Faculty Feature: Jayson Bimber discusses Workflow for Image Makers

Workflow for Image Makers by Jayson Bimber

Hi!  I am a visiting lecturer at RIT this year and an alumnus from the RIT Photo MFA program. One of the courses that I am teaching this semester is Workflow for Image Makers. This course is designed for graduate students in the photography program and is designed  for students to learn and refine their digital imaging workflows beginning from capture, including image editing in Adobe® Photoshop and culminating in a final print.

The class began with the students dissecting the visual differences they observed when using analog capture and then scanning when compared to a digital RAW capture. Each approach was undertaken using a color managed environment. The class then worked on the image editing workflow using global adjustments, local adjustments, masking, smart objects, compositing, and retouching.

This week we are beginning the third assignment, titled Controlling P. For this assignment, each of the graduate students received a packet of paper featuring a selection of various inkjet papers. To complete the assignment, students are required to download the ICC profile from the manufacture’s website for their paper and then print the same photograph on each.

Last week( November 8, 2018), the class made the photograph that will  be printed on each sheet, our so called “family portrait”. After this picture is printed on the nearly 100 sheets of various glossy, luster, matte, coated, rag, smooth, textured, thick, and thin papers the class will better be able to assess the creative and archival features.

The graduate students in this class are Jiageng Lin, Gloria Gao,  Jin Chan, Kevin Wang,  Leah Zhang, and Granville Carroll.

About Jayson Bimber

Jason is a Visiting Lecturer at RIT Photo.

From his website, we learned, Jayson Bimber” sunburns easily and really likes soccer, bikes, hikes, and hot dogs.

Jayson began his education at Home Street Elementary School in Warren, PA. That school has since been torn to the ground. More recently, his research and image-making practice mostly concerns itself with post editing of photographs, that is exploring what a computer can do after the camera has created an image. This mostly employs digitally collaging and manipulating appropriated imagery from magazines, weekly advertisements, and found internet photographs to comment on representation and stereotype in the media and art history. He has a strong interest in the imaging of celebrities and pop culture.

Jayson frequently notes that if he had to go back and do it all over again, he would be a Harlem Globetrotter, specializing in spinning the ball on his finger and that his greatest regret is life is that he cannot dunk.
http://www.jaysonbimber.com/