ART 237 - Photojournalism

3 credit hours - Two hours lecture and two hours of laboratory weekly; one term.
Learn the process of documenting a news story using digital photography. Explore how lens perspective is used to capture and enhance visual impact, while creating a photographic essay. Lab fee $50.

Prerequisite(s): ART 120 or permission of department chair.

Note: Students are required to provide a digital single lens reflex (D-SLR) camera. Typically offered at MC; fall and spring terms.

Course Outcomes:

Operate digital SLR
- Identify the parts and functions of DSLR
- Identify the correct use of different lens sizes
Demonstrate use of color awareness
- Identify complementary and analogous color schemes
- Identify the power of color
Demonstrate the use of contrast control
- Identify the separation of tonal arrangements
- Demonstrate the capture of the calibrated gray scale
Demonstrate the use of perspective control
- Identify the appropriate millimeter (mm) lens size for correct perspective
- Practice creating strong and weak perspectives
Demonstrate the uses of indoor and outdoor lighting techniques
- Demonstrate the proper use of on location lighting
- Demonstrate the use of proper lighting ratio
- Demonstrate the use of the equation of the working f stop
Apply the principles of digital capture and output
- Demonstrate the proper uses of electronic image transfer
- Demonstrate the ability to transfer a digital capture from an on location photo
  sessions in timely manner
Create photographic essays applying the critical rules of photojournalism
- Capture with integrity the subject matter
- Display by imagery the integrity of the subject matter
- Illustrate the use of five photographic essay principles