Creativity Explored Celebrates 25 Years: May 2009
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Friday, January 02, 2009
The Gala event at Foreign Cinema will sell out! Buy tickets in advance.
In just 25 years, Creativity Explored has earned a reputation as one of San Francisco's best art galleries and one of its most beloved arts organizations. Creativity Explored is more than just a gallery and a studio - it's a spirited community of more than 120 artists with developmental disabilities creating some of the most profound, fearless and innovative art on view in galleries today. This May marks the 25th year that this extraordinary art center has been changing lives through art. To celebrate this important milestone, the gallery at 3245 16th St. hosts "Quarter Century" - a rare display of its archives and permanent collection May 1 through June 18 and celebrates with a gala event May 15 at Foreign Cinema - the Mission District?s hot spot for food and film.
ANNIVERSARY EVENTS
EXHIBITION: Quarter Century
Creativity Explored's 25th Anniversary exhibition will feature many treasured artworks set aside over the years for the gallery's permanent collection, highlights from past exhibitions including the critically acclaimed "Don?t Call Me Retard" and select pieces from the traveling Steele Art Collection. The exhibition also offers fans of some of CE's most highly regarded and widely collected artists such as John Patrick McKenzie, Michael Bernard Loggins, Douglas Sheran and Vincent Jackson a chance to see early works that trace their creative evolution. A special memorial wall honors the work of studio artists who have passed away. Videos made by and about the artists will also be a featured part of the display. The exhibition is on view May 1 through June 18, 2008; Monday through Friday 10 am to 3 pm, Thursday until 7 pm, Saturday 1 to 6 pm. The gallery is located at 3245 16th St. in San Francisco.
GALA EVENT: 25th Anniversary Celebration
To celebrate 25 years of changing lives, Creativity Explored hosts a gala event May 15th at the Mission District's hot spot for food and film, Foreign Cinema. The evening features a screening of selections from Ben Wu's Academy Award-winning student documentary about the artists of Creativity Explored "Cross Your Eyes, Keep them Wide" and a silent and live auction of tantalizing items and exceptional artworks by studio artists and some of their nationally-known colleagues. Partygoers will enjoy delicious gourmet treats and an open bar while listening to the Parisian café stylings of The Baguette Duet, western swing and cowboy music by Chris Leone and the Spurs of the Moment plus special performances by surprise guests. The event takes place May 15th from 7 to 10 pm Tickets are $100 per person in advance; $125 per person day of the event. Foreign Cinema is located at 2534 Mission St. in San Francisco.
FOR INFORMATION ABOUT EITHER EVENT OR TO PURCHASE TICKETS FOR THE GALA, THE PUBLIC SHOULD CALL (415) 863-2108 OR VISIT WWW.CREATIVITYEXPLORED.ORG
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SF Camerawork: 2 New Exhibitions 1 Reception
# Friday, January 02, 2009
United in Nima: Bay Area and Ghanaian Youth
Share Lives Through the Lens
The new photography exhibition United in Nima features photographs by low-income youth from SF Camerawork?s First Exposures photography mentoring program and teens living in the notoriously poor Nima slum of Accra, Ghana who spent three weeks together last summer in Africa sharing their lives, culture and art.
Test Patterns: Recent Video From South Africa
The new video exhibition Test Patterns brings together the work of nine contemporary South African video artists who explore ideas of citizenship and belonging in the post apartheid era. The artists include Churchill Madikida, Penny Siopis, Berni Searle, Simon Gush, Jo Ractliffe, Ismail Farouk, Ruth Sacks, Steven Cohen and Usha Seejarim.
SF Camerawork
January 8 - March 25, 2009
657 Mission Street
415-512-2020
Opening Reception for both United in Nima AND Test Patterns:
Thursday January 8, 5 - 8 pm
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High Dynamic Range Imaging: what is it?
# Friday, January 02, 2009
The intention of High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI) is to accurately represent the wide range of light to dark intensity levels found in real life scenes that include bright highlights, dark shadows and every shade between light and dark.
Jean-Baptiste Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884) as been called "the most important French photographer of the nineteenth century because of his technical innovations in the still new medium of photography, his role as the teacher of other noted photographers, and the extraordinary imagination he brought to picture making"
His most important technical innovation:
Combination Printing, creating seascapes by using one negative for the water and one negative for the sky at a time when it was impossible to photograph both the sky and the sea in one image because of the wide luminosity range. He invented the photograph technique currently known as High Dynamic Range imaging or HDRI.
Today; one problem with HDRI is viewing the images. Typical computer monitors (CRTs, LCDs), prints, and other methods of displaying images only have a limited dynamic range. Thus various methods of converting HDR images into a viewable format have been developed, generally called "tone mapping".
Early methods of tone mapping were simple. They simply showed a "window" of the entire dynamic range, clipping to set minimum and maximum values. However, more recent methods have attempted to compress the dynamic range into one reproducible by the intended display device. The more complex methods tap into research on how the human eye and visual cortex perceive a scene, trying to show the whole dynamic range while retaining realistic colour and contrast.
Images with too much "HDR" processing have their range over-compressed, creating a surreal low-dynamic-range rendering of a high-dynamic-range scene.
Synthetic HDR images
Computer-created HDR images were first produced with various renderers, notably Radiance. This allowed for more realistic renditions of modelled scenes because the units used were based on actual physical units e.g. watts/steradian/m˛. It made it possible for the lighting of a real scene to be simulated and the output to be used to make lighting choices (assuming the geometry, lighting, and materials were an accurate representation of the real scene).
At the 1997 SIGGRAPH, Paul Debevec presented his paper entitled "Recovering High Dynamic Range Radiance Maps from Photographs". It described photographing the same scene many times with a wide range of exposure settings and combining those separate exposures into one HDR image. This HDR image captured a higher dynamic range of the viewed scene, from the dark shadows all the way up to bright lights or reflected highlights.
A year later at SIGGRAPH '98, Debevec presented "Rendering Synthetic Objects into Real Scenes: Bridging Traditional and Image-Based Graphics with Global Illumination and High Dynamic Range Photography". In this paper he used his previous technique to photograph a shiny chrome ball to produce what he called a "light probe", essentially an HDR environment map. This light probe could then be used in the rendering of a synthetic scene. Unlike a normal environment map that simply provides something to show in reflections or refractions, the light probe also provided the light for the scene. In fact, it was the only light source. This added an unprecedented level of realism, supplying real-world lighting data to the whole lighting model.
HDRI lighting plays a great part in movie making when computer 3D objects are to be integrated into real-life scenes.
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Dream Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
# Friday, January 02, 2009
Canon's update to the wildly popular full frame EOS 5D is here, and it's better than ever.
The EOS 5D Mark II has a 21.1-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor with DIGIC 4 Image Processor, a vast ISO Range of 100-6400 (expandable to ISO L: 50, H1: 12800 and H2: 25600), plus EOS technologies like Auto Lighting Optimizer and Peripheral Illumination Correction. It supports Live View shooting, Live View HD videos, and more. It can shoot up to 3.9 fps, has 9 AF points plus 6 AF assist points, a new 98% coverage viewfinder, a 3.0-inch Clear View LCD (920,000 dots/VGA) and a rugged build.
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What's Hot at Macworld 2009!
# Tuesday, December 23, 2008
JANUARY 5th - 9th 2009
DESIGN
Power Tools
2-day in-depth training on popular Mac software applications and tools
Session topics include:
- NEW! InDesign CS4 for the Practical User
- Dreamweaver
- Final Cut Studio 2 In-Depth
- Photoshop
- Mastering the Adobe Creative Suite
- Learning Flash CS4
Market Symposium
New Media Artists
Attend this day conference and learn about the latest trends, solutions and what customers want today. You will gain valuable knowledge on how to manage projects, developing new ideas, the latest hardware and software tools and what's new in delivery for the web, cd and dvds. Whether you'll be creating marketing, education, presentations, e-learning, e- mail campaigns, asset and content management applications you won't want to miss this symposium!
PHOTOGRAPHY
Power Tools
2-day in-depth training on popular Mac software applications and tools
Session topics include:
- Aperture
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2
- Photoshop
Users Conference
The Macworld Users Conference offers a broad range of presentations designed to sharpen skills and provide instruction on how to work most effectively on your Mac. Hear from experts in diverse fields providing inspiration and new computing ideas for both new Mac users and skilled masters alike.
Session topics include:
- The Art & Craft of Digital Photography
- Five Ways to Work More Efficiently in Photoshop
- The Passionate Photographer - Aperture 2.1
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Workflow for Digital Photographers
- Aperture in Nature & Landscape Photography
- Exploring Panoramic Virtual Reality (VR) Photography
- Ask the Editors!
- Creating Digital Portfolios
- DVD Montage on the Go
- Getting the Best Out of Your Images
- Digital Art Pioneers and Trendsetters
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Legacy: DFM's Partner in Exhibit Shipping & Warehousing
# Tuesday, December 23, 2008
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THE STREET WISE PROJECT: Peter Adams
# Monday, November 24, 2008
Peter Adams photographic essay THE STREET WISE PROJECT is about Australian people in the Blue Mountains. The exhibition of digital prints include scientists to buskers, and sculptors to ambulance drivers. The exhibition is currently open in the boiler room of the Carrington Hotel in Katoomba NSW.
Checkout the blind speed skater and other wonderful images.
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