BC3 Academic Catalog: 2024-2025
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COMM 234 - Outdoor and Wildlife Photography 3 Credits: (3 lecture)
Course Description This course introduces photographic techniques utilized by outdoor and wildlife photographers. Equipment, photographic exposure, composition and safety are among the subjects covered in this course. Students will use both a regular black & white darkroom and a hybrid darkroom. They will be combining both film and digital photography with the use of advanced computer techniques to edit and perfect their photographs. Composing wildlife images, capturing animal behavior, and working with on-site lighting will be experienced through theoretical and actual situations.
Note A film SLR camera and digital SLR camera, both with the capability to change lenses, are required for this course.Fall semester only.
Prerequisite COMM 110, COMM 120, and COMM 219.
Text Illg, Cathy, and Gordon Illg. Dynamic Wildlife Photography: Techniques for Creating Captivating Images. Buffalo, NY: Amherst Media, 2004. Print.
Objectives The student will be able to
A. Compose wildlife images.
B. Capture well-composed photographs in the field with a film and a digital camera.
C. Perfect manipulated-photographic images.
D. Use a variety of lenses to capture the desired images.
E. Prepare images for professional printing.
Content A. Basic and essential field equipments
B. Wildlife photographic composition
C. The art of pictorial storytelling
D. Photographic exposure and compensation
E. Professional grade camera lenses and their uses
F. The specialized requirements of field work
Student Evaluation Evaluation will be based on assignments, presentation, and the quality of work presented by the photography student. Bibliography The Art of Photography. New York: Time-Life, 1971. Print.
Blaker, Alfred A. Field Photography: Beginning and Advanced Techniques. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1976. Print.
Busselle, Michael. Master Photography: Take and Make Perfect Pictures. New York: Rand McNally, 1978. Print.
Cahn, Robert, and Robert Glenn. Ketchum. American Photographers and the National Parks. New York: Viking, 1981. Print.
Feininger, Andreas. Light and Lighting in Photography. Garden City, NY: Amphoto, 1976. Print.
Feininger, Andreas. The Anatomy of Nature. New York: Dover Publications, 1979. Print.
Feininger, Andreas. Total Picture Control. New York: Amphoto, 1970. Print.
Finn, David. How to Look at Everything. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000. Print.
Gaunt, Leonard. Commonsense Photography. London: Focal P., 1969. Print.
Havelin, Michael. Practical Manual of Captive Animal Photography. Buffalo, NY: Amherst Media, 2000. Print.
Herko, Robert. Composing Photographs. Stamford, CT: Longmeadow, 1990. Print.
Herko, Robert. Using Creative Techniques. Stamford, CT: Longmeadow, 1990. Print.
Images of the World: Photography at the National Geographic. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1988. Print.
Peterson, Bryan. Understanding Exposure. Revised ed. New York: Amphoto, 1990. Print.
Peterson, Bryan. Understanding Exposure. Revised ed. New York: Amphoto, 2005. Print.
Photography as a Tool. New York: Time-Life, 1973. Print.
Schwarz, Ted. McGraw-Hill’s Handbook for Professional Photographers. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984. Print.
Special Problems. New York: Time-Life, 1971. Print.
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