Thanks Steve,
Not only photographic art... devoid of ANY fine art.
I put together a program that is almost the reverse of the standard way photography is taught. I only introduced f-stops and shutter speeds towards the end of the first semester.
I sent them out with cameras on auto and concentrated lectures more on light, the composition, design and the dynamics of the two-dimensional image I had to do a week on Focus and force them to use a tripod though because there were so many unsharp images. That's all fixed now. This semester I start with exposure and introduce the digital zone system.. I have had to rewrite my own text books to allow for this aproach, the problems with spoken language and the initial visual illiteracy.
Herschel
SteveS <sgshiya@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It is hard to believe these students come from a culture devoid of any photographic art in their lives. Their feeling for opportunities in the perception of light as design is striking.S. ShapiroHerschel Mair wrote:
>
> I have put up some student work at:
> http://www.herschelmair.com/College/index.html
> Please take a look and let me have some feedback.
Herschel Mair
Head of the Department of Photography,
Head of the Department of Photography,
Higher College of Technology
Muscat
Sultanate of Oman
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