Course Description
This course is designed to provide students with the photography skills to become proficient in the use of digital cameras. Topics include composition, file formats, quality settings, resolution, characteristics of light, controlling the shutter speed and aperture. Students will utilize their own digital cameras for assignments that require understanding and adjusting shutter speed and aperture, commonly identified by (M) Manual Mode, (S) or (TV) Shutter Speed Mode and (A) or (AV) Aperture Mode. Smart phones and/or tablets are not permitted. This class is geared toward the cultivation of work for inclusion in the student's final portfolio.
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Be able to identify different types of cameras and their features
- Be able to apply different file formats, quality settings and resolution to images
- Be able to perform advanced digital camera exposure techniques
- Be able to perform advanced digital camera lighting techniques
- Be able to compose photographs
- Be able to do basic correction or modification of photographic images using digital photo editing software
- Be able to formally analyze and critique photographs
General Education Distribution Area
AAS Technical Elective
Topical Outline
- Our Visual World - Camera Handling, Care, and Support
- Commercial Photography
- Lenses
- Light and Exposure
- Image Capture Media
- Making a Picture
- Making Exposure Decisions
- Action and Event Photography
- Outdoor Photography - Travel Photography
- Portrait and Studio Photography
- Image Input and Scanning
- Advanced Digital Darkroom
- Image Output and Presentations
- Final Portfolio