Digital Photography 11 focuses on developing the knowledge, skills, and attitudes students need to respond to media artworks and create art using media arts technology. In this course, media arts technology may include digital and still photography, computer technologies, and electronic and digital recording. Students use available technologies to create and manipulate personally meaningful images in order to elicit specific audience responses. In developing their media artworks. This is a comprehensive digital photography course for the beginner who wants to learn about digital photography as a skill and as an art form. It includes:

• Using photography as a means of expression, beyond the snapshot
• Editing photos using the industry standard Photoshop CC technology
• Students will develop their editing techniques exploring and creating photographic artworks in the manner of master artists such as Picasso and Warhol
• Students will learn the vocabulary of the “Elements and Principles” of design, learning to ‘see’ the visual world around them in terms of what creates “Visual Interest”.
• Using the equipment. Students may supply their own equipment, but the school has a wide variety of cameras, lenses, and accessories available for student use.
• Understanding how to manipulate illumination, ISO, shutter, aperture for practical and artistic effect.
• Students will have the opportunity to explore some traditional photographic methods and be introduced to the history of photography
• ​Portfolio development. Students will produce a visual digital portfolio suitable for university application or their resume