COM1275  - Photography Digital Processing

• Refer to Comm Tech Course Guide for more details.

• Remember to create a Course Page on your own student WordPress site for this module called “COM1275 – Photography Digital Processing”.

Create a new webpage called '1275 – Assignment 1' 

Compare the advantages and disadvantages of the following types of cameras:

• Point-and-shoot

• Medium Format (classroom cameras)

• Digital Single-Lens Reflex (DSLR)

• Smart Phone Camera

Create a new web page called '1275 – Assignment 2'

After doing some basic research explain and answer the following:

1. Describe some of the various features and functions of digital cameras. List and explain them.

2. Discuss various image file format characteristics and their impact on the quality of the image – e.g. size, compression, resolution, lossless versus non-lossless (discuss at least 4 different file formats)

Create a new web page called '1275 – Assignment 3'

Take 10 pictures while demonstrating basic rules of composition – balance, repetition, perspective, line, rule of thirds, etc.

Use a log sheet to record technical data. (shutter speed, iso, aperture)

Upload and edit using Photoshop – framing or/and cropping for greater composition by demonstrating the following:

• Focal point – Emphasis

• Layout – horizontal/vertical

• Awareness of background – avoid distractions

• Clear focus – well focused, depth of field

Make sure you include the ORIGINAL image side-by-side with the EDITED version.

Create a new web page called '1275 – Assignment 4'

Take 20+ new photographs as various subjects, backgrounds, etc.

Using some of these new photographs  (20 total); demonstrate through an experimental approach the use of image editing software to complete each of the following a few times each and label which you are emphasizing in each photograph.

• Basic tools – e.g. red-eye reduction, crop, straighten, rotate

• Change image sizes without distortion

• Adjust images – e.g., exposure, contrast, saturation, sharpness, red-eye

• Apply effects e.g., sepia, black and white, fade, matte, vignette

• Retouch photographs

• Create interesting and aesthetically appealing compositions

Make sure you include the ORIGINAL image side-by-side with the EDITED version – and include what tools/techniques were used in editing each photograph.

Create a new web page called '1275 – Assignment 5'

• Investigate and describe some new technologies (at least 3) the area of photo editing and manipulation; e.g., Global Positioning System (GPS) mapping, facial recognition, creating calendars and books, etc.

• Provide some visual examples and explanations.

Create a new web page called '1275 – Assignment 6'

Create a display of the 8 best photographs you’ve edited and formatted throughout this module, or have taken for this assignment. Again, make sure you include both the ORIGINAL and the EDITED work.

Include a write-up with each photograph which in more detail describes:

• Editing techniques used

• Why you feel it displays good composition

• Technical and creative aspects of the work e.g., quality, focus, uniqueness

• Areas of challenge and solutions

• Use of tools and equipment