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Nov 21, 2024
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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
- Adding frames to images
- Adding the element of reflection
- Advantages of the Raw format
- Aperture
- Camera settings
- Correctly exposing an image
- Creating abstract photographs
- Exploring camera angles
- Exploring symmetry in photography
- Exploring types of low-light photography
- ISO
- Operating a digital single lens reflex camera
- Photographing architecture
- Photographing shadows
- Processing Raw images
- Properly exposing for a true silhouette
- Purchasing a digital single lens reflex camera
- Shutter speed
- Using Rules-of-Thirds for composition
- Using eye-lines to add interest
- Using shutter speeds to enhance action photography
- Web albums
Learning Outcomes At the end of this course students will be able to:
- operate a digital single lens reflex camera.
- recognize images that are marketable in the professional photography field.
- compose images using symmetry.
- compose images using eye-lines
- capture images of reflections.
- expose images of silhouettes.
- capture images of architecture.
- capture abstract images.
- capture images of shadows.
- expose digital images with and without an 18% grey card.
- recite Shutter Speed, Aperture, and ISO settings.
- capture action images using slow or fast shutter speeds.
- apply principles of depth of field.
- test a digital single lens reflex camera¿s ISO setting.
- articulate the advantages of the Raw format.
- capture images in the Raw format.
- process images using Camera Raw.
- make contact sheets
- calculate equivalent exposures.
- compose images with varied camera angles.
- compose images using the framing technique.
- compose images using the rule-of-thirds technique.
- capture images of architecture
- expose low-light images
- perform local and global corrections using editing software.
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