The Fundamentals of Digital Photography is a new course at Harvard Extension School, offered for the first time in the Fall of 2018. Designed from the ground up, it should have a fairly broad appeal. From participants wishing to master their digital cameras to students pursuing careers and degrees where a stronger sense of aesthetics is a boon, and every variation in the middle.
TEchnical Competency
Topics covered in this class include the fundamentals of exposure, composition, lighting, editing techniques, color correction, delivery for print and digital media, metadata creation, and digital workflow management.
We work on laying a technical foundation, and then applying this knowledge in weekly assignments.
Aesthetic development
The course is helpful to students who wish to explore digital photography as a way to document their field work and other work in progress and enhance their visual literacy, enabling them to assess images and other visual media.
We look at the influence of classical art on photography and study the work of photographers across genres, geographies and eras.
class reflections
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assignments
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