NM2201 - Photographic Lighting and Contexts

Credit points:	03
Year:	2013
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Creative Arts

This subject introduces students to a range of skills and approaches to working with artificial lighting in the photographic studio. Workshops allow students to build up a skills base and a series of weekly lectures introduce contemporary and historical studio practice, including the practical application of theoretical concepts. This unit concentrates on understanding, using and subverting the power relationships between photographer and subject set up by working in the studio. Lectures also explore key concepts and ideas concerning representational strategies and studio practice, including areas of identity, agency, the gaze and the frame and the evolution of the studio space from the painter's studio right up to the networked, multimedia space of today. Students learn lighting skills for portraiture and still life but also how to interact with a human subject, how to play creatively, how to introduce chance and uncertainty into their photography. Students are also encouraged to explore the work and ideas of key practitioners and thinkers, which will be invaluable in the production of new ideas and work.

Learning Outcomes

• Technical skill in the use of artificial lighting in the photographic studio including studio flash and continuous lighting;
• The development of an imaginative and potentially engaging visual arts practice;
• An awareness of safe working practices in the photographic studio;
• Organisation and professionalism including teamwork, punctuality and time management;
• Contextual knowledge and awareness of past practice including a range of theoretical approaches to the presentation of human and non- human subjects.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion;
• The ability to work individually and independently;
• The ability to select and use appropriate tools and technologies;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Prerequisites:

12CP OF LEVEL 1 SUBJECTS

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 28-Mar-2013
Coord/Lect:	Ms Kirsten Heritage.
Contact hours:	13 hours lectures 26 hours workshops/Seminars
Assessment:	subject (30%); control (20%); online exam (20%); connections/relationships (30%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.