Digital Photography Degree at Australian Correspondence Schools
Course Code BPH202
Fee Code S2
Number of Assignments 11
Duration (approx) 100 hours
ENTER THE EXCITING WORLD OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY!
Digital Photography allows you to use image editing software to apply special effects, and gain quality control over your pictures. You can output digital photographs to printers, upload to the web or send images by email. In this course, you will learn it all!
Find out the equipment you need to move to digital photography
Understand computer specifications and factors affecting computer performance for digital imaging
Learn to transfer an image from a digital camera onto your computer
Be able to process digital pictures and output them
Understand scanners and image editing software
Be able to utilise your camera to take great digital photographs.
Basic Principles of Photographic Composition
Find out about image formats and types of files
COURSE STRUCTURE
This course is divided into eleven lessons as follows:
1. Introduction To Digital Technology
How images are captured and stored, categories of equipment & software, scope of applications
2. Equipment -getting started; deciding what you need
CCD’s, Image Sizes, Raster Images,, Video Cards, Colour depth, Computer terminology etc.
3. Digital Technology
Colour, resolution, sensors (how technology enables digital images to be captured).
4. Digital Cameras
Image formation, lenses, camera stability, one shot cameras, 3 shot cameras, terminology (eg.DPI, DVD, Bit, EDO RAM, Plug In etc)
5. Taking Photographs
Principles of Photo Composition, Creating effects, Default Setting, Compression of Data, Dithering, Halftones etc
6. Scanners
Techniques which can be used for digitally capturing images from film photographs, or graphics
7. Uploading Images
How digital images can be transferred effectively from a camera (or scanner) onto another device (eg. a computer, video monitor, television set, etc).
8. The Digital Darkroom
Techniques that can be used to process digital photographs within a computer to achieve improved or changed images
9. Compositing & Imaging – Production & manipulation of images
How digital photos can be manipulated and changed to produce altered images
10. Special Effects
Scope and nature of special effects that can be created with digital photographs
11. Outputs & Applications- Printers, The Internet
How and where digital photography can effectively be used.