Course: Principles of Studio Photography II

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Course title Principles of Studio Photography II
Course code KFO/833
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Frequency of the course Each academic year
Semester Summer
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
These informations are in the annotation of the course.

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 course programme for the 2nd semester, artistic verification of all so-far mastered techniques applied to a theme and presentation of the photographic image in online environment. Tuition in both semesters is based on combination of theoretical introductions and following practical experiments illuminating individual technologies being examined and model creative procedures respectively. 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 of summer semester. 2.-3. Body and face. 4. -5. Photographic portrait. 6. -7. Principles of creative approach to image data. 8. -9. Strategy of online presentation of visual materials - e.g. PR campaigns, reproduction of artworks. 10. Principles of web-design; web-mastering. 11. -12. Individual projects moderated by the tutor. 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
unspecified
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.
  • 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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