Photography
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Course Syllabus
Students will be provided with the basic fundamental skills necessary to take photos and process black and white film. Proper darkroom techniques will be introduced and practiced for the printing process. Advanced students will explore more specific types of photographic manipulation and processing. Students will learn about photographic elements of art and principles of design, composition, and lighting. They will explore the history of photography, learning about its scientific and technological developments, important innovators in the field, and relevance within diverse cultural contexts.
Students will write and speak about aesthetic, technical and expressive qualities in a photograph, learning to critique their own and others work. Students learn image techniques and digital manipulation using Pixlr online software, teaching them how to archive, organize and optimize their photographs for print or web purposes. Students will learn how to manage and creatively alter digital images as well as critically analyze the use of visual media as a means of communication in our society today. They will be provided a greater level of autonomy, expected to pursue their own interests and develop an individual voice. Students will explore the significance of photography with in the larger context of the art word, and learn about the critical and varied application it has to the modern working world.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Upon Completion of this course, students will:
– Understand technical and aesthetic differences between traditional and digital photography.
– Make informed choices about composition when photographing and editing Traditional and digital images.
– Make informed choices about appropriate technologies for use in a variety of photographic assignments
– Analyze and discuss complex ideas in works of art and photography.
– Create original works of art of increasing complexity and skill that reflect their feelings and point of view.
– Describe the relationship involving the art maker, the process, the product and the viewer.
– Demonstrate proper camera and film processing techniques in production of a work of art
– Understand and utilize the steps in the creative process
– Realize the vast amount of career choices in the visual arts.
-Produce an accomplished portfolio of work.
Possible topics include:
History and Invention in Photography
Lecture and Discussion: Pioneers and Early Techniques
Invention and key terminology
Slide Show
Assignment: Photogram
Assignment: Pin-Hole Camera construction and use
Quiz
Learning digital Image Manipulation
File Management
Learning the Digital workspace
Toolbar and Option Bar
Image Adjustments
Basic Photo Retouching
Saving and sizing image
Image Output
Photoshop Techniques
Learn a variety of Photoshop techniques
Assignments: Triptychs, Diptychs, Pop Art, Mirror Imagery
Grading rubric, writing critique, peer critique and self assessment
Photographer Research
Discussion, Lecture and Slide Show on photographers past and present
Project: Photographer Research Project with presentation to share with class
Grading rubric, peer critique, and self assessment
Assignment: Re-create a Photograph Research and evaluate a variety of photography from books, magazines and Internet to generate ideas
Assignment: Re-create an existing photograph
Grading rubric, peer critique and self assessment
Exposure and Light Metering
Learn photography vocabulary: aperture, shutter speed, ISO
Demonstrate proper camera and film processing techniques in production of a work of art
Shooting assignment: Texture
Quiz, grading rubric, peer critique and self assessment
Lenses and Optics
Learning about focal lengths
Lenses and f stop numbers
Science of Optics
Quiz
Composition and Learning How to See
Ways to get images with strong composition
Samples of good composition
Shooting Assignment: Shadows and Light
Shooting assignment: Alternative camera angles
Shooting assignment: Framing a subject
Critiquing, analyzing and evaluating photography
Critique Writing
Grading rubric, peer critique and self assessment
Lighting Techniques
Natural vs. Artificial Lighting
Demonstration
Use of Reflectors
Lighting with “hot lights”
Assignment: Natural Light Portrait with reflector
Grading rubric, writing critique peer critique and self assessment
Self Portraits
Learn self-timer camera controls
Explore work by photographers
Realistic vs. conceptual representation
Incorporate words and imagery
Shooting assignment: Self Portrait with describing words
Shooting assignment: Conceptual self-portrait
Grading rubric, writing critique, peer critique and self assessment
Blending Art and Photography
Students learn about Surrealism, Pop Art, Cubism, Photomontage, and Photo Painting
Explore the concept of mixing mediums
Assignment: (DR)Extending a Photograph with Mixed Media
Assignment: Create a work of Surrealism using Photography, Photoshop and Internet
Assignment: (DR) Cubism: Make a Face
Teacher grading rubric, peer critique and self assessment
ADVANCED PHOTOGRAPHY
Course Objectives:
Upon Completion of this course, students will:
-Refine and improved basic techniques of image exposure,
-Proficiency with and command of Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom
-Master Image compositing and manipulation
-Understand how to use a flash and studio lighting techniques to control and manipulate artificial light
-Apply vocabulary and techniques of selected alternative processes Identify, describe and analyze photographers, styles and genres
-Understand the relationships between multiple images and sequencing of images
-Develop knowledge of various forms of image presentation and understand the impact presentation can have on the meaning of images
-Organize selected images into a final artistic creation in conjunction with a reflective critique process in which the student is able to synthesize his/her conceptual idea, decision-making and final output.
-Create a cohesive body of exhibition quality work that collectively explores an idea or concept and be able to explain the significance of subject, form, presentation and meaning of student’s own work and the work of others.
Sample Assignments
Creative compositions
Photo Series
Mirror Image
External Flash Techniques:
Portraiture (both strobes, on-location, environmental)
Location Lighting
Beauty Retouching
Advertising Photography using strobes or on location
Self Portrait Exploration
Day in the Life of Me Photo Essay
Advanced Painting with light techniques
Theme based photo series
Social Documentary
Action and Motion techniques
Landscape and Nature Photography
Personal and class photography Exhibit
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