New Name, New Game

I have taken the time to rename and relocate the URL for this here blog. We are now at http://subversiveartclub.blogspot.com

So update whatever you have to update. And wash up just in case.

Till next week,
Mike

ps just had a pow wow about happenings and I am more excited than ever. So if you guys have ideas let it be known.

photoshop help

Hey I just found a pretty cool site with a lot of photoshop help. It claims to help you learn the program in one week.... sure

Now, I know photoshop pretty well. But it is always nice to have a place to look up those random questions.

Here is the link

READ, LOOK, AND READ

Excellent article over here with a lot of photography links.

One thing that I find myself doing (now that I'm graduated, ironically) is reading as much as I can on Photography/Photoshop techniques and looking at as many images as my brain can handle. I've decided that my main contribution to this blog will be posting a weekly list of links that I've come across in my "studies". I hope to find not only links to online articles, but also provide book reviews and portfolios.

Here's wishing that this blog is of use to all of us, whether it be for learning, teaching, or venting purposes.

Ron

I seem to be reading more and more recently about press photographers getting attacked while in the line of duty. It seems that a press pass means less these days than it used to. This article is written by a press photographer who, in the middle of shooting a peaceful anti-war protest in front of the Republican National Convention, had his camera blow up in his face. It seems it was hit with a riot bullet right before he was forced to the ground and manhandled by police forces, all the while doing everything in his power to stay out of the way of their way as they worked.

This is a video of Carlos Miller. He is a photographer that was arrested for taking photographs of a police officer. He was on a public street, watching pubic servants do their work in public. So he was doing nothing wrong at the time, other than taking pictures of a person of authority who did not want to be photographed. His website http://carlosmiller.com documents many cases of photographic rights being violated.

We now live in a time where it is VERY important to know your rights, especially when you are taking pictures (and even more so if that equipment costs more than you can afford to replace). It is not just the press that is under attack. There a many reports of people being told something along the lines of "since 9/11 we don't allow that anymore." Here is an article of a person arrested just of taking a photo of police on a public street with his cellphone. There was even a student here at CMU who was told to delete the memory card on their camera because they were in violation, while shooting from a public street. Luckly the student was able to recover those files.

So if you value your right to photograph it is more important than ever to know when you are justified in taking photos. Here is a PDF document that Lon Ferguson gave out in one of our photo classes that documents your rights (its off of my website, so if it does not work let me know). Also, here is an article from the USAToday about your rights a photographer. The most important thing is to just be kind and helpful, but do NOT give up your rights.

It is your right as an American to photograph, don't let anyone stop you.

Mike

What Is Happening?

So the chalking/Happening went over better than we could have hoped. Campus was covered with the mark of creativity for at least a day. (I took picture of the chalk hanging from the trees, but if anyone has pics of the chalking PLEASE email me or add it to flickr with the CMUPhotoClub tag. I really regret not having my camera with me...) With this success, I seems that people are open to this sort of thing. This encourages me, and I feel that we could very easily continue this kind of work with good reception.

So, if anyone has any ideas PLEASE make a point to either post it here or bring it to one of our meetings. (On that note please send an email to me at kent1ms@cmich.edu if you want authorship)

Till next Thursday take care all,
Mike

I setup the slideshow thing on the side >>> to show anything on flickr with the tag CMUPhotoClub (must be exact). So if you put anything that was made for one of our projects on flickr tag it CMUPhotoClub and it will show up there.

Photo Club 2008

Hey guys. I started a blog for us to communicate about meetings, as well as other things happening in our art community.

Also feel free to post anything else that you think others would enjoy.