Mar 28, 2024  
2020-2021 Academic Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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GD 3010 - Photography for Graphic Designers


Credits: 3

This course prepares students to utilize photography with the primary purpose of creating dynamic and compelling images of products and people for advertising. Students become adept at using technology including the digital SLR (standard settings, manual overrides, and experimentation); understand lighting (both interior studio settings and exterior outdoor settings); facilitate between lens options (macro, specialty filters and wide angle); and learn the importance of a dynamic portfolio stage setting through appropriate documentation. Modest digital post production will be explored including industry standard software.

Prerequisites: GD 2220 - Raster Image Processing  

Course Learning Outcomes:
  • Identify the essential grammar of photography.
  • Compose meaningful images using framing, balance, negative space and the rule of thirds.
  • Use manual settings, priority settings, ISO settings and white balance options on a DSLR Camera.
  • Identify how aperture impacts both the light and depth of field.
  • Identify how shutter speed freezes action or creates motion blur.
  • Compose photographs using window light, shadow light, reflectors and strobe lights.
  • Utilize industry-based software as a means to edit photographic imagery for graphic design.

GD 3010 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  



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