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Syllabus
- Photo 100 - Fall 2006 Blue Text is a link to the Assignments and Handouts!
Tuesdays are Lecture Days and Thursdays are Lab Days In this class you will be expected to fill out for each assignment an Exposure Data Sheet and an Assignment Data Sheet. Week 1
- August 22
& 24 Introduction to course, Materials Required, procedures and goals. Bring Cameras to class for the next two weeks. We will discuss the changing nature of photography and ways to be IN photography. We will discuss making cameraless images - "photograms." Homework: for next Wednesday: "Favorite Photo & Least Favorite Photo" - Bring a photocopy of a photograph that you like and one that you don't like from a book or magazine. Write a short paragraph about it explaining why you like/dislike them using some of the "Language of Photography" from the handout. Homework: Who Are You? (Assignment # 1-a) Write a concise (one or two page) narrative piece about yourself as per handout. Due next class session. Reading: Chapter 16 "Seeing Photographs", (pages 341 - 362) you will find page 362 particularly helpful. Slide show: on Photograms In Addition: Read all that you can about photograms. Search the internet for "Photograms", Man Ray and Laszlo Maholy-Nagy. Look at web sites on Photogram handout below. Read about: Photograms (Lab Exercise # 1) in the Barbara London "Photography" book (pages 298 - 299) and COLLECT OBJECTS to make Photograms on 9/2. Handout: Grading; Expectations; Etc. This first week there will be no lab.
August 24 - Thursday CLASSROOM Bring your Camera! We will be discussing aperture and shutter speeds (exposure - more than going to a public place in a trench coat!), film loading and unloading, camera care, metering, ISO, and films. We will share our "Favorite Photo" and consider the photographic terms used to discuss images. Hand in the paragraph on the photo along with a photocopy of the image. Read before next class: "Getting Started" Chapter 1 and "Camera" pages 15-29 which covers shutter and aperture use. Also read pp. 39 - 68, "Light and Film" (Chapter 4, pages 71 - 89) and "Lighting" (Chapter 12 pages 259 - 265) and "Exposure" (Chapter 5, pages 98 - 111) Student says, "Darn, they sure are heaping on the reading!" Instructor responds, " It will lighten up soon after you've mastered the basics, after all this class is about having fun making images not spending one's life reading about it". Week 2
- August 20 & 31 Lecture - More about Exposure Bring you Camera again! We will continue to discuss camera controls and exposure (aperture and shutter speed and how they work together), as well as depth of field. Handout: Talking About Negatives Assignment #1 "Exposure" and "The Subject is Light" will be given out, Due September 26. Lecture - Light, it's always about light in photography. Lecture in the Darkroom - There will be a demonstration/discussion on Etiquette and Safety along with Darkroom procedures. There will be a Photogram demonstration. Lab: Make Photograms. Bring your materials to make Photograms. Handout: Print Processing. To Read: Chapter 16, Seeing Photographs pp. 340 - 363 Week 3
- September
5 & 7 Demo and Lecture: Film Developing. Bring your exposed film for Assignment #1 to develop! A most amazing resource on film processing with
information on chemicals, times etc. - Lab: Work on Light assignment in lab CLASSROOM Lecture: Composition. Assignment #2 "Composition" given out, due October 3rd. Handouts: There is some overlap in the following
handouts from slightly different perspectives. It can be said that one can
never know too much about composition, however.
Week 4 - September
12 & 14 CLASSROOM Lecture: Printing, Making the Contact Sheet Handout: Primary Printing Controls Lab: Work on making contact sheets. Read: for next week - "Printing the Positive" (Chapter 7, pages 135 - 148) and "Finishing and Mounting" (Chapter 8, pages 163-169) Read: Review information from previous chapters (and your notes) for the Surprize Quiz #1 during Week 6... week after next!
Week 5 - September
19 & 21 No Class on the 19th as there is a Field Trip on Saturday the 23rd. There will be lab however on the 21st at Palomar. Field Trip to California Center for the Arts Meet at the entrance to the theater at 9:00 A.M. Bring cameras, film, note pad. Visit the California Center for the Arts web site for directions and information. Lab: Work on Assignments. Demo: Dry Mounting Photographs
Week 6
- September 26 & 28 CLASSROOM Critique: Assignment #1 Exposure, The Subject is Light. Lecture: Contrast, Dodging and Burning In (along with tool description). Assignment: "Dodging and Burning Tools" Handout: Dodging and Burning Tool Construction Lab: Work on Assignments. Read for next week: "Hard to Meter Scenes" (pages 108 - 109) and "Lenses" (Chapter 3, pages 39 - 63). Surprise Quiz #1: It will cover camera controls (aperture, shutter speed), the nature of light, film, film speeds, metering and depth of field.
Week 7
- October 3 & 5 Lab: Work on Assignments. Classroom Critique: Assignment #2 (Composition) is due! Mounted and handed in (in an envelope). Lecture: Lenses Handout: Lenses A great treatise on lenses by Philip Greenspun of Photo.net can be found at: http://www.photo.net/making-photographs/lens
Week 8
- October
10 & 12 Lab: Work on Assignments. CLASSROOM Lecture: Lighting, exposure, metering difficult scenes, Depth of Field. Assignments #3 Depth of Field and #4 Research Paper or Quote given. Read: "Choosing a Camera" (pages 30-35)
Week 9
- October
17 & 19 Lab: Work on Assignments. CLASSROOM Lecture: Cameras and tripods
Week 10
- October
24 &26 Lab: Work on Assignments. CLASSROOM Lecture: Filters, focusing and flash. Filter Handout 1 Filter Handout 2
Week 11
- October 31 & November
2 Field Trip to
MoPA The Museum of
Photographic Arts on November 4th, Saturday Assignment # 5 Portraits is discussed and handed out, due November 28th. Final Project is discussed and handed out, due December 12th. Lab: We will have class on both Tuesday and Thursday as usual... The field trip on the 4th is optional but it would be good to attend as it is an opportunity to take a FREE docent guided tour of MOPA. Week 12
- November
7 & 9 Lab: Work on Assignments CLASSROOM Read: "History of Photography" Chapter 17 (pages 367-392). Surprise Quiz 2! May cover anything we have discussed or read up until now. "Push Processing Handout" is, well, handed out. "Research Paper" or "Quote" (Assignment #4) due! Share your knowledge with the class! Assignment #3 (Depth of Field) is due mounted and handed in in an envelope.
Week 13
- November
14 & 16 Lab: Work on final project. CLASSROOM Lecture: "Brief History of Photography".
Week 14
- November 21
Week 15 -
November 28 & 30 Lab: Work on final project. CLASSROOM Critique: Assignment #5 (Portraits) is due handed in mounted and in an envelope. Open Lab: last hour. FINAL EXAM! Lecture: Simple portraits, Available light, Fill Flash, Reflectors. Open Lab last hour.
Week 16
- December
5 & 7 Lab: Work on Final Project CLASSROOM Open Lab: last hour.
Week 17
- December 12 Critique: Final Project Due! All Final Projects are due today, in an envelope. The Final Project WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED LATE!
December 14 Final Class. I will return all work.
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