Please check the City Tech Academic Calendar for class cancelations and changes to the schedule.

http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/registrar/docs/spring_2023_meeting_grid.pdf

Week 1 Tuesday 1/31

  • Topic: Course Intro/Intro lecture on light and image and exposure
  • Lab: Using dslrs
  • Homework: Homework 1 Textures, shapes and framing
  • Discussion 1
  • Due Dates: Homework1 and discussion1 due 2/7

Week 2 Tuesday 2/7

  • Topic: Composition-Framing, angle of view, Frame within a frame, Fill the Frame, Rule of Thirds
  • Lab: Photograph simple object using lecture
  • Homework: homework 2 Framing/working the subject
  • Discussion 2
  • Due Dates:Homework 2 and discussion 2 due 2/14

Week 3 Tuesday 2/14

  • Topic: Composition- Leading Lines, Diagonals, Figure to Ground, Patterns and Repetition, Symmetry
  • Lab: Looking for compositional elements
  • Homework3: Urban landscape
  • Discussion 3 : Cartier Bresson – The decisive moment
  • Due Dates: Homework 3 and discussion 3 due 2/28

Week 4. Tuesday 2/28

  • Topic: Shutter Speed and Motion Control
  • Lab: Freezing and Blurring motion in studio
  • Homework4:  Freezing and Blurring motion
  • Discussion 4: Visual responses to other students work
  • Due Dates: Homework 4 and discussion 4 due 3/7

Week 5. Tuesday 3/7

  • Topic: Light and Dark
  • Lab: Light and shadows/exposure
  • Homework 5 :Shooting for midterm project
  • Due Dates: HW 5 due 3/14

Week 6 Tuesday 3/14

  • Topic: Water,Glass, Light
  • Lab : Intro using strobes, shooting Water/glass / light
  • Hoomework: Shooting for midterm
  • Due Dates: HW6 due 3/21

Week 7 Tuesday 3/21

  • Topic: Digital Darkroom: Global Corrections
  • Lab:  Make global corrections using Lightroom
  • Homework7 Midterm project shoot
  • Due Dates: Midterm project due 3/28

Week 8 Tuesday 3/28

  • Topic: Midterm presentations
  • Homework8:  Figure in environment
  • Due Dates: HW8 Due 4/4

Week 9: Tuesday 4/4

  • Topic: Aperture/ Depth of field and depth
  • Lab : Using aperture to control depth of field
  • Homework 9: Near and far
  • Due dates 4/18

Week 10: Tuesday 4/18

  • Topic: Lighting Direction/ Still life
  • Lab: Light direction and quality
  • Homework10: Light in the cityscape
  • Due Dates: HW10 Due 4/25

Week 11 Tuesday 4/25

  • Topic: Portrait Basics
  • Lab: One light Portrait styles
  • Homework11: self portraits using window lights
  • Due Dates : 5/2

Week 12 Tuesday 5/2

  • Topic: Portrait Lighting
  • Lab: Portraits with two and three lights
  • Homework12: Shooting for final project
  • Due Dates: Due 5/9

Week 13 Tuesday 5/9

  • Topic:Painting with light
  • Lab: Painting with light using flash , flash light and long shutter speed
  • Homework13: Final project shoot
  • Due Dates:5/9

Week 14 Tuesday 5/16

  • Topic: Digital Darkroom: Local Corrections
  • Lab: Using local corrections and project support
  • Due Dates: Final Presentation 5/23

Week 15 Tuesday 5/23

  • Topic: Final Presentations