ART 192 - Portrait Photography 1

1. Evaluate different professional portrait photography styles
   1. Create casual style portraits
   2. Demonstrate storytelling style portraits
   3. Show classic style portraits
   4. Create personal style portraits
2. Evaluate different lighting techniques used in portrait photography
   1. Demonstrate Rembrandt lighting
   2. Show Butterfly Lighting
   3. Demonstrate High Key Lighting
   4. Show Short lighting
   5. Discuss Split Lighting
3. Critque location portrait photography
   1. Create family location portraits
   2. Demonstrate environmental executive portrait
4. Evaluate different studio lights used in portrait photography
   1. Identify Main Light
   2. Discuss Fill Light
   3. Explain Kicker light
   4. Identify Hair light
5. Assess portrait photography business practices
   1. Identify pricing used in portrait photography
   2. Analyze marketing decisions
   3. Develop a promotional calendar
   4. Create a professional presentation album
6. Work with models
   1. Demonstrate speaking skills while working with models
   2. Pose models
7. Prepare a computer to correctly display digital images
   1. Adjust digital images using software tools
   2. Use filters to readjust or sharpen images
   3. Edit an image using software including: burning, dodging, levels, masks, retouching
   4. Describe the ethics of altering images
   5. Sumarize the relative advantages and disadvantages of a number of kinds of printers and printer technologies
8. Evaluate the fundamental design elements and know how to use them effectively to create a composition and communicate a message
   1. Describe the impact that framing and cropping have on an image
   2. Use the “rule of thirds”
   3. Apply contrast to enhance your images
   4. Show how point of view can affect the interpretation of an image
   5. Identify some of the “rules of thumb” employed by photographers involved in portraiture and landscape including managing motion, balance, and tension
   6. Describe how to present your work to agencies and galleries
   7. Compose you photographs for specific audiences
9. Evaluate digital images in both a printed and/or electronic format
   1. Analyze/critique photographic work
   2. Develop a portfolio of portrait 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