Digital Photography 1 Syllabus/2 has📷 icons

Teacher: Anthony Burns

Room 5

email: anthony.burns@k12.sd.us

(605) 923-0030

Course Description

This course will cover the use of the Digital SLR camera controls, including f/stops, shutter speeds, ISO and the production of a correct exposure. Skills will include composition, criticism, lighting, and image editing software. Students will also learn the history and invention of photography. Assignments will include creative use of the camera controls including depth of field and action motion, shadows and light, alternative camera angles, portraits, still life’s, and compositions based on the principles and elements of design. Students will receive basic instruction, demonstration, and see samples of the desired outcomes, They will be allowed to go outside the classroom and shoot assignments, based on what they are learning. Students are NOT excused to be late to their other classes to complete photography assignments. Students will post their photography work and writing on their blogsites.

Topics:

Exposure Triangle

Camera Modes

Lens Focal Length

Depth of Field

Flash Modes

ISO settings

📸Exposure Compensation

📸Focusing Options

📸White Balance

📸Drive Modes

📸Macro Photography

📸Portraiture

📸Landscape

📸Action Photography

📸Still Life

Written Photo Critiques: This is a writing assignment that will be attached to all photo assignments. Students will critique one intriguing photograph, which relates to the current assignment and explain what makes it a good photograph. Students will also critique their own work and the work of their peers.

What I am looking for:

Time and effort put into your projects

Interesting and creative ideas

Good technical quality

Participation and active engagement with the material discussed in class

Participation in critiques

Classroom Decorum:

Be careful with your words, think before you speak, take your time and listen. Respect your self, your classmates, your educator and environment/community.

Shooting:

Experiential learning takes place in an outdoor or community setting. Through this experience students will develop leadership team building and photographic skills in an environment that is outside the classroom.

Imagery:

Students have artistic freedom within the boundaries of school policy. Promoting drugs, violence, sex, gangs or racism is against school policy.

Food:

NO FOOD IN CLASSROOM

Grading

Projects & Assignments/50%

Portfolios/20%

Presentations/10%

Exams, Midterm and Finals/20%

Course Objectives:

Upon Completion of this course, students will:

– Understand technical and aesthetic differences between traditional and digital photography.

– Make informed choices about composition when photographing and editing digital images.

– Make informed choices about appropriate technologies for use in a variety of photographic assignments

– Analyze and discuss complex ideas in works of art and photography.

– Create original works of art of increasing complexity and skill that reflect their feelings and point of view.

– Describe the relationship involving the art maker, the process, the product and the viewer.

– Demonstrate proper camera and digital processing techniques in production of a work of art

– Understand and utilize the steps in the creative process

– Realize the vast amount of career choices in the visual arts.

. Produce an accomplished portfolio of work and an applicable resume

Units:

Introduction to Digital SLR Photography

Learning the Lab

Digital Workflow

Factors to consider in a digital camera

Setting up student blogs for sharing and grading

Exposure and Light Metering

Learn photography vocabulary: aperture, shutter speed, ISO

Equivalent Exposures

Camera Metering

Camera Modes

Shooting assignment: Texture

Quiz, grading rubric, peer critique and self assessment

Lenses and Optics

Learning about focal lengths

Lenses and f stop numbers

Science of Optics

Quiz

Composition and Learning How to See

Ways to get images with strong composition

Samples of good composition

Shooting Assignment: Shadows and Light

Shooting assignment: Alternative camera angles

Shooting assignment: Framing a subject

Critiquing, analyzing and evaluating photography

Critique Writing

Grading rubric, peer critique and self assessment

Learning Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom

File Management

Learning the Photoshop and Lightroom workspace

Toolbar and Option Bar

Image Adjustments

Image Extensions

Saving and sizing image

Image Output

Lighting Techniques

Natural vs. Artificial Lighting

Demonstration

Use of Reflectors

Tungstun Lighting with “hot lights”

Assignment: Natural Light Portrait with reflector

Grading rubric, writing critique peer critique and self assessment

History and Invention in Photography

Lecture and Discussion: Pioneers and Early Techniques

Invention and key terminology

Slide Show

Make History Timeline

Quiz

Depth of Field and Aperture Control

Understand the concept Depth of Field

Technical overview and factors which effect depth of field

Camera operations and modes

Focal lengths and zoom lenses

Shooting assignment: Comparing depth of field at different apertures and lenses

Quiz, writing critique, grading rubric, peer critique and self assessment

Action and Motion in Photography and Controlling the Shutter Speeds

Understand and compare Shutter Speed effects

Techniques and terminology of action and motion in photography

Use of tripod under 60^th of a second

Setting the ISO higher

Shooting assignment: Take a photo of both action sharp and motion blur using different shutter speeds

Quiz, writing critique, grading rubric, peer critique, and self assessment

Photographer Research

Discussion, Lecture and Slide Show on photographers past and present

Project: Photographer Research Project with presentation to share with class

Grading rubric, peer critique, and self assessment

Studio Lighting for Portraiture and Still Life Photography

Lecture and Demonstration of studio hot lights

Key terminology and Lighting Techniques

Lighting Patterns and Ratios

Shooting assignment: Portraits in studio with hot lights

Shooting Assignment: Still life and Product Photography

Grading rubric, writing critique peer critique and self assessment

Self Portraits📸

Learn self-timer camera controls

Explore work by photographers

Realistic vs. conceptual representation

Incorporate words and imagery

Shooting assignment: Self Portrait with describing words

Shooting assignment: Conceptual self-portrait

Grading rubric, writing critique, peer critique and self assessment

Photoshop Techniques

Learn a variety of Photoshop techniques

Assignments: Triptychs, Diptychs, Pop Art, Mirror Imagery

Grading rubric, writing critique, peer critique and self assessment

On and Off Camera Flash Photography

Develop understanding of when and how to use flash

Differentiate between direct and bounced flash and the use of fill flash outside

Understand flash synchronization

Use multiple flashes with slave units

Assignment: On-Location Portrait using bounced flash

Article readings and response.

Quiz

Grading rubric, peer critique and self assessment

Candid Photography and Capturing the Decisive Moment

Capturing the decisive moment

Looking at the work of Henri Cartier Bresson

Higher ISO settings, camera and external flash use📸

Explore newspaper and magazine photography

Shooting assignment: Capturing a candid moment with appropriate caption

Grading rubric, peer critique and self assessment

Studio Strobe Lighting Techniques📸

Explore the use of studio strobe techniques for portrait and advertising photography

Demonstration with student volunteers

Learn key concepts of main lighting patterns and ratios, and flash metering

Assignment: Studio Portrait

Assignment: Magazine Advertising Photography with proposal

Quiz, Teacher grading rubric, peer critique and self assessment

Re-create a Photograph

Research and evaluate a variety of photography from books, magazines and Internet to generate ideas

Assignment: Re-create an existing photograph

Grading rubric, peer critique and self assessment