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CMM-2550 Photographic Image and Digital Manipulation

Spring 2018

Class Days and Time: Mondays and Wednesdays 14h30-15h45 (M01) and 16h-17h15 (M02) Classroom: PAH-18 Computer Lab Prerequisite(s): none Credit(s): 3 Instructor: Luana Fischer Instructor’s Email: [email protected]

Office Hours: MW 13h30-14h30

Course Description: A practical introduction to Digital Photography and Photoshop. The course is divided into two parts: “The Portrait,” where students learn how to use a camera, make correct exposures and deal with lighting and portraitmaking. The second part, “The Photo-Story” is also practical: Students learn Photoshop tools and how to edit final images in order to publish them in a newspaper.

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Objectives: To gain a practical working knowledge of camera controls and terminology, Lighting control and manipulation. Professional photography language and market. Basic skills on Photoshop digital retouching.

Required Equipment: Students must have their own digital camera with manual shutter speed and diaphragm settings. They will also need a USB pendrive with at least one gigabyte of memory. If you have questions about the camera you own (or plan to buy) or USB pendrives, feel free to e-mail Professor Fischer directly at [email protected].

Course Requirements and Grading Rationale/System: Grades will be assessed on 4 assigned projects (Practice Days) and one final exam (Photo Story). It is imperative that all assignments are completed on time and all classes attended. Unexcused absences may result in lower grades.

Assignments:

4 activities (1 Activity Day per week) based on techniques seen in class. (10% of final grade, each)

1 Midterm Portrait (20% of the final grade)

A Photo Story, based on photojournalism documentary techniques and edition aspects seen. (40% of final grade)

Attendance Policy: Attendance is mandatory for this course to run properly. I will expect your physical and mental presence for each class day. I expect you to pay attention to class material (no newspapers, magazines, headphones, etc.) Later arrivals are highly discouraged since they are disruptive for the class. Arriving 15 minutes late or longer will count as an absence. If you are unable to attend class, it is your responsibility to find out what assignments, handouts, activities, or instruction you missed. (The schedule below contains a description of what will happen each in class. Ask me and/or your classmates to make sure you do not miss anything).

ABSENCES: Only university events and trips will be officially excused. However, it is your responsibility to make sure such events or trips do not interfere negatively with your performance in your classes. I will use my discretion to excuse medical situations.

ABSENCES & PENALTIES: You are allowed only 2 unexcused absences. More than 2 unexcused absences will significantly lower your grade (minus 5 points per unexcused absence after the second). Missing 5 or more classes will be grounds to earn a failing grade.

ABSENCES & ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSIONS: If you’re sick and can’t come to class the day an assignment is due, DO send it to me by email. You have all the dates for assignments scheduled in the syllabus. Plan your work ahead of time and be organized.

LATE WORK: You will lose 10% of your score—per day—in any graded assignment submitted late without an official excuse. Submitting an assignment on time means to turn it right after the Practice Day. If you know that you are not going to turn in an assignment on time, let me know before it is due, in order to work out a solution.

E-mail: Campus and course announcements will often be handled by e-mail. Students should check their “@slu.edu” e-mail regularly.

Spring 2018 Course Schedule:

JANUARY

Wednesday 10 First Day of Classes - Presentation - Image ValuesThursday 11

Friday 12

Monday 15 COURSE PART 1 - THE PORTRAIT: Understanding and observing Light - “Baraka” and “In the Mood for Love”

Tuesday 16

Wednesday 17 PLAYING WITH THE LIGHT. The photographic image needs light to be created. How does light interfere on an object ́s appearance? Observing the differences between soft and hard lighting with different sources of light and objects.

Thursday 18

Friday 19

Sunday 21 Last Day to Drop a Class without a Grade W and/or Add a Class; Last Day to Choose Audit (AU) or Pass/No Pass (P/NP) Options

Monday 22 THE LIGHT AND THE CAMERA 1: Students go around Parque Santander looking for different kinds of light: different intensities, hardnesses and colors (when posible). In automatic mode, they register their observations.

Tuesday 23

Wednesday 24 THE LIGHT AND THE CAMERA 2: The camera obscura and how light travels inside the camera and produces the image. Aperture Controls.

Thursday 25

Friday 26 No Classes Application Deadline for Spring Semester Degree Candidates

Monday 29 THE LIGHT AND THE CAMERA 3: Students practice the correct exposure with their cameras on guided exercises at Parque Santander.

Tuesday 30

Wednesday 31 THE LIGHT AND THE CAMERA 4. Consequences of the use of Shutter Speed or Aperture Priorities. In classroom, then at the patio, students practice and see the result of both priorities. “Playing with movement”, “How to be a human tripod”.

FEBRUARY

Thursday 1

Friday 2

Monday 5 PRACTICE DAY 1:Students produce their own images, looking for the correct exposure, for the effects they want to apply (using priorities) and for the best Composition (based on “choices” made at the moment of the framing). The assignment consists on turning in 4 photos: 2 using Aperture Priority (wide and shallow depth of field) and 2 using Shutter Speed Priority (high and low speeds)

Tuesday 6

Wednesday 7 THE LIGHT AND THE CAMERA 5. Composition: “drawing what I see inside of a frame”. Concepts of “noise” and “choice” in Photography. View and Critique of PD1.

Thursday 8

Friday 9

Monday 12 The portrait. How to photograph people. Snapshot portraits and portrait sessions.

Tuesday 13

Wednesday 14 Ash Wednesday Registration for Summer 2018 Begins - Portrait Experiences. Students go to the patio and around the campus to produce portraits of their classmates.

Thursday 15

Friday 16

Monday 19 PHOTOSHOP 1: Students must turn in the portraits made during the previous class in a USB device. First contact with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe BRIDGE. How to organise your photos to start working. Light in Photoshop (Levels). Crop in Photoshop (Composition)

Tuesday 20

Wednesday 21 PHOTOSHOP 2. Introduction to Camera Raw.Thursday 22

No Classes (Winter Break)Friday 23

Monday 26 MIDTERM: Students turn in a PORTRAIT specially photographed for the exam.

Tuesday 27 Professors’ Deadline to Submit Midterm Grades

Wednesday 28 PHOTOSHOP 3. Review and Exercises with Camera Raw (Professor provides material).

MARCH

Thursday 1

Friday 2

Monday 5 PRACTICE DAY 2: Students go to the patio and around the campus to produce SECOND PORTRAIT SESSION, using anything but the natural light.

Tuesday 6

Wednesday 7 View and Critique of PD2. Exercises using material done in PD2 on Photoshop (Camera Raw). L

Thursday 8

Friday 9 Last Day to Drop a Class and Receive a Grade of W

Monday 12 PHOTOSHOP 4: Learning how to improve the Light. Students learn lasso technique for lighting with a given photo.

Tuesday 13

Wednesday 14 PHOTOSHOP 5+PRACTICE: Students go around the Campus to photograph a person in front of a landscape in 15 minutes. Then come back to the classroom to develop and finish up the final image. Using Camera Raw+Lasso Technique.

Thursday 15 Last Day to Submit Transfer Application for Fall Semester

Friday 16

Monday 19 PORTRAIT MAKERS. Diane Arbus/ Richard Avedon Spanish Photography: Emphasis on Alberto Garcia Alix ́s work. La Movida Madrileña. American Photography: Annie Leibovitz ́s Photography.

Tuesday 20

Wednesday 21 COURSE PART 2 - THE PHOTOSTORY: PRACTICE DAY 3:“Discovering a Photo Story”. Calle Fuencarral. Class meets at Quevedo Station and follows the professor ́s instructions, individually, walking from Glorieta de Quevedo to Gran Via through C/ Fuencarral, taking pictures in order to make a photo story about this typical street in Madrid.

Thursday 22

Friday 23

Monday 26 Semana Santa Holiday (Campus Closed)

Tuesday 27

Wednesday 28

Thursday 29 Jueves Santo (Campus Closed)

Friday 30 Viernes Santo (Campus Closed)

APRIL

Monday 2 THE COMPOSITION. Photoshop Exercise. Students must choose 3 photos that will tell their stories at Calle Fuencarral and compose the first page of a newspaper.

Tuesday 3

Wednesday 4 PHOTOJOURNALISM: The documentary introduction - the history of documentary photography: Henri Cartier- Bresson, Dorothea Lange, Robert Capa. Eugene Smith.

Registration for Fall 2018 Semester Begins

Thursday 5

Friday 6

Monday 9 How to edit a photo story? How to put photos in order, (beginning, development of the story and ending)? Start discussing final Photo Stories. How to find a subject, how to develop it.“Lenna” Photostory.

Tuesday 10

Wednesday 11 View professional photojournalist’s work. And discuss documentary techniques. Introduction on how to make a Photo Story. The work of Sebastiao Salgado, World Press Photo Prize, Darcy Padilla, Robert Frank. Inspiration. Jessica Dimmoc ́s “The Nineth Floor”, MediaStorm. Magnum “Access to Life” Documentaries.

Thursday 12

Friday 13

Monday 16 PRACTICE DAY 4: GRAN VIA FIELD TRIPTuesday 17

Wednesday 18 VIEW AND CRITIQUE OF GRAN VIA. How to order and present (publish) a Photostory. “Gallinero” photos.

Thursday 19

Friday 20

Monday 23 PHOTO EXHIBIT IN MADRIDTuesday 24

Wednesday 25 Editing a PhotostoryThursday 26

Friday 27

Monday 30 Review of Photoshop Techniques: Lasso, Clone Stamp, Camera Raw. Review of Ordering and Presenting Photos.

MAY

Tuesday 1 Día del Trabajador (Campus Closed)

Wednesday 2 Día de la Comunidad (Campus Closed)

Thursday 3 Spring 2018 Final Day of Classes

Friday 4 M01 - Final Friday May 4 at 15h30 M02 - Final Tuesday May 8 at 15h30 Monday 7

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Thursday 10

Friday 11 University Housing Move-out Date

Saturday 12 Commencement

Sunday 13 Professors' deadline to submit spring 2018 final grades

Final Exam Schedules Spring 2018

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