Welcome and/or Welcome Back!
In case you don't know me, my name is Chad Adelhardt. I am the Professor for this class, and the coordinator for the DDM.
I am very sorry for all the problems we are having this week, but it is out of my hands. I am stranded in Abq. with a very sick truck, and the studio/lab computers are all down with no known schedule for repair.
Aside from the obvious we also have some scheduling problems. Photo I and II are connected and need to overlap. So in addition to the below email assignment I need you to send me what times you are available from 5–9:00pm on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Even with all of this, we shall not be defeated! SOOOO....
On to the class:
To start with, if you have not had DDM Photo I, before you are in it now. Regardless of which one you actually signed up for, you need the info from Photo I before you move on to II. While previous darkroom photography classes will help you, and in my opinion essential to a good education of a photographer it is not the same.
Your Syllabus, schedule, and most of the class info is over there >>>> in the 'Pages' section. Those of you taking the class for a second time there are a few minor changes so you might want to read up on that, particularly in the standing assignments section.
A brief note for those in Photo I:
As you may have guessed from the name this is an intro photography course. We will be learning to use the dslr (digital single lens reflex camera). If you don't know what that is click here. If you have a dslr or think you have a dslr bring it in and lets see if it will work for the class. If you don't we have cameras that you can check out for the semester.
Don't be intimidated by that those pictures. It looks a lot more complicated to use than it is. Well at least the basics, which is what this class is about. We will be taking it one step at a time, and one function at at time. Aside from a few of those buttons and the view screen in the back, it is really no different than the ones we have been using for almost 100 years now.
For everyone:
We have a few easy assignments to get started so that we can get the class going.
1. Gmail account: Yes specifically gmail. we will be using Google for a lot more than just email. Just set it up, send me an email from it with Photo I or II in the subject, and your name in the body (also the times your available as stated above). This is the easies 100 points you could ask for.
2. Watch some videos: as a UNM student you have free access to lynda.com. You will need to sign in with your UNM id the same one you use for getting on myUNM. The below link will take you to the videos for this class. Right now there are 2 in the list, you only need to watch the chapters hat have a little red book mark symbol next to them.
- Click here for the Videos to watch
Check it out. It has some general how to videos that are useful to all DDM classes
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