Thoughts on printing:
As I already said in class, it was a pretty rewarding experience and it puts your images in a different context. It also makes it easier in some ways to see mistakes in your images, or things one might need to correct. Because so many things exist on the screen, it's been a while since I've actually printed anything I make images of on the computer, so it was, in a way, an eye-opener. Colors are different, textures appear differently, and it makes you rethink how you might want your images to be viewed. The idea of lightboxes came up, as well as size - if it were a large print, if it could become a wall paper, many things change with digital printing in mind.
Lesson Plan:
Students will make prints of their photographs from the year and make mock-ups of a proposed monograph of their year's work. In what order will the images be in? What text might you include? Sketches and thoughts? How much of your process is exposed? Will multiple images be on one page? Even in the digital age, many photographers still work with physical layouts to get a sense of how their work will look on a page. After working out layouts, students will go back and create their layouts on indesign, culminating in a printed monograph of their final works.
As I already said in class, it was a pretty rewarding experience and it puts your images in a different context. It also makes it easier in some ways to see mistakes in your images, or things one might need to correct. Because so many things exist on the screen, it's been a while since I've actually printed anything I make images of on the computer, so it was, in a way, an eye-opener. Colors are different, textures appear differently, and it makes you rethink how you might want your images to be viewed. The idea of lightboxes came up, as well as size - if it were a large print, if it could become a wall paper, many things change with digital printing in mind.
Lesson Plan:
Students will make prints of their photographs from the year and make mock-ups of a proposed monograph of their year's work. In what order will the images be in? What text might you include? Sketches and thoughts? How much of your process is exposed? Will multiple images be on one page? Even in the digital age, many photographers still work with physical layouts to get a sense of how their work will look on a page. After working out layouts, students will go back and create their layouts on indesign, culminating in a printed monograph of their final works.
