Manipulating the Mechanical Trace (Online Lecture) Winter 2025 w/ Joseph Podlesnik
March 5 (Wednesday), 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM, Eastern Time
**Lecture is live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. The recording will be available to students for 3 months after the live lecture, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
Lecture Description
This is a live lecture about insights into photography, covering the basics of the “mechanical trace," pictorial organization and expression.
1) Mechanics
The Triangle of Exposure and focal length
Aperture, Shutter speed and ISO
2) Lighting
Different types of light (and color) and how their placement affects structure, emotion and composition
3) Composition
Learning gestalt organizational principles and design
Similarity, Continuity, Proximity, Closure
4) Editing
Using Adobe Bridge and Adobe Photoshop to edit and enhance digital photographs
5) Photo genres/views (street/documentary/journalistic, photos with social import, photos which focus on formal aspects, experimental)
March 5 (Wednesday), 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM, Eastern Time
**Lecture is live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. The recording will be available to students for 3 months after the live lecture, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
Lecture Description
This is a live lecture about insights into photography, covering the basics of the “mechanical trace," pictorial organization and expression.
1) Mechanics
The Triangle of Exposure and focal length
Aperture, Shutter speed and ISO
2) Lighting
Different types of light (and color) and how their placement affects structure, emotion and composition
3) Composition
Learning gestalt organizational principles and design
Similarity, Continuity, Proximity, Closure
4) Editing
Using Adobe Bridge and Adobe Photoshop to edit and enhance digital photographs
5) Photo genres/views (street/documentary/journalistic, photos with social import, photos which focus on formal aspects, experimental)
March 5 (Wednesday), 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM, Eastern Time
**Lecture is live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. The recording will be available to students for 3 months after the live lecture, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
Lecture Description
This is a live lecture about insights into photography, covering the basics of the “mechanical trace," pictorial organization and expression.
1) Mechanics
The Triangle of Exposure and focal length
Aperture, Shutter speed and ISO
2) Lighting
Different types of light (and color) and how their placement affects structure, emotion and composition
3) Composition
Learning gestalt organizational principles and design
Similarity, Continuity, Proximity, Closure
4) Editing
Using Adobe Bridge and Adobe Photoshop to edit and enhance digital photographs
5) Photo genres/views (street/documentary/journalistic, photos with social import, photos which focus on formal aspects, experimental)