Visualizing Ecology
Winter 2007
Week 6 Photography Assignment
Due Week Seven (Thursday)
Please deposit in the Folder by Thursday at 5pm
Technical Assignment:
In your sketchbook, make a drawing of your digital camera showing the significant features that you can manipulate. Explain what the feature does and how you could use it for its intended or unintended purposes. Include the significant dials and screens if any. Figure out how to get onto MASU from a computer on campus (see instructions below). Optional: figure out how to get onto MASU from your home computer. To find out how to do this log on to http://scicomp.evergreen.edu/. This will get you to the Computer Applications Lab Website (CAL). Click Remote Student Access. NOTE: Students found this difficult in the last five weeks. It is much easier to work on campus.
Expressive Assignment:
This quarter we have been introduced to several important concepts in the history of ecology. For example, Kevin lectured about the concept of Monotheism. Wendell Berry wrote about the dualism of body and soul versus the unity of body and soul. Donald Worster, in Nature’s Economy defines Animism, Arcadianism, Imperialism, Organicism and Mechanism (see page 471-2). Lately we have compared holistic versus reductionist ways of looking at the environment. Pollen writes about the logic of industry versus the logic of biology ( p. 45). Choose two concepts that seem to be in contrast. Choose two concepts that seem to be in contrast. For each, make a photograph that symbolizes that concept. You could find in nature or ‘construct’ an abstraction that uses shape, color, texture, line, value contrast and pattern to express your idea. Consider different ways in which to express the attributes of your idea. For example, does it have inward or outward energy? Is it self-contained? Is it rigid or fluid? Is it autonomous or interlocking? Would it be best expressed by photographing objects with curves or sharp edges? What colors could express the idea?
Place copies of your photographs in MASU – Programs – Visualizing Ecology. In the Workspace folder, you will find a folder labeled “A Photography Critique 1.” Place your photos here using the following naming convention: LastNameFirstInitial_1A and LastNameFirstInitial_1B. For example, HarrisonL_1A.
You may store all of your photos on line in MASU – Students. In there you will find a folder with your logon name in it. The photos will remain on-line for the remainder of the academic year. You may also keep your photos in your own folder in the workspace on our program share.
How to log on to MASU from an on-campus computer:
From an PC on campus, the easiest way to get there regardless of whether or not a shortcut is there is using the following steps: Log out and log in as yourself. This is important and if you can’t do this for some reason, then the next part will require you to login later in the process, once you specify where you want to get to on the network.
Click on Start > Run and in the box type \\masu\programs\ or \\masu\students. Hit ok and it should bring up a windows explorer window at that location. If you haven’t logged in as yourself, it should prompt you to authenticate once you hit ok.
From a Mac go to Finder > Go > Connect to Server and type in the box smb://masu/programs or smb://masu/students. It should then ask you to authenticate and then pop up a window in that network location. Workgroup or Domain should read: AC_COMPUTING. Then use your regular TESC sign on name and password.