Course Description
Digital photography with an emphasis on field experience, utilizing images to engage conceptual content. Techniques will include camera controls, composition, quality of light, editing, and printing. The work of other photographers will be covered with related assignments that directly engage the field experience.
Athena Title
Intro Photography Field Work
Semester Course Offered
Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
This course is designed to introduce students to the art and techniques of digital photography in field experience. Techniques are taught through technical exercises that revolve around composing in the camera, image capture, editing and printing. Slide lectures and classroom discussions will expose the students to the historical, technical and contemporary aspects of the art of photography. Students will be required to engage assignment topics and present their work in the context of historical and contemporary practices withing the medium. In presenting his/her photographs each student will be expected to assimilate and analyze the topic of the assignment and present the work orally as well as through various modes and media, including photographic prints and digital projections. Students will be expected to engage other students' work with dialogue that is stylistically appropriate and mature. During critiques students will learn to communicate for academic and professional contexts, supporting a consistent purpose and point of view while considering and engaging opposing points of view. Students will be required to interpret inferences within each photograph being discussed, developing subtleties of symbolic and indirect discourse.
Topical Outline
•Techniques of digital photography, including aperture and shutter controls, image size and quality, image adjustments, and printing. •Visual acuity, including composition, quality of light, decisive moment. •Tools and techniques in the practice of working in the field. •Introduction to the work of other photographers. •Regular individual and group critiques on each student’s work.