GRTC 2352: Digital Photography

  • Prerequisite: GRTC 2350
  • Credit: 3 semester hours: 2 Lecture, 3 Laboratory

Course Description

Digital cameras; photographic principles; image organization, meta-data, evaluation, and correction; digital asset management; creating image portfolios for the web; and use of color management to soft- and hardproof finished photographs.

Course Goals

Students completing the course will be able to:

  1. describe features of consumer-, prosumer-, and professional-level digital cameras including lenses, file modes (RAW, TIFF, and JPEG), and storage media;
  2. demonstrate the use of digital camera controls, including, but not limited to, aperture- and shutter-priority, white balance, and flash;
  3. demonstrate the use of composition rules and lighting techniques;
  4. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of using vector and pixel-based illustrations
  5. use a digital camera to: tell stories, capture people and nature, and/or create documentaries;
  6. use digital asset management software to import digital photographs and add relevant meta-data;
  7. evaluate and rate photographs based upon technical and aesthetic considerations;
  8. organize images based upon meta-data, keywords, and evaluativecriteria;
  9. improve images through cropping, sizing, white-balance adjustment, color correction, highlight and shadow alteration, sharpening, noise reduction, and local repair;
  10. deliver finished photographs through websites and soft- and printedproofs; and
  11. archive finished photographs.

Student Work Examples from Previous Semesters

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