Course Instructor:Theresa Mislick
Lab assistants: Brian Hemond and Sean Fay
This is an Edgerton Center Class.
Subject centered around both film and digital photography. Students use chemical darkrooms, scanners, digital printers and cameras, and video capture equipment. Software used includes Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Subject deals with photography with emphasis on the interplay between classical chemical and digital techniques. Each student is expected to develop a creative imaging term project of their own choice. Intermediate goals are set.
Each student will
learn to use both film and digital photography in developing a
creative imaging project of his or her own choice.
We will use an electronics classroom to develop facility in applying Adobe Photoshop to enhance, select and combine images that the student has taken for the project. We will use the darkrooms of the Edgerton Center to develop film for scanning and for chemical enlargement. We will also use the digital imaging facilities of the Center, including scanners, MacIntosh workstations, digital cameras, and digital printers. We will intersperse work sessions with chalk talks and slide and print demonstrations on topics such as aliasing, modes and formats, image compression, and halftone and dye sublimation printing.
Each student will be expected to produce a duplicate set of black and white and/or color chemical prints and a digital print as the project output.
Theresa Mislick is a photographer and artist who has worked with digital imaging since its' inception on the personal computer and has taught photography for many years. She has worked at M.I.T. as research staff in the Departments of Chemistry and Earth and Planetary Sciences and is Technical Instructor in Photography at the Student Art Association and Technical Instructor, Imaging Seminars, at the Edgerton Center.