GC 223 - Digital Photography

This course will allow the student to apply their color correction and color management skills by learning how to properly use a digital camera for image capture. The student will learn how the digital camera converts luminance to digital images and how to compensate for varies degrees of luminance through the use of f-stops, shutter speeds, and ISO settings. The student will utilize the various automatic features of a digital camera and take control of the camera using the manual mode. The student will learn how to work with different lenses, various color temperatures of light, manipulate studio lighting, and use available lighting to achieve optimum image capture results. The student will be required to capture a variety of different images using the various composition aspects of photography such as the rule of thirds, the use of lines, forms, shapes, patterns, and textures. The student will capture images in the digital negative mode (RAW), move them into the proper RGB working space and manipulate the RAW images in a digital negative manipulation software. If necessary, these images will then be moved into a raster image manipulation software for additional adjustments. These images will then be saved at the proper resolution, with the proper RGB working space, and in the proper file format for electronic output or high quality, color managed, prints. Each student will be required to produce an analog (printed) portfolio and a digital portfolio of their final work at the completion of the course.

Prerequisite(s): Graphic Communication major,