DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY BPH202

 Distance Learning Digital Photography
Course Structure

The course contents are as follows:

1. Introduction To Digital Technology:  How images are captured and stored, categories of equipment & software, scope of applications.

2. Equipment -getting started; deciding what you need:  CCD's, Image Sizes, Raster Images,, Video Cards, Colour depth, Computer terminology etc.

3. Digital Technology : Colour, resolution, sensors ( how technology enables digital images to be captured).

4. Digital Cameras : Image formation, lenses, camera stability, one shot cameras, 3 shot cameras, terminology (eg.DPI, DVD, Bit, EDO RAM, Plug In etc).

5. Taking Photographs : Principles of Photo Composition, Creating effects, Default Setting, Compression of Data, Dithering, Halftones etc.

6. Scanners : Techniques which can be used for digitally capturing images from film photographs, or graphics .

7. Uploading Images : How digital images can be transferred effectively from a camera (or scanner) onto another device (eg. a computer, video monitor, television set, etc).

8. The Digital Darkroom :Techniques that can be used to process digital photographs within a computer to achieve improved or changed images.

9. Compositing & Imaging - Production & manipulation of images: How digital photos can be manipulated and changed to produce altered images.

10. Special Effects : Scope and nature of special effects that can be created with digital photographs.

11. Outputs & Applications- Printers, The Internet : How and where digital photography can effectively be used.

 What qualification will I achieve for completing this course?

This is an individual module course. The individual module courses are 100 hour long usually and can be taken on their own or as part of a larger program of study.

If you wish to take an individual module course as a stand alone course, you can elect to sit an optional exam at the end of it.

If you successfully pass the exam and all assignments, you will receive a Statement of Attainment. You can take examinations at a time and location to suit you. If you enrol, you will be sent further information on how to arrange examinations at the end of the course.

If you do not wish to take the exam, you will receive a Course Completion letter when you have passed all assignments.

There is an assignment at the end of each lesson. So for example, if an individual module course contains ten lessons, you will need to complete ten assignments. Assignments can be sent to us via email, post or fax.

Other qualifications, such as certificates, diplomas etc may require examinations to be taken as part of the overall assessment process.

You can find further information on the examinations process by clicking on the “Enrolment” link above.

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NOTE: Students will need access to a digital camera and some type of storage or output device (eg. usually a computer) during the course. This is required so that you can take some photographs on a digital camera and submit them as a print or as a digitised file. An inexpensive digital camera and a printer or 3.5 inch floppy disk would be a minimum. If you plan on purchasing a digital camera, but have not yet decided what to buy, it is recommended that you delay buying a camera until you have completed Lesson 3 and commenced Lesson 4.  It is also suggested that you ask your tutor's advice as to which camera would best suit your needs. Access to a suitable computer is advantageous but not essential.

Digital photography is a relatively new and radically different technique to film photography which records images in the form of digital (ie. 2 digit or binary) codes. In simple terms digital codes are similar to Morse code. One number or digit is indicated by a pulse of electricity, a second digit is indicated by no electrical pulse. By combining these pulses and lack of pulses into codes, we can, for example, create representations for letters of the alphabet; allowing us to write language or text on a computer. When we combine these electrical "pulses" and "no pulses" (or ‘ones’ and ‘zeros’) in more complex combinations, we can create more complex representations. These can include the colour, and degree of darkness or brightness in a single spot on a picture.

Duration: 100 hours

Aims:

• Describe the scope and nature of digital photography
• Select appropriate equipment for use in digital photography
• Explain how technology enables digital images to be captured.
• Compare different digital cameras and select an appropriate camera for a particular application.
• Control the effects created in a digital photograph which you take.
• Describe techniques which can be used for digitally capturing images from film photographs, or graphics.
• Explain how digital images can be transferred effectively from a camera (or scanner) onto another device (eg. a computer, video monitor, television set, etc).
• Describe techniques that can be used to process digital photographs within a computer to achieve improved or changed images.
• Explain how digital photos can be manipulated and changed to produce altered images.
• Discuss the scope and nature of special effects that can be created with digital photographs.
• Identify how and where digital photography can effectively be used.

   

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