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Course Syllabus
Online
Syllabus (this page):
http://www.basearts.com/L2-pages/currentsyllabi2.html
Outline: http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/DigPhotoOutline.htm
DESCRIPTION:
This course is an introduction to approaches and techniques of digital
imaging with a focus on the use of the digital camera and Adobe Photoshop.
The course will cover the technical and practical aspects of the digital
camera, and the use of image editing software (Adobe Photoshop), covering
traditional darkroom concerns and exploring the technical particulars
and aesthetic potential of digital photography.
This course will present and overview of digital imaging techniques
as applied to the art of photography. Traditional and new electronic
photographic methods are studied as a vehicle to understand the implication
of this medium as an art form. Emphasis is placed on the creative process
while exploring electronic image making as a means of communication
used by contemporary artists.
Outcomes and Objectives:
Explore digital photography.
Understanding and applicable use of the tools of digital and electronic
photography.
Employ creative thinking skills in assessing visual images
Develop skills in manipulating photo images with new tools
Examing past work for aesthetic and technical mastery.
Practice aesthetic criticism
Topics
and Scope:
Synthesize digital tool manipulation with photographic images.
Produce work using a variety of digital equipment.
Investigate how digital tools change photographic images.
Analyze the work of current artists and designers using these tools.
Assignments:
1. Scanning Techniques
2. Digital Camera Operations *manual
3. File Management Practices
4. Printing Procedures
5. Text and Image, Alternative approaches to graphic use of photographic
materials
6. Presentation Methods *Web/Internet
Recommended Technical Texts:
"Photoshop
CS3 for Windows and Macintosh", Elaine
Weinmann, Peter Lourekas, Peachpit Press 2007
www.peachpit.com
"Photoshop
CS2 for Windows and Macintosh", Elaine
Weinmann, Peter Lourekas, Peachpit Press 2005
www.peachpit.com
"The Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital
Photographers", Scott Kelby, New
Riders Publishing, 2007
www.scottkelbybooks.com
"The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital
Photographers", Scott Kelby, New
Riders Publishing, 2005
www.scottkelbybooks.com
Alternate
Technical Texts:
Photography, Barbara London,
John Upton, Ken Kobre, Betsy Brill, Prentice Hall
Photography, Revised Edition,
Henry Horenstein, Russell Hart Prentice Hall
"The Photoshop Book for digital photographers",
Scott Kelby, New Riders Publishing, 2003
www.scottkelbybooks.com
Required Supplies / Equipment:
A 2 Megapixel (or greater) digital camera is required.
Students
are required to obtain backup media to store class example files and
work in progress.
Optional
media types are:
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100MB/250 Mb Zip disks
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CD ROM/DVD-R, Write-once or Re Writable: Approx. capacity 700+MB
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Flash cards, memory sticks, etc..
Students
are also required to have an e-mail account. This can be accessed
through the lab and may be a free account like those available from
Hotmail, Yahoo, Freemail, Excite, etc. The instructor will assist
students in obtaining an e-mail account if necessary. Students
will be expected to check this e-mail account at least twice a week. General
class announcements will be reported via e-mail.
EVALUATION:
20%
of student grades will be based on class participation. Students must
attend class in order to effectively participate.
70%
of student grades will be based on the completion of assignments. These
assignments will not be graded for skill or content, but will be evaluated
for technical completion.
10%
of the student grade will be determined by the final portfolio presentation.
ATTENDANCE
POLICY:
Students
are expected to attend all of every class meeting unless they have
received prior permission from the instructor. Attendance will be taken
at the beginning of each class meeting. Anyone absent when attendance
is taken will be assumed absent from the class. If you
are late to class it is your responsibility to make sure your attendance
is acknowledged by talking to the instructor.
If
you are intending to drop the class, please notify the instructor. You
should not assume that the instructor will automatically drop you because
of absences. If you stop attending classes and you do not
drop the class, and the instructor has not dropped you from the class;
the instructor may be required to give you a grade of F for the class.
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