Advanced Photography
Avon Lake City Schools
Curriculum Framework
Arts 152 Intermediate Photography
Course Overview:
This intermeadiate course in photography is for students who meet CC+ requirements. Students interested in advanced photography will learn and maintain a higher level of photographic art production and photographic education, high achieving Avon Lake High School students will have an opportunity to enroll in a course focused on advanced methods of development, other technical issues and conceptual and historical aspects of the medium to earn college credit through Lorain County Community College. Students need a 35mm manual camera SLR film camera – new or used. A limited number of rentals are available in the LCCC bookstore each semester. This class meets one period daily for 1 unit of crediteach semester.
Textbook: (Title and Publishing Company)
Photography, Barbara London
Assessments:
- Guided project Rubrics
- Student and class critiques
Content/Topics/Learning Goals
Subject to Pacing and Schedules
First Quarter
Students will know/learn:
- Photographic Collage/Creating a large negative to be contact printed and enlarged
- Double Exposure: In camera and negative sandwiching
- Backlighting and creating silhouettes
- Advanced Printing in the darkroom
- Criticism of famous artworks (4 parts to an artwork: subject, content, context, form)
- Semester Slides Student Portfolio: Visual Journal of Student’s Work Pt. 1
Second Quarter
Students will know/learn:
- Split Filtering for contrast control
- Night time exposures and long exposures
- Abstract/non-representational photography
- Still life and advanced lighting techniques
- Criticism of famous artworks (4 parts to an artwork: subject, content, context, form)
- Individual Project #1 and #2: Subject matter chosen by students for portfolio
- Semester Slides Student Portfolio: Visual Journal of Student’s Work Pt. 2
- Creating a final art portfolio and critique of a final/semester portfolio
- Print Finishing and dry mounting: Print Presentation
- Creating a final art portfolio and critique of a final/semester portfolio: 12 Dry-mounted, professional prints
Last Updated: September, 2023