PHOT 256
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PHOT 256 | Digital Photography II provides for an advanced exploration of digital photographic practice and challenges our understanding of what a photograph is or can become within the context of contemporary photography. Expanding upon the conceptual, aesthetic and technical strategies discussed in PHOT 156 | Digital Photography I, students will have the opportunity to further develop and refine their digital photographic practice, including the role and function of digital photography strategies within social media (Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc…) and art/commerical contexts, the use of the Internet as a source and destination of their photography, advanced digital imaging techniques such as seamless montaging and retouching techniques, the use of advanced digital imaging tools such as a medium-format digital-back camera and wide-format printer, advanced digital image output strategies such as digital negatives as well as printing on aluminum, canvas and other support materials.
Catalog Description
The blending of traditional analog and new digital techniques gives photographers a wider aesthetic and the modifying and combining of photographs requires attention to symbolic relationships at work in the context of their images. Students will explore and develop a language specific for the communication of meaning in photographs made within this new realm of digital photography. Advanced techniques will be explored in detail using Macintosh computers and the current photo imaging software with an emphasis on optimum control of output. Students will present a portfolio of digitally-produced photographic images that address both the technical and aesthetic issues present with the new traditions of digital photography.
Prerequisite: “C” or “CR” grade or higher in PHOT 156 | Digital Photography I, an equivalent course or prior approval of instructor
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Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
Students will demonstrate advanced digital photography skills by reviewing and recalling the primary relationship of the new digital photography technologies to their unique strategies for image processing and printmaking.
Demonstrate advanced ability to use digital imaging process software, file management systems and larger format output printing devices to create optimum photographic images of the highest quality both aesthetically as well as technically proficient as it pertains to collage, montage, panorama and time-based sequences.
Conclude through critical thinking practices of describing, interpreting and evaluating these digital photographic practices as a means for developing one’s personal vision, an aesthetic process for creative expression and the means for strong visual communication as it pertains to accepted photographic and traditional visual foundations.
Assessment Activity: Performance Project and Reflective Self-Assessment Essay
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Course Information and Links for PHOT 256 | Digital Photography II
Click on link to locate information regarding assignments
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Assignments are subject to change and/or modification during the semester
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Critical Issues Responses
1 – Photographers at Work – Then and Now
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Project / Shooting Assignments
3 – HyperReal
4 – Time | Frame
5 – Once Upon A Time
6 – An Adventure in Photography – Initiating A Personal Vision
7 – Past | Present
Final Project : The Photographic Book
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PHOT 256 Spring 2010 Calendar
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30 – 3:20 pm
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1 | 26 – Tuesday
Introduction to course, discussion of syllabus, course expectations and use of course website
Discussion of Does It Really Matter ?, the State of Contemporary Photographic Practice and Why People (Including Yourself) Photograph
1 | 28 – Thursday
Review Discussion of Photographic Seeing, including Beyond The Surface | Thinking About Photographs (Discussions) and Seeing Photographs (Discussions)
Review Discussion of the Digital Photography Workflow from Image Capturing, Image Editing and Optimization to Output (Lecture Materials), including the following:
Digital Image Capture | Input – Principles of Scanning and Digital Cameras
Digital Image Workflow, Processing and Management
Developing A Working Process (Discussions)
Adobe Photoshop and Image Optimization
Presentation | Discussion of Why People Photograph (Project/Shooting Assignment)
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2 | 2 – Tuesday
Continued Review Discussion of the Digital Photography Workflow from Image Capturing, Image Editing and Optimization to Output (as necessary)
Digital Lab
2 | 4 – Thursday
Presentation | Discussion of Inside The Digital Vault (Project/Shooting Assignment)
Continued Review Discussion of the Digital Photography Workflow from Image Capturing, Image Editing and Optimization to Output (as necessary)
Digital Lab
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2 | 9 – Tuesday
Presentation of Critical Issues Response | Photographers at Work – Then and Now
Digital Lab
2 | 11 – Thursday
Critique of Project/Shooting Assignment | Why People Photograph
Digital Lab
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2 | 16 – Tuesday
Critical Issues Response due before start of class and Discussion | Photographers at Work – Then and Now
Presentation | Discussion of HyperReal (Project/Shooting Assignment)
Demonstration of Digital Scanning Back with Medium-Format Camera in a Studio Environment
Digital Lab
2 | 18 – Thursday
In-class use of Digital Scanning Back with Medium-Format Camera in the Studio for HyperReal assignment
2 | 23 – Tuesday
In-class use of Digital Scanning Back with Medium-Format Camera in the Studio for HyperReal assignment
Digital Lab
2 | 25 – Thursday
Critique of Project/Shooting Assignment | Inside The Digital Vault
In-class use of Digital Scanning Back with Medium-Format Camera in the Studio for HyperReal assignment
Digital Lab
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3 | 2 – Tuesday
Presentation | Discussion of Time | Frame (Project/Shooting Assignment)
In-class use of Digital Scanning Back with Medium-Format Camera in the Studio for HyperReal assignment
Digital Lab
3 | 4 – Thursday
Discussion | Demonstration of digital photography and in-motion possibilities, including video software options, stop-action, flip-books and Quicktime videos with stills, sound and text in preparation for Time | Frame (Project/Shooting Assignment)
In-class printing with Large-Format Digital Printer for HyperReal assignment
Digital Lab
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3 | 9 – Tuesday
In-class lab work for Time | Frame assignment
In-class printing with Large-Format Digital Printer for HyperReal assignment
Digital Lab
3 | 11 – Thursday
In-class lab work for Time | Frame assignment
In-class printing with Large-Format Digital Printer for HyperReal assignment
Digital Lab
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3 | 16 – Tuesday
In-class lab work for Time | Frame assignment
In-class printing with Large-Format Digital Printer for HyperReal assignment
Digital Lab
3 | 18 – Thursday
In-class lab work for Time | Frame assignment
In-class printing with Large-Format Digital Printer for HyperReal assignment
Digital Lab
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3 | 23 – Tuesday
Presentation | Discussion of An Adventure in Photography – Initiating A Personal Vision (Project/Shooting Assignment) and The Photographic Book (Final Project)
In-class lab work for Time | Frame assignment
In-class printing with Large-Format Digital Printer for HyperReal assignment
Digital Lab
3 | 25 – Thursday
Presentation | Discussion of Once Upon A Time (Project/Shooting Assignment)
In-class lab work for Time | Frame assignment
Critique of Project/Shooting Assignment | HyperReal
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3 | 30 – Tuesday
No Class | School Holiday (Spring Recess)
4 | 1 – Thursday
No Class | School Holiday (Spring Recess)
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4 | 6 – Tuesday
Discussion | Demonstration of digital photography and image compositing possibilities, including basic compositing and layering of multiple images, use of layer masks, blending, retouching and filter options in preparation for Once Upon A Time (Project/Shooting Assignment)
Digital Lab
W 4 | 8 – Thursday
Continued Discussion | Demonstration of digital photography and image compositing possibilities, including basic compositing and layering of multiple images, use of layer masks, blending, retouching and filter options in preparation for Once Upon A Time (Project/Shooting Assignment)
Digital Lab
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4 | 13 – Tuesday
Critique of Project/Shooting Assignment | Time | Frame
In-class lab work of digital photography and image compositing possibilities, including basic compositing and layering of multiple images, use of layer masks, blending, retouching and filter options in preparation for Once Upon A Time (Project/Shooting Assignment)
Digital Lab
4 | 15 – Thursday
In-class lab work of digital photography and image compositing possibilities, including basic compositing and layering of multiple images, use of layer masks, blending, retouching and filter options in preparation for Once Upon A Time (Project/Shooting Assignment)
Digital Lab
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4 | 20 – Tuesday
Digital Lab
4 | 22 – Thursday
Critique of Project/Shooting Assignment | An Adventure in Photography – Initiating A Personal Vision
Alvarez | Nakkash | Sanchez | Bennett | Rego | Coronado | Quintanilla | Allen | Reifers | Keithly | Rhodes
Digital Lab
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4 | 27 – Tuesday
Critique of Project/Shooting Assignment | An Adventure in Photography – Initiating A Personal Vision
Perko | Barnes | Emmel | Sutton-Hough | Kehrer | Pawlak| Swazuk | Komura | Geier | Shinohara | Cuadras | Mathis-Jordan
Digital Lab
4 | 29 – Thursday
Digital Lab
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5 | 4 – Tuesday
Discussion of Critical Issues Response | Does It Really Matter ?
Individual Critiques of Project/Shooting Assignment | The Photographic Book – The Maquette
Alvarez | Nakkash | Sanchez | Bennett | Rego | Coronado | Quintanilla | Allen | Reifers | Keithly | Pawlak
Digital Lab
5 | 6 – Thursday
Individual Critiques of Project/Shooting Assignment | The Photographic Book – The Maquette
Perko | Barnes | Emmel | Sutton-Hough | Kehrer | Rhodes | Swazuk | Komura | Geier | Shinohara | Cuadras | Mathis-Jordan
Digital Lab
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5 | 11 – Tuesday
Digital Lab
5 | 13 – Thursday
Critical Issues Response due before start of class and Discussion | Does It Really Matter ?
Digital Lab
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5 | 18 – Tuesday
Digital Lab
5 | 20 – Thursday
Critique of Project/Shooting Assignment | Once Upon A Time
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5 | 25 – Tuesday
No Class
5 | 27 – Thursday
Presentation of Final Project Assignment | The Photographic Book | Scheduled from 11:30 – 1:30 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 256
Participation and In-class Lab Practice ………………..150………(30 class sessions @ 5 pts each : 1 | 28 – 5 | 20)
Critical Issues Response #1 ……………………………..30
Critical Issues Response #2 ……………………………..30
Shooting Assignment #1…………..………………………60
Shooting Assignment #2…………………………………100
Shooting Assignment #3…………………………………..60
Shooting Assignment #4………………………………….100
Shooting Assignment #5……… ……………………… ..100
Shooting Assignment #6………… ………………………100
Shooting Assignment #7…………………………………..40 (canceled)
Final Project……………………………………………….300
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Final Grading
Your overall final grading based on points earned will be representative as follows:
A ………1030 – 922
B ………..921 – 819
C ………..818 – 716
D ………..715 – 613
F ………..612 – 0
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