Basic Photo Imaging

Tutor:

Michaela ZEINEROVÁ BRACHTLOVÁ

Synopsis:

Photographic seeing is a photographer's ability to observe and depict reality by using specific tools of photographic language. It is closely connected to imagination, visual memory and the ability to predict changes in the situation or the object in new conditions, relations, etc. Photographic seeing means above all knowing how to realise the quality of the motif - the reality - and to analyse it in a sense that considers all knowledge to get the best impact of the image. The aim of this seminar is to realise that photography as a visual communication medium has its own tools and methods and to exercise the basic principles of photographic seeing. In order to use this language effectively, we need to learn how to handle photographic symbols, how to operate with photographic tools. Assignments will aim at using composition elements (light and shadow, lines, shapes, spatial and plane solution etc.) in both the existing outdoor space and in constructed studio situations.

Prerequisites:

Grading:

Graded credit: granted on the basis of submission of all prescribed assignments and evaluation of submitted photographs.

The basic pre-requisites for grading are the student?s participation within at least 60% of the lectures, participation in posted mandatory joint consultations specified in the beginning of the course, as well as the submission of agreed on photographs in digital form - resolution 300 dpi with the length of the longer side of the format being 210mm.

Study Objectives:

Outline and Syllabus:

Assignments: (1P2)

1. Reproduction of the space - real (town) and constructed (in the studio) 2 photographs

2. Spatial and plane solution of an image of the town (using the light atmosphere, depth of field, picture planes, different types of lenses etc.). The same tools use in the image photographed in the studio - 4 photographs

3. Interpretation of the town and landscape (same view as in item 1) and of the constructed situation in the studio - 3 photographs

4. Composition - from the place which is situated on the image (1) make 3- 4 photographs, which bring some new information or interpretation of the reality and which are also linked up to each other.

12 - 13 black & white photographs, size of final copies 24x30 cm

In the end of winter term minimum 5 photographs.

Name of the Lecturer: MgA. Michaela Brachtlová

Contact: 723 733 311

Study materials:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2009/2010:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri
Thu	místnost 112 Učebna KF (Lažanský palác) ZEINEROVÁ BRACHTLOVÁ M. 11:30–13:05 ODD WEEK (přednášková par. 1)
Fri

Schedule for summer semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Fotografie EN - bakalář (qualification subject)