Teaching

Intermediate Photography (Photo II)

Summary

Intermediate Photography students will expand upon those skills that were taught in the Intro to Photography course. With a more in-depth approach students will be required to refine the medium of fine art photography from exposure to finished prints. This course will focus on the interrelationships between exposure, film processing, printing and print presentation. This is a darkroom extensive course where students explore advanced darkroom procedures such as the use of fiber based paper, finely tuned contrast control, advanced dodging and burning and the use of tonality in their images via print developers and advanced toners.

Outside of the darkroom this course will explore and implement The Zone System as well as the idea of Pre-Visualization. Through careful and advanced metering techniques using a handheld meter students will learn to expose and develop their film properly to insure that each negative contains the vital information necessary to obtain and develop an expressive print.

The course will culminate with the last half dedicated to the production of a final portfolio. This work will utilize most if not all of the procedures that were taught during the first half of the course and will represent the students most advanced work to date. Students will be required to professionally present 15 or more images having to do with one cohesive theme or style chosen by him or her. This will be an expressive body of work where students will be required to explore all aspect of photography as a fine art and where one will learn to investigate over and over their concept so it may become a visual reality.

 

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Student work

These images were created by students in this class. Click on any image to enlarge.