Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Arts and Humanities

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• Unit Title

  Camera Work and Lighting

• Unit Code

  PHO1125

• Year

  2020

• Enrolment Period

  2

• Version

  2

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  

• Unit Coordinator

  Dr Duncan BARNES

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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 a digital single lens reflex camera and photographic lighting equipment.
2. Apply a range of lighting techniques in the production of photographic images.
3. Manage the photographic workflow from capture, importing, digital editing and storage of photographic media.
4. Integrate a variety of technical and aesthetic principles and concepts in the production of photographic media.
5. Apply aesthetic principles and concepts in the production of photographic media.

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, workflow strategies and the digital editing of photographic files.
3. The management and manipulation of ambient lighting and the principles incorporated in the use of portable flash in 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.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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.

Core Reading(s)

• London, B., Stone, B., Stone, J., & Upton, J. (2011). Photography. (11th ed.). New York, NY: Prentice Hall. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/657054847?databaseList=638
• London, B., Stone, B., Stone, J., & Upton, J. (2011). Photography. (11th ed.). New York, NY: Prentice Hall. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/657054847?databaseList=638

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