This website/blog is for workshops taught by Dan Bailey in digital media. Currently it focuses on an upcoming course, Still Photographs to Moving Pictures, that will be taught at Penland School of Crafts. Continue reading to find out more about the course. Posts start August of 2012. (Past courses are archived and available in the sidebar).
Dan Bailey, danwbailey.com
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Still Photographs to Moving Pictures
Between still photography’s “decisive moment” and cinema’s representation of time lies a rich and compelling area. This digital course looks at the conceptual and technical approaches to transitioning between still photography and video, and how to use them to create effective time-based artworks. Topics will include: photo montage, time-lapse, stop motion, sound, full-fledged video recording, editing strategies, and online presentation. The course is structured, but will also provide focused time for students’ own creative, time-based, lens-gathered work.
Currently, with a flick of a switch, an artist can move between taking a still photograph and capturing an HD video. This simple switch to video belies how dramatically different the challenges are to working with time-based media. Issues of camera movement, timing, sequencing, structure, and sound are suddenly present. Different viewing venues and audiences also become important factors. This course will start its journey with sequential still photography techniques and end with cinema. It is most appropriate for artists comfortable with digital still photography, but interested in exploring the area of expressive cinematic arts. As well as being pertinent to photographers interested in documentary or narrative forms, the course would be of great interest to artists working in the areas of performance, choreography, installation, animation, and media for online venues.
For more information on the course: Current Course Info
Artist’s Website: danwbailey.com
Posted in Penland 2013
Looks like I will be teaching a digital photography Class at Penland School this coming Summer 2013. I’m looking forward to it. It is a great match in that two commissioned media works that I am creating for the school will exhibited there at the same time. The works, Looking Up | Looking Down, are for the show 0 to 60: the Experience of Time Through Contemporary Art, which is co-organized by Penland School of Crafts and the North Carolina Museum of Art. For more information on this major 2013 exhibition and the commissioned works you can check out the earlier post or read a blog that documents the process, www.danwbailey.com.
Posted in Penland 2013
Co-organized by the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) and the Penland School of Crafts, 0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art, is a collaborative, cross-disciplinary exhibition that explores the intersection of time with art, craft, and design.
As part of this major exhibition, Dan Bailey is one of four artists selected to do a month-long residency at Penland creating a two-part site-specific installation tentatively entitled, Looking Up | Looking Down. The bulk of this work will happen during the summer of 2012. In addition, Dan will be creating similar works for the NCMA’s exhibition as well as for their Park Pictures billboards. Read More…
Posted in Penland 2013
Mardi Gras World, New Orleans, LA. 2009, Dan Bailey
Digital Photography: Landscapes of Place, Community, and Culture
Conveying a sense of space and emotion in imagery is an age-old challenge and desire. Using a foreign landscape (Italy) is an excellent vehicle for learning to see, record, and make meaning of places, communities and cultures. These skills, when translated back to the familiar worlds of home, allow an image-maker to be an astute observer and communicator. Read More…
Posted in ECU Italy Course Fall 2011
My smart alec tech-savvy son sent me this link with the header, “So are you going to take a field-trip to France and do THIS in your class?” Well….?
Humor and a digital lab work well together.
Posted in ECU Italy Course Fall 2011
Class Demo Option #4*
Much of my own digital photography work is making panoramas that are “stitched” together from separate pictures. This technique allows you the most control and gives you ability to create full 360 degree panoramas for immersive “virtual-reality” effects. We will demo this technique and those who are interested can follow up on it.
Short Video on Making a Panorama
I found this short video that shows the process of creating a full 360/180 degree panorama. It’s by Eric Rougier who is a terrific panorama geek from France. His website is FromParis.com. Read More…
Posted in ECU Italy Course Fall 2011
The Rest is Gravy Along the Way
Class Demo Option #3*
When Sara Bailey licked cancer in the early 1990s her line about life was “The rest is gravy along the way.” This is a photo mosaic portrait of her weed-whacking along one of the ways of her many flower gardens. Read More…
Posted in ECU Italy Course Fall 2011
Orion and the Penland Cows
Class Demo Option #2*
This is a photo mosaic that I put together years ago at Penland. The idea of building up larger images from smaller ones has always been an interest of mine. They don’t always need to be stitched together into seamless images. This technique is done by hand using paper prints. Each image is cut out and then slowly arranged and glued down to make one image. Read More…
Posted in ECU Italy Course Fall 2011
Target: Penland School
Class Demo Option #1*
At some point during the course we will definitely work with taking photographs at night and working with “light painting”. For this image of Penland School, I made a number of overall exposures and combined them with 2 hours of light painting to create the concentric circles and to bring out the building. It took most of a night to complete it. Read More…
Posted in ECU Italy Course Fall 2011
