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For an HDR image, you take several frames of one shot, bracketing your shots out like this: 2 1 0 -1 -2. This will capture every detail in every shadow, and will bring those bright highlights into full color. It creates a very surrealistic almost painting like image. For each panorama, I did 25 different shots. I have a program that runs the HDR merging, but getting the settings just right for each one was a task. Also in shooting HDR, it’s helping me see light better. With HDR images, the lighting has to be perfect with a high contrast. In normal photography, you normally want to stray away from that to get the full color range.

-artwork and comments by Laramie Carlson
Spring 2008 Digital Studio Project

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Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82 - New York Times

Robert Rauschenberg was discussed in Digital Studio recently, his hybrid artworks were a brilliant predecessor of the current photoshop layered collage aesthetic. Here is one from 1963...

No, not digital art, this is silk screen and mixed media.

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Fairy tales provide a rich starting point for a digital media project. Passed down from oral storytellers through literary traditions to new media, they are always altered by retelling to reflect the needs of the storyteller and the aesthetics of the time. Because the story is so well known, it can be altered significantly and still remain resonant and recognizable to the contemporary audience.

Spring 2008 Digital Studio 1 students worked in teams to develop new versions of well worn tales. After presentation of individual storyboards and design concepts, students voted on the best ideas to move forward on. Teams generated 10 images that could tell their updated fairy tale or myth. Results took a range of final output formats, from digital movies to hand bound books.

Rumplestiltskin story images
by Jared Wick, Kevin Kramer and Max McGruder

image by Jared Wick

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Please post here:

Ideas, tips and resources for digital studio students
who want to transfer digital imagery to tactile media
like fabric, wood, ceramics, glass...

fall 2007 students made art products for sale in the D'ART Shop
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jrock2/rockblog/099904.html#more

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Digital Studio students

Please choose an artist from the text, Digital Art by Christiane Paul.

Please post your research about the artist to my blog by APRIL 21
POST your research as a comment under this entry

Please post a concise ( 1 short page) introduction to the artist, including:
1.YOUR NAME + section of the class you attend (MW or TTH)
2. Your artist's name
3. Background info on the artist + their work
4. Description of their digital art
5. Context + category of their work in the book
6. A specific work you like + why
7. How their work might influence your digital art
++++ ALSO INCLUDE >
3 links to the artist's work on the web

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Digital Studio 2 students are investigating the ways that digital culture is providing recreational and playful opportunities for adults. Some areas of interest are: virtual worlds, games of various types, and toy like products created using digital tools. Students will post their favorite finds in the comments below...

(Students: please include a short description of the area of playful culture you are drawn to, a link to at least one visual example, and what you plan to explore in your own PLAYLAND project...)

Here are some ways that writers are thinking about role playing games as a literary artform:
link to essays on the Electronic Book Review:
www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/firstperson

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