NM2220 - Creative Concepts of Lighting
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 1 |
| Administered by: | College of Arts, Society & Education |
Creative lighting approaches that embrace the aesthetic qualities of light form an essential element when producing visually stunning images. This subject explores the creative and professional application of photographic lighting. Lectures and workshop topics will provide students with skills to work effectively and creatively within a professional photographic studio. Theoretical and practical topics include; evaluating lighting quality, aesthetic concepts associated with lighting, controlling contrast with lighting ratios, and applications within professional lighting studios including portraiture, product, industrial and fashion photography.
Learning Outcomes
- apply the theory of creatively lighting to studio practice;
- analysis and describe concepts associated with lighting aesthetics;
- define how lighting concepts function within a range of photographic genres and visual communication;
- develop skills in self directed-learning effectively.
| Assumed Knowledge: | 12 CP of Level 1 Subjects |
| Prerequisites: | NM1200 OR NM1201 OR CV1020 OR CV1210 |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | NM2201 |
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| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 24-Mar-2016 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Glenn Porter |
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| Assessment: | assignments (30%); final folio (50%); online quiz (20%). |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 6 | |
| Census Date 16-Jun-2016 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Janet Marles |
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| Assessment: | food photography (25%); blog (25%); advertising photography (25%); fashion photography (25%). |
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.