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This handbook provides essential information on the tutorial tasks, blog, tips and helpful guides for the Digital Imaging
Unit
Unit Blog http://dphot.tumblr.com/
Flickr Group http://www.ickr.com/groups/phot/
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
HAND!IN Friday 24th April by 3pm
DPHOT
2013/14
The unit blog will provide you with handouts and links and keep you informed of practical
knowledge in getting to know your camera, software and also taking photographs. Please make sure
you visit the blog as much as possible.
As part of the unit you will have to provide a working journal of your visual ideas and photography. You
have a choice of what to use - blog, sketchbook or both perhaps. Each of you will be used to working in
a particular way and as long as you keep your blog or sketchbook up to date on a weekly basis then
the choice is yours. We will need to see your progress every week.
UNIT BLOG - http://dphot.tumblr.com/
The unit Flickr group is a great way for you to share your photographs with other students on the
unit. I encourage you to seek comments and also look for inspiration. Perhaps join some other
groups?
Flickr Group - http://www.ickr.com/groups/phot/
GETTING STARTED
With any new unit you will need to start thinking about managing your time and work from the start.
You will be handed a series of tasks that will get you using your camera from week 1. Please prepare
your les, camera/s and decide on how you will present your work at the sessions. You will be asked
to discuss your work each week. Please BE PREPARED.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT ! digital cameras enable you to upload your images to a computer with
cables and some now have wireless capabilities.
FOLDERS - Prepare folders on your student drive (5gb storage).
COLLATING / EDITING - Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Apple Aperture and Apples iPhoto all have
image browsers to view your work, edit and collate.
EXTERNAL STORAGE - A good way to have easy access and carry around your master les/images
from home and uni. Try and buy 500gb+
CrashPlan - http://www.crashplan.com/ or similar - online data back-up
Drop Box, Google Drive are good for storing data and transfer - also available as mobile apps.
WEBSITES
Flickr Free Account - 1 terabyte upload free. Flickr Pro Account - Unlimited uploads and ad free for
16 per year.
Also Google Picasa which is free
CAMERA ! you will be required to have your own camera for this unit. It needs to be digital and
have if possible, manual controls. Students in the past have used mobile phone cameras and
borrowed high end digital cameras from the photography department. If you are planning on
buying a camera then talk to Gary, Chris or Claire for advice.
Get to know your camera inside out. Experiment with the settings, visit the cameras website and also
look at the Flickr group for your cameras make/model as there are some great discussions forums
with hints and tips about use and experimentation.
SOFTWARE - In class we have access to Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop and iPhoto. You can
get 30 day free trial of Adobe products from their website at www.adobe.com and iPhoto is free on
Macs. Other solutions are the online version of Photoshop - http://www.photoshop.com/tools and
they also have an iPhone app. Open Source - Photoshop Gimp a free clone of Adobes software -
http://www.gimp.org/
Look around as there are plenty of other similar products http://www.apple.com/aperture/ (Mac
and used by professional photographers), Camera Bag 2 - http://www.nevercenter.com/
-http://www.pixelmator.com/, http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php , and if you are an
iPhone user then see the next page.
Mobilography / iPhoneography
Apps for photography via mobile phones have become very popular since Apples iPhone and a quick
scan on the app store will give you thousands of choices. Some of the best free apps are:
Photoshop Express
Retro Camera Plus
Mill Colour
Camera Plus
instagram
EyeEm
Best Paid Apps:
Camera Bag
Hipstamatic
Quad Camera
Toy Camera
Tilt Shift Gen
Pro HDR
Loads on the Android too . . apparently.
Flickr Groups:
http://www.ickr.com/groups/mobilography/
http://www.ickr.com/groups/iphoneography-portsmouth/
http://www.ickr.com/groups/iphoneography/
There are hundreds . .
also keep your
blog up to date with
Tumblr app for
mobile
DIGPIM Basics Ideas, help and resources
What Camera?
DIGPIM Basics Ideas, help and resources
What Camera?
WWW.LOMOGRAPHY.COM
DIGITAL SLR
DIGITAL COMPACT
DIGITAL SUPER COMPACT
DIGPIM Basics Ideas, help and resources
MICRO CAMERA
SCANNER AS CAMERA
POLAROID
WWW.POLANOID.NET
PHONE CAMERAS
What Camera?
DIGPIM Basics Ideas, help and resources
What Camera?
Decide on a budget
Always try and get as wide a lens as possible - 24mm/
28mm (not many compact cameras have this)
You do not need an expensive camera - this does not
equal a good photographer.
If you buy a Digital SLR camera then also try and get a
compact.
DIGPIM Basics Ideas, help and resources
What Camera?
Get at least a 2gb memory card (7dayshop.com)
Look on Ebay / Amazon / LCE 2nd Hand store - save
For this unit - mix it up. Try Hi-/Low-Fi
Once you have your camera sorted then GET TO KNOW IT
INSIDE OUT - What are the capabilities? look at user
groups and also join that cameras Flickr Group etc....
DIGPIM Basics Ideas, help and resources
Now you have a camera....
Start to open your eyes to all around you.
Look for shadows, forms, lines, colours,
perspectives, reections, angles,
textures etc
Be a collector - letters, numbers, doors,
hands, grafti, found objects etc
Te camera is an instrument that teaches
people how to see without a camera.
Dorothea Lange
Digital Photography
DPHOT
HEMIS Code U20192
ABSTRACT
This course introduces the underlying principles of digital photography. Students will learn how digital cameras work
and how to create digital images, appreciate experimental, abstract and traditional photographic techniques and
learn how to display, compress and store photographs on a variety of platforms.
AIM
1. To enable students to appreciate the fundamental principles, the technical resources and the creative potential of
digital photography.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
On successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:
1. Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of the application of Digital Photography as an integral element
within design
2. Understand the physical technology and methods responsible for creating digital images
3. Identify how digital photography benefits the industry and aids the print process
Hand In Date: Friday April 24th by 3pm
ASSESSMENT PATTERN
Coursework (100%) The students will produce an evaluative, working journal and a presentation of photographs.
The work will be unsupervised and tutor assessed. You must choose and present your work with close attention to the
relationship/theme. There will be a series of assignments which all relate to the unit aims and generate content for
your final body of work.
Students MUST select core subjects from the 18 listed in the handbookt.
Students will then produce photographs from their selected core subject areas. (a max of 30 photographs)
Delivery
1. A working journal (blog or sketchbook)
2. A presentation of final images either printed, exhibition or online.
Students are expected to produce a portfolio of photographic work and associated journal of process experiments,
image plans, drawings, written and visual material, demonstrating both thematic and technical research and
experimentation in technique, format and media.
This needs to be completed either in a blog or a sketchbook format.
Completed photographic prints and online showcases should be executed with high regard
to presentation and photographic convention and wherever appropriate work should be
fully edited and presented in a professional manner.
NAME !