I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Black and White Photography
2. Course Prefix & Number:
ARTS 1401
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 3
Lecture Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 2
4. Course Description:
This course is an introduction to photography as a discipline of visual art. Students will study basic camera operations, composition techniques, lighting effects, elements of design, historical perspectives, skills in image critique, traditional and current image processing, and basic storytelling. This course will require some in and out of class image capture with image conversion to monochrome. This is a studio art course. MnTC Goal 6
5. Placement Tests Required:
| Accuplacer (specify test): |
Reading College Level CLC or Reading College Level |
Score: |
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6. Prerequisite Courses:
ARTS 1401 - Black and White Photography
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
ARTS 1401 - Black and White Photography
There are no corequisites for this course.
II. Transfer and Articulation
1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:
Minnesota State University, Moorhead, MC 230 Photography, 3 credits
St. Cloud State University, ART 385 Photo I, 3 credits
Southwest State University, ART 323 Bsic Black and White Photography, 3 credits
2. Transfer - regional institutions with which this course has a written articulation agreement:
3. Prior Learning - the following prior learning methods are acceptable for this course:
- Military Experience
- Specialty Schools
- Portfolio
III. Course Purpose
1. Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):
2. MN Transfer Curriculum (General Education) Courses - This course fulfills the following goal area(s) of the MN Transfer Curriculum:
Goal 6 – Humanities and Fine Arts
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
| College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
| Demonstrate oral communication skills |
Critique descriptive and interpretative qualities of a composition and artist perspective. |
| Analyze and follow a sequence of operations |
Observe, determine, and predict the use of technology which begins, develops, and finalizes a work of art using this medium. |
| Apply abstract ideas to concrete situations |
Critique a work of black & white imagery, which contains individual perspective and compositional value based on a presented storyline, problem, or need. |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
- Demonstrate effective use of camera operation, exposure control, use of filters, technical application, and image presentation (Goal 6);
- Capture images that effectively utilize elements of design and are communicative in nature (Goal 6);
- Articulate knowledge of monochrome traditional processes and the history of photography (Goal 6);
- Explain and evaluate effectiveness through the critique of personal artwork and the work of others (Goal 6);
- Demonstrate an increased appreciation and role of imagery within the humanities, fine arts, and cultures of the modern world (Goal 6);
- Discuss, contrast, and problem solve black and white image qualities in comparison to images exposed in color (Goal 6);
- Respond critically to art works in the arts and humanities (Goal 6);
- Demonstrate an increased appreciation and role of imagery within the humanities, fine arts, and cultures of the modern world (Goal 6); and
- Explain and evaluate the effectiveness of personal artwork and the work of others (Goal 6).
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
- Artistic Qualities of Black & White v. Color
- The language of photographic art
- Design elements used in art
- Grayscale
- Qualities of light theory
- Exposure/Capture Strategy
- Camera exposure controls of E = I x T +ISO + WB
- Contrast control
- Downloading and uploading digital files
- Camera phone technology
- Exposure problem solving
- Lighting
- Categories of light (formative and comparative)
- Qualities of light and emotion
- Control of light in exposure
- Light and shade relationships
- Front, back, side, rim, silhouette lighting
- Critique
- Image use to include social media applications
- Clustering idea or technique
- Critique as evaluation/assessment
- Validity
- Variability
- Comments on visual relationships
- Sematic differential scales
- Interpersonal methods
- Semiotics
- Storytelling/Composition
- Applied design arrangement
- Art of Subtraction
- Depth of field goals as it relates to communicative figure/ground
- Center of interest
- Relative expression techniques
- Zeigarnik effect
- Lenses/Perspective
- Lens qualities
- Stabilization
- Aperture openings and control
- Lens selection in communication
- Fixed lenses verses zoom lenses
- History of Photography
- Early developments
- The first photographs
- The rise of portraiture
- Pictorialism
- Modernism
- Postmodernism
- Eastman Kodak Company
- Darkroom techniques, contrast control, chemistry and photo printing
- Categories of photography
- Portfolio/Critique
- Principles of sound critique and judging
- Use of software for upload/download and editing
- Practical problem solving
- Portfolio or capstone
2. Laboratory/Studio Sessions
- Expose (capture) black & white images using artistic qualities, design, and technical art
- Perform Exposure/Capture Strategy
- Camera exposure controls of E = I x T +ISO + WB
- Contrast control through use of filters
- Downloading and uploading digital files
- Camera phone technology
- Exposure problem solving
- Photograph in varied lighting situations and perform contrast control and editing techniques:
- Categories of light (formative and comparative)
- Qualities of light and emotion
- Control of light in exposure
- Light and shade relationships
- Front, back, side, rim, ghoul, silhouette lighting
- Perform visual analysis and critique
- Image use to include social media applications
- Clustering idea or technique
- Critique as evaluation/assessment
- Validity
- Variability
- Comments on visual relationships
- Sematic differential scales
- Interpersonal methods
- Semiotics
- Capture, create and evaluate imagery through storytelling, perspective and compositional techniques
- Applied design arrangement
- Art of Subtraction
- Lenses to include depth of field goals as it relates to communicative figure/ground relationships.
- Center of interest
- Relative expression techniques
- Evaluate art through use of lenses/processes/perspective
- Lens qualities
- Stabilization
- Aperture openings and control
- Lens selection in communication
- Fixed lenses verses zoom lenses
- Darkroom techniques, contrast control, chemistry and photo printing
- Identify and practice imagery through understanding of categories of photography
- Produce a capstone project and critique
- Principles of sound critique and judging
- Use of software for upload/download and editing
- Practical problem solving