Lesson plan / INTRODUCTION TO PHOTOGRAPHY

Lesson Information

Course Credit 3.0
Course ECTS Credit 3.0
Teaching Language of Instruction Türkçe
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course University Elective
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? G
Course Coordinator Assoc. Prof. (Ph.D.) AYŞEGÜL AKAYDIN AYDIN
Instructor (s)
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course The aim of this course is to gain students ability to catch the external reality through camera as analog and digital image. In addition the course aims at providing students learning environment to understand basics of visual media and learn visual narrating methods using their own images .
Course Content Relationship between eye, optics and light; functions of camera.

Weekly Course Subjects

1How do eye and camera see?
2Knowing the functions and types of camera
3Posing rules of camera.
4ISO, diaphragm opening and snapshot information. Controlling light.
5What is objective? Types of objective.
6Cleareness concept in images and variable definitions
7Shooting modes in camera.
8Mid Term Exam Types of stabilization in camera
9What is composition in photograph?
10Colour theories in photography
11Types of light in photography
12Types of photographs. Newspaper, documentary etc. Photography
13Projects such as, portrait photograph, product advertisement photography,documentary photography
14Project presentation and evaluation

Resources

Sabit Kalfagil, Fotoğraf Sanatında Kompozisyon, İstanbul, Fotoğraf Yayınları, 1981.
Ertuğrul Alkan, Fotoğraf Okuma, Eskişehir, Çözüm İletişim Hizmetleri, 1999.
Gültekin Çizgen, Fotoğrafın Görsel Dili, İstanbul, Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, 1998.
Çerkeş Karadağ, Sözde Fotoğraf, İstanbul, İmge Kitabevi, 2000.
Susan Sontag, Fotoğraf Üzerine, Türkçesi: Reha Akçakaya, İstanbul, Altıkırkbeş Yayınları, 1993.
John Berger, O Ana Adanmış, Türkçesi: Yurdanur Salman-Müge Gürsoy, İstanbul, Metis Yayınları, 1986.
John Berger, Görme Biçimleri, İstanbul, Metis Yayınları, 1993.
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida, Türkçesi: Reha Akçakaya, İstanbul, Altıkırkbeş Yayınları, 1992. Greame Burton, Görünenden Fazlası, İstanbul, Alan Yayınları, 1995 1-