John M. Grzywacz-Gray

Photo Lab Phone 805.378.1442

John's office 805.378.1400 x1875

E-mail johngrzz@gmail.com please put "student" and class number in header

My web Site: http://www.oocities.org/grzz4856 click on Phot 06 and Class Links

Department web page: http://www.moorpark.cc.ca.us/~mcphoto/

Finals: December 15, at 7:00 pm

Office Hours:

Monday: 5 pm until 6:00 pm

Tuesday: 4 pm to 5:00 pm

Wednesday: 4 pm until 6:00 pm

Thursday: 4 pm until 5:00 pm

Other Hours are available by appointment.

Recommended Texts

Photoshop CS Artistry, For Photographers Using Photoshop CS 2 and Beyond. Barry Haynes and Wendy Crumpler, New Riders ISBN 978-0321346995

The Photoshop CS 3 Book for Digital Photographers, Scott Kelby, New Riders ISBN 0321501918

Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Voices) (Paperback) by Scott Kelby (Author) ISBN-10: 0321501926

Mastering Digital Printing, Harald Johnson, Muska&Lipman ISBN 1592004318

The Golden Rule: Back up everything you create - There is no good reason to believe that your files will be on the computer when you return next week.

Your grade will be based on

• Attendance - Attendance is measured only one way. You must turn in a question or comment about the class before you leave.

• Your Portfolio

• Your best effort is expected.

• Completion of Exercises (all classroom exercises need to be stored in your folder on the server)

• Completion of Assignments 1 thru 5

• Assignments are meant to stimulate your conceptual thinking.

A Note about assignments: If you have something that you want to do, that will help you stretch your conceptual thinking ...talk to me...the assignments can be negotiable. But talk to me before the deadline for the assignment. Besides developing a conceptual strategy, I want you to deal with issues that you have NOT dealt with before. As co-chair of Moorpark College's Year of Service (YOS), assignments that connect to the YOS are preferred and appropriate.

I have established a FaceBook Group (John Grzywacz-Gray's Classes Moorpark College) where you can post pictures, questions, preliminary images and comments. Please use it and participate in the discussions. In addition I have established a FaceBook Group for the YOS (Year of service, Moorpark College). If you don't have a FaceBook page you can still access the YOS Group and the Photography Group page by registering for FaceBook.

A Visual Diary is due on December 3. This diary will be a record of all your thoughts, influences and ideas that you have had in preparation for projects and for the class. It should be a bound book like marble covered composition book. Glue ideas that stimulate you from magazines, newspapers, etc. Attach notes and work by photographers, artists, writers, poets, songwriters, multimedia artists, and film makers that excite you. Sketch out your ideas. Write in your own words about the material in the composition book. Keep a record of your research, your experiments, your sketches.

Assignment. #1 (Due: August 31, 2009) - consider this project to be a self-promotion piece. It is not required that you use a computer for this assignment. It is required that you include a photograph of yourself. Please do not use a photograph that you expect to get back. Prepare a resume or short biography and bring it to class next week. Make it as interesting visually as you can. Please include a photograph of yourself in the biography. I am interested in the following: a) Past Achievements, b) Major, c) Goals, d) Music, literary, film, activity and artistic preferences, e)What are you most passionate about, f) What do you expect to learn from this class, g) What do you hope to accomplish in your lifetime.

What do you know about photoshop that you would be willing to share? How do you use Photoshop now?

Assignment #2 (Due: September 28) – ScanOGram – I will show you examples in class.

Assignments - #3, 4, 5, must all be at least 10 inches in the longest dimension and mounted on 16x20 Black Board. These assignments must be turned in both as hard copy and electronic files. I recommend that you print these images in our printing lab.

#3 Photo Composite: Due: October 26.- The finished image should be at least 8 x 10. It should include at least three different photographs plus one photograph that you make for this assignment. Additionally you need to compose this piece so that there is a structure, which means that you must decide on a hierarchy of ideas. Try to avoid a chronology. Develop an idea, something you have or have not not thought about before. Please avoid just turning in a group of photos. We will talk about this more in class. One possible way or selecting an idea would be to pick a current event and illustrate it. Or spend some time at a magazine rack and look through the kinds of illustrations that are used in magazines. You could also look at the editorial section of newspapers and find a topic that you are particularly passionate about and use that as the jumping off place for your collage. The best results will be well composed, demonstrating that you understand the relationships between the images. I recommend that you consult with me around February 25. I prefer that you do NOT use stock photos or images that do not belong to you. One possible idea might be your view of the presidential election campaign.

#4 Altered Landscape Project, Deadline November 16. - The altered landscape project requires that you either create a new never before seen landscape from the start or take an existing landscape and change it radically. What would the city of Los Angeles look like if a new ice age occurred? What will your city look like in the year 3005? If all automobiles were to disappear what would any city look like? What would the city of Chicago look like if Lake Michigan lost most of its water? What would the Grand Canyon look like if it were filled with garbage? Frame a question about something you care about and use that as a jumping off point.

#5 Self Portrait -- Your final project DueDecember 14 (our class final will begin at 7:00 pm)

Create two self-portraits:

A. must include an image of you.

B. Must not use an image of you. This project be done as two separate boards or it can be done as two images on one board Pick a theme for the self-portrait. What about yourself will you attempt to express pictorially.

Academic Software vendors. As a student you can buy software at a considerable discount from the following vendors.

www.collegesoftware.org http://www.uscollegebuy.com/0ab/asl.htm

R-Tech phone 818 347 1100 - 818 347 8324 - call for address

The Creation Engine, 1.800.431.8713 or 415.843.0650 – 0000

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