Subject description

This is an introduction to digital photography and Photoshop. Students learn digital camera skills, digital manipulation and printing to make photographic artworks. Lectures, demonstrations, and exercises are organised to develop image-making techniques and critical skills to create self-directed art projects using photography. Topics covered include: camera skills, lighting, composition, Photoshop … For more content click the Read More button below.

Equivalence

VISA124 - Introduction to Photography

Tutorial enrolment

Students can enrol online via the Tutorial Enrolment link in SOLS

Delivery

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Teaching staff

Subject coordinators
Tutors

Engagement hours

Contact hours:4 hour studio

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to:
1.
demonstrate studio skills and visual arts studio experience in their chosen medium
2.
demonstrate a further a degree of self reliance and independence demonstrated through the management of class projects and self directed projects
3.
demonstrate an awareness of the strategies for initiating and resolving Visual ideas
4.
demonstrate a range of interpretative and critical skills in reviewing their work through comparison with relevant contemporary artists
5.
achieve a fluency in researching contemporary arts practice and discussion of contemporary art movements.

Assessment details

Visual Research Assignment
Visual Process Journal
Self-directed projects

Contact details

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