Post images (more than 5) to your Blog with your updated artist statement for each check-in.

Concentration check-in dates
TURN-IN #1: Per 1 - Wed, Jan 30 | Per 6 - Thurs, Jan 31
TURN-IN #2: Per 1 - Wed, Feb 27 | Per 6 - Thurs, Feb 28
TURN-IN #3: Per 1 - Wed, March 20 | Per 6 - Thurs, March 21
TURN-IN #4: Per 1 - Wed, April 17 | Per 6 - Thurs, April 18


For your semester final:
You will take a series of images (2-10) as the starting point for your concentration. You will also write your first draft of your Artist Statement and present your image and statement to the class.

This series you will work on during the next semester. We will ultimately design and publish a book containing your work.

Artist Statement
'Like an introduction to a book, your statement presents the fundamental underpinnings of your art; write it for people who like what they see and want to know more, not those who already know you and everything your art is about.' 
-from 'ArtBusiness.com'

You will be writing a 1-2 paragraph artist statement about your plan for your future body of work. You will add to the statement and revise it when the series is complete.

For tips on write your artist statement please use the following resources:
Artist Statement - ArtStudy.org
Artist Emerging - Writing an Artist Statement
Artist Statement Tips - Digital Photography School

Sample Artist Statements:
Sample Artist Statements - ArtStudy.com

Consider: What do you plan to do and why is it interesting to you? Discuss your ideas and influences - artists, popular culture, personal experiences. Consider creativity - how will your project be original and yet also be understood by others? What do you imagine the end result will look like?  How will you arrange the elements of your work to best convey your ideas?

Restore a damaged photograph

1. Scan image (use 300-600 ppi) See directions near scanner in front of room.
2. Open in Photoshop
3. Crop & Straighten image
4. Duplicate Background  layer (ctrl + j) and rename it 'retouch'
5. If the image is black & white it may be helpful to use the B&W adjustment layer to removes color cast when retouching. You can add toning (like sepia) back later.
6. Make exposure adjustments (look at histogram to get a good range of tones)
7. Zoom in and start working on the image using retouching tools. (healing brush, spot healing brush, clone stamp, patch tool)
8. Sometimes you need to try different tools to get it right.
9. Also changing settings for the same tool might help (size, normal vs content aware vs proximity match) often helps.
10. Zoom out and turn layer on and off to see 'before' vs 'after'.
11. Add any color back using adjustment layers OR 'colorize' your image.
12. Yay- hopefully it looks beautiful!

Resources:
Old Picture, New Life - Photo restoration basics - tutsplus
How to restore a Heavily Damaged Image - tutsplus
Colorize a photograph - youtube
Colorize a photograph - gizmodo
You can also use google to search specific techniques or problems that may apply to your image.

Creating 'Digital Negatives' in Photoshop for CyanotypeOpen the image you want from File/Open. If you do need to alter the size go to Image/Image Size uncheck the Constrain Proportions and Resample Image boxes, this locks all three together and altering any one will alter the others, resize your picture to the negative size you need.
Go to Image/Adjust/Desaturate and then to turn it into a negative use Image/Adjust/Invert and to lower the contrast Image/Adjust/Levels. Now adjust the Output with the bottom sliders from 0 to 255 to about 24 to 200. At this point you could print the negative and use it, but for most printers the image needs to be denser than this.
On the left of the window is a Toolbox and at the bottom the Foreground and Background colors, a mouseover will tell you which is which. Click on the foreground color and in the window that comes up you will see on the right C.M.Y.K. change these to C=0, M=50, Y=50, K=0 this will produce a nice orange color in the Foreground box. This color adjustment can be made using anything from 0-40-40-0 through to 0-70-70-0 conduct your own experiments with these settings.
The next step is to go to Edit/Fill, another window will open, in the Mode box choose Color and OK and the image will change to an orange color. The last step, if you want to print the negative in contact with the emulsion is to reverse the image, go to Image/Rotate Canvas/Flip Horizontal and you are finished.