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GM300BB
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Autumn 2018 PREVIEW
This is an intermediate level, hands-on course in commercial and illustrative portraiture, with an emphasis on light modulation tools and techniques to create expressive portraits of people. Students learn to creatively expand their range of working with artificial light sources in the studio, primarily in a digital capture workflow, but also have the option to work with traditional cameras and films.
Students refine a rich vocabulary that builds visual literacy applied to portraiture, which helps decipher meaning from images appearing in various cultures and contexts. Command of this visual language enables articulation of ideas in their own work, and being conversant in the photographic medium with a sophisticated viewing audience that is inclusive of peers, instructors, editors, and art buyers. Group critiques are designed to stimulate this discourse.
An emphasis is placed on pre-production skills and the elements coordinated outside of the production experience in the studio, such as the scheduling of space for a portrait session, casting of models or talent, and procurement of wardrobe and props. Students are introduced to the implemention of business forms, model releases, and analysis of various ethical issues that are tangent to the production and publication of portraiture. The vision of some imagery is extended and stylized through the practice of post-production, digital retouching techniques commonly encountered in the photographic portrait industry.
Course Objectives
• Demonstrate methods of safely constructing and lighting a set for traditional and/or alternative interpretations of studio portraiture.
• Properly select a combination of lighting system and camera white balance.
• Critically examine compositional elements of successful portraiture.
• Determine accurate exposures in mixed lighting situations with a hand-held light meter.
• Effectively and creatively utilize a variety of light modulating devices.
• Implement various techniques to evoke expression from a subject.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of business, legal, and ethical issues regarding the publication of people.
• Learn how to make proficient aesthetic judgments of portraits during group critiques.
• Practice digital retouching workflow to resolve commonly encountered visual problems in portraiture.
• Create a portfolio that displays a personal interpretation of studio portraiture.
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• ATTENDANCE
• CRITIQUES AND PARTICIPATION
• ETHICS IN IMAGING
• PORTRAITURE DIGITAL RETOUCHING
• LIGHTING PLOTS
• MID-TERM EXAMINATION
• FINAL PORTFOLIO
Don Werthmann
professional faculty — photo
washtenaw community college