PHOT 165
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PHOT 165 | Color Photography I explores the nature and continued development of a photographic vision through the visual language of color, concentrating on the conceptual, aesthetic and technical considerations and possibilities of color photographic theory and practice. We’ll examine the critical issues raised by color photographic work within historical and contemporary contexts with specific attention and discussion on the perceptual and psychological implications of the color photographic image.
Catalog Description
An introduction to the techniques and aesthetics of color photography, including the exposing, processing, and printing of color materials for technical description and personal expression. The course will trace the development of color photography and relate it to the basic grayscale processes both historical and contemporary. Vocabulary unique to color photography will be introduced and expanded to include a thoughtful analysis of photographic imagery throughout the history of photography. Comparisons between analog and digital materials and processes will be examined and practiced in the making of color photographs. Through the careful examination of photographs, students will investigate how color affects one’s reading of content and they will clarify their own interest and direction with regard to making color photographs.
Prerequisite: “C” or “CR” grade or higher in ART 150 | PHOT 150 – Photography I or equivalent
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Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
Create color photographs of creative expression that demonstrate the purposeful use of color photography’s aesthetic attributes for an effective communication of personal vision, including the use of light, the use of color contrasts and color harmony, compositional organization, photographic description, emphasis and moments of exposure.
Demonstrate application of photographic tools, color materials and processes, including camera controls, color image exposure and processing strategies and color photographic printing techniques.
Demonstrate application of proper laboratory practices necessary for making and presenting color photographic prints of optimum technical quality, craft and professional standards.
Demonstrate application of critical thinking practices in describing, interpreting and evaluating the use of color photography as a means of determining their effectiveness in the communication of one’s personal vision.
Assessment Activity: Performance Project and Reflective Self-Assessment Essay
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PHOT 265 | Color Photography II provides students the opportunity to further explore color photography in an extensive, in-depth manner in relationship to their photographic vision and sense of technical craft. Discussion and coursework will focus on exploring various visual strategies, aesthetic considerations as well as an individual sense of technical craftsmanship with the development and execution of a semester-long, self-initiated project.
Catalog Description
Advanced course that will explore the techniques and aesthetics of color photography, comparing analog to digital methods in the exposing, processing, and printing of color materials for technical description and personal expression. Emphasis will be placed on refining the students’ knowledge of push/pull processing, cross-processing, and reciprocity failure as it pertains to analog negative and positive films and its visual equivalent now possible in digital media. Advanced image manipulations will be applied for optimum output results. Through the careful examination of their photographs, students will investigate the similarities and differences present within contemporary color photographic image making as they refine their personal vision within the medium.
Prerequisite: “C” or “CR” grade or higher in PHOT 165 – Color Photography I or equivalent
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Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
Create color photographs of creative expression that demonstrate the purposeful use of visual strategies that attempt to establish personal visual themes, ideas and concepts for an effective communication of a personal vision within the contexts of color photographic practice
Demonstrate advanced application of photographic tools, color materials and processes, including camera controls, advanced color image exposure and processing strategies (push/pull, cross-processing, reciprocity failure and digital imaging techniques) and advanced analog and digital color photographic printing strategies and techniques.
Demonstrate advanced application of proper laboratory practices necessary for making and presenting color photographic prints of optimum technical quality, craft and professional standards.
Demonstrate application of critical thinking practices in describing, interpreting and evaluating the use of color photography as a means of determining their effectiveness in the communication of one’s personal vision.
Assessment Activity: Portfolio and Reflective Self-Assessment Essay
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Course Information and Curriculum Links for PHOT 165 | Color Photography I and PHOT 265 | Color Photography II
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PHOT 165 | Color Photography I
Critical Issues Responses
1 – As Though The Blue and The Sky Were One Thing
2 – Color Photographers at Work
3 – The New Color : The Return of Black-and-White
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Shooting Assignments
2 – Where You Live
3 – A State of Mind
4 – Altered States
5 – The Night Seen (TBD)
6 – An Adventure in Photography – Initiating A Personal Vision
Final Project : The Portfolio
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Technical Assignment
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PHOT 265 | Color Photography II
Critical Issues Responses
1 – When Color is No Longer New
2 – Color Photographers at Work
Shooting Assignments
2 – An Adventure in Photography – Initiating A Personal Vision
4 – Perseverance
Final Project
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Technical Assignment
The Digital C-Print
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PHOT 165 | 265 Fall 2011 Calendar
Tuesdays and Thursdays – 7:00 to 9:50 pm
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8 | 23 – Tuesday – 1
Introduction to course, discussion of syllabus, course expectations and use of course website
Discussion of Why People Photograph in Color
Review | Discussion of Beyond The Surface | Thinking About Photographs and Seeing Photographs
Review | Demonstration of The Camera and The Lens | Input – Principles of Scanning | Adobe Photoshop and Basic Image Optimization | Digital Photographic Printing
Presentation | Discussion of Why People Photograph (Shooting Assignment)
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8 | 25 – Thursday - 2
Continued Review | Demonstration of The Camera and The Lens | Input – Principles of Scanning | Adobe Photoshop and Basic Image Optimization | Digital Photographic Printing
Discussion | Demonstration on Developing A Working Process
Discussion of Color Processes and Materials
Digital Lab
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8 | 30 – Tuesday - 3
Presentation of Beyond Color | Color in American Photography, 1950 – 1970
Presentation | Discussion of Critical Issues Response #1 | As Though The Blue and The Sky Were One Thing (PHOT 165)
Presentation | Discussion of Critical Issues Response #1 | When Color is No Longer New (PHOT 265)
Digital Lab
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9 | 1 – Thursday - 4
Presentation | Discussion of Where You Live (PHOT 165 Shooting Assignment)
Presentation | Discussion of An Adventure in Photography – Initiating A Personal Vision (PHOT 265 Shooting Assignment)
Digital Lab
Discussion of Critiques and Criticism – After It’s All Said and Done
Critique of Shooting Assignment | Why People Photograph (Shooting Assignment) – Tentative Date
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9 | 2 – Friday
Census Day – Last Day to Drop without a “W” appearing on Academic Record
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9 | 6 – Tuesday - 5
Presentation | Discussion of Starburst – The New Color Photography
Digital Lab
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9 | 8 – Thursday - 6
CLASS CANCELLED DUE TO POWER OUTAGE
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9 | 13 – Tuesday – 7
Critical Issues Response #1 due at start of class | As Though The Blue and The Sky Were One Thing (PHOT 165)
Critical Issues Response #1 due at start of class | When Color is No Longer New (PHOT 265)
Presentation | Discussion of Pioneers of Color Photography – Shore | Meyerowitz | Eggleston
Digital Lab
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9 | 15 – Thursday - 8
Presentation | Discussion of The Art of Color
Presentation | Discussion of A State of Mind (PHOT 165 Shooting Assignment)
Presentation | Discussion of Roads Less Traveled (PHOT 265 Shooting Assignment)
Digital Lab
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9 | 20 – Tuesday - 9
Quiz #1 | Color Processes and Materials and As Though The Blue and The Sky Were One Thing (PHOT 165)
Digital Lab
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9 | 22 – Thursday - 10
Critique of Shooting Assignment | Where You Live (PHOT 165 Shooting Assignment)
Critique of Shooting Assignment | An Adventure in Photography – Initiating A Personal Vision (PHOT 265 Shooting Assignment)
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9 | 27 – Tuesday - 11
Presentation | Demonstration on The Color Darkroom
Discussion of The Color Photographic Print (PHOT 165 Technical Assignment)
Discussion of The Digital C-Print (PHOT 265 Technical Assignment)
Color Darkroom | Digital Lab
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9 | 29 – Thursday - 12
Presentation | Discussion of Contemporary Color Photographers
Presentation | Discussion of Critical Issues Response #2 | Color Photographers at Work (PHOT 165 | PHOT 265)
Color Darkroom | Digital Lab
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10 | 4 – Tuesday - 13
Color Darkroom | Digital Lab
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10 | 6 – Thursday - 14
Color Darkroom | Digital Lab
Critique of Technical Assignment | The Color Photographic Print (PHOT 165 Technical Assignment) at end of class
Critique of Technical Assignment | The Digital Color Print (PHOT 265 Technical Assignment) at end of class
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10 | 11 – Tuesday - 15
Presentation | Discussion of Altered States (PHOT 165 Shooting Assignment)
Presentation | Discussion of The Big Picture (PHOT 265 Technical Assignment)
Color Darkroom | Digital Lab
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10 | 13 – Thursday - 16
Color Darkroom | Digital Lab
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10 | 18 – Tuesday - 17
Presentation | Discussion of An Adventure in Photography – Initiating A Personal Vision (PHOT 165 Shooting Assignment)
Presentation | Discussion of The Portfolio (PHOT 165 Final Project)
Color Darkroom | Digital Lab
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10 | 20 – Thursday - 18
Critique of Shooting Assignment | A State of Mind (PHOT 165 Shooting Assignment)
Critique of Shooting Assignment | Roads Less Traveled (PHOT 265 Shooting Assignment)
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10 | 25 – Tuesday - 19
Quiz #2 | The Art of Color, Digital Photographic Printing and The Color Darkroom (PHOT 165)
Digital Lab
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10 | 27 – Thursday - 20
Digital Lab
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11 | 1 – Tuesday - 21
Critical Issues Response #2 due at start of class (PHOT 165 | PHOT 265) | Color Photographers at Work
Digital Lab
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11 | 3 – Thursday - 22
Critique of Shooting Assignment | Altered States (PHOT 165 Shooting Assignment)
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11 | 8 – Tuesday - 23
Presentation | Discussion of Critical Issues Response #3 | The New Color : The Return of Black-and-White (PHOT 165)
Color Darkroom | Digital Lab
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11 | 10 – Thursday – 24
TBD
Color Darkroom | Digital Lab
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11 | 10 – Thursday
Last Day to Drop with a “W” appearing on Academic Record
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11 | 15 – Tuesday - 25
Critique of Shooting Assignment | An Adventure in Photography – Initiating A Personal Vision (PHOT 165 Shooting Assignment – Group 1)
Color Darkroom | Digital Lab
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11 | 17 – Thursday - 26
Color Darkroom | Digital Lab
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11 | 22 – Tuesday - 27
Critical Issues Response #3 due before start of class (PHOT 165) | The New Color : The Return of Black-and-White
Critique of Shooting Assignment | An Adventure in Photography – Initiating A Personal Vision (PHOT 165 Shooting Assignment – Group 2)
Color Darkroom | Digital Lab
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11 | 24 – Thursday
SCHOOL HOLIDAY (Thanksgiving) | NO CLASS
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11 | 29 – Tuesday - 28
Color Darkroom | Digital Lab
12 | 1 – Thursday - 29
Color Darkroom | Digital Lab
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12 | 6 – Tuesday - 30
Final Examination | Color Processes and Materials, As Though The Blue and The Sky Were One Thing,The Art of Color , Digital Photographic Printing and The Color Darkroom (PHOT 165)
Color Darkroom | Digital Lab
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12 | 8 – Thursday - 31
Presentation of Final Project | The Portfolio (PHOT 165 Final Project)
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12 | 13 – Tuesday - 32
Presentation of Final Project | The Portfolio (PHOT 165 Final Project)
Scheduled from 8:00 – 10:00 pm
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Curriculum Evaluation
Your final grade will be determined by a culmination of points earned based on your performance with the below listed curriculum assignments. Questions regarding curriculum assignment grades and/or the final grade must be brought to the attention of the instructor. To provide equitable instruction for all students while during class hours, please ask questions regarding your grade during instructor office hours or after class.
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PHOT 165 | Color Photography I
Critical Issues Response #1 ……………………………..30
Critical Issues Response #2 ……………………………..60
Critical Issues Response #3 ……………………………..30
Quiz #1…….. ………………………30
Quiz #2…….. ………………………30
Final Exam…….. ………………….60
Technical Assignment……………….. …………….40
Shooting Assignment #1…………………………………..40
Shooting Assignment #2…………………………………100
Shooting Assignment #3…………………………………100
Shooting Assignment #4…………………………………..40
Shooting Assignment #5…………………………………100
Final Project……………………………………………….200
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Final Grading
Your overall final grading based on points earned will be representative as follows:
A…(100% – 93%) …..…..860 – 794
A-.. (92% – 90%) ………..793 – 770
B+..(89% – 87%) ………..769 – 744
B… (86% – 83%) ………..743 – 710
B-.. (82% – 80%) ………..709 – 684
C+. (79% – 77%) ………..683 – 658
C… (76% – 70%) ………..657 – 598
D… (69% – 60%) ………..597 – 512
F… (59% and less) ….…..511 – 0
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