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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Digital Photography course is designed to develop your skills in the use of the smart phone as a photographic tool. You will learn how versatile your phone’s camera can be, techniques for taking better photos, and how to improve photos through digital tools such as Adobe Photoshop. As an introductory art course, you will be assessed not by tests or writing papers but by your visual work leading to a final portfolio of images. Your ability to grow in the medium, try on new ideas, learn to communicate using the language of photography, and to appreciate visual ideas and trends will all contribute to your final grade.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- To become proficient at the technical aspect of photographing with a smart phone and working with those images including digital editing, saving, sizing, posting and printing of those images.
- To learn to shoot with smart phone cameras, and learn to maximize the quality of the output from them.
- To appreciate the art of photography through the study of historic trends and compositional techniques.
- To develop the habit of looking closely at the visible world around you in order to represent it in terms of aesthetics and authenticity.
COURSE CONTENT
- Rethinking the selfie
- The ins and outs of smart phone cameras
- Basics of photographic composition
- How to correct photos in Adobe Photoshop
- Learning to see: shadows, light, details, depth of field, etc.
- Composited images, panoramas, HDR
- Photo journalistic techniques for capturing moments
- Creating a photographic portfolio
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