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I want to thank all of you for turning in your work yesterday.  I like the three documentaries very much and I look forward to your second assignment the environmental portrait.


As a review of yesterday, we spent some time discussing your documentary.  Then we spoke about selective color adjustments through adjustment layers and masking the layers.  We also used blending modes to change the exposure of images with the screen blending mode.  Lastly we spoke about the environmental portrait.


There are two images required for the environmental portrait.  One is portrait of the person with all the details of the exposure rendered in the image.  Details in the blacks and the whites, as well as a reasonable contrast to the image.  The second image is a "treated" images.  An image that distorts the contrast and color of the image to inform the viewer about the person.  For instance, a cool color cast for a colder meaner person, or warm color cast and less contrast for a bright warmer personality.


We looked at August Sander images as reference to the environmental portrait.  He is a great influence on contemporary photography and I encourage you to look into his portraiture.  Here are some links to some of his work:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Sander


http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1786&page=2


http://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/exhibitions/augustsander/


http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=5145


http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId=%7BDC021885-C838-4448-A135-E335A09BBB78%7D

For more contemporary look at environmental photography look at the portrait section of Leslie Williamson. 


http://www.lesliewilliamson.com/

Here are some examples of August Sander's work.

The weekly assignment is to Photograph yourself or someone else in 3 different lighting conditions (such as outside in bright sun, inside a home, and in a store).  Bring those images in to use as examples when we go over the raw dialog box in Photoshop.