Welcome to Photography I : ART 1310
During this course we will be exploring photography from both a traditional and digital perspective. Students will gain hands on experience operating both film and digital SLR cameras, processing black and white film, making prints using both the darkroom and inkjet printers. This technical experience will be enhanced by a study of ethics and social concerns, the history of photography, and commerical applications for the photographic medium. Students must provide their own film SLR, film, and paper. The course will consist of lectures, demonstrations, labs, hands on experience, exams, research papers, and field trips. Like any other class you will get out of it what you put into it. Ansel Adams said, "Do not be afraid of the practical and mundane aspects of the medium; they will strengthen your technique and discipline and give you a broader perspective of the world we live in. Having been trained as musician, I am very much aware of the inevitablity of the arduous hours devoted to "practice" so that the expressive intention and thrust will be liberated from the restraints of technical inadequacies."
