Photographic Technology

Overview

This Photographic Technology course at Warnborough College is equally relevant to digital and film covering such things as image formation, light, lenses, filters, colour and the sensitivity of film or electronic surfaces that record the image.

Aims

• Describe in technical terms, how an image forms when a photograph is taken.

• Explain the nature of light and how this relates to the finished photographic product.

• Describe how sensitivity of a photo sensitive surface and its development affect the photographic image.

• Explain sensitivity relates to development affect the photographic image.

• Explain the composition and manipulation of white and coloured light to create different photographic images.

• Discuss the chemical process that occurs in producing a colour film photograph.

• Explain how the photographic image may be manipulated by using optical filters or other camera attachments, other than lenses.

• Explain how the photographic image may be manipulated by using lenses.