Art Making and Exhibiting B – Photography, digital art, illustration is a creative subject where students explore:
Students use a digital medium to create original artworks inspired by contemporary Australian and international artists while learning how artworks are prepared, presented and curated for exhibiting. This subject explores how digital and traditional methods of drawing and photography are used to create art for expression and purpose.
Students will be introduced to photography through practical photoshoots, camera experimentation and image editing. Students explore how photographers use composition, lighting and camera techniques to create visually engaging photographs while developing their own creative style and photographic ideas.
Throughout the course, students use DSLR cameras to investigate photographic composition guidelines, the elements and principles of art, and creative camera effects used in contemporary photography. If skills allow, students will study Darkroom Photography and explore traditional black-and-white film photography and darkroom printing techniques.
When learning the darkroom process, students develop photographic images using enlargers, chemicals and traditional printing methods to create unique hand-developed prints and cameraless photographs such as photograms.
Digital and traditional illustration complement the photography art form, and students will be shown how to use software programs to make and manipulate their own digital art, and/or incorporate their traditional illustrations and photographs.
Students develop practical photography skills using DSLR cameras while learning how to control aperture, shutter speed and depth of field to create artistic photographic effects.
Visual Elements of Photography
Photography Composition
Photograms
Darkroom Print Exploration
Illustration
VCE General
