Digital Photography

Course details

Course will be presented using Powerpoint. Handouts will be provided to students on each topic and each week, students will be given an assignment related to that week’s subject.

• Week 1 History of Photography & Introduction to Digital Photography
  Basic Principles, Development, Pioneering Photographers
  Pixels, Sensor, White Balance, Sensitivity, Optical/Digital Zoom, Aspect Ratio, File Formats
• Week 2 Equipment & Accessories
  Camera Types : Point & Shoot/Compact/DSLR, Pixel Count/Quality/CCD Sensor Size
  Lenses : Wide Angle/Standard/Telephoto/Macro/Zoom
  Memory : Compact Flash/Secure Digital/Multimedia/Memory Stick
• Week 3 Exposure & Metering
  Aperture : Depth of Field, Shutter Speed : Freezing Action/Avoiding Shake
  ISO : ‘Fast’ & ‘Slow’ light sensitivity, Relationship between Aperture/Shutter Speed & ISO, Setting exposure for different situations, Automatic/Manual, Under & over exposure - when & why, Metering Modes, Averaged/Centre-Weighted/Spot/Dynamic
• Week 4 Composition – General Guidelines
  Rule of Thirds, Filling the Frame, Negative Space, Symmetry, Context, Bokeh
  Breaking the ‘Rules’
• Week 5 Light & Lighting
  The key role of light in photography, Natural Light, Directional light, Dealing with shadow, Flash, Studio Lighting, Low light/long exposures
• Week 6 Portraiture
  Tips for composing, Lens selection, Lighting options, Practical Workshop in Class
• Week 7 Black & White Photography
  Relevance, Appropriate application, Digital Conversion : In-Camera/Post-Edit
  Greyscale/Desaturation/Channel Mixer
• Week 8 Field Work Evening
  Students led on photo-assignment
• Week 9 Photographing Different Subjects
  Landscape, Nature & Wildlife, Macro, Sports, Travel
• Week 10 Introduction to Editing & Printing
  Software Packages : Photoshop/Jasc/Corel/Proprietory Systems, Basic Editing Functions : Contrast/Saturation/Sharpening/Cropping/Red-eye removal, Levels & Curves, Printing : DPI/PPI, Photographic Paper types, Borders/Frames/Mounting