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

    Studio Work
  • Unit Code

    PHO1130
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Duncan BARNES

Description

In this unit students explore the practices of studio photography production, learn to use the associated equipment and are introduced to digital photographic printmaking. Students investigate the characteristics and qualities of light, the relevant theories concerning its perception, the rendering of light and form by studio photographic equipment and materials and the application of theory to a variety of photographic disciplines.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PHO4103, PHO2103

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Competently use studio equipment associated with the production, digital editing and digital output of studio produced photographic imagery.
  2. Evaluate critical commentary associated with the significance of the genres of portrait, still life and product photography.
  3. Employ the use of studio equipment in the rendering of surfaces, textures and forms.
  4. Integrate technical and conceptual knowledge in production.

Unit Content

  1. Instruction in the use of a digital single lens reflex camera and an incident light meter in the association with operating studio lighting; the use of studio lighting in the rendering of surfaces and textures and the picturing of transparent and opaque objects.
  2. Digital editing and output of studio photography based production including the use of screen and print profiles, professional retouching techniques, adjustment layers and advanced sharpening techniques.
  3. Chiaroscuro and colour theory and its account of the creation of differing senses of illumination including, bright, dim and luminous light.
  4. Investigation of significant past and present photographic portraiture and still life projects, and an inquiry into past and contemporary discourses and related critical literature associated with these genres.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationResearch review 20%
ProjectContextual Enquiry 140%
ProjectContextual Enquiry 240%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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

    Studio Work
  • Unit Code

    PHO1130
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Duncan BARNES

Description

In this unit students explore the practices of studio photography production, learn to use the associated equipment and are introduced to digital photographic printmaking. Students investigate the characteristics and qualities of light, the relevant theories concerning its perception, the rendering of light and form by studio photographic equipment and materials and the application of theory to a variety of photographic disciplines.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PHO4103, PHO2103

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Competently use studio equipment associated with the production, digital editing and digital output of studio produced photographic imagery.
  2. Evaluate critical commentary associated with the significance of the genres of portrait, still life and product photography.
  3. Employ the use of studio equipment in the rendering of surfaces, textures and forms.
  4. Integrate technical and conceptual knowledge in production.

Unit Content

  1. Instruction in the use of a digital single lens reflex camera and an incident light meter in the association with operating studio lighting; the use of studio lighting in the rendering of surfaces and textures and the picturing of transparent and opaque objects.
  2. Digital editing and output of studio photography based production including the use of screen and print profiles, professional retouching techniques, adjustment layers and advanced sharpening techniques.
  3. Chiaroscuro and colour theory and its account of the creation of differing senses of illumination including, bright, dim and luminous light.
  4. Investigation of significant past and present photographic portraiture and still life projects, and an inquiry into past and contemporary discourses and related critical literature associated with these genres.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationResearch review 20%
ProjectContextual Enquiry 140%
ProjectContextual Enquiry 240%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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