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ART 228 - Fashion Photography

Credits: 3
Lecture Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 2
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: Open

This course is an advanced look at Fashion photography. This course is designed to assist the student in learning production of advanced Fashion techniques. This course builds on the skills learned in Portrait Photography II and will include various Fashion portrait assignments in the studio, outdoors and on location. A portfolio presentation is required upon completion.
Prerequisite: ART 186 ART 225  
Prerequisite OR Corequisite:  ART 292  
Competencies

  1. Produce advanced professional Fashion photography styles.
    1. Create casual style portraits
    2. Create storytelling style portraits
    3. Create classic style portraits
    4. Create personal style portraits
  2. Evaluate different advanced lighting techniques used in Fashion photography.
    1. Construct Butterfly Lighting
    2. Demonstrate High Key Lighting
    3. Produce Short lighting
    4. Demonstrate Split Lighting
  3. Perform advanced location Fashion photography.
    1. Demonstrate location portraits
    2. Demonstrate environmental portrait
  4. Identify different studio lights used in Fashion photography.
    1. Identify Main Light
    2. Reproduce Fill Light
    3. Identify Kicker light
    4. Reproduce Hair light
  5. Evaluate advanced Fashion photography business practices.
    1. Identify pricing used in fashion photography
    2. Analyze marketing decisions
    3. Develop promotional material
    4. Create a professional presentation album
  6. Demonstrate ability to work with models
    1. Summarize speaking skills while working with models
    2. Demonstrate posing models
  7. Decide how to adjust and prepare digital images for delivery to clients.
    1. Demonstrate how to adjust digital images using software tools.
    2. Show techniques using filters to readjust or sharpen images.
    3. Describe how to edit an image using software including: burning, dodging, levels, masks, retouching.
    4. Summarize the ethics of altering images.
    5. Describe the relative advantages and disadvantages of a number of kinds of printers and printer technologies.
  8. Create a composition and communicate a message.
    1. Examine the impact that framing and cropping have on an image.
    2. Show how to use contrast to enhance your images.
    3. Demonstrate how point of view can affect the interpretation of an image.
    4. Identify some of the “rules of thumb” employed by photographers involved in fashion photography portraiture and landscape including managing motion, balance, and tension.
    5. Access how to present your work to agencies and galleries.
    6. Classify how to compose photographs for specific audiences.
  9. Evaluate advanced digital images in both a printed and/or electronic format.
    1. Analyze/critique photographic work.
    2. Develop a portfolio of fashion photography digital images.
    3. Demonstrate the ability to print their photographs for display.
    4. Describe various options for displaying images.
    5. Display an image for presentation.



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