SEMESTER AT SEA COURSE SYLLABUS

SEMESTER AT SEA COURSE SYLLABUS Voyage: Summer 2013 Discipline: Studio Art ARTS 2551-102: Fine Art Photography Division: Lower Faculty Name: Dave Wood...
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SEMESTER AT SEA COURSE SYLLABUS Voyage: Summer 2013 Discipline: Studio Art ARTS 2551-102: Fine Art Photography Division: Lower Faculty Name: Dave Woody Pre-requisites: One lower level or introductory studio art course including drawing, painting, printmaking, or 2D design. COURSE DESCRIPTION This is an art studio course that introduces students to fine art photography, using digital processes. Assignments are designed to help students understand the visual language of photography. Students will make photographs during this trip and will use Adobe Lightroom to edit and adjust them. The desired goal of this course is to give students an understanding and appreciation for fine art photography and an understanding of the camera, proper exposure, digital capture, and color correction. Course projects are designed to engage students with core concepts intrinsic to photography and photographic language. Students will use time on board to download, edit, and color correct photos. Readings and discussions are aimed at helping students get a better understanding of the history and contemporary state of fine art photography. Students will use time in port to explore each country with camera in hand. Over the course of the journey students will begin to craft a strong collection of images that function as a personal inquiry and as fine art. COURSE OBJECTIVES 1. Students will learn to use a digital camera in manual-style mode, which increases their understanding of depth-of-field and shutter speed and the inherent benefits of being able to better control the way images look. 2. Students will gain an understanding of basic digital editing and cataloging techniques (using Adobe Lightroom), and will become proficient in using this program. 3. Students will learn to critique and to speak about composition, color, point-of-view, and how a photograph may be “read”. 4. To learn the history of fine art photography, and to learn about current practitioners. 5. To guide students towards developing their own vision, and to help them uncover sensibilities and sensitivities in their own images and their engagement with the world. REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS: None

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TOPICAL OUTLINE OF COURSE

June 17: Depart Southampton June 18: Orientation C1-June 19: Introduction and Overview: The camera reading: Chapter 1, digital handout C2- June 20:The camera: part 2. Camera RAW. Assignment: portraits and self-portraits C3- June 21: Using Lightroom; Importing and Cataloguing Photos C4- June 22: Quiz: Camera + Lightroom. Discussion of the Frame: Project#1 June 23-26: Casablanca C5- June 27:Lightroom; Basic Editing C6- June 28:Discussion: Contemporary Fine Art Photography C7-June 29: LightRoom; Color Correction June 30: No Classes C8- July 1: Critique: Casablanca Photos C9- July 2: Discussion of Space: Project #2: Landscape July 3-5: Antalya C10- July 6: In-Class Work Time C11- July 7: Critique; Antalya Photos. Project #3: The Street July 8-11: Istanbul C12- July 12: Discussion. Reading; “Beauty in Photography” ; Adams. Digital Handout response paper due C15 C13- July 13: Film; Emmet Gowin 2

July 14-17: Piraeus C14- July 18: Work Day C15- July 19: Response Papers Due, Film: ART21 C16- July 20: Critique #3. Project #4 July 21-26: Livorno and Civitavecchia C17- July 27: In-Class Work C18- July 28: In-Class Work and small group critiques July 29-31: Malta C19- August 1:In-Class Work C20- August 2:Critique#4. Project #5; Final Project Reading: Selecting a Subject; Bill Jay Digital handout August 3-8: Marseille and Barcelona C21- August 9:Discussion, In-Class Work C22- August 10:Individual Meetings August 11-16: Cadiz and Lisbon C23- August 17:Individual Meetings August 18: Study Day C24-August 19: Final Presentation August 20: Reflection August 21: Convocation/Packing August 22: Southampton

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FIELD WORK FIELD LAB (At least 20 percent of the contact hours for each course, to be led by the instructor.) The class will visit Cerveteri, a UNESCO world heritage site, where students can visit the Etruscan tombs and make landscape photographs. After Cerveteri we will travel to Rome where we will visit the MAXXI Museum, one of Rome’s most ambitious contemporary art museums. On view is a major exhibition of photographs by one of Italy’s pioneering color art photographers, Luigi Ghirri. We will take time to visit the exhibition as well as other exhibits, and then gather to discuss the shows. Students will then have an opportunity to photograph in the Flaminio area near the museum. A goal for the afternoon’s photographing will be to absorb and emulate Ghirri’s unique way of seeing.

FIELD ASSIGNMENTS The majority of photographs for projects will be taken in ports. The Field Lab offers students an opportunity to visit a museum and look at work by a leading Italian photographer. Students will write a response paper on this exhibition, and will also be expected to make photographs this day as a response to the style of this photographer. Additionally, students are expected to make photographs in all ports, and projects are geared towards making discoveries in each country. Students will use their cameras to refine and expand their vision as it is shaped by each unique port and country. A visual journal of experiences in port will be produced, along with a written journal that will document ideas, descriptions of places, and experiences. Several projects will be due throughout the course, which will be presented and critiqued. At the end of the course the students will turn in their journals and make a presentation of their best work from the trip. METHODS OF EVALUATION / GRADING RUBRIC 15% Attendance at every class, participation in class critiques, and participation in class activities. Students should display a willingness to share opinions and help fellow students and to be active, rather than passive, participants. 25%

Field Lab photographs and journal, writing exercises, technical exam

60% Course Projects; project grades based on creativity, effort, quantity, and quality of work. The Final presentation of work is weighted heavier than earlier projects

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RESERVE LIBRARY LIST

AUTHOR:Martin Evening TITLE:Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Book: the Complete Guide For Photographers PUBLISHER: Adobe Press ISBN #: 0321819594 DATE/EDITION: 2012, 1st edition Required Materials: 1. Laptop 2. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (to be installed on your laptop. ) 3. A digital camera with RAW capabilities, and preferably manual override capabilities. 4. SD card for camera 5. 10 pack blank DVDs 6. 4GB or 8GB Flash Drive HONOR CODE Semester at Sea students enroll in an academic program administered by the University of Virginia, and thus bind themselves to the University’s honor code. The code prohibits all acts of lying, cheating, and stealing. Please consult the Voyager’s Handbook for further explanation of what constitutes an honor offense. Each written assignment for this course must be pledged by the student as follows: “On my honor as a student, I pledge that I have neither given nor received aid on this assignment.” The pledge must be signed, or, in the case of an electronic file, signed “[signed].”

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