Course detail
Advanced Photography for Beginners - winter
FaVU-APFBAcad. year: 2024/2025
The course focuses on photographic technique and matter of balance between technological background and real usage of picture camera. Course is not focused on browsing through menus on digital cameras.
Language of instruction
English
Number of ECTS credits
4
Mode of study
Not applicable.
Guarantor
Department
Offered to foreign students
Of all faculties
Entry knowledge
None required.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
exam
Attendance in the seminars is mandatory.
Attendance in the seminars is mandatory.
Aims
Students will master the process of decision which photographic method and tool to use.
Capability of full range usage of available photographical equipment, simply how to get best result possible even with cheap digital compact camera. Students will be skilled how to work with prime lenses, how to choose the proper perspective and how to get ideal color tonality if possible.
Capability of full range usage of available photographical equipment, simply how to get best result possible even with cheap digital compact camera. Students will be skilled how to work with prime lenses, how to choose the proper perspective and how to get ideal color tonality if possible.
Study aids
Not applicable.
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable.
Basic literature
SALVAGGIO Nanette, Basic Photographic Materials and Processes, third edition, Elsevier (c) 2009, ISBN 978-0-240-80984-7 (EN)
Recommended reading
PHAIDON editors, The Photography Book, Phaidon (c) 2005, ISBN: 9780714844886 (EN)
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Seminar
22 hod., compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Size of CCD (film), crop factor
- Using and understanding various lenses
- Distance perspective handling
- Issues of (D)SLRs/MILCs
- Choosing proper media: film and digital, primes vs. zooms etc.
- Features of view/field cameras
- Available and artificial light, color temperature
- Various types of cameras, differences in usage
- Historical context, speed of perception of photographical work
- Six steps of frame control
- Uneven and demanding conditions and photographic equipment
- Using and understanding various lenses
- Distance perspective handling
- Issues of (D)SLRs/MILCs
- Choosing proper media: film and digital, primes vs. zooms etc.
- Features of view/field cameras
- Available and artificial light, color temperature
- Various types of cameras, differences in usage
- Historical context, speed of perception of photographical work
- Six steps of frame control
- Uneven and demanding conditions and photographic equipment