Photographic Technology BPH201

Learn about the equipment needed in skilled photography.This is a fascinating area of photographic study which any good photographer needs to understand in order to not only take good photos, but also identify and understand problems when they occur. This course is equally relevant to digital and film covering such things as image formation,light, lenses, filters, colour and the sensitivity of film or electronic surfaces that record the image.

This course is equally relevant to digital and film covering such things as image formation, light, lenses, filters, colour and the sensitivity of film or electronic surfaces that record the image. Did you realize that lenses for film cameras are not going to perform the same if used on a digital camera?

COURSE STRUCTURE

1. Image Formation - optics & geometry
2. Lighting - equipment and light sources
3. Sensitometry A - terminology and light meters
4. Sensitometry B - light physics & film responses
5. Understanding Colour - taking the photo
6. Chemistry of Colour Photography - processing the photo
7. Filters & Attachments - applications
8. Lenses - types and applications

AIMS

• Describe in technical terms, how an image forms when a photograph is taken.
• Explain the nature of light and how this relates to the finished photographic product.
• Describe how sensitivity of a photo sensitive surface and its development affect the photographic image.
• Explain sensitivity relates to development affect the photographic image.
• Explain the composition and manipulation of white and coloured light to create different photographic images.
• Discuss the chemical process that occurs in producing a colour film photograph.
• Explain how the photographic image may be manipulated by using optical filters or other camera attachments, other than lenses.
• Explain how the photographic image may be manipulated by using lenses.

This is a fascinating area of photographic study which any good photographer needs to understand in order to not only take good photos, but also identify and understand problems when they occur. This course is equally relevant to digital and film covering such things as image formation,light, lenses, filters, colour and the sensitivity of film or electronic surfaces that record the image.
Did you realize that lenses for film cameras are not going to perform the same if used on a digital camera?