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Unit description
Introduces students to digital photographic and imaging techniques, concepts, materials, and processes. Photography and Digital Imaging is designed to develop an approach to digital tools that aligns with contemporary art practices. While this unit provides a practical introduction to the basic digital photography tools and materials there is an emphasis on the creative and experimental potential of these tools and how they are utilised within a broader creative practice.
Unit content
Module 1: What is Photography? Camera, Lenses, Shutter speed. Aperture and Depth of Field
Module 2: The Nature of Photography: Editing and Presentation
Module 3: The Contingent Image: Adobe Suite Basics, Pixel Ratios and File Sizes
Module 4: Sexuality and Mortality: Critique of the Image
Module 5: Glitching: Printing and On-screen options
Module 6: Data, Automation and Obsolescence: Software and Hardware
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | demonstrate understanding of the expressive and experimental possibilities of digital photography and imaging technologies |
| 2 | demonstrate understanding of the methods, materials, and equipment used in digital processes, including an understanding of image capture, digital manipulation, and alternative processes |
| 3 | use basic manual camera techniques and compositional methods |
| 4 | criticise and evaluate technical and artistic aspects of their own photographs and the works of others for presentation within a critical context. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- demonstrate understanding of the expressive and experimental possibilities of digital photography and imaging technologies
- demonstrate understanding of the methods, materials, and equipment used in digital processes, including an understanding of image capture, digital manipulation, and alternative processes
- use basic manual camera techniques and compositional methods
- criticise and evaluate technical and artistic aspects of their own photographs and the works of others for presentation within a critical context.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
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