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Mar 15, 2025
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PHOT 1071 - Introduction to Professional Photography Credits: 3 Hours/Week: Lecture 2 Lab 2 Course Description: This course provides opportunities to explore fundamental photography techniques and careers in event, location, and product photography. Topics include digital creation and manipulation of images using various techniques. Students are required to furnish a DSLR or mirrorless camera and memory cards. MnTC Goals None
Prerequisite(s): None Corequisite(s): None Recommendation: None
Major Content
- Purchasing professional camera equipment
- Operating professional cameras
- ISO expansion
- Live View
- selective focus control
- long exposure techniques
- professional techniques and content
- proper use of photographic lens filters.
- Correctly exposing an image
- Shutter speed
- Aperture
- ISO
- Composition
- Raw format
Learning Outcomes At the end of this course students will be able to:
- operate professional cameras.
- expose digital images with and without an 18% grey card.
- analyze shutter speed, aperture, and ISO settings
- capture action images using slow or fast shutter speeds.
- apply principles of depth of field.
- compare professional cameras’ ISO settings.
- articulate the advantages of the Raw format.
- capture images in the Raw format.
- process images using industry-standard editing applications.
- calculate equivalent exposures.
- recognize images that are marketable in the professional photography field.
- expose low-light images.
- implement ISO expansion.
- demonstrate the professional benefits of Live View.
- articulate the importance of camera metering modes.
- demonstrate selective focus control.
- demonstrate proper use of photographic lens filters.
- evaluate careers in professional photography.
- capture images using professional techniques and content.
- employ long exposure techniques.
Competency 1 (1-6) None Competency 2 (7-10) None Courses and Registration
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