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VCT 1071 - Introduction to Digital Photography

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture NoneLab None
Course Description: This course provides opportunities to explore composition techniques while employing fundamental photography concepts. Students will have the opportunity to explore the digital manipulation of images using various techniques. Students are required to furnish their own manual exposure digital camera and memory cards.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
  1. Adding frames to images
  2. Adding the element of reflection
  3. Advantages of the Raw format
  4. Aperture
  5. Camera settings
  6. Correctly exposing an image
  7. Creating abstract photographs
  8. Exploring camera angles
  9. Exploring symmetry in photography
  10. Exploring types of low-light photography
  11. ISO
  12. Operating a digital single lens reflex camera
  13. Photographing architecture
  14. Photographing shadows
  15. Processing Raw images
  16. Properly exposing for a true silhouette
  17. Purchasing a digital single lens reflex camera
  18. Shutter speed
  19. Using Rules-of-Thirds for composition
  20. Using eye-lines to add interest
  21. Using shutter speeds to enhance action photography
  22. Web albums

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. operate a digital single lens reflex camera.
  2. recognize images that are marketable in the professional photography field.
  3. compose images using symmetry.
  4. compose images using eye-lines
  5. capture images of reflections.
  6. expose images of silhouettes.
  7. capture images of architecture.
  8. capture abstract images.
  9. capture images of shadows.
  10. expose digital images with and without an 18% grey card.
  11. recite Shutter Speed, Aperture, and ISO settings.
  12. capture action images using slow or fast shutter speeds.
  13. apply principles of depth of field.
  14. test a digital single lens reflex camera¿s ISO setting.
  15. articulate the advantages of the Raw format.
  16. capture images in the Raw format.
  17. process images using Camera Raw.
  18. make contact sheets
  19. calculate equivalent exposures.
  20. compose images with varied camera angles.
  21. compose images using the framing technique.
  22. compose images using the rule-of-thirds technique.
  23. capture images of architecture
  24. expose low-light images
  25. perform local and global corrections using editing software.


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