Week 1: Course Overview

Overview of Course Topics

Visual and conceptual strategies...

• Refining design and color

• Exploring conceptual opposites

• Literal versus figurative

• Realist versus haptic visual languages

• Integrating text with image

• Sequence and series
• Appropriation and reference
• Fictional reality

Exploration of historical and contemporary photographic artists...

Camera skills...

Introduction to makeshift studio lighting, outdoors...

Digital workflow...

• Non destructive

• Intermediate and advanced image processing techniques

• Restoration and retouching

• Masking and compositing

• Scale and resolution concerns for printing multiple sizes

Output and presentation...

• Print refinement

• Print size (scale) exploration

• presentation and finishing

Extended projects...

Student work from prior semesters:

Color and design studies:

Conceptual opposites:

Realist versus Haptic

Text and image

Sequence and series

Appropriation and reference

Fictional reality

Extended projects