Welcome to CS 39J

Preliminary quiz

Administrative matters

Film processing in Berkeley

Brands of Slide films

Perspective

As the first assignment, take a few pictures that show your feeling and understanding of "perspective". This assignment is due Wednesday 2/09/05, at 5:00pm. Post the files on your account and email me a pointer to the them. Make sure you tell me which ones you want to be shown and critiqued in the class.

Administrative matters

Perspective in photography

Critique of the photos of assignment one

Focus and depth of field

For the second assignment, take a few pictures with the emphasis on "focus". This assignment is due Wednesday 2/23/05, at 5:00pm. Post the files on your account and email me a pointer to the them. Make sure you tell me which ones you want to be shown and critiqued in the class.

Note: The deadline is firm and late submissions will be ignored! Make sure you hit the "send" button before 5:00pm or I will not have time to post them before the class on Friday!

Critique of the photos of assignment one

More on depth of field

Critique of the photos of assignment two

Reciprocity Failure

Third assignment is on portraits. Take photos of people (or objects) with different zooms. One of your photos should be a close-up and the other one (possibly but not necessarily from the same object) from some distance. This assignment is due Wednesday 3/11/05, at 5:00pm. Post the files on your account and email me a pointer to the them. Make sure you tell me which ones you want to be shown and critiqued in the class.

Critique of the photos of assignment two

Critique of the photos of assignment three

Fourth assignment is on Spring Break: "Photograph your break!". This assignment is due Wednesday 3/30/05, at 5:00pm. Post the files on your account and email me a pointer to the them. Make sure you tell me which ones you want to be shown and critiqued in the class.

Critique of the photos of assignment three

Photoshop

Critique of the photos of assignment four

Aassignment five is to take two (related) photograph, one in natural light and the other using artificial (i.e., a flash, if you have one) light. Things to think about: using a flash that is disconnected from the camera, using multiple light sources, using a "fill-in" flash, bouncing the flash off a reflective surface,
covering the flash with ttransclucent "diffusing" material ....
This assignment is due Wednesday 4/13/05, at 5:00pm. Post the files on your account and email me a pointer to the them. Again, make sure you tell me which ones you want to be shown and critiqued in the class.

Guest lecture by Richard Lyon, Chief Scientist of Foveon

A presentation by professor Barsky

Critique of the photos of assignment five

The last aassignment six is to use photography to make a statement. This assignment is due Wednesday 5/04/05, at 5:00pm. Post the files on your account and email me a pointer to the them. Again, make sure you tell me which ones you want to be shown and critiqued in the class.

The class went to the Berkeley Art Museum where Lynn Kimura, a curator at the museum gave a chronological presentation of photographs from late 19th century to present time.

Gale Jesi, an instructor of photography at San Francisco University High School gave a guest lecture on the alphabets of photography. She used the work of three photographers, Edward Westen, Joel Meyerowitz and Richard Misrach to illustrate how each artist adds a sentence to the conversation that goes on between the artists and the larger audience.