Undergraduate Course: Introduction to Digital Photography (intensive) (LLLA07101)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | TTHIS IS A FOR-CREDIT COURSE OFFERED BY THE OFFICE OF LIFELONG LEARNING (OLL); ONLY STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH OLL SHOULD BE ENROLLED.
he course will explore digital camera creative controls, as well as digital image enhancements, adjustments and processing for photography. Students will be introduced to the elements of a photographic visual language and how concepts, ideas, and mood, can be communicated through photography. The course will include both a range of creative photography project work and computer-based work, using PhotoShop. After introductory photography assignments, students will research, photograph, print, edit and present a personal digitally-based photography project. The course will also enable students to consider the work of a range of contemporary photographers, artists and designers working with photography. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- By the end of the course, through attending classes and engaging in directed and independent study, students should be able to:
RESEARCH
research and explore a range of photographic vocabularies such as light, shadow, tone, surface, composition, colour, contrast, focus and crop as a means to communicate creative ideas
- PRACTICE
use a range of digital camera manual and automated creative controls, and use digital imaging software as a digital darkroom, to achieve photographic goals
- PRESENT
demonstrate the ability to edit, print, and present a personal digitally-based photography project
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Reading List
Lipkin, J., 2005, Photography Re-born: Image Making in the Digital Era, New York: Harry N. Abrams
Wells, L., 2004, Photography: A Critical Introduction, New York: Routledge
Wolf, S. and Henry Art Gallery, 2010, The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age, New York: Prestel
Shore, S., 2010, Nature of Photographs: a Primer, New York: Phaidon Press
Alexis Cassel, A. and Schneider, N., 1996, ¿Photography After Photography: Memory and Representation in the Digital Ages¿, USA: DAP distributed Arts,
Bucher, C., 2011, Black and White Digital Photography: Photoworkshop, USA: John Wiley
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Using a digital camera and digital imaging tools effectively
Considering compositional devices for visual communication of photographic ideas.
Ability to undertake research and reflective practice and apply these in the context of digital photography within visual culture
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Robbie Bushe
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Course secretary | Miss Zofia Guertin
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
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