Course Originally Created By:
CTE Online
Digital Photography Model
Course Overview / Details
- Grades:
- 10 to 12
- Industries and Pathways:
- Arts, Media & Entertainment, Media and Design Arts
- Course Level: Capstone
- CBEDS Course: Commercial photography
- CBEDS #: 5755
- Total Hours: 180
- Course Length: 2 Semesters
- State Certified: Yes - Course #: 4401
- Local Course Number (issued by local ROCP): 4401
- Board Approval: No, 08/14/2006
- Labor Market Demand: Medium
- Is this course industry certified?: No
- Course Type: Career-Technical Preparation
- CSU/UC Approval: No
| O*NET Occupations | |
|---|---|
| Occupation Name | Occupation Code |
| Photographers | 27-4021.00 |
| Photographic Process Workers | 51-9131.00 |
Related Occupations
Standards
- California Career and Technical Education Standards: 57
- California Academic Content Standards: Integrated: 2 Reinforced: 29
- All Standards
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Competencies / Outcomes
Course Goals and/or Major Student Outcomes
Students will learn to:
• Perceive and understand photography as an art form, using the vocabulary of design principles and visual art elements to describe and discuss their own and others’ work.
• Understand the role of photography in reflecting past and contemporary cultures.
• Understand the role photography plays in communications and its use as a visual language.
• Critique orally or in writing the effectiveness of photographs in terms of artistic value and communication of meaning.
• Understand how the critical thinking, creativity, resource and time management skills learned in this course apply to other arts and to other career areas.
• Use technology as a tool to create individual works of photographic art.
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will:
• Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of photographic composition and development of a “photographic eye.”
• Demonstrate knowledge of the history of photography.
• Demonstrate competency using cameras and equipment (digital or darkroom).
• Demonstrate competency using basic studio lighting.
• Synthesize the technical and artistic aspects of the course.
• Show an appreciation and application of aesthetic factors in photography.
• Compile a portfolio, including an artist’s statement and a selection of the student’s best prints, suitable for employment or college applications.
• Participate in community opportunities for exhibition and competition.
Units in this Course
Lessons in this unit will teach students about the history of photography, from the first inventions to present day techniques.
- Camera Obscura
- 55 Minutes
- Printing Pictures with you inkjet printer
- 60 Minutes
Lessons in this unit will cover introducing students to the photographic industry's standard software, Adobe PhotoShop CS, to advance lessons in utilizing such a powerful tool.
- Introduction to PhotoShop
- 50 Minutes
- Introduction to Designing Digital Composites
- 50 Minutes
- Making Selections with Marquee Tool
- 50 Minutes
- Making Selections with Lasso Tool
- 50 Minutes
- Making Selections with Color
- 36 Minutes
- Pen Tool
- 75 Minutes
Lessons in this unit will teach students about the many professional career opportunities, needed skills, and equipment utilized in today's digital photography world.
- Life Size Cardboard Cut-out in high resolution
- 0 Hours
- Advertisement/Creating a Print Ad (1 of 2) Intro
- 80 Minutes
- Photograph Theme for a Book Cover
- 2 Hours
- Advertisement/Creating a Print Ad (2 of 2)
- 80 Minutes
- Careers in Printing
- 65 Minutes
- Let's buy a camera
- 95 Minutes
Lessons in this unit will teach students the importance photography has played in social reform throughout history and photography techniques that can be used as tools for social change.
- Story, Audience Message
- 50 Minutes
- Intro to Photographic Surrealism
- 2 Hours
- Story Telling in 6 Pictures
- 2 Hours
The Art of Seeing includes lessons in subject and background awareness, observation, familiar, preconceptions, and compositional elements such as form, texture, pattern, color, line, shape, rule of thirds, the golden section, naturalistic photography, dominance and subordination in photography.
- Seeing Composition
- 90 Minutes
- Use of LINE in Photography
- 120 Minutes
- Digital Storytelling 1
- 100 Minutes
- Basic Elements of Texture
- 120 Minutes
- Digital Storytelling 2
- 100 Minutes
- Creating Motion in Photos
- 90 Minutes
- Unusual filters to make a Horror Movie
- 90 Minutes
- Stopping motion in photos
- 60 Minutes
- Digital Storytelling 3
- 2 Hours
- Digital Storytelling 4
- 2 Hours
- Materials Safety Data Sheet
- 2 Hours
- Working With Light
- 3 Hours
- Architectural Photography
- 60 Minutes
- Color Theory
- 75 Minutes
- Understanding Digital Resolution
- 80 Minutes
- Digital White Balance
- 2 Hours
- Art of Self Portrait
- 75 Minutes
- Shapes
- 60 Minutes
Lessons in this unit will include many techniques in indoor portrait lighting, subject posing guidelines, camera settings with flash as well as constant lighting, and the many different styles in today's portraits.
An essential skill for professional photographers is knowing how to retouch portraits using Adobe PhotoShop CS software. Lessons in this unit will cover the several techniques used by professionals to retouch young and old subjects with pleasing results for the client.
- Red Eye Removal/Change Eye Color
- 55 Minutes
- Teeth & Eye Whitening
- 90 Minutes
- Correcting Blemishes & Smoothing Wrinkles
- 60 Minutes
- Removing (skin) Shine
- 45 Minutes
- Retore Old & Damaged Photos
- 90 Minutes
- Content Aware Fill
- 75 Minutes
Students will learn how to capture great outdoor portraits and avoid the many lighting pitfalls by studying lessons in this unit. From camera settings, to using reflectors and diffusers, flash, to general posing techniques this unit will teach students how the professionals create such stunning outdoor portraits.
This unit will cover techniques that will teach students about the world's great artists, their styles, techniques, lighting concepts, color schemes all with the use of PhotoShop CS.
- Comfort Icons
- 95 Minutes
- Picasso & Cubism
- 120 Minutes
- How to "Cartoon" an Image
- 55 Minutes
- A Few of my Favorite Things (collage making)
- 115 Minutes
- David Hockney Inspired Artwork (Collages)
- 180 Minutes
- Nature Works-Andy Goldsworthy
- 180 Minutes
- Nature Pictures
- 150 Minutes
- Splat/Paint Spatter Art Project
- 180 Minutes
Lessons in this unit will teach students how to create in camera effects and manual controls techniques of the digital camera.
Students will learn basic animation for photographic and video editing with lessons in this unit using PhotoShop CS software.
Lessons on the basic settings and functions of a camera. You need to know what these buttons, switches and settings do before you take a picture.
- Understanding ISO, Aperture and Shutter Speed
- 150 Minutes
- Rule of Thirds
- 55 Minutes
