Educational guide 2023_24
Facultade de Comunicación
Grado en Comunicación Audiovisual
 Subjects
  Photography Theory and Technique
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Photographic technique I Basic parameters of the camera:
1.1 Approach
1.2 Diaphragm
1.3 Exposure time
Photographic technique II 2.1 Exposure value
2.2 Sensitivity. ISO scale
2.3 Types of light measurement. matrix weighted Punctual
2.4 Choice of exposure: Uniform light. Uneven light
2.5 HDR. Special cases
Photographic technique III 3.1. Orientation of the light with respect to the camera
3.2. Depth of field
3.3. Typology of objectives
3.4. Color temperature. white balance
3.5. The flash
Photographic technique IV Composition tricks
4.1. Add foreground items
4.2. Establish relationships between elements
4.3. Reframe with some foreground element
4.4. Take photos through some element
4.5. Force the frame to a point of interest
4.6. Color and texture saturation
4.7. Law of movement and gaze
4.8. Fill or distribute the element frame
4.9. Highlight the main reason for the background
4.10. Keep the horizontal horizon line
4.11. Suggestive light
5. History of photography I.
Historical background of photography and first photographic manifestations.
5.1 The camera obscura.
5.2 Pioneers. Niepce, Daguerre, Fox Talbot
5.3 Functions of photography: Sociedades Heliográficas, Muybridge, Marey, Disderí, Nadar
5.4 The Kodak camera
5.5 Associationism: Photo Club, Photo Secession (Stieglitz)
5.6 The f64 Group (Weston)
6. History of photography II.
From pictorialism to the present day.
Authors and trends.
6.1 New Vision (Man Ray, Rodchenko, Moholy Nagy).
6.2 New Objectivity (Blossfeldt, Sander).
6.3 Documentary: Cartier Bresson, Doisneau, Manuel Ferrol, Catalá Roca
6.4 Street Photography in the USA (1950s): Robert Frank, William Klein, Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus).
6.5 School of Madrid.
6.6 Eggleston
7. Contemporary photographic representation.
Representative authors and trends.
7.1 The portrait in contemporary photography
7.2 The landscape in contemporary photography
7.3 Photography constructed in contemporary photography
7.4 Documentary in contemporary photography
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