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T189 - Digital Photography Course (10)
Week Ten - Submitting your ECA
Finally after weeks following submission the result of assessment for the ECA panel has arrived. The student site gives you an update and a score a couple of weeks before you receive a letter with some feedback (very little) on the panel. Mainly words of positive encouragement and praise, but [...]
T189 - Digital Photography Course (9)
Week Nine - Sharing a panel of ten images and preparing for the ECA
I spent the week (liar! a couple of days) preparing for the ECA panel submission. This means selecting images and writing them up based on the material that has been studied for the past few weeks. I’m not sure just how proper/correct [...]
T189 - Digital Photography Course (8)
Week Eight - Critiquing and creativity
o What have you learnt?
o Commenting on and critiquing images
o Creative image making
Week eight was clearly designed to ‘making you see’ after looking at images (both your own and others). There’s a focus on light and the different types of light that fall on objects. This light can alter the [...]
T189 - Digital Photography Course (7)
Week Seven - Innovation in photographic imaging
o Technology and technique
o Composing an image to control its meaning
o Experimental photography
o Genre-established aesthetics
o Pop culture and post-modernism
o Visual culture and digital aesthetics
Actually, this sections has very little to do with a camera, but more with ART! Once the technicalities are understood then you’ll almost want to explore. [...]
T189 - Digital Photography Course (6)
Week Six - Printing and projecting your photos
o Display tecnologies
o Projection
o Printing technologies
o How long will my photos last
o Subtractive colour systems
o More printing
o Colour problems
o Adjusting your monitor
o Colour management
As the list above suggests this sessions was mainly concerned with the output of your work. Not just printing, but also displaying using modern methods [...]
T189 - Digital Photography Course (5)
Week Five - Undertsanding and using colour
o Let there be light
o Sensing colour: eye versus camera
o Sensors in the camera
o Colour perception: eye and brain together
o Composing colour photographs
o Colour in digital images
o Composing colour images
o Framing colour images
o Using Elements to adjust colour in digital images
o Exploiting the artist’s colour palette
There’re some odd activities [...]
T189 - Digital Photography Course (4)
Week Four - Focus and depth of field
o How lenses help gather and focus light
o What do we mean by focus
o Field of view and magnification
o Effective focal length and camera shake
o Optical and digital zoom
o Focal length and perspective
o Controlling depth of field
o Rescuing a poorly focussed image
o Putting it all together - some [...]
T189 - Digital Photography Course (3)
Week Three - Exposure
o How to virtually assess the exposure in an image
o Controlling image exposure before you take the image
o Understanding the image exposure after you’ve taken the image
o Understanding the histogram
Now this session is the fundamentals of what allows the user of a camera to express creativity from the press of the shutter. [...]
T189 - Digital Photography Course (2)
Week Two - Light becomes data
o Your camera
o Lights, cameras and human eyes
o Settings and sensitivity
o Colour
o Seeing far and wide
o Two more things a camera can do that the eyes cannot
o The sensor
o Memorising, compressing and storing
o Finding information about a digital image
This session continues on building on material already presented in the first [...]
T189 - Digital Photography Course (1)
Week One - Interesting images
o Fundamentals of image composition
o Looking critically at images
o Balancing colour and light
o Choice of subject
o Where should you put your subject
o Perspective and geometry
Session one sets you up with some fundamentals from how to use a camera to minor enhancements and printing more information/help on setting up your digital dark [...]