''x36'' space (per student)

Walk-ins are welcome, first come, first served. Videos must be pre-registered. Early drop off is due Wednesday, November 16th.

PDNedu Student Photo Contest

ALL the info HERE: http://contest.pdnedu.com/?pdnonline




Categories:

FASHION / PORTRAITURE
Channel your inner Annie Leibovitz and give us some close-ups; self-portraits welcome.
DOCUMENTARY / PHOTOJOURNALISM
From the prayer rituals of Tibetan monks to the local demise of a farming community, show us the issues,
people and events in your periphery.
STILL LIFE
A glowing bowl of edamame or your mother's Tiffany lamp - if it's stationary, it counts.
TRAVEL / LANDSCAPE
Spring break in Mexico, studies abroad in Australia and camping trips-we want to see where you've been.
FINE ART / PERSONAL WORK
Your chance to get all avant-garde on us - the offbeat, unique and beautiful work that doesn't fit in the above categories.

HW Due Week of November 15th

Reading in Martin Evening Text:

HDR: Pgs 395-408
All of chapter 15 (Automating Photoshop) starts pg 716

Plus!! Please bring approx 20 images of your own to work on retouching in class. Make sure they were shot RAW!! We will be preparing them for a web portfolio on carbonmade.com

Workflow and batch processing: Actions, Scripts, etc

Handout for this week's class:


How to write an action:

1. Open your Actions Palatte and click "create new Set" (the folder icon) on the bottom. Name your set "My Actions" (or whatever)

2. Click the "Create New Action" icon at the bottom (looks like a page with the corner folded) Call it "Sharpen" or whatever you plan to write/record.

3. Notice the red "record" button is now on. WHATEVER you do will be recorded in a list of steps in your actions palatte under the new action you just created. When you are done with all the steps of a certain process that you want to record, click the stop button (little square on far left). The red button should go off.

4. Now you can open any image and hit the play button (triangle at bottom) and all the steps you recorded/wrote (your new action) will be applied instantaneously to that image.

5. Alternatively, to have this new action that you've recorded (or written) applied to a large number of images, go to FILE > AUTOMATE > BATCH and run it on a folder.

Things you might like to write actions for to save time:

Sharpening
Embed copyright info
Curves Brightening
Make a duplicate copy of a tiff and flatten it
Save for Web

SCRIPTS:

to save a folder of tiffs into JPGs in an instant, go to FILE > SCRIPTS IMAGE PROCESSOR

Hair Masking/ Scripts / Photomerge

In class this week we will go over hair masking, batch processing & scripts and Photomerge.

HAIR MASKING & COMPOSITING
Click below to download handout on hair masking:


Refer to the Lynda.com videos Photoshop CS5: Selections in Depth, chapter 4.

BATCH PROCESSING/ SCRIPTS:
To turn a folder of hi-res tiffs into a new folder of JPGS, go to File > Scripts > Image Processor. For a folder of websize/emailable images choose "fit image" and 700px Width and Height.

PHOTO MERGE:
To make a panorama out of several images shot of one scene, go to File > Automate > Photomerge. Choose several files by clicking browse. Then choose Auto layout (or try perspective) and hit OK. Photoshop will automatically combine your images into one. Crop and save.
3 images:

Photomerge panorama result:



HW Due Next week: Make one Photomerge panorama using 3 or more files you shot RAW.

Monday section: This HW is due Monday Nov 8
Thursday section: Nov 11