PHOT V01 — Beginning Photography
This course introduces the basics of photography through its historical lens, visual aesthetics, and critical language as a visual tool for communication, from its analogue roots to contemporary digital platforms. Students will explore photography’s history as an art form and examine its major influential photographic styles. Students will be encouraged to analyze and critique photographic images within their cultural context. Students will learn fundamental techniques and how to operate SLR-style cameras for proper exposure. They will use both film and digital capture, learning appropriate workflows from capture to print. The course includes lectures, presentations, demonstrations, lab work, readings, photographic shooting assignments, and critiques. Students may work with their own cameras or check-out cameras through the department.
Part of
- Art History, Associate in Arts for Transfer
- Fine Art, Associate in Arts
- Studio Arts, Associate in Arts for Transfer
- General Studies—Arts and Humanities, Associate in Arts
- Intercollegiate Athletics: 1-Year Certificate of Achievement
- Intercollegiate Athletics: 2-Year Certificate of Achievement
- Analog Photography, Certificate of Achievement
- Photography, Associate in Arts
- Photography, Certificate of Achievement