The Art of Photography (Photo) Dr. Shane Hulbert RMIT University

Module 1 - Light Through Lenses

Topic 1: Photography as a Visual Language

4 Formal Ways to Think about Images

• Vantage Point--where we stand in relationship to the subject
  
• Framing-how we crop or what we position inside our frame
  
• Optical Drawing-light travels through glass or through a lens that shifts and pushes that light around to draw the image on our frame.
  
• Time-when we choose to expose the image;how we use shutter speed to determine how long our image is exposed for
  

Topic 2: … But Is It Photography?

• mechanical process
  
• reproductive-multiples could be made
  
• affinity with the way we create images
  
• all about capturing light onto a sensitive surface
  
• all photographs are interpretation
  

pixels give us a completely different way to think photography

photography is photography, light is light

摄影（尤其是人像摄影）在一定程度上，观者在看到照片的时候，能够重新还原到摄影师拍摄时的场景。通过与照片中人物的对视，体会到人物当时的情绪与心境。因此，在拍摄照片时，考虑到照片所传达的情感体验尤为重要。

Topic 3: Photography & Light

• How we create shape, texture, dimensionality
  

Topic 4: Lens Optics & Seeing

• sensor plane-where the light's being captured
  
• focal length
  

Topic 5:Vantage Point & Framing

在看其他摄影师作品时，将他所处的Vantage Point考虑在内

• EVP viewfinder

Topic 6: Aperture & Shutter

• Everything doubles down on aperture scale
  
• Maximum aperture or how fast a lens might be-diameter of the front of the lens divided by the focal length of the lens
  

Topic 7: Everything in Photography is a Trade Off

• ISO-sensitivity of the chip
• the perfect exposure doesn't exist but how you see the image and where you place certain values
  

Topic 8: The Order of Things: Image, Composition and Structure

• passive frame-subject in full, not in composition/competition
  
• active frame-subject has a different relationship to edges and corners(not necessarily the opposite)