DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY (ARTS 262)
Professor: Roberto Bocci
Prerequisites: Introduction to Digital Art (ARTS 160) OR Photography (ARTS 130).
Monday-Wednesday 5:15 -7:05 pm.
Office hours: Mon-Wed. 12:00 - 1:00 pm.

•Course Description and Objectives:
This is a digital photography class in which you will acquire your images by using a digital or film camera and a 35 mm film and/or flat bed scanner. The objectives of this class are to become proficient using digital photographic techniques and understand the aesthetic and conceptual implications of this medium. Assignments vary from multiple composite imaging (collage), straight photography, photo animation frame stacks, panorama images and a final project of your choice. Every assignment will be introduced with slide show presentations, screenings and technical demonstrations. The primary software package you will use is Adobe Photoshop.
•Attendance policy
Three late arrivals equal one absence. No unexcused absences will be allowed. Excessive absences (more than three per semester) will result in a lowered grade (A to B, B to C etc..). If you miss six classes you will fail the class. Remember that digital imaging and multimedia techniques include very complex and involved procedures. Make sure that you do not miss the introductory class demos. I will not repeat a technical demos if you don’t have a valuable excuse such as a medical certificate, death in family and/or other. If you miss a demo class, without a valuable excuse you will have to catch up by you self.
•Portfolios
Portfolios should include all the projects you have done during the semester and combine both hard copy prints and virtual digital images. As the semester precedes you will save copies of your final images in a designated Digital Photo folder.
•Grading
Grading will be based on the development of your work, attendance, class participation in critiques and home assignments. Work hard in class and on your home assignments. Try to understand and apply the technical and artistic ideas presented in the classroom and you will do well.
•Lab policy
Drinking and eating in the Napolitano lab are severely prohibited. Spilling fluids and/or food over a monitor, a computer or a keyboard could destroy it and jeopardise your work and the work of other students. By damaging the lab equipment you could loose your rights to acces the facilities and equipment.