Themes for BA Final Exam

Photography Technique

A/ Architecture Photography - Exterior

B/ Architecture Photography – Interior

C/ Landscape Photography

D/ Documentary and Reportage Photography

E/ Studio Portrait Photography and Self-portrait

F/ Studio Photography of Objects and Still-lives

G/ Portrait and Group Portrait Photography outside Studio

H/ Advertising and Fashion Photography in connection to Graphic Design

The student will take out one question and answer it in 20 minutes. In connection to the theme the student will be given a concrete example, for which he or she will try to find a solution.

Each question represents elementary problems, which student will discuss

Regarding to:

1)    outline of the given theme and various possible solutions choice of 

camera, size of negative regarding the fitness of the technique for the given example. The student will discuss here also the construction and the historical development of the chosen technique

2) choice of lenses regarding the given example, its optical qualities and its errors, correction of the errors or the possible use of the errors

3) sharpness – unsharpness, Scheimpflug rule, depth of field, stop

4) light – daylight, lamps, or flash, its chromatics, filters

5) traditional black and white or colour photography, choice of apt material

6) elementary processing

7) use of the digital technology, principles, chip and its resolution

8) digitalization of the image and its further manipulation -Photoshop

9) graphical layout, choice of font, preparing a dummy of a book

        10) print – digital, offset and various other possibilities, preparation of

              photography, color conversion RGB –CMYK, color profiles and other 

              necessities for printing