Exhibition images

Can I remind everyone that I need all your images so far so I can select some for the exhibition please. Can you make sure that you have any originals with you along with any you have post produced in photoshop. As I don't want to leave gathering these images to the last minute, if you want to help can you make sure they are converted to jpegs to make my job a little easier as converting loads plus all my other courses work will take me a long time.

TV screens / Gallery of images

In addition to the use of an online website gallery, I have negotiated the use of the TV screens in the main reception to display all of the City and Guilds photography. For this you will need to supply me with a cd of your images or I will gather them from you on a hard drive. There are around 6 TV screens and a large projector screen which may also allow audio to go with the images to add mood, etc..

The website for the online gallery will soon be started, and again I will require images, from both of these ways of displaying your work I can use any images you want to give me, not just your final images. Also photographs from previous city and guild courses can be included along with any personal work you may have produced.

I will need all the images as soon as you can give them to me, no later than the 15th June as the exhibition opens on the 20th June and runs for 2 weeks. The online gallery will run throughout the year linked to the main tutor site.

Online Exhibition Gallery

From talking to all the groups and gathering opinions it has been decided to have an online website gallery exhibition rather than a wall space for framed photographs. It was felt that it was fitting that a web gallery displayed all of your work to the largest audience and thus would be of greater value. Also the gallery exhibition can stay up as it were for a whole year until the next, and so on.

I am currently exploring different options to achieve this to display the work in its best light, all suggestions are welcome.

Wifi update

It is getting nearer the time when the college will be able to offer Wifi and thus open up the possibility of you working with your laptops and ipads, etc. When the system goes live I will inform everyone of the date. All being well that date should be sometime in June - July.

Presentation units and photoshop

As we are moving towards the latter part of the course we need to be looking at presentation units that you may be doing such as unit 211. This forms the basis for discussion on how many possible print and output devices and formats can be used by you to finish off your work.

For example how many different ways can you output / print or display your work. To do this you really need to compare and contrast what different websites, high street shops and labs offer. Everything from print surface types and mounting to digital displays, and portfolios in all their different sizes and types.

Design, colour and layouts will also need to be considered in order to discuss properly what type of different presentation methods could potentially suit your work. When we look at more post production of your images we will discuss what might suit each one.
Remember though that for this course you do not have to print out any images in a portfolio, you may choose that you want to, but it is not a problem if you don't.

The rest of the session will be looking at more photoshop which suits and is appropriate to your work. Please can all final selections of images be made up to date as far as possible so we can really concentrate on the short lists I asked everyone to gather.

This thursdays session

For this thursdays session we will be looking at an overview of the whole blogs and the labelling of them as regards the units that have been chosen to do. This is to ensure that all work being produced is being clearly labelled as this forms the whole basis of taking ownership and the self tracking of the units that you have chosen to do.

By doing this you will be able to see the areas where there are gaps or indeed you may of completed certain criteria in sufficient depth. This will help show whether you have over or under produced in the unit criteria. In this way you can then target any areas that need more to improve the grade from pass to merit , or from merit to distinction.

The following 6 weeks left should be clearly time managed to make sure that both themes have been researched and developed in equal measure. Often people leave the second theme with not enough time to finish it thoroughly and in equal depth to the first theme.

Also we need to look at starting any units that are being studied alongside your theme work. For example some students are covering unit 211 which looks at all aspects of digital workflow and final output devices and methodology. Enough time has to be allocated for this unit as well to cover it in enough detail.

Can you all make sure that you have all your unit paperwork with you to allow tracking and accurate labelling to take place this thursday.

Alongside that later in the session we will be doing more photoshop work on the images that you selected for post production last week. This is a very important session which I need everybody to attend please.

Photoshop

Can you all bring in all of your shortlisted images and we will have a photoshop session where we will look at the most appropriate methods for each of your work. The digital workflow of your images will concentrate on only being applied to your best images, any that don't make the grade will initiate a reshoot.

We will not be spending time on images that quite frankly aren't your best work as this is often the most common mistake in digital photography. Good images which strongly link to your research will be considered.