640 - Photography 1

Grade Level: 9-12 Credit Value: 0.5 Prerequisite: None.

In this elective course students will be able to properly manipulate a 35mm DSLR camera to take photographs. With the camera students will also explore the characteristics of light and image formation as well as the production of a well-composed photograph. Using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, the student will learn how to balance light, hue and saturation to make photographs. Other assignments will involve critique and analysis of photographs and an introduction to the history of photgraphy.

Learning Goals: As a result of Photography 1 the student will:

- perform the steps necessary to produce a properly exposed photographic print.

- use Lightroom to process and edit their images.

- identify and apply basic rules of photographic composition.

- identify two exposure controls and demonstrate the relationship between them.

- identify the basic Photoshop tools and use them to edit images.

- use a built in light meter to correctly expose an image.