Course: Principles of Studio Photography I

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Course title Principles of Studio Photography I
Course code KFO/832
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Frequency of the course Each academic year
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Loziak Aleš, MgA.
Course content
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
The conception of the subject assumes that the master's degree students have vocational and manual skills, as well as theoretical knowledge on the level of a bachelor's degree graduate, and therefore focuses in particular on extending specific skills necessarily essential both in the challenging professional practice, and in free author's creation. In the 1st semester of the master's degree study, the course is oriented toward the issues of studio settings, and focuses above all on explication of principal questions of studio creation logistics, such as analyzing methods of light construction and accompanying questions of primary light reality and stylized light reality. Seminar works in this subject are oriented toward practical verification of acquired knowledge and their inclusion in the student's range of practical skills. 1. Introduction to the issues. 2.-3. The principle of primary lighting reality. 4. The principles of stylized lighting reality. 5.-6. Methods of professional conventions. 7. -8. Current approaches to postproduction. 9. -10. Materials and structures. 11. -12. Both traditional and nontraditional still-life. 13. Evaluation of seminar papers.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the given field of study, they result from a concrete annotation of the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the previous study

Assessment methods and criteria
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Series of Photographs for new design of the Corporate Identity of a productive company
Recommended literature
  • Albers, Joseph. Interaction of Color, Revised Edition. Yale University Press, 1975.
  • Evening, M. Adobe Photoshop CC for Photographers. Focal Press, 2018.
  • Fraser, B. Murphy, Ch.; Bunting, F. Real World Color Management. Peachpit Press, 2004.
  • Judge, A. Mastering Photographic Histograms. The Key to Fine-tuning exposure and better photo editing. Kindle unlimited e-book, 2016.
  • Schapiro, Meyer. Words, Script and Pictures (Semiotics of Visual Language). George Braziller, New York, 1996.
  • Stephens, M. The Rise of the Image, the Fall of the Word. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1998.
  • Sugiyama, K. Desktop Color Handbook 05/06, 07, 08 (A Supplementary reader for ColorEdge). EIZO Nanao Corporation 2005,2007,2008.
  • Van Leeuwen, T.; Jewitt, C. Handbook of Visual Analysis. Sage Publications, London, 2001.


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