Environmental Landscape:

Lecture Topic:

Landscape today and tomorrow: digital landscape today, ideation of the future of tomorrow

Tom Bamburger

http://www.tonkonow.com/bamberger.html

http://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/2003/12/midwest_photogr_10.php

Center for Land Use Interpretation http://www.clui.org/

Garbage:

The United States is the number one producer of garbage on the planet; with just 5 percent of the global population we generate 30 percent of the world's trash. The average American throws away a staggering 4.5 pounds of rubbish daily -- that's 1,600 pounds each year. What does the landscape of today and the planet look like in 20 years?

Open Dumps

http://www.epa.state.il.us/land/open-dumps/index.html

Waste around the world

http://greenpack.rec.org/waste/solutions_to_the_waste_problem/07-04-03.shtml

http://static.flickr.com/4/5004958_12b5ff6458.jpg

cute overview

Sad truth http://www.davidbarbour.com/Stock/img0013.htm

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~namettle/classweb/effects.html

http://www.stillpictures.com/categories/third_world/H_114D_1.html

Add to this the toxic effects of acid rain and global warming…..

And overpopulation…………………..

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Making things with refuse: Artists’ response

Esteban Alvarez

http://www.mmproyectos.com/pr04/artistas/esteban.htm

Clayton Bailey

http://www.claytonbailey.com/robog roup.htm

D.U.M.P. (Design Understanding Many Perspectives)
LAR 801 LANDSCAPES OF WASTE http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~arc-dump/index.html

Visiting artist:

Ryder Cooley

Screenings:
"Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage" by Heather Rogers

Every day a phantasmagoric rush of spent, used and broken riches flows through our homes, offices, and cars. This torrent of trash is not primarily the responsibility of the individual consumer, instead it's the outcome of a free market system that needs waste to maintain high consumption levels. To understand the roots of today's waste-addicted culture, Rogers examines the grisly, oddly fascinating underworld of trash.
For more information, visit http://www.alternet.org/story/27456/

Readings:

On Photography
“In Plato’s Cave” by Susan Sontag

Back to Nature: Make your finished photos look the way

Nature intended. by Debbie Grossman

Important Basic Photography Tips

Landscape Photography Tips

Studio skills:

Landscape photography, depth of field, light, further retouching techniques, photomontage, collage.

Project: Landscape today/ Landscape tomorrow (20 years)

Task:

Take 4 high quality photographs (at least 1024 x 768 pixels at 300dpi or greater) of one landscape scene you find particularly interesting or beautiful in Troy or its environs. Prospect Park is a great place to go just before sunset (buddy system only please) to see the sunset.

http://www.sage.edu/hvwg/prosplg.html

http://www.vintageviews.org/vv-ny/Pt/cards/t004.html

Info: http://timesunion.memlink.com/default.aspx

Also just outside on campus looking down on Troy is also fantastic for the depth of field and diversity of landscapes.

Take the best single image and using retouching techniques make it the best it can be using color manipulation and photo retouching techniques.

Then using montage and photo manipulation techniques imagine what your scene would look like in 20 years from now.

Deliverables:

4 high quality images of your favorite landscape scene at least 1024 x 768 pixels at 300dpi or greater

1 retouched image of the best image

1 retouched and montaged image of the same scene in 20 years from now. (you may use found images for the montaged areas.)

Grading Criteria:

1. Assignment completed on-time.

2. Adherence to at least the size and file format specifications

3. Appropriate use of Photoshop tools. (e.g. if jaggies are intended as an aesthetic, that’s fine, but they shouldn’t be in the image because you used the wrong image resolution for the size of the images)

4. Exploration and application of creative tools in Photoshop.

5. Quality and clarity of class presentation

6. Quality, Realism and Believability of photo-retouching as illustrated in your final beautiful & montaged future images.