ARTX115 Digital Photography [Reduced Capacity Variant]—Schedule

Fall Quarter 2021, Kalamazoo College

Richard Koenig, Professor

Due to classrooms being held to 70% capacity, I’ll be splitting this class into two groups of seven or eight students. The first group should arrive at 8:45 AM, we’ll meet for an hour as a group, and then that group will depart. After allowing ten to fifteen minutes for changeover, the second group will convene at 10:00 AM to also meet for an hour.

Note: class materials will be provided ahead of time (via Moodle)—please look that over prior to your class meeting time so that we can make the most of this reduced time together.

W	Tuesday	Thursday
1	September 14^th Moodle: view syllabus, schedule, and Intro PPTX You might compile a list of questions that I can answer during our in-person session (or via e-mail whenever) In-Person: meet and greet; go over syllabus/schedule, and PPTX Introduction	September 16^th Moodle: view Camera Controls PPTX—Exercise One; Exposure Basics & Cheat Sheet In-Person: Go over PPTX CC/Ex1; Cheat Sheet; assign for weekend: please obtain the Four Effects Weekend: send additional notes on Depth-of-Field
2	September 21^st Moodle: view notes on downloading of images, Sense of Place PPTX and directive: post your ungraded exercise to Padlet—the Four Effects (two based on time and two based on focus) In-Person: go over the downloading images; look at your examples of the Four Effects; view PPTX Sense of Place (second portion of Assignment One)	September 23^rd Moodle: Question: what’s your “place” going to be? PPTX Tech Talk 2—Lenses/Composition In-Person: kick around ideas for Sense of Place, PPTX TT2 Lenses/Composition Weekend: History/Work 1, Article: “Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation”
3	September 28^th Moodle: PPTX Tech Talk 3—Light/Color; Also, a reading (Bull, with PPTX) for Thursday’s class No Class Today I’m out of town presenting on my work	September 30^th Moodle: PPTX History/Work 2 (Bull), Handouts and Video: Image Size and Optimization using Photoshop In-Person: PPTX TT3; Review Bull with PPTX History/Work 2; Demo: Image Optimization
4	October 5^th Moodle: directive to post to Padlet for feedback—second half of assignment one (Sense of Place); handout on discussing images In-Person: a working critique—Sense of Place	October 7^th In-Person: PPTX Assignment Two—Narrative Sequence; assign reading (Lipkin)	Turn in Assignment One by 11:59 PM Friday (your six final images: post to Padlet with small introductory statement)
5	October 12^th Moodle: PPTX for Lipkin reading In-Person: PPTX History/Work 4 (based on Lipkin); discuss what you’re working on for Assignment Two	October 14^th Moodle: PPTX on photographic genres No in-person session today I’m in the field shooting

As mentioned earlier: since we’re halfway through the term, the meeting times for the two groups of students will now be switched (so that the second group can enjoy a later start time).

W	Tuesday	Thursday
6	October 19^th Moodle: directive to post to Padlet for feedback—Assignment Two (Eight Images—Narrative Sequence) Assign Blog Entry (handout) plus link to Dinty W. Moore piece, The Personal (Not Private) Essay In-Person: a working critique: Narrative Sequence	October 21^st In-Person: PPTX Assignment Three—Portraits or Light & Form Touch upon blog post assignment, give take-home quiz, and finish critique of A2	Turn in Assignment Two by 11:59 PM Friday (your eight final images: post to Padlet with small introductory statement)
7	October 26^th Moodle: directive to post to Padlet for feedback—Blog Exercise (open timeline: let me know when you want feedback—not due until Tuesday of Week Nine) In-Person: Turn in take-home quiz; discuss A3 ideas; Photoshop demonstrations—please let me know if you have a particular need	October 28^th Moodle: Touch Base In-Person: Go over quiz and let’s take a peek at the blog assignment or more Photoshop demos [If no blog posts are up yet, let’s go over a few things on my dig-demo pages: p1 formats, p6 basic montage, and p8 type tool]
8	November 2^nd Moodle: a directive to post to Padlet for feedback—Assignment Three (Portraits or Light/Form) No in-person session today I’m in the field shooting	November 4^th In-Person: a working critique—Portraits or Light/Form; a heads up: the Blog Entry due next Tuesday	Turn in Assignment Three by 11:59 PM Friday (your eight final images: post to Padlet with small introductory statement)
9	November 9^th Prior to class: the blog assignment is due; Handout: written component for A4 In-Person: PPTX Open Project with AS + SR Blog Entries Are Due	November 11^th Moodle: handout to help with artist statement and structured reflection In-person: call and response—what are you working on for A4?
10	November 16^th Moodle: a directive to post to Padlet for feedback—Assignment Four (Open) In-Person: a working critique of final (try to make it through half of each group) [We will also do course evaluations today]	November 18^th In-Person: a working critique of final (must make it through the second half of each group) Conclusion	Turn in Assignment Four by 11:59 PM Friday (your ten to twelve images: post to Padlet with AS + SR sent to me via e-mail)

Please remember to save/remove all of your files from the iMac computers in the FABLAB—these computers are wiped from time to time (by Information Services). For secure file management, if possible, one should have files backed-up and stored in two different locales.

close window