2014-15 Spring
(HART 1038)
1 Credit | Can be used to fulfill Common Core Requirement (Core Elective: Arts Area)
Teaching Medium: English
Course Description
Capturing a person’s face with a camera is easy but making a meaningful representation of that person through photography requires not only photographic techniques, but also the ability to communicate, understand and make insightful interpretation of one’s personality. In this course, students will acquaint themselves with the history and development of Portraiture in different art forms, learn to analyze portraits taken by master photographers, and acquire knowledge and skills necessary to make a good portrait through hand-on practices and photo editing workshops. Basic photography knowledge is preferred but not necessary.
- Apply photographic techniques appropriate to the sitter (i.e. person to be photographed), shooting environment and their own emotional responses
- Demonstrate an understanding of the personality of the sitter in taking photos
- Effectively render the personality of the sitter into the photo
- Appreciate the history, development of portrait photography and critically analyze master pieces in this art form
Week 1: History of Portraiture in art
Week 2: Lens and Camera
Week 3: Light and Medium
Week 4: Understanding the Sitter
Week 5: Master piece appreciation I
Week 6: Studio Session I
Week 7: Master piece appreciation II
Week 8: Studio Session II
Week 9: Self Portrait
Week 10: Personal Project Development
Week 11-12 Photo Editing
Week 13: Presentation
- Portraiture, Richard Brilliant, Harvard University Press, 1991
Enrolment Details
Course Registration : 03-03 Oct 2024Add/Drop : 03-03 Oct 2024
Instructor
Leon SUEN
Assessment
| Attendance & Participation | 20% |
| Portrait of Sitter | 20% |
| Self Portrait | 20% |
| Individual Project | 40% |