Class Composition and Lighting

The Composition and Lighting Curricular Unit intends to initiate familiarization with the studio environment and all its components, creating work methods, individually or in groups, with the aim of better understanding artificial lighting. Among its golds are: Developing the ability to observe and identify the photographic variables necessary to take a photograph; promoting the pre-visualization and developing the skills of pre-production and production of a particular photograph; understand and applying basic principles of composition, namely the adaptation of lenses focal lengths  to precise objectives, the visualization of objects and people, analyzing the images according to their effect on the observer. Understanding photographic composition as an operation on a two-dimensional plane (with a suggestion of three-dimensionality) and learn to work with the structural elements of visual language.

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1.Composition - Photographic composition: the nature of photographs: The physical, figurative, and mental level. - The perception. The eye and vision. Visual Field: Field structure, organizing layout, center and periphery, visual cartography. - Structural elements of the visual language: point, line, shape, texture and color. - Point of view and scale. 2. Lighting - The camera and its components. - The light. Color formation, photographic sensitivity (I S O), direct and reflected light, color temperature of light, the relationship between light and photographic capture. - Studio lighting. Electronic (flash) and continuous lighting. Familiarization with the equipment). Safety and handling. - The different qualities of light and its manipulation in the studio. Study of different light modelers and analysis of their action. Direction, contrast and color.- Development of the lighting technique in the studio. Individual, reflected, filling, and clipping light. - Continued practice.

The integration of historical information that allows viewing photographic composition as a result of culture incorporates an innovative character in the teaching of photographic composition as an integrated idea, denying any notion of production recipes. This idea is being forwarded from texts and presentations, starting from the inversion of roles. Students must present ideas based on referenced information and their own research, and the teacher must then present the main ideas, pointing out the correct notions presented and correcting the wrong ones, enhancing the students' understanding. Lighting is taught from studio work, enhancing the understanding and perception of the use of the entire studio apparatus.

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