SANTA ANA COLLEGE PHOTOGRAPHY 180 # 87426 BEGINNING PHOTOGRAPHY SYLLABUS FALL – 2014 Monday 5 - 10:25 PM Cesar Chavez Bldg. RM A-219
INSTRUCTOR: Eizabeth DiGiovanni E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (714) 564-5600 (Fine Arts Office)
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This is a beginning photography course. In this class, you will become familiar with different kinds of cameras, lenses, light meters, digital photography, basic camera functions, white balance, Adobe Photoshop CS6, composition, lighting, inkjet printing and print presentation. The method of instruction is through lecture, demonstration, power points and critiques of the students work. Hopefully, you will develop a refined aesthetic knowledge of great photography as a way of visually communicating. In addition, you will become technically proficient with your camera, its controls and how those controls affect the quality of your final image.
Materials Fee: $15.00
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES:
1. Using basic camera functions such as shutter speeds and f-stops students successfully creat a series of images to demonstrate their ability to control the look fo motion and depth of field. 2. Using basic prinsciples of lighting and posing techniques, students will produce a series of window light portraits that demonstrate their ability to see and utilize light in order to compliment the features of their subject comparable to the minimum standards of a professional portrait studio. 3. Utilizing equipment in the computer labs, students will produce quality photographic prints. 4. Using basic visual conecpts including compostional guidelines, students will produce images in the studio or their personal environments that demonstrate their ability to communicate ideas pictorially based on professionally accepted criteria.
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STUDENT PROJECTS:
1. COMPOSITION – After viewing a power point on composition, students will create images demonstrating the elements of composition. Instructor will orient students with the Computer Lab for the completion of the assignment. Basic image capture and printing techniques in Adobe Photoshop CS6 will be covered. 100 pts 2. B&W VS. COLOR CONVERSION – Students will pick several images and convert them from color to B&W using Photoshop CS6. 100 pts 3. PEOPLE in THEIR ENVIRONMENT – This assignment will acquaint the student with basic camera shooting techniques, such as setting the correct shutter speed, f-stop # on the aperture, and ISO #. Equivalent exposures will be introduced. Student will photograph people in their environment. Further instruction of Adobe CS6 will be continued. Several prints will be made. 100 pts. Or LANDSCAPE – This assignment is involved with both natural and manmade landscapes using basic compositional techniques. 4. DEPTH OF FIELD – This assignment will introduce the student to the camera lens, how the aperture size controls the final image, and equivalent exposures. One photograph will demonstrate maximum depth of field and the other will be minimum depth of field. 100 pts 5. MOTION – This assignment will introduce the student to the shutter speed controls, how they control or effect motion with respect to the final image, and equivalent exposures. In this assignment, the student will hand in three photographs that are mounted. One will demonstrate capturing or stopping fast action, the other will show blurred action and the final photograph will demonstrate panning. These should be of the same subject and will all be printed approximately 3.5x5 on one 8.5 x 11 print. 100 pts 6. WINDOW LIGHT PORTRAIT – This assignment involves creating a formal head and shoulders portrait using minimal equipment (directional diffuse light from a window). An additional photograph will be made of an informal portrait. Two Part assignment. 100 pts 7. MULTIPLE IMAGE or NARRATIVE – This assignment consists of a larger project with multiple images that are either a series or narrtive that also takes into account visual display in it’s presentation 200 pts 8. FINAL EXAM. 100 pts
All assignments should have your name, class day and time, instructors name, and the assignment title and SAC written legibly on the BACK of the matte board.
2 MATERIALS LIST:
1. An adjustable DSLR camera. The camera should have both automatic and manual controls of focus, aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. 2. Memory card 3. Flash drive (jump drive or thumb drive) 4. Double sided tape 5. Mat board: 11x14 in white or black 10 board minimum
SUPPLIES: You will be purchasing inkjet photo paper, mount board and other miscellaneous materials listed above. The college will furnish all necessary inks, software, and computer facilities.
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