Fine Art Photography Course

Learn every aspect of photographic practice, in its many facets, thanks to the Professional Fine Art Photography course. Acquire all the technical skills, from shooting to post-production, to get yourself inside the market with a high level of professionalism, or even just to deepen this passion at an enhanced level.

Master the solid practical and theoretical foundations of both Digital and Analogue photography, and move towards the world of professionalism with this Professional Photography course !

You’ll use both digital and analogue cameras, you’ll get to learn the History of Photography,

artistic composition, films, development, the pre-visualization of the image, and at the end of the course you’ll create your group-theme project, culminating in a final exhibition of the works produced during the academic year.

Program:

The Camera

The Darkroom.

The various different types of camera, and their formats.

The Large Format camera.

The Reflex camera.

The Rangefinder camera.

The Diaphragm (Aperture).

The Shutter.

The Lens and its characteristics.

The History of Photography

The origins of photographic processing.

Niepce , Daguerre, Fox Talbot.

The revolution of Collodion wet plate.

Silver gelatin and modern photography.

Pictorialism.

The pioneers of Photojournalism.

Mattew Brady, Timothy O’Sullivan.

Pure photography.

Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Paul Strand.

Ansel Adams and the f/64 group.

The genius of Man Ray and Laslo Moholy-Nagy.

The artistic odyssey of Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Lee Friedlander.

The Magnum Agency and the new Photojournalism.

French humanist photography: Bresson, Ronis, Brassai, Doisneau.

The metaphoric photography of Minor White.

The Chicago School.

The new photography of American Landscape: Lewis Baltz, Robert Adams, Stephen Shore, William Eggleston.

The 70’s in Italy: Mario Giacomelli, Guido Guidi, Mario Cresci, Franco Vaccari, Luigi Ghirri.

Film and Exposure

Black and White film: characteristics and composition.

Film sensitivity.

Film grain.

Film formats.

Roll-film and flat film.

Spectral sensitivity.

Exposure in analogue photography.

Correct exposure of a photo taking into account light intensity: The Sunny 16 Rule.

Daylight.

Quality of Daylight.

Artificial Light.

Exposure with Flash.

Light-meter and its correct use.

Reading the Grey Card.

Exposure Values.

Infrared film and its use.

Exposure factors.

Reciprocity rule.

The K Factor.

Theory and Practice of Architectural photography, Photojournalism, Still-Life and Narrative Art.

The Darkroom: Development processes

Developing black and white roll film.

Developing Large Format film.

Exposure scales and paper grades.

Graduated photographic printing papers.

Multigrade printing papers.

Gloss and Fiber-based papers.

Contact printing: tests.

Printing enlargements.

Pre-exposure in printing.

Condenser Enlarger v Diffuser Enlarger.

The Darkroom: Advanced Techniques

Pre-visualisation of the image

Ansel Adams’ Zone System

Dynamic Gamma and Superficial Gamma

Exposure with the Zone System

Elements of Sensitometry

Photo Filters – how and when to use them

Pre-exposure

Fine grain v High acutance Developers

Pyrogallol development

Pushing and Pulling

Dodging and Burning

Developing with Warm tone and Cool tone

Tints for etching and sulphurization

Antique print techniques

Albumen silver printing

Archive processing of prints and negatives

Retouching

Conservation

Professional course in Fine Art Photography