Welcome to the Photographic Fine Print online course site. This site provides resources and support material for undertaking the course. It forms part of your independent learning, and you should visit here often to access extra materials and course notes. Please note the following in regards to what course content is available and from where;
School of Art Portal
All support materials, notes and video tutorials are available through the Portal.
Blackboard
Assessment, quizes and semester specific content is delivered through Blackboard.
Use the links on the right to help you navigate through the online materials.
Week 1: (re)Familiarisation
- What should I know by now
- Art is autobiographical
Week 2: Camera Craft
- Composition
- New analogue imaging: light & exposure
- Capturing data; film or born digital
Week 3: Studio Craft
- Workflow best practices
- Advanced image editing
- Colour management
Week 4: Transforming the image
- Premonitions and Predictions: The next 130 years of photography (starting at 1pm)
- Making print ready files
- Assessing sharpness & spatial relationships
- Assigning colour profiles & printing
Assessment 1 – Skills & knowledge (Online Test)
Week 5: Advanced colour management for fine art printing
- Colour & data
- Camera profiles, working profiles & printing profiles
- Applying colour management policies
Week 6: Traditions in fine art photographic printing
- The fine print tradition – from the American West to Germany
- Printing tone (Black & White)
- Production
Week 7: Photoshop for photography & printing
- Working with Blending Modes
- Local adjustments for presence & impact
Week 8: Public presentation & critique
Presentation and review of Project 1: Work in progress
Week 9: The fine print in collection
- The photography collection at the National Gallery of Victoria
Week 10: Re-reading the images we have
- Defining a point of departure
- Absence & presence
- Punctum
Week 11: Studio
- Supported production & consultations
- Peer group sessions
Week 12: Studio
- Supported production & consultations
- Peer group sessions
Week 13: SWOTVAC (no class)
Week 14: Assessment
Presentation and review of Project 2: Final folio