PHO2202 · Photography: Advanced darkroom and lighting

Overview

The focus of the unit is creative photographic fine art practice and the power of the photographic image as pertaining to a contemporary artistic context. It aims to build on a preliminary understanding of the theories, histories and practice of contemporary fine art photography developed in PHO1203. You will explore the construction and production of the photographic image using a range of analogue and digital approaches. With a focus on practical skill based learning using photographic techniques including: digital SLR camera, film SLR and medium format cameras, film processing and darkroom printing, the lighting studio, digital scanners and digital printers.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook lists an examination for this unit.

100% in-semester assessment

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Utilise a wide range of options and controls available through digital and analogue photographic equipment with increasing confidence and proficiency;
2. Demonstrate competence with dark-room based photography and manipulation, including the awareness of print-based approaches associated with advanced black and white processes;
3. Explore further the camera-based approaches associated with constructed photography with an increased conceptual understanding of visual language and communication;
4. Demonstrate awareness of the construction of photographic representation, utilising a range of lighting techniques, and studio-based approaches;
5. Create contemporary photographic artwork that shows an increasingly sophisticated approach to photographic image production and its contextualisation in theories and histories of contemporary photographic art practice.

Workload

12 hours per week including 4 contact hours plus 8 hours of independent study.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.