• Prerequisites: None

• One credit course

• One semester course

• An Indiana Academic Honors Diploma course

• A digital single-lens reflex camera is required

• Fulfills Visual and Performing Arts Credit 

This course will introduce students to digital photography as a fine art medium which utilizes the computer as a darkroom.  The projects will be based both on art history and the aesthetic principles of contemporary photographers and will include instruction in camera and lighting manipulation along with the many options for image correction, retouching, and transformation in Photoshop.  Standard, archival, and experimental output processes will also be explored.  Local galleries will be utilized so that students can learn how to write about art while getting a taste of artistic production and presentation in the Indianapolis community.