Trisha-Underneath Bed

Significant Outfit

This was the outfit I wore when my boyfriend and I celebrated our 6 year anniversary together.

Sarah Harnica - Bed

Under My Bed

Alyssa Brown

Under my Bed...

Outfit Assignment

This outfit is significant because it was the first outfit I wore in my first ever 10k during track season. The outcome was brutal but it was also memorable.

Jenna F

Qina-Significant outfit

This dress is the first one that I made by my mother's very old sewing machine. I bought the flower cloth from the internet. I failed twice and broke my second finger when I sewing this dress. Finally I worked this out with my mom's help. And this is what I dressed when I first wear it.

Cranberries song about remembering an oufit

Link to relevant Cranberries song.

Take a flash photo under your bed.

Take a flash photo under your bed from the Learning to Love you More website. Due Monday.

Also due Monday is 10 photos, un-edited, that you think will look good in black and white.

This outfit sums up my summer perfectly. Camp Wayne is peace signs, colored bras and silly bands. I want to say I was trendy, but really I wear the sweater and silly bands because everyone else was.

Trisha-Significant outfit

I was wearing this outfit when my boyfriend told me he loved me for the first time.

sarah - significant outfit

This is the outfit I was wearing the night that Scott proposed to me.

jenna f - significant outfit

I was wearing this outfit to the bar the night I met Matt... the irony is that we barely remember meeting that night, and he never remembered this outfit..

What I Wore on My First Date with Jason

This is the outfit I wore on my first date with Jason. The top became one wardrobe malfunction after another, but it was no big deal. He thinks I wore a skirt that day! This is when it all began...

Significant Outfit

This is the outfit I wore to my friend, Morgan's 19th Birthday. This is the first time I wore the leather jacket and heels. I didn't think I could pull off the heels, but I made it through the night without any blisters or falling to the ground. I thought the jacket was a bit much for a party. So I was nervous of what others would think. By the end of the night everyone had complimented me.

Remember your daily portrait

Just a friendly reminder to keep up with your daily photos. If I suspect that you try to fake it, I will check the meta data on the files which always includes the date taken.
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Artist who explores mulitiple facets of personality

I came across a Japanese artist by the name of Tomoko Sawada who has created a number of series exploring the many different facets of her personality. She has a series similar the Ambiguous Doppelganger series that you are currently working on (I just made up that project name, but I am going to stick with it). Interestingly, she also has a series in which she photographed herself daily over a prolonged period of time. She used a photobooth for that series.

A nice blog entry on her work.

Gallery with some of her work.

Canon Award write up on Tomoko Sawada

Newsweek article on Tomoko Sawada

Brooklyn Museum of art website with examples of her work

Tomoko Sawada's website - it is in Japanese and thus hard to navigate

Dopplegangers

There are many people who create work with multiple instances of the same person.

Cornelia Hediger-check out her two Doppleganger series.

Wikipedia definition of doppleganger. Pretty interesting reading. Gave me lots of ideas..

Here is a very interesting Wikipedia definition of a phenomena known as bilocation.

Good Photography quotes

You don't take a photograph, you make it. - Ansel Adams

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. - Ansel Adams, Photographing Nature: LIFE Library of Photography by Time-Life (Editor)

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. - Ansel Adams

RAW file editing in a nutshell

There is much in regards to digital imaging and photography that isn't intuitive. Editing your images is one such example. The biggest thing that students have trouble with is failing to make full use the full tonal range of the image.

One of the biggest struggles that students have is learning to adjust the distribution of tones in an image. Technically speaking, when you are shooting, your job is to capture all the data in the scene without clipping important highlight information. Your job in editing is to re-arrange those tones to make full use of the tonal range and create an attractive image.

If you see data climbing the right and left walls of an image, that is data containing no detail. I find if helpful if you think of lost detail as not having texture. If you grossly overexpose an area to the point that the data is climbing the right wall, let's say it is a white t-shirt, then the photo of the t-shirt won't have any sense of texture to it. You won't be able to tell if there was a pattern or what type of fabric it was. In a nut shell, you should set the black and white point of an image so that the data just kisses both sides of the histogram without climbing it. Of course, there are exceptions to this such as when you deliberately allow the white of a specular highlight to go to pure white.

If you see that there is a gap between the right wall and the image data, then you are not using the full range of tones available to you. Increase the exposure additionally until the data just kisses or nearly kisses the wall. If you see that there is a gap between the left wall and the image data, then you are not using the full range of tones available to you. Increase the Blacks slider until the data just kisses or nearly kisses the wall.You should do these edits first, then edit the other tones. At a minimum will likely have to adjust the midtones a bit using the Lightness slider or Curves.

Simply put, if you only use part of the tonal range, then you will have a flat (lacking contrast) image.