Light, Lines & Moment

Course Catalog Description

Course designed for advanced students already comfortable with the use of the camera (film or digital) to stretch beyond using the camera as a recording device to using it with subtly and dexterity as a communication device. Final project is a portfolio of work from the semester or a photograph essay produced during the semester.

Course Overview

A camera is a box with a hole at the front to allow light to strike the back of the interior of the box; a lens in front of the hole focuses the light at the back of the box where the light is recorded through chemical or digital process. This course is about learning to put off how humans see and perceive their world in order to take on seeing as the camera sees accepting both the camera’s limitations and unique abilities. Learning to see as the camera sees opens the possibility for adept visual communication.

Course Learning Outcomes

Students come away from this course with a toolkit for visual communication applicable to any camera.

    • The discipline of film + the advantages of digital

    • Editing: Portfolio and Photograph Essay

    • Light & shadow

    • Line & shape

    • Moment(s)

    • Layers

    • Color theory & black and white

    • Human figure

    • Armature