MATERIALS LIST Previous Experience Is Not Necessary

PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS │CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMS Course: IN 661AP Analog Photography for the Digital Age Instructor: R.A. Friedman Days/Dates: Six weeks, Wednesdays, July 11 – August 8 Time: 6 – 9 p.m. Location: Room 513, 5th Floor, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Bldg. 128 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102 Use School Entrance on Lenfest Plaza

MATERIALS LIST Previous experience is not necessary. Owning a film camera is encouraged. Students can discuss with the instructor via email prior to the class commencing.

Recommended Materials Approx. Cost 35mm or 120 roll film camera, preferably all manual. Variable* Hand-held light meter, if camera has none built in. Variable* Five rolls Tri-X (120 or 35mm depending on camera.) $ 35.00 Print File (120 or 35mm), 25 Sheet Pack (Can share with fellow $ 5.99 student). One pack Fuji Instax Wide Film (For in class work, lighting and $ 9.99 large-format.) Allowance for printer output at PAFA lab** $ 25.00 Total $ 74.98

*Feel free to email the instructor concerning the camera and meter you plan to use or are planning to purchase or with any other questions: [email protected]

** Students will receive information on how to pay for the inkjet prints they make.

Course Topics

1. Light sensitive Materials Theory and Practice: a short history of photography, how silver salts work, practical sensitometry, getting good exposures, and a common sense overview of The Zone System.

2. Using Film Cameras: Relationship of light quantity to ISO, f-stop and speeds, stopping motion, depth- of-focus, hyper-focal setting. Hands-on experiments with a fully adjustable instant film camera.

3. Working with artificial light sources: Interior and portrait lighting tools and techniques and film speed testing.

4. Developing Black and White Film without A Darkroom: Daylight tank development, streamlined; highly reliable methodology using non-toxic, coffee-based developer.

5. Scanning Black and White Negatives and Digital Printing: Using a flatbed scanner, dealing with low contrast and overexposed negatives, preparation for printing in Photoshop, printer profiles.

6. The Fine Print--Digital Printing II: The printing process as visual tool for creating a professional- looking body of work.