Fall 2016 Course Syllabi

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Tentative Course Outline:Week 1 – Introduction, After Capture What is a Camera
 DSLR vs point and shoot
 Film vs digital
 Downloading
 Organizing files
 Storage and backup
 Deleting images
 Resizing/cropping
 Printing
Week 2 – Lighting and Composition Natural
 Pop up flash
 Dedicated flash
 Gradients
 Cast shadows
 Composition,
 Auto focus points
Week 3 - Creating photographic images Principles of design
 Surface and Space
 Color, Line, different realities
 Figure ground
 Breaking the rules
Week 4 – Shutter Speed Shutter Speed
 Drive Modes
 Auto Focus modes
 What do you want to say?
Week 5 – Aperture, ISO Aperture
 ISO
 What do you want to say?
Week 6 – Shooting on Manual