Topics covered will include color theory, the history of color photography, film and paper characteristics, the use of filters, metering techniques, Polaroid transfer materials, and the final presentation of your printed images. The course is designed to treat color photography as both a technical and expressive medium. All photography students must provide their own 35 mm manual focus camera and light meter. Since it is essential for photographers to have a strong sense of composition, students attend a basic drawing course twice a week. This course introduces students to the fundamentals of composition, light, form, positive and negative space, and black and white versus color drawing.
Students work from still life set-ups and live models.
Students also take an Adobe Photoshop course on the computer twice a week. This class allows students to digitally enhance and alter photos-their own as well as imagery borrowed from other sources. Students learn the technical skills necessary to use Photoshop as an integral tool in image creation. In this program, students learn about the processes involved in bringing the word of the script to the image of the screen. Working on scenes from original or existing screenplays and shooting scripts, students learn the multifaceted art of directing-breaking down scripts into storyboards, directing actors, choosing effective camera angles and filming techniques, using light to define space, time, and mood, and putting it all together through post production editing.