NM3223: Digital photography and imaging

Reference links

Reading for week 1: Introduction
Popular Digital Cameras and Gear
Digital Camera Primer
DSLR technology

Reading for Week 2: Brief history
History of photography: Reference
Brief history of digital photography

Reading for week 3: Tools and process
Digital photography fundamentals - PDF file (must read)
Digital equipment overview
Digital equipment review - camera and lens reviews
Digital camera glossary

Reading for week 4: Image capture
Digital imaging techniques - Exposure, Using light, perspective
Understanding histograms

Reading for week 5: Image processing
Photoshop CS3 for photographers [electronic resource] / Chris Orwig. - Central library RBR
Digital photography principles [electronic resource] : with Dr. Taz Tally - Central library RBR
Colour Management in Photoshop CS3
Managing Colour when Printing in Photoshop CS3
Basic mat cutting
Differences in 'Seeing' Between Eye and Lens-- Daniel Chandler

Reading for week 6:

Visual Semiotics: Signs, Signifiers and Signifieds
Practices of looking:
Denotation, connotation and myth
Rhetorical tropes
Codes

Reading for week 7: The Gaze
Notes on ‘The Gaze’ --- Daniel Chandler
 

Reading for week 8: : Ethics

Intention and Artifice: - William J. Mitchell
Faking images in photojournalism: - Paul Martin Lester
Image manipulation: by Sandra Gavard
Ethics in the Age of Digital Photography: National Press Photographers Association
 

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Relevant in next few weeks