FINAL MEETING

Dear Students,

The final meeting, (exams) is taking place in Largo dei Fiorentini

THURSDAY - MAY THE 5th from 12:00 to 14:30

Please, in these days write your post with a description of a photos taken by you during the semester.

Art Show Next Week

I wanted to invite you all to an art exhibit I have been co-curating this semester of contemporary Roman artists for my Curating Museums and Galleries course.
~Phoebe

Final Statement

The collection of photos that I took from our class trip to EUR are a nice culmination of my photos taken this semester. I have always been interested in geometry, bold graphic photos with strong lines and shapes. I spent my time in Rome shooting urban landscapes, trying to focus on the architecture and contrast of old and modern structures. I visited EUR earlier in the semester and had a great experience shooting the neighborhood that does not seem like Rome at all. When we returned as a class, I brought a different lens and was able to capture the buildings from a new perspective. My knowledge and photography experience had grown between the two visits. Here is an image from my first visit to the area:

The building is flattened and simplified into geometric shapes of arches, rectangles and squares. I captured the moment when a plane was flying above the building leaving a white streak behind adding an unintentional line to the composition. The combination of the references to the ancient colosseum and the modern straight lines results in an interesting juxtaposition. 

On my second visit there the contrast of the white buildings on the blue sky was vibrant. This is a photo I took of the same building however this time I decided to include the organic elements of the tree. The silhouette of the leafless branches against the white structured architecture interact. I took a similar picture with the traditional camera that Prof. Amato brought for us to use. 

You can see I had the same intentions with this photograph: to include nature in front of the strong architectural elements. In black and white gives the scene more depth than in the color one where the trees are simply silhouettes. 

I am fascinated with this building and am glad I got to visit EUR multiple times and shoot the scene with many cameras. My development can be seen from these three photos. 

Phoebe 

Final Art Show Spring 2011

John Cabot University

Students, faculty, staff, and friends

Are cordially invited to attend

The end-of semester

Student Art Show

Featuring student work in drawing, painting, and photography  

Opening reception Thursday April 28, 2011

From 5 to 7 pm

    At the Largo dei Fiorentini Art Studio

Refreshments will be served.

Please join to celebrate the students’ hard work

and to visit the new photo and graphic design lab.

Final Art Show Spring 2011

John Cabot University

Students, faculty, staff, and friends

Are cordially invited to attend

The end-of semester

Student Art Show

Featuring student work in drawing, painting, and photography  

Opening reception Thursday April 28, 2011

From 5 to 7 pm

    At the Largo dei Fiorentini Art Studio

Refreshments will be served.

Please join to celebrate the students’ hard work

and to visit the new photo and graphic design lab.

A Special Moment In Lebanese History

Throughout the Lebanese civil war, the famous Lebanese singer, Fairouz, stood out as a true symbol of nationalism because she refused to perform in any part of the then divided country. In the above picture, she can be seen performing at the international Baalbek festival 1998 in Lebanon for the first time in more than 20 years. It was a very powerful performance that moved most people to tears.

Iconic Imagery from the US

Here is an iconographic image from the US. The picture was taken on 9/11. I remember the day vividly and this photograph brings back the chilling memories. It is one that will always represent that day and the country.

Phoebe

April the 6th class

Tomorrow, as you know, we are going to take pictures on site.

The meeting point is at 2:15 pm in Piazza Trilussa.

Please be there on time!

Thanks

SA.

Spain

Two of my pictures I took in Spain - this time I really enjoyed taking pictures of architecture. Usually I'm more into people, but the old spanish stones really inspired me.

rola

Athens

Here is a picture I took in Athens, Greece at the Temple of Zeus. I like the contrast between the fallen column and the modern buildings framed by the green palm trees. The ruins remind us of the past while the living trees bring us back to the present.

Phoebe

While traveling...

While in London I took a number of photos. Here is an example of how I like to capture the world around me.

- Nicole

Some of my stuff.

So, I really love to shoot weddings.
My favorite part about it is being to capture just a simple, candid moment. This is one of my favorite pictures.
I think that weddings are a time with a lot of love and life, it's so amazing to me when my camera and I can capture that.

Nicole

Hi everyone!

I came across a photographer from Barcelona, Spain that I thought created interesting and beautiful work. 

Pep Ventosa’s lifelong passion for photography began with his first camera at the age of 10. He learned the mechanics of the darkroom at Escola d’Arts i Oficis Artístics de l’Alt Penedès in Vilafranca, Spain, and later taught himself the possibilities of the new digital darkroom.
His work is focused on an exploration of the medium itself - deconstructing and reconstructing photographic images to create new visual experiences.

Ventosa received top honors in 2009, including both a People's Choice Award and a winning Juror Selection from among thousands of entries from more than 85 countries in the prestigious Prix de la Photographie Paris competition, as well as an Honorable Mention in the London International Creative Competition. His photographs have exhibited in the U.S., Spain, Germany, France, and Switzerland, and have been jury selected for special exhibitions by the late Robert Rosenblum, curator of 20th Century Art at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; the Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Royal Photographic Society of Madrid among others. His work is in the permanent collection of the Crocker Art Museum and his creative work processes are used as a teaching guide for photography students. 
Born in 1957 in Vilafranca del Penedès (Barcelona), Spain, Ventosa currently lives near San Francisco, California.

-betsy

Adv Photo Class - March the 16th

Dear students,

Tomorrow the class is taking place in Largo dei fiorentini.

Please bring your cameras.

We'll work at the class book, we will print, and if the weather is good I would like to take some pictures close

to Castel Sant'Angelo.

Raw FIle Format

The RAW file format is digital photography's equivalent of a negative in film photography: it contains untouched, "raw" pixel information straight from the digital camera's sensor. The RAW file format has yet to undergo demosaicing, and so it contains just one red, green, or blue value at each pixel location. Digital cameras normally "develop" this RAW file by converting it into a full color JPEG or TIFF image file, and then store the converted file in your memory card. Digital cameras have to make several interpretive decisions when they develop a RAW file, and so the RAW file format offers you more control over how the final JPEG or TIFF image is generated. This section aims to illustrate the technical advantages of RAW files, and makes suggestions about when to use the RAW file format. 


http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/RAW-file-format.htm


Gabriela Valero 

For those of you who like portraits check out Jim Rakete, a German photographer and photojournalist. He began photographing professionally at the age of 17 for daily newspapers and agencies. He took photos of Jimi Hendrix, Ray Charles, David Bowie and Mick Jagger.


http://www.camerawork.de/lang-en/photographen-cw-editor-153/55.html


Another interesting photographer is Robert Polidori, who is known for his architectural photographs. I love Polidor's photos of abandoned spaces and places because he is able to tell a story with these places that are filled with rubbish and broken things.

Anyone going to Berlin this month can see his exhibition along with another exhibition of the award winning photographer Nadav Kander:

Link to Exhibition info:

http://www.camerawork.de/lang-en/exhibitions.html

-rola

On Wednesday March the 9th our lesson is taking place in Villa Borghese.

On Wednesday March the 9th our lesson is taking place in Villa Borghese.
The meeting point is inPiazza del Popolo at 14:15 (I'll wait you  untill 14:45) p.m
Then we'll move to Villa Borghese.

My telephone number is:
3487148071

The Big Picture Series: Bodies in Motion

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/bodies_in_motion_dancing_aroun.html

This series of photos from Boston.com called "Bodies in Motion" has a variety of photos of celebrations, athletes, dancers, regular people going about their business, performers and more. 
This is a photo of ballet dancers competing in a contest in Switzerland. It seems to have been taken with a wide angle lens in order to capture the whole scene.


This photo was taken with a telephoto lens to focus specifically on the central woman.



And finally this photograph was taken with a normal lens. It is of a man protesting in Cairo.

~Phoebe

Working in the studio

Hi,

Serafino wanted me to let the class know that there will be someone in the studio from 6pm until 10pm during the week so we can go and work during those hours.

Phoebe

JPEG vs RAW

JPEG is a type of file commonly used with photography in which the photos are compressed. There are pros and cons of using this type of file: it can easily be stored, emailed and posted online however much of the quality of the photograph is lost when it is compressed. It is the most common file format for digital images. The acronym JPEG stands for the "Joint Photographic Experts Group" who created the standard format.
Photographers who wish to not loose any of the quality of their photographs shoot in RAW. RAW files are much bigger but also much higher in resolution.

Phoebe