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

Online/Supplemental Materials:

Assessments: 

Guided project Rubrics

Student and class critiques

Content/Topics/Learning Goals

Subject to Pacing and Schedules

1st 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

2nd 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

3rd Quarter- 

  • Semester course….

4th Quarter -  

  • Semester course….

Last Updated:

September, 2023