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As of this quarter, so far at least, anyone can read this blog.

Some of this material applies to a previous class. Don’t be upset. You are doing great.

I’ve actually lowered the high white some. See how the curve is steepest in the shadow areas, stretching the tones there. The middle tones are elevated considerably, and the slope of the curve in the highlights is “flatter”. It is important not to allow the highlights to go higher.

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High Divide 4 B, originally uploaded by Rachel Mattern.

Improvement? I played around with brightness, hue, saturation, and the histogram and came up with these two images. What does everyone think?

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High Divide 4 A, originally uploaded by Rachel Mattern.

Chris, when you made this exposure, the camera was set to “automatic” exposure — unless I’m misreading it. Probably, also, the camera’s white balance setting was on “daylight”.
Two things are happening. First, since the meter interprets everything that it sees as equal to an 18% reflectance gray card, and since lots […]

High Divide 4

Originally uploaded by Rachel Mattern.

This image is a great example for exposure controls. The camera, if you use it automatically, will read the subject. Whether it reads a spot, or overall, the assumption that the camera’s meter makes is that what […]

GautamaCrocus

Originally uploaded by Rachel Mattern, modification by Larry Bullis.

Rachel Mattern image. Modifications; larry bullis

Again, we have a central object. Here, the figure sits on the horizontal midline.

Bull’s eye

Originally uploaded by Rachel Mattern, modifications by Larry Bullis.

What use would our hunter-gatherer forebears have had for an abstract concept of space?
None.
They would starve if they couldn’t hit the bull’s eye once in a while.
Our eye has evolved to ISOLATE from context. In […]

diagonal structure jpg

Originally uploaded by Larry Bullis.

How do you energize the entire frame with a diagonal image structure?

A tweak.

DSC01544

Originally uploaded by twilbourne.

This is a closeup on that same Madrona tree as it’s peeling.

DSC01543

Originally uploaded by twilbourne.

This is a Madrona tree I saw out in Anacortes. I love the look of the tree after all the bark peels…

Here are some things I wanted to demonstrate.

The image implies a line:

You can change the aspect; go to “image” “image size” and change the values. To change the aspect you need to uncheck the “constrain proportions” box:

Here, I have altered the shape to “anthropomorphize” it. To do this I used “edit-Transform-distort”

Here, first […]

roof eve

Originally uploaded by ChrisEngbrecht.

Chris,
You’ve done something here that is rather hard to do. When we attempt to reduce the scale to binary, that is, to black/white with no tones between, usually it doesn’t work very well. Here, the subject is simple enough […]

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Flooded Home, originally uploaded by Rachel Mattern.

These two photos were taken after the big rain storm a few weeks back. The flooded homes are near Double Bluff Beach. It was quite a sight.

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Flooded Freeland Park, originally uploaded by Rachel Mattern.

Options, tools, and layers.

One of my photos from this Snowbird trip has gotten 125 “hits” on the Flickr site in just two & a half weeks since I posted it there. Larry thought it would be okay to put it into the Art 184 pool, so I did that this morning. You will probably be able […]

This post is (supposed to be) marked private until I get it done. If it happens to get through and be visible, be sure and check back from time to time because it will be changing. What the heck. Let’s just make it visible.
In the past, I have tried to make small […]

Golden Sky

Originally uploaded by twilbourne.

Here is a warning I posted attached to this photo on Flickr five days ago as a comment. There was another I left the same message on by a different student. You will run out of “free” space if […]

Originally uploaded by ChrisEngbrecht.

This picture makes me wish it was summer.

I am Kameko if you haven’t known, I know it’s kinda late for intros and all but I wanted to say hi and that I am in this class because I wanted to learn more things that evolved arond art. I like reading, writing, drawing, taking pictures, going for walks, and hanging out with my […]

Nude, EastSussex by Bill Brandt. 1958.

Originally uploaded by cariephoto.

Carrie (of Tennessee, one of our group friends) had this Bill Brandt image posted. I thought I’d Bloggit for the picture of the day.

Scenery

Originally uploaded by Rachel Mattern.

I like this photo due to the memories it brings me. Perhaps you will enjoy it also for different reasons.

P1180656

Originally uploaded by Larry Bullis.

uhhh?

P1180538

Originally uploaded by Larry Bullis.

and yet another

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Originally uploaded by Larry Bullis.

and another

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Originally uploaded by Larry Bullis.

Here’s an image to work on.
We are not concerned with whether it is “any good”. I have placed it here because it is one that most people would think is “not a good picture”.

Light Drawing P1180585

Originally uploaded by Larry Bullis.

Photograph? Painting?
Below, we have Gion Mili’s image of Picasso drawing a bull figure, and Dali’s response to it, a sculpture made in total darkness, by Phillipe Halsmann.

Light Drawing P1180599 -1

Originally uploaded by Larry Bullis.

What is a Photograph? Is it a picture of something? Or, is it an image made with light? The word comes from the Greek; photo refers to light, and graph refers to drawing.

benchovy-s-d

Originally uploaded by Larry Bullis.

Is this legal? The law is concerned with counterfeiting. Would this aid a counterfeiter?
The law says that color reproductions of currency must conform to certain size restrictions. We can now resize freely, so that is no longer […]

so i finally got on here. I got my camera today, so i was just wondering if there is anything specific you want us to be taking pictures of or is it just anything that catches our eye. alright thanks for the help

Eerie Street

Originally uploaded by twilbourne.

I think I’ve figured out the whole blogging situation, so this is my test…
Anyone have any ideas what I could do with this in photoshop at all?

A basket of strawberries from my harvest last summer. They tasted as good as they look.

I spent a few hours in the old gold mining town of Oatman, AZ Friday and took about 60 photos while there. I have posted some of them to my Flickr site and a few of those to the Art184 group. Go to my Photostream on Flickr to see more of them.
It sounds […]

sag c4 500

Originally uploaded by ney rothier müller.

Another found on AA

Ooops!!

National

Originally uploaded by richpix .

Please go to the group “AA from Arbus to Adams” which will appear as a stream on the flickr stream page. There is a new show up, curated by one of the members of the group, and I want you […]

Originally uploaded by phoneyman.

Oranges And Blues

Originally uploaded by aqui-ali.

Picture of the day

Feeds from some interesting flickr groups

I thought maybe y’all might find some pointers to good things to look up in this letter

We think we do.

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Originally uploaded by edmo.

I found this on one of my groups. What do you think of it?

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