Photography

Students will be introduced to a variety of experiences exploring a range of photographic techniques.

Photography is defined as embracing images created by digital as well as chemical means, and by a combination of the two.

You may use chemical and/or digital techniques to produce images.

The examination can be in any suitable photographic format unless the question states otherwise. Students are required to work in one or more area(s) of photography, such as those listed below.

You may explore overlapping areas and combinations of areas.

• Portraiture, documentary and/or photo-journalism

• Landscape photography (working from the urban, rural and /or coastal environment)

• Working from objects, still life or from the natural world

• Experimental imagery

Students will be given the opportunity to develop skills in all of the following:

• The ability to explore elements of visual language, life, form, colour, pattern and texture in the context of photography.

• Responding to an issue, theme, concept or idea or working to a brief.

• An appreciation of viewpoint, composition, depth of field and movement, time-based, through such techniques as sequence or “frozen moment.”

• The appropriate use of the camera, film, lenses, filters and lighting for work in your chosen area of photography.

• An understanding of techniques related to the developing and printing of photographic images, presentation, layout and mounting.

This course will also develop your knowledge and understanding of:

• How ideas, feelings and meanings can be conveyed and interpreted in images and artefacts created in the context of your chosen area(s) of photography.

• The historical and contemporary developments and different styles and genres in your chosen area(s).

How images and artefacts relate to social, environmental, cultural and/or ethical contexts, and to the time and place in which they were created.

• Continuity and change in different styles, genres and traditions relevant to photography.

• The working vocabulary and specialist terminology, which is relevant to your chosen area(s) of photography.