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__** DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY **__ The study of digital photography and the process from digital camera to the computer-based printer or digital media. Artistic, theoretical, and technical aspects will be considered. Topics include information about digital cameras; theory, mechanics, and art of digital imagery; digital darkroom; digital photo taking. Attention will be paid to the aesthetics of all picture making, whether it be by digital or traditional film cameras. Students will edit all of their images in Adobe Photoshop.

Goals:
 * Students will be introduced to digital camera techniques and processes
 * Students will be introduced to Adobe Photoshop
 * Students will develop a standard of craftsmanship
 * Students will develop an appreciation for the history of photography
 * Students will explore how photographers express meaning and significance in their art using both realistic and abstract representations
 * Students will have experience describing, evaluating and appreciating their work and the work of others

We will be exploring the concepts of photography from aperture and shutter speed to different standards of composition. This is not a point and shoot class; meaning that students are asked not to run around and take pictures of random subjects hoping that one picture will emerge successfully. We will be learning about past photographers and how their visions paved the way to bring photography into a main stream art form. Although there will be specific assignments given, there will also be in class work to help expand the understanding of software.

Please adhere to the rules of the digital lab. There should never be any food or drinks in the lab except for bottled water with a top. Cell Phone use is not permitted in class (see student handbook). Please keep your work area clean and push in your chair at the end of class. Thank You.

=You don’t take a photograph, you make it. – Ansel Adams =

== In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. – Alfred Stieglitz == ** It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are. – Paul Caponigro **


 * Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow. – Imogen Cunningham **