Course Objectives

• This course provides, how to get your camera to capture what your eye sees to produce better pictures
• This paper is designed to teach students how to direct a photoshoot

Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to develop the skills of a photographer
• After completing this course students can start their own setup of photography

Course Syllabus

Module-I
The Photograph
Invention and Implications
Photography, the photograph and culture
The Black and White, Color and its Impact
Image and Text- The Captioned Photo

Module-II
Photographic equipment, controls & tools
Camera: point & shoot, SLRs, DSLRs, SLDs, SLT, Mirrorless, Digital
Camera Settings, Menus, Exposure, Shooting modes and their significance
Photographic Optics: Lenses their use, types & specifications
Aperture - role & significance in image making
Kinds of Shutters - significance & application
ISO settings and their significance
White Factor
Depth of field as an image making tool

Module-III
Understanding Light and its Uses
Light: Visible Spectrum, Colour Temperature, Units & Significance in
Photography
Quality of Light: Hard Light Soft Light
Lighting Equipment: On Camera Flash, Its use and limitation, Studio Flash,
and Accessories
Lighting Ratio
Types of Lights: Indoor, Outdoor & Mixed
Three Point Lighting

Module-IV
Production
Photography / Photoshop
Cropping, Morphing, Picasa/Faststone
Pixel & Megapixels
Working with image & text

Reference:
Understanding Exposure by by Bryan Peterson
The Photographer's Eye by Michael Freeman
On Photography by Susan Sontag
Butler, Yvonne V. The Advanced Digital Photographer’s Handbook,
Focal Press.
Berger, J. Ways of Seeing, Harmonsworth, Penguin, 1972.
Langford, Michael. Fox, Anna,. Smith, Richard Sawdon. Langford's
Basic Photography: The Guide for Serious Photographers, July 23, 2010,
Revised 9th Edition.
Edwards, Steve. Photography: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford.
Sontag, Susan. On Photography, London: Penguin, 2008.

Session Plan

Session 1

Session 31, 32, 33, 34 & 35

Session 39, 40 & 41

In this project session, students will submit an assignment on photography

Case Studies

Case Studies