SYLLABUS

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Course Description:

Explore the technical and aesthetic possibilities of digital photography. This one-week intensive covers basic camera operation: shutter speeds, apertures, focal lengths, composition, uploading files to the computer, enhancing images, and printing. Critique your work by analyzing the elements of your photographs. Assignments, lectures, and presentations on historical and contemporary photography expand your understanding of the technical and aesthetic possibilities of digital photography.

Course Objectives: 

This course will offer a theoretical, technical, and aesthetic foundation in digital photography.  By the end of the semester, students will not only have a basic understanding of how to work with photographs in a digital environment, but they will be able to incorporate compositional skills and technical elements into creating their own visual ideas.

At the conclusion of this course, the student will be able to:

·      Understand the technical fundamentals behind digital photography

·      Comprehend and utilize the functions of a digital camera

·      Compose and properly expose intriguing images

·      Transfer images and properly store/organize images on your computer

·      Enhance photographs by learning the basics of Adobe Photoshop

·      Prepare images for output

                  ·      Produce quality digital prints

 

Scott Kelby The Digital Photography Book Part 4, New Riders, March 2012  ~$13

Bryan Peterson Understanding Exposure 3^rd Edition: How To Shoot Great Photographs With Any Camera, Amphoto Books, August 2010 ~$16

Syl Arena Speedliter's Handbook: Learning to Craft Light with Canon Speedlites, Peachpit Press, December 2010 ~$26

Martin Evening Adobe Photoshop CS6 for Photographers, Focal Press, May 2012  ~$32

Scott Kelby The Adobe Photoshop CS6 Book for Digital Photographers, New Riders, July 2012 ~$32

Adobe Creative Team Adobe Photoshop CS6 Classroom In A Book, Adobe Press, June 2012  ~$29

Elaine Weinmann & Peter Lourekas Photoshop CS6, Visual QuickStart Guide, June 2012  ~$24