Introduction
Photography has been around for about 170 years. William Henry Fox-Talbot and Louis Daguerre both came up with successful ways of recording images on chemically coated plates in 1839. Today talk is of Megapixels, Photoshop, and Inkjet or Laser printers. Cameras are everywhere from your Mobile phone to the top of your computer screen. Since the late 1990s the method of recording may have changed from chemical to electronic, and we may talk of image capture rather than taking a photograph, yet the fundamenals of picture taking such as composition and exposure are the same.
In Year 10 photography you may not be using a digital/phone camera like you are used to, and you may not be using a computer to print your images, but you will hopefully end the semester with a good folio of photographs and a knowledge of the basics of the chemical based Black and White process.
This semester you will learn how to:
* safely use the cameras and darkroom
* idenify various photgraphic genres
* compose photographs
* idenify the major controls of the camera
* correctly hold a SLR camera
* focus the camera and control depth of field on manual cameras
* use the apperture and shutter speed in conjection with the film speed
*correctly load and unload the cameras
* load film processing tanks* process the film
* identify the parts and controls of the enlargers
* select the correct filter to control contrast
* correctly expose and develop the printing paper using test strips
* make a contact print of your negatives* mount your photographs for display
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