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Intermediate & Advanced Photo Syllabus

* Intermediate & Advanced Stack Class Schedule - Spring 2012 *

TUCC Monitor Schedule - Fall 2011
Academic Calendar - Spring 2012

Student Lab Manual
Advanced Darkroom Equipment Lists
Advanced Critique Sequence

Departure Point; Self-Evaluation after Preview Crit
Written Statements; Statement before showing work
Critique Decorum; Protocol for Critiques

DARKROOM TECHNIQUE

Advanced Printing; fiber base printing paper, selected fiber base papers, fiber paper processing times, paper developing, fixing fiber based paper, fiber base paper - archival processing

Omega Enlarger Setup; lens selection, condenser position, bellows position, carriage movement, focus adjustment, contrast filter placement, and Gralab timer operation

Printing Protocol; step by step protocol of printing in the Tyler Darkroom

Print Target; set up easel, make a black target sheet, draw the target, use the target, make more targets, larger print targets

Printing with Filters; theory, process [sign]
Split Filtration; theory, process [sign]

Advanced Film; alternative films, edwal developers and normal development, expansion and compression, alternative exposure and development techniques ('pushing' and 'pulling'), infra-red film, orthochromatic film, reduction, chemical recipes, intensification

Developer Mix Chart; for Sprint 'Standard' Film Developer
Film Development Times; for Sprint 'Standard' Film Developer
Development Mix Chart; for 'Gamma Plus' Film Developer

TONING

Advanced Toning; toners, silver conversion toners, sepia toner, selenium toner, color coupler and dye toners, toning tips, fiber base paper - archival processing with toning, bleaching

Sepia Toner; tonality, printing adjustment, bleaching, rinsing, toning, washing, toner capacity, practical bleach use, alternate bleach use, keeping track, full sepia toning, split toning, pre-sulfiding, pre-developing, reverse sepia toning, triple band toning, gould’s technique, bleaching back, selenium combinations

Sepia Toning; by Tim Rudman

Toner Recipes; vario-sepia, selenium, feri or bromi bleach, sepia bleach, redevelopers, farmer's reducer

Lith Toning; recipe, chemistry, process

Copper/Red Toner; exposure, mixing instructions, basic use, processing notes, redevelopment & retoning, tone reversal, post-toning baths, multi-toner toning

Blue Toner; overview, printing adjustment, mixing, processing, final washing & drying, post toning clearing baths, post-toning fixing, intensification, multiple toning, clean-up

SPECIAL TECHNIQUES

Lith Printing; theory, process, materials

Double Exposure; examples of various techniques for multiple exposure printing

Digital Negatives for Silver Printing; workflow, scan the B&W negative, build a new Photoshop image file, include a stepwedge, flip the picture, invert the tonality, apply an adjustment curve, print the picture, printer settings for digital negatives, apply adjustment layers to other photographs

Test Print: step-wedge50.tif

Pinhole Cameras

WEB TECHNIQUE

Web Picture Preparation for Darkroom Prints; Create a Personal Folder, Scan the Print, Straighten the Print Crop to Include Borders and White Space, Tone Correct the Print, Save for Web – Twice, File Naming Conventions, Copy Files into the Art Folder, Digital Portfolio

Accessing the ART FOLDER; connecting, disconnecting

Scanning with DigitaLIZA Scanning Mask; Load the Film into the Scanning Mask, Prepare the Scanner, Start the Software, Set the Scanning Options for Film Negatives, Make the Scan, Shutting Down

Scanning (Epson 2450), POW Picture Scaling, Borrowing Web Pix

FINISHING