BA (Hons) Photography Bachelor's degree at the University of Derby

This module is designed to develop fundamental skills in photography, focusing on the practical and technical aspects of camera usage. You will explore the core principles of exposure, composition, and camera settings to produce high-quality images. Additionally, the module covers essential photographic software tools for image editing and post-processing, enabling students to enhance their photographs effectively. You will also learn efficient file management techniques to organize and store digital and analogue assets, along with the importance of colour management for maintaining accurate and consistent colour across devices. The module also introduces you to professional scanning & print

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"Photographic Studio Production - People" is a module designed to develop essential skills for photographing people in a professional studio setting, with a focus on portraiture, fashion photography, and the creative practice of tableau vivant. You will learn how to manipulate studio lighting to highlight the human form, experimenting with various techniques to create dynamic and compelling portraits. In fashion photography, the module explores styling, posing, and the integration of fashion elements to produce visually engaging imagery. The module also introduces the concept of tableau vivant, a practice that involves creating staged, narrative-driven compositions. You will explore the aest

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This module focuses on developing essential skills for working within a professional photographic studio environment, with a particular emphasis on still-life and product photography. You will be introduced to studio lighting techniques, camera settings, and compositional strategies to effectively photograph objects in a controlled studio setting. The module explores the use of various lighting equipment, backdrops, and props to create visually striking and commercially viable images. You will gain hands-on experience in arranging and photographing a range of objects, from simple still-life compositions to more complex product setups. Through practical assignments, they will learn how to man

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There is barely an event in our world that goes by without a photograph (or many photographs) being made as a record of evidence. It might be an important event that impacts on the whole world. It might be an image of your evening dinner. Since its inception in the first half of the nineteenth century, especially with the advent of digital communication, photography is intertwined with everything we do. It has become synonymous with the activities and behaviours of human life. As such, the histories of photography are not simply about images. This module explores a wide range of historical perspectives on photography and will help to inform and stimulate your curiosity about the myriad ways

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This module will help you develop these key critical thinking skills and will introduce you to important and diverse theories on and around photography, in order to foster your visual literacy skills and cultural awareness to a high level. You will learn important methods by which to interpret and understand the meaning of photographs, the multiple, varied and even conflicting attitudes towards photographs and how they signify. You will learn about a wide range of critical positions intrinsic to photography, art, and cultural production, such as modernism, postmodernism, conceptual art, feminism, structuralism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, philosophy, psychology, psychoanalysis, gende

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The module will broaden your awareness of the creative opportunities afforded by expanding your awareness of media and the opportunities for creative approaches to photography afforded by the excellent facilities in the School of Art. You will attend and take part in workshops that will introduce you to processes and safe working practices for the media afforded by the excellent facilities in the School of Art. You will play, experiment and produce tests in order to initiate an awareness of the creative opportunities afforded by a wide range of media, and use this media to experiment, blend and play in order to develop hybrids and distinctive approaches to image production. This is the first

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The aim of this module is to build on your academic research acquired in the context modules in stage one, to further explore, enquire, critically refine and ambitiously articulate your understanding and independent interpretations of photographic theories, ideas and concepts. Informed also by experimentation and play in your practice, you will discover, identify, map out the scope and field of research where your emerging interests lie. The selection of your field of research should have a close relationship to your emerging practice as a photographer and your interests in particular pathways and career aims. This will allow your research for this module to guide, support and contribute to

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This practice-based module will enable you to explore, experiment, develop and refine your sense of identity as a critically informed, highly creative, skilled and ambitious photographer. You will broaden your awareness and understanding of the context of your area of practice, supported and informed by the research module, Image Musing Text that runs in parallel with this module. You will be guided and encouraged to be ambitious and exceed your current vision of your work. There are no limitations with use of media, approach, theme, issue or idea that you want to engage with. The module will be punctuated with creative disruptions to radically change and challenge your working practices and

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This module requires you to explore roles within the arts and photography sectors and requires you to examine jobs, careers and professional activities that define and provide a pathway for your future ambitions. The module will also provide experiences for you to build your own public profile and present your work to an audience. Methods of dissemination in the form of exhibition, publication, use of digital communication media, are all key to reaching an audience, developing a profile and making impact with your work. Your engagement and submission of work to competitions, awards, exhibitions and arts/photography festivals is also a key means by which your work will be seen and noticed. De

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This module forms part of the placement year typically completed between the second and final stage of a degree programme. The module provides a framework for the development of reflective skills appropriate to all areas of professional practice including for example aspects of problem solving such as objective setting, planning, negotiating, demonstrating, and reflecting. The emphasis in this module is on the analysis and evaluation of work completed within the organisation and future employability planning. During the module students will develop a reflective portfolio where they record the skills, knowledge and experience developed during the placement experience and evaluate how this wil

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The aim of the module is to build upon your academic research acquired in Image Musing Text at stage two and undertake a sustained and ambitious development of research that will define, consolidate, and resolve issues in your specific area of practice in an incisive and decisive way. You will become a specialist of the research territory surrounding your practice and apply this to a rigorous and formal academic study. This will not only illustrate a confident execution of understanding in appropriately selected concepts and theories but demonstrate an ambition to impart new and original contributions to knowledge. You will produce a significant and robust output of research work defining yo

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You will realise a major piece of visual work ready for exhibition, publication and/or dissemination. This work constitutes the culmination of your degree and therefore takes a central role within the programme. The methodologies for the development have been refined at levels 4 and 5 and the previous semester, in this module you will work more independently, guided by the expertise of the supervising tutors. You will start to implement your career plan. The planning of the degree shows will be brought to conclusion. You will achieve further refinement of analytical skills, conceptual thinking, technical skills and the ability to use visual language to articulate ideas.

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