ART 144 - Digital Photography

 
Description
This course will provide students interested in photography with the fundamental principles of a captured image with a digital camera. Besides camera basics, other topics to be studied are: composition, aesthetics, legal and ethical considerations, advantages to conventional photography and creativity from camera to computer (the digital darkroom).

1. To operate the basic functions of a digital camera.
2. To employ current digital applications to a photographic image.
3. To make use of scanning and other capturing techniques in photography.
4. To illustrate digital refinement s to a photographic image.
5. To manipulate a digital image for the greater creative expression.
6. To handle storage (file) and management (retrieval) of digital images.
7. To select and adopt appropriate formats to a photographic image.
8. To recognize and demonstrate specific design elements in a photograph.

1. The basics of the digital camera – resolution, styles, types, formats, storage and accessories
2. Comparison between film and digital media – how to apply a variety of ways to enhance or create stylized, personalized or commercialized images

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