Teaching
Course Materials and Resources - Spring 2025
The materials and links below are offered as a professional courtesy to students enrolled in my classes.
Emerson & Photo Resources
- Post Production Home Page
- Post: Lab Contract + Hazmat Quiz
- Post: Photo Facilities Access guide
- Post: Photo Facilities Locker Requests
- Post: Darkroom & Analog guides
- Post: Photo Electronic Lab (PEL) guides
- Post: Studio 206 guide
- E.D.C. Home Page
- E.D.C. Terms of Use Agreement
- VMA Production Portal Home Page
- VMA Production Safety Guidelines & Agreement
- VMA Production Resource Hub
- VMA Equipment Allocation List by course
- VMA Location Safety Form
- Facilities & Equipment Reservations - Patron Portal
- Emerson's Developed Images Photography Org
- Society for Photographic Education - N.E. Chapter
- List of Online Photo Lectures
Photographic Seeing
- Syllabus (rev. 1/19/21)
- The Project
- Project Phase #1
- Week 3 Reading (Cotton)
- Class #2 Reading (Graham)
- Class #3 Reading (Cohen)
- Digital Local Adjustments
- Film Scanning Guide
- Project Phase #2
- Project Phase #3
- Practicum Project Phase #4
- Saving for Web
Photo Practicum
- Syllabus (rev. 1/13/25)
- The Project - Overview
- Digital Lab Rules
- Week 3 Reading (Cotton)
- Week 6 Reading (Graham)
- Practicum Project Phase #1
- Practicum Project Phase #2
- Practicum Project Phase #3
- Practicum Project Phase #4
- Practicum Project Phase #4
- Hasselblad Flextight X5 Guide
- Reading- Class #2 (Cohen)
- Lightroom Setup and Importing
- Reading- Class #6 (Lawson Interview)
- Questions in Visual Criticism
- Digital Camera Tips
- Digital Imaging Terms
- Shooting & Bracketing
- Processing RAW Files
- Long Exposure Adjustment Tables
- Film Scanning Guide
- Color Correcting
- Color Printing
- Converting Color to Grayscale
- Black and White Digital Printing
- Digital Local Adjustments
- Compositing Basics
- Final Digital Portfolio
Digital Photography
- Syllabus - THU (rev. 1/18/24)
- Digital Camera Tips
- Digital Imaging Terms
- Long Exposure Adjustment Tables
- Week 1 Reading (on Evans & A.I.)
- Project 1 - Sense of Place
- Project 1 - Sense of Place (summer)
- Digital Shooting & Bracketing
- Color Correcting
- Film Scanning
- Black and White Digital Printing
- Color Printing
- Converting Color to Grayscale
- Project 2 - Inspired by...
- Project 2 - Inspired by... (summer)
- Week 5 Reading (Willis/Estrin & Lewis)
- Week 5 Reading (on Rickard)
- Week 4 Reading (William Eggleston: Before Color)
- Project 3 - Form Follows Function
- Project 3 - Form Follows Function (summer)
- Project 3 - Inspired by...
- Processing RAW Files
- Digital Local Adjustments
- Project 4 - Form Follows Function
- Compositing Basics
- Questions in Visual Criticism
- Final Digital Portfolio
Introduction to Photography
- Syllabus - TUE (rev. 1/14/25)
- Syllabus - WED (rev. 1/15/25)
- Darkroom Rules
- Digital Lab Rules
- Project 1 - Sight versus Vision
- Shooting Log for Journals
- Printing Log for Journals
- Film Processing Guide
- Week 2 Reading (Baldwin & Berger)
- RC Paper Processing
- Project 2 - Decisive Moment - MON
- Project 2 - Decisive Moment
- Week 3 Reading (Cotton)
- Week 5 Reading (Adams & Vitale)
- Split Filter Printing
- Project 3 - Portrayals
- Project 3 - The Landscape
- Project 3 - The Landscape or Covid-19 Response
- Week 8 Reading (Kerouac)
- Long Exposure Adjustment Tables
- Converting Color to Grayscale
- Black and White Digital Printing
- Week 6 Reading (Graham)
- Digital Local Adjustments
- Project 4 - Portrayals - MON
- Project 4 - Portrayals
- Film Scanning Guide
- Questions in Visual Criticism
- Final Digital Portfolio
Photographic Manipulation
- Syllabus (rev. 11/15/21)
- Project 1 - Physical Manipulations
- Project 2 - Constructed & Seamless Composites
- Project 3 - Contemporary Experiments
- Digital Camera Tips
- Digital Imaging Terms
- Shooting & Bracketing
- Processing RAW Files
- Long Exposure Adjustment Tables
- Color Correcting
- Converting Color to Grayscale
- Digital Local Adjustments
- Compositing Basics
- Final Digital Portfolio