Life In The Arts
LONGTIMERS PRODUCTIONS AND THE MONTEREY COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION
PRESENT
"ARTISTS IN THE CLASSROOM" TELEVISED PROGRAMS
Original Broadcast date-WEDNESDAY, May 17, 2000 10:30 - 11:30 AM
Landscape Photography at Point Lobos
with Roger Fremier.
PROGRAM GUEST
Roger Fremier started his photographic career in 1968 freelancing for the print media as well as doing advertising, public relations and editorial work. He has published booklets and college workshops as well as producing commercial audio and visual tapes and cassettes. in addition to offering over 100 workshops, he founded a major photographic organization in Carmel. he now exhibits black-and-white fine art photographs. Roger currently heads the Department of photography at Monterey Peninsula College and teaches workshops through Photographs II. In 2001, he will be teaching a series in England, France, Spain and Japan called International Photography Retreats.
Photographs by Roger Fremier
For more information:
Photographs II
P.O. Box 4376
Carmel, CA 93921
PH# (831) 624-6870/Email: rfremier@redshift.com
http://www.starrsites.com/photos2/
Web Biography
http://www/onecachet.com
SUGGESTED READING LIST
BOOKS:
Freeman Patterson, Photographing the World Around You (Amherst Media: Buffalo, N.Y.) 1994. (ISBN 1550135902)
Contains information on photographic composition.
Freeman Patterson, Photography and the Art of Seeing (Amherst Media: Buffalo, N.Y.) 1981. (ISBN 1550130994)
Contains principles of design
Freeman Patterson, Photography for the Joy of it (Amherst Media: Buffalo, N.Y.) 1994. (ISBN 1550130951)
Contains film, camera and accessory information for both black-and-white and color photography.
CAREER CORNER
SCHOOL TO WORK TRANSITION
Retail & Industrial Sales
Areas of Museum & Gallery Management
Photojournalisim
Portaiture and advertising
Photographic Teaching
QUESTIONS FOR THE TELECONFERENCE GUESTS
1. What are some of the common tecvhnical problems and solutions in photography? (Contrast and sharpness)
2. What are some of the common ays of improving composition? (Explore, isolate and organize)
3. How does the camera see differently than the eye? (movement, depth of field, tone and color, etc.)
Student Project/ Lesson Plan
Students will use either of point-and shoot or recyclable cameras to make photographs of other students, friends, family and landscape scenes.
History:
Some say Point Lobos is California's first "Industrial Park." It
has had many uses. Native Americans used it to gather and prepare food.
Upon arrival in the Europeans in 1769, it was used as a pasture for
livestock, the site of a whaling station and an abalone cannery, and a
shipping point for coal mined nearby. It was even subdivided into
residential lots before A. M. Allan saved it where it eventually became an
Ecological Reserve in 1973.
Program Objectives:
We will be using recyclable cameras today to study how the eye differs from
the camera and how to management some of the technical problems in
photography. We will also discuss how to improve composition. Lastly, we
will experiment with how photography can alter the way we see.
Ask students how the eye differs from the camera. Intended response: The
eye sees in 3 not 2 dimension, the eye does not see everything in focus at
once while the camera can record a wide range of depth of field (the range
of focus from the camera to infinity.), the eye registers motion and time
where the camera can stop or freeze action. You r eye sees a broad angle of
view where the camera crops that view which depends on the type of camera
lens. Etc.
Scene Three: Technical Problems
Location: The Pinnacle
Let' explore some of the technical problems in making a photograph.
Discussion: The eye can register more brightness than film can. If the
background is bright and the foreground is dark you have two options in
photography. By exposing for the bright or highlight area the dark or
foreground becomes silhouetted or registers no detail in the shadow. If you
expose for the shadow the highlight becomes too light or washed out. Your
camera will usually expose for the light area correctly and the shadow will
need to be dark so you must flash it or use a reflector.
Let's try both ways and see what we like after we get the prints back.
Make a photographs are The Pinnacle
Move to the point near The Pinnacle
Hold the camera steady. Kodak says 80% of all out of focus photographs are
caused by not holding the camera steady.
If we look into the sun the image looks washed out or not bright. By
cupping your hand over your eyes you can prevent this. In photography we
call this flare. You need to remember to make sure the sun is not shining
into your lens. Cup your hand over the lens but make sure you don't get
your hand in the image area. You might like this effect.
Scene Four: Improving Composition
Location: Old Veteran Cypress
Now let us look at how to organize what we see into a rectangle. If you
have intent of what to photograph the best way is to EXPLORE, ISOLATE AND
ORGANIZE it. Spend some time thinking about what you want the image to look
like. Walk around it. Try bringing it together in a strong form or shape,
like a square, circle, triangle. Let a strong line organize your image.
Avoid busy corners. Avoid strong diagonals that lead out of the photograph.
Avoid bring areas taking the eye away from the subject.
Use the photographic frame to help you compose. Move around, get closer or
move back no matter how limited the space.
Scene Five: Extending Your Vision
Location is Cypress Grove at Allan Grove
Now let us use the camera to change the rendering of the reality we see.
Your camera does this when your aperture opening is small. The smaller the
aperture opening is, the more the depth of field. That is, the more the
range in focus from your eye to infinity.
Let's try an experiment. Extend your hand and look at your thumb. Note
that the area beyond your thumb is out of focus. Keep looking at your thumb
but note the distance is out of focus. Now take your opposite hand and make
a hole with your index finger and look at your thumb. See what I am doing.
Notice the background is in focus.
Try using some differ ways to change how you photograph.
Use a piece of plastic over your lens to change the color
Use the plastic over the flash and note the effect.
Use a mirror like this.
Try steam up your lens to diffuse your image.
Use a wire to give you a star effect.
Let's get the film developed and printed and then go back to studio to see
what we have.
Scene Six: Studio Critique and audience questions.