Overview of Course Topics
Warmup exercises, modes of image-making, assignments:
- Exploring conceptual opposites
- Contemplative approaches to visual seeing and photography
- Literal versus figurative
- Review camera techniques as required
- Printing review
Inspiration from others
- Photo in America Now
- Call and Response assignment
Using lighting
- Make-shift outdoor lighting approaches and assignment
Some alternate modes of image making
- Realist versus haptic visual languages
- Cyanotypes
Semester-long Project
Planning the longer Project:
- Research and choice of subject
- What other photographers are doing
- Access to subject, logistics
- Initial shooting, exploring possible modes of image making
- Working out technical concerns, equipment, etc.
- Initial critique and feedback
Shooting the project
- Scheduling, subjects, locations, logistics
- Shooting sessions
- Reviews/critiques
- Reshoots/refinements
Editing the project
- Initial edits: rank and sort
- Photoshop work (we will cover more advanced editing approaches)
- Reviews/critiques
- Reshoots/refinements
- Final edit
Presenting the project
- Output/printing
- Refining the digital print
- Scale and resolution concerns for printing multiple sizes
- Presentation
Artist Statement
Final portfolio
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