These parameters, as we see in the CICERO courses, are aperture, shutter speed and ISO.

Quick resume: aperture = amount of light; shutter speed = time of exposure; ISO = sensor/film sensitivity.

The best way to master these parameters is through practice. Take your camera, select the manual mode and try to modify them to see how they affects to your picture (you may take the shoot to see it). Sometimes taking a look to our camera’s instructions is a great way to understand our device.

But, what if we don’t have a camera which let us to modify these values? How can we get familiar with them? There are some free tools that, although they are not going to provide us the experience of taking pictures, they will make it easier to understand how photography works (or how these parameters work).

This is possible thanks to some “photography simulators”. Here we show you a free simulator from Canon that let us to “experiment” with aperture, shutter speed and ISO values, revealing to us (after clicking on the “virtual shoot” button) the picture result of the values we decided.

LET’S TRY: http://www.canonoutsideofauto.ca/play/

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The course was structured in two stages of 32 hours each one: a first “in-person” stage that took place from October 26^th to November 9^th, and a second distance learning stage; from November 10^th to November 19^th.

The face-to-face training was restricted to 15 students in order to ensure all the safety measures for COVID-19 prevention. A total of 45 participants enrolled in the course: 15 pupils for the on-site stage, and 30 users for the e-learning in the Moodle platform.

As usual, these groups of participants, as all the people who showed interest in the course, were a reflection of the range of people covered by Arrabal-AID. But also of the greatwork that our spanish partner does, striving towards the involvement of people from different social circumstances.

This is also a mirror of the society we live in where it is more and more necessary to have a proper knowledge of digital competences. Most of the students that attend the course are people who struggle with new technologies (including ‘digital natives’). They barely know how to use it, so they cannot work with it confidently and they complain that they cannot manage themselves when ‘something unexpected occurs’ or that they do not know how to use ‘some software’ beyond its basic tools.

As before, the face-to-face stage combined in-class lectures with outdoor practices. We redesigned the course schedule to take the most the sunlight during the outdoor practises. Due to the intensive qualities of this stage, the course kept the structure of 50% lectures and 50% practice, but now we organized some sessions to be entirely outdoors.

The photography assignments for this second edition were fully focused on elements of cultural interest of Málaga, looking forward to the ‘Open Photo Contest’ which is under development and will be launched in the near future.

So we established paths of cultural heritage attending to two main factors: the time we had  to complete the path, and that these elements were not placed in narrow alleys. So we designed the path looking for heritage that were placed in wide-open spaces. Some of them had to be interesting locations to phograph during the daylight; and others during the night.

Students were able to know about many other locations of cultural interest through the official website of Cultural Heritage in Málaga: http://cultura.malaga.eu/es/patrimonio/ , where they can design their own paths. The main subjects of our path were the Roman Theatre, the Alcazaba, the Incarnation Cathedral, the Episcopal Palace, the Museum of Málaga and The Lighthouse among others.

The e-learning stage provided access to 30 students more to the Moodle platform where they could find all the documentation about the course, as well as different assignments to prove the learned competences. At the same time, our mentor worked to provide suplementary information such as references and examples from photography or recommended books.

During the distance students had the opportunity to participate in a virtual meeting with our mentor. This was one of the ways to offer a closer mentoring. Students participated actively, exposing individualized issues that were realated to common ones. Seeing photographies of each one of our students provided them the abilities to provided constructive commentaries about others work.

The participative attitude of our students amazed us. They were plenty of questions and so filled with the desire to learn more and more about photography and digital devices. Also they were very respectful with all the COVID prevention measures.

Each one of the participants who completed the course in any of both stages have received a certificate of course completion, providing and accreditation of the successful conclusion of the CICERO program.

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European Heritage, Dialogue and Digital Practices focuses on the intersection of heritage, dialogue and digital culture in the context of Europe. Responding to the increased emphasis on the potential for heritage and digital technologies to foster dialogue and engender communitarian identities in Europe, the book explores what kind of role digital tools, platforms and practices play in supporting and challenging dialogue about heritage in the region.

Drawing on fieldwork involving several European museums and heritage organisations, the chapters in this volume critically engage with the role of digital technology in heritage work and its association with ideas of democratisation, multivocality and possibilities for feedback and dialogic engagement in the emerging digital public sphere. The book also provides a framework for understanding dialogue in relation to other commonly used approaches in heritage institutions, such as participation, engagement and intercultural exchange. The authors map out the complex landscape of digitally mediated heritage practices in Europe, both official and unofficial, by capturing three distinct areas of practice: perceptions and applications of digitally mediated dialogues around heritage within European museums and cultural policy, facilitation of dialogue between European museums and communities through participatory design approaches and non-official mobilisation of heritage on social media.

European Heritage, Dialogue and Digital Practices will be of interest to both scholars and students in the fields of heritage and museum studies, digital heritage, media studies and communication, the digital humanities, sociology and memory studies. The book will also appeal to policy makers and professionals working in a variety of different fields.

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At a time when traveling is very restrictive, seeing all these photographs reminds us of the trips we made and planning the next ones.MIRA Mobile Prize 2020

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In this first edition, 68 works and 700 catalogs were sold, which meant a collection of 42,000 euros. This money was directed entirely and equitably to four NGOs with which it had previously decided to collaborate:

• Sohram-Casra in Diyarbakir (Turkey)
• Il gattaro d’Aleppo in Aleppo (Syria)
• Jugend Rettet in the Mediterranean
• Elea Project in Athens (Greece)

At the end of the first edition of PHES, the desire arises not only to raise funds to help these organizations, but also to bring photography directly to these people who, by necessity, are in a place of transit.

Thus, between December 2017 and March 2018, PHES travels to four countries: Greece, Spain, Serbia and Turkey, where photography workshops are held with refugees and migrants, who were provided with disposable cameras so that they could tell how a day of his life in that space they inhabit after having fled their country and that has nothing to do with their true home. On this occasion, the cities and organizations chosen were:

• Project Elea in Athens (Greece)
• New Century Vision Association in Malaga (Spain)
• Sohram-Casra in Diyarbakir (Turkey)
• No Name Kitchen in Sid (Serbia)

These trips and photographs have been collected in 33,293, a photobook in which around 80 migrants have participated, to whom we have been able to give voice and put a face; and in a traveling exhibition.

In order to carry out this new initiative, photographers Colita, Javier Vallhonrat, Cristina de Middel, José Manuel Navia, Carlos Pérez Siquier and Ferrán Freixá donated one of their works to PHES. These photographs were raffled, raising the nearly € 6000 with which the trips were financed.

This project has been carried out thanks to the support and collaboration of Fujifilm, which has provided us with all the photographic material necessary for the trips as well as the production of a traveling exhibition.

After the success of the first edition of PHES we decided to organize a second edition.

The exhibition took place between September 20 and October 10, 2018, again at the TAI University Center for Arts in Madrid and this time featured the works of 99 contemporary photographers. Between the works and the catalog of this second edition we have raised € 30,000 that this time have been destined to:

• Maydayterraneo (Mediterranean)
• Proactiva Open Arms (Mediterranean)
• Sons of War (Syria)
• No Name Kitchen (Serbia, Bosnia and Rome)
• NASCO Feeding Minds (Ghana)

After this second one, PHES has continued offering workshops, along the same lines that were carried out on the trips, together with the Tomillo and Pinardi Foundations, where we have worked respectively with Gypsy and Moroccan women; and with young refugees. Just as PHES is in constant movement, our actions are also transforming as we are presented with the possibility of collaborating with organizations to continue putting the photographic image at the service of those who need it most.

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Absolutely no increase in recent years. All services have kept the same amount of GB available for free and even Microsoft’s OneDrive has reduced it from 15 GB to 5 GB. What the services have done is to add more features to their platforms, such as free photo upload or extra tools:

Where’s the cheapest GB?

We leave you the most popular and open source options to specify your images and documents in the cloud:

Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/
Microsoft OneDrive: https://onedrive.live.com/
Google Drive: https://www.google.es /drive/apps.html
Apple iCloud: https://www.icloud.com/
Mega: https://mega.nz
Amazon Drive: https://www.amazon.com/b?node=15547130011
Caja: https://www.box.com/es-419/home

Open source options:

Own Cloud: https://owncloud.org/
Pydio: https://pydio.com/
LinShare: https://www.linshare.org/en/index.html

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The quarantine caused by the COVID-19 epidemic has left millions of people unable to leave their homes. Here we leave you a leisure option to distract you that will keep you entertained in a good time, in addition to increasing your knowledge of art.

This is Google Arts & Culture, a web page of the famous search engine, also available in an application, where you can discover works, heritage monument,  and art collections from around the world from your sofa.

It is a project carried out in collaboration with more than 250 art institutions around the world, and that has tens of miles of works of art by more than six thousand artists, as described on its website.

Also, you can turn your photos into works of art

Google offers us a new specific function ‘Art Transfer’ that allows us to apply a photo of our style to some of the most famous paintings in history.

This feature is already available in the ‘Google Arts & Culture’ application for iOS as Android.

If you like the twist of the whirling movement of Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings or the surreal brushstrokes of Frida Kahlo, you can now use the most recognizable styles of the most famous artists to transform your own photos.

The new ‘Art Transfer’ function of the Google Arts & Culture application allows you to take a photo (or use one of the ones you have stored) and transform it into a classic work of art. The process for this is identical on both platforms and, as we will see below, it is quite simple:

1. Open the Google Arts & Culture app.
2. Within the ‘Camera’ menu, which you will find in the bottom bar, select “Art Transfer”.
3. Capture a photo or upload one that you have stored on your phone.
4. Select one of the masterpieces to transfer that style to your image.
5. If you want to further customize your image, you can use the scissor icon to select where in the image you want the style to apply.
6. When you are satisfied with your work, click on ‘Share’ and you can save it to your phone or share it through different applications. The result can be saved / shared as a still image or as a GIF showing the transformation.

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Students were very active, with a really participative attitude, letting us to know every question they had and each issues they found while approaching the different tools, such as photo editing tools (Pixlr E).

Notwithstanding the difficulties, we found really satisfactory results while reviewing students’ knowledge and assignments. All participants who have completed the course have received a certificate accrediting the completion of questionnaires and activities of the CICERO program.

PARTICIPANTS PICTURES

More pictures here

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