This course will help fine-tune your personal style.
Study some of the masters of photography, complete real-life photographic assignments and learn to work with comps and build a portfolio. Develop a more detailed understanding of colour management from camera to print. Learn and develop the art of story telling.
- A brief guide for digital photography on the importance of implementing ICC Profiles.
- Please read this after reading the article on Implementing Colour Profiles
- This document explains the expectations during the course of this class on what is expected in terms of what you are doing, how you are approaching. All related research and any inspirations from other photographers. You will only realize your full creative potential by looking at a variety of images from different sources. Artists and designers find inspiration for their work in different ways, but most find that they are influenced by other people’s work they have seen and admired. Furthermore, it is essential that anyone undertaking any creative endeavor has some understanding of the context of their art. Researching relevant artists and practitioners is an essential element of this process.
- The miracle of photography, of its so-called objective image, is that it reveals a radically non-objective world. It is a paradox that the lack of objectivity of the world is disclosed by the photographic lens (objectif). Analysis and reproduction (ressemblance) are of no help in solving this problem. The technique of photography takes us beyond the replica into the domain of the trompe l'oeil. Through its unrealistic play of visual techniques, its slicing of reality, its immobility, its silence, and its phenomenological reduction of movements, photography affirms itself as both the purest and the most artificial exposition of the image.
- Reading for discussion
- This will provide you with detailed instructions on the steps that you need to go through to help calibrate your monitor for viewing images with reasonably accurate colour representation without having an external calibration device. This article refers to a particular software, please ignore it and try to follow the guidelines and grasp the gist of the whole thing.
- This is a PSD file designed to help you visually asses and evaluate the contrast and colours that your monitor is able to display. This is a zipped file, you will need to unzip before you can open it in Photoshop.
- David Hurn in conversation with Bill Jay
- Brief explanations on the fundamental tools of Photoshop
- This is a fairly detailed article dealing with printing. There is a small part which deals with issues that relate to us with regards to printing directly from Photoshop as demonstrated during class.
- It’s time to start thinking about your photography business as a big brand. Strong branding can set you apart and make you the obvious choice for clients looking for the services you offer. Without branding, most clients will decide on the most convenient or lowest priced photographer they can find, who in their eyes provides the exact same service as you do. So today it’s more important than ever to develop a brand to differentiate yourself from the competition and build a strong and lasting face for your business.
- This reading will definitely help you in better understanding what you need to write about and how.
- This document describes suggested workflows, their advantages/disadvantages and choices you will need to make to determine your personal workflow.