Welcome !

 

I.               Orientation:  Monday, June 17, 2002, on the East Campus at SBCC in room OE184 at 8:00am.  I will be demonstrating tips on navigating through our WebCT course format and will try answer all of your photographic questions at that time.

 

Things to Know About This Class

II.              About Summer Classes: Summer session is an intensive program that condenses 17 weeks of full semester workload into 6 weeks. This means that each week you attend this course you have experienced the equivalent of almost THREE WEEKS WORTH OF WORK DURING FULL TRADITIONAL SEMESTER.   It is not less information in any significant manner, you are only given less time to absorb it!  To succeed in a summer class format takes a special degree of dedication.  My strongest piece of advice to you is to VISIT YOUR CLASS SITE DAILY (even weekends). 

a.    An online course is more challenging than a traditional on-campus class.  It will be more time consuming. In addition to the photographic curve, there are computer, browser, network and many other technical challenges that have to be understood and resolved in short order to prevent falling behind the workload.  *** Plan on a minimum investment of 5-10 hours on the computer per week, however many people find they invest as much as twice this amount of time.  If you do not have much time to devote yourself to this effort, the online summer class experience could be frustrating.

b.    Asking questions in a classroom provides instant feedback.  In an online class responses to questions can take much longer.  Be a self-starter and try to find your own answers within the resources available (textbooks, online lecture material, the web).  Ultimately you will get your answer much faster through your own efforts.

III.            Hot Links:  BLUE type that is UNDERLINED is called a hyperlinked text block.  Clicking on these hyperlinks should connect you directly to specific websites online that pertain to the specific topic underlined. (Try clicking on the blue underlined Adobe Photoshop link below).

IV.           Here is what you will need to succeed in this class:

a.    A 35mm camera that allows you to manually control exposures by selecting shutter speeds and apertures (f/stops) independently.

      1. Many new electronic cameras give you the ability to override the auto exposure functions.
      2. You can take this class with a digital camera but it should have the ability to operate in manual mode and give you the ability to select shutter speeds and/or apertures (f/stops) separately.  Generally, this means it will be a 3 megapixel capture system probably costing between $500-$1000.
    1. A computer equipped with a modem (ideally 56K modem or faster) and a CD-ROM drive supported with the following list of software:
      1. Adobe Photoshop (ideally version 6.0 or higher) or equivalent image manipulation software.
        1. Image Browser programs like ACDSee (PC and MAC compatible) are free and beneficial but dont have the power of Photoshop-like programs).
      2. Microsoft Word (ideally version 98 or higher ­ problems will develop in uploading images in earlier versions).
      3. Compression Software to assist in emailing, uploading and downloading large image files:
        1. Recommended for PCs - WinZip
        2. Recommended for MACs - ZipIt
    2. Textbooks:  available thru our bookstore or through resources like Amazon.com.
      1. Required: Photography by Henry Horenstein
      2. Optional:  Digital:Photography:Handbook by Tim Daly.
    3. Film
      1. Any general purpose color negative film ISO 100 (does not pertain to students using a digital camera).
        1. You will need to have a photo CD produced with each roll of film so that you will have digital files to cut and paste into word documents and then upload to me for evaluation.
      2. Trust the major film manufacturers to supply you with the best quality film, like Kodak, Fuji, and Agfa.

 

V.             Questions about me? Here is my website which should supply all the answers -or- more than you ever wanted to know about me: http://www.lindalowell.com/