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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Camera Work and Lighting

  • Unit Code

    PHO1125

  • Year

    2017

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Kevin Keith BALLANTINE

Description

In this unit students learn visual strategies and photographic skills and techniques that inform a diversity of professional practices that use photo media; including advertising, contemporary art, editorial, fashion, graphic design, journalism and videography. Knowledge acquired in workshops and through assignment production is suited to a variety of contexts and applications empowering students to create imagery suited to their own major areas of study and career aspirations.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Operate proficiently a digital single lens reflex camera.
  2. Know the fundamental practices associated with capture, importing, digital editing and storage of photographic files.
  3. Operate proficiently portable photographic lighting equipment.
  4. Describe the characteristics of a range of lighting techniques.
  5. Integrate a variety of technical principles and concepts in production.

Unit Content

  1. Instruction in the operation of a single lens reflex digital camera; the uses of lenses, camera position, depth of field (selective focus) and exposure duration.
  2. The creation of digital photographic files, work flow strategies and the digital editing of photographic files.
  3. The use of incident and reflectance light meters, portable flash lighting equipment and principles incorporated in the management and manipulation of ambient light and photographic lighting.
  4. Design principles associated with figure, field / frame and colour.
  5. An account of the work of selected photographers demonstrating applied and interpretative uses of fundamental photomedia production principles.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures. Seminars. Workshops.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseProject 140%
AssignmentProject 260%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Camera Work and Lighting

  • Unit Code

    PHO1125

  • Year

    2017

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Kevin Keith BALLANTINE

Description

In this unit students learn visual strategies and photographic skills and techniques that inform a diversity of professional practices that use photo media; including advertising, contemporary art, editorial, fashion, graphic design, journalism and videography. Knowledge acquired in workshops and through assignment production is suited to a variety of contexts and applications empowering students to create imagery suited to their own major areas of study and career aspirations.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Operate proficiently a digital single lens reflex camera.
  2. Know the fundamental practices associated with capture, importing, digital editing and storage of photographic files.
  3. Operate proficiently portable photographic lighting equipment.
  4. Describe the characteristics of a range of lighting techniques.
  5. Integrate a variety of technical principles and concepts in production.

Unit Content

  1. Instruction in the operation of a single lens reflex digital camera; the uses of lenses, camera position, depth of field (selective focus) and exposure duration.
  2. The creation of digital photographic files, work flow strategies and the digital editing of photographic files.
  3. The use of incident and reflectance light meters, portable flash lighting equipment and principles incorporated in the management and manipulation of ambient light and photographic lighting.
  4. Design principles associated with figure, field / frame and colour.
  5. An account of the work of selected photographers demonstrating applied and interpretative uses of fundamental photomedia production principles.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures. Seminars. Workshops.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseProject 140%
AssignmentProject 260%

Core Reading(s)

  • London, B., Stone, B., Stone, J., & Upton, J. (2011). Photography. (11th ed.). New York, NY: Prentice Hall.

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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