The teaching part comes in when we start going through the images. discarding image after image and pulling out the pearls and talking about why they are good.
And this is within 30 minutes of shooting while the student can still remember what she did. Not only that but the data is all there too. So you can say "Hey, that's blurred right? Looks like there's camera movement, let's see what shutter speed you used.... OK.. see if you shoot at 1/15 then this is what's going to happen... next week we'll give you a tripod"
It's all there on the screen. The students become aware of aesthetics and form and the relationships to the technical side from actual experience rather than from a text book. The same level of experience would take years with film.
In the second semester, once they have gone through my version of the digital zone system, we give them an RZ67 with film.
I treat the darkroom as an advanced subject. A special technique for beautiful black and white gallery-destined images. I elevate it to a fine art medium, almost sacred in photography. Not as a fundamental skill which you have to go through simply to make your images
visible.
herschel
Herschel Mair
Head of the Department of Photography,
Head of the Department of Photography,
Higher College of Technology
Muscat
Sultanate of Oman
Muscat
Sultanate of Oman
Adobe Certified instructor
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