Long Beach ZineFest over the break

Hi Guys: on the last sunday of spring break, the Museum of Latin American Art will host the first ever Long Beach Zine Fest. It will feature a diverse range of zine vendors, live music, panels and workshops. It's being hosted on the Free Admission Sundays - so check it out!

Long Beach Zine Fest
Sunday, April 12, 2015
11:00 - 5:00pm

Museum of Latin American Art
628 Alamitos Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90802

The Digital Darkroom

Today we will be having a lecture/demonstration on the process of scanning your negatives and then working with them in a digital darkroom environment. I've created an online tutorial of the lecture that can be accessed here. 

I will be uploading additional videos to the same channel - you can find it on the side bar to this blog.

Project Two Alternative Cameras: Pinhole, Vintage and Toy Cameras

In this section we'll be exploring various types of image capture - first by creating a Camera Obscura...which was the earliest use of a small opening in a darkened room. This technique was used throughout history as entertainment and an aide to help artists visualize their perspectives. 

A contemporary artist who uses this method for capture is Abelardo Morell (there's a link to his website on the sidebar). His exposures often last for many hours and he uses the room as a camera. This is central park reversed in a room overlooking the park.

Schedule:

3/24: Introduction to project and creation of Camera Obscura and Pinhole Cameras
3/26: Processing film and paper negs (you can print digital or darkroom)

3/31: Paper Negatives and Digital Output - bring your pinhole cameras
4/2: Lab

4/5-4/12 Spring Semester

4/14: Lab
4/16: Lab

4/21 Critique of your 3-6 images printed and matted.

Assignment: Using your vintage or Holga camera, you'll be shooting your own series of images. I'm open on the subject matter. As advanced students, you should have your own area of interest - so use this as a chance to further explore your photographic interests. For the critique you will be showing 3-6 printed/matted images from this series. You'll also bring your pinhole shots so we can see how you did.

Due Date: 4/21 - 3-6 new images printed and matted for the critique.

Cinemagraphs

After today's lecture on Ideas - I decided to experiment with Cinemagraphs. Here's one of the first ones, which works fine...but you really want to have something frozen within the shot.

The next version had something fixed within the frame and then a space for movement. In this one I looped the movement to create better continuity.

Here's a link to a tutorial for the process.