Description: What to expect ? What is the goal of the course ? Presentation of my own photography. Personal Project introduction and overview. Discussion of resources needed for course. Assignments/deadlines: Assignments/deadlines (due 10/02): For next class: 1. Set up your personal flickr account 2. Please bring - if possible - a selection of your best 7 photography as prints or upload them to your flickr accounts 3. Think of minimum two ideas for your personal portrait photographic project

Topic: Introduction to the history of Portrait photography. Description: Technical conditions for portrait photography. The inventors of photography were the first photographers. The influence of painting on the beginnings of portrait photography . Introduction of key figures, images and movements from the beginning up to know? Workshop: Introduction to technical basics and camera handling. Students introducing themselves and their images.

Topic: Studio portrait photography Description: Various studio lights for Portrait photography in Photo Atelier. How to use them in the context of what we want to get. Examples of different types of lighting ... Workshop: 1. Review of students photographs in class. Analyzing and refining individual project ideas.

1 Overview of work to date and guidelines 2 Comparison of digital and analogue photography results 3 Exercises A Photography and text writing in relation to photographic capture B Technical exercises :using a tripod when taking photographs C Photographing a layout of inspirational images and your own photographic interpretation in the outdoors

1 Overview of work to date and guidelines 2 Working with Photoshop 3 Studio Portrait Photography Exercise

Students continue to work on their final projects

1 Analise essays from exhibitions in Leica and fotografic galleries 2 Working on ideas about own exhibition and preparing material for print