Syllabus

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Credits: 3

Schedule: 04.12.2023 - 15.12.2023

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Jarkko Sopanen, Niko Luoma

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

Teacher:

Jarkko Sopanen
jarkko.sopanen@aalto.fi

CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):

Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):

Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: Finnish, Swedish, English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Course has varying contents that may change annually. Different workshops/study events are organized by majors of Art & Media. 

  This Art&Media Programme course is an intensive workshop offered during week 7 of period 2. Several version of this workshop may be offered and students should be careful in choosing the specific workshop identified in their personal study plans.

• applies in this implementation

  Fine art printing workshop covers the basics of digital fine art inkjet printing.

  Introduction to Fine Art Printing

  3F scanned analogue negative/positive and Raw digital processing

  Adobe Photoshop Techniques for Fine Art Printing

  Printing workflow, Printers
  

  Black&white processing and advanced black&white printing

  Adobe Lightroom Fine Art Printing

  Introduction to Fine Art Papers, Printing and testing

  
  

Assessment Methods and Criteria

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Participation in teaching, completed assignments.

  Minimum 80% attendance.

  See MyCourses for more detailed information on evaluations methods and criteria.

• applies in this implementation

  Completing Course Assignment:

  Artist Portfolio

  
  

Workload

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  3 ECTS ≈ 81h

  Participation in an intensive workshop or short course. Minimum 80% attendance. The hourly amount of contact teaching and independent work is defined separately for each offered workshop. See MyCourses for detailed information.

DETAILS

Study Material

• applies in this implementation

  Mastering Digital Printing, 2nd Edition. Johnson, Harald
  Fine Art Printing for Photographers: Exhibition Quality Prints with Inkjet Printers, 2nd Edition. Steinmueller, Uwe.
  Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop. Schewe, Jeff.
  The Digital Negative: Raw Image Processing in Lightroom, Camera Raw, and Photoshop. Schewe, Jeff.
  The Digital Print: Preparing Images in Lightroom and Photoshop for Printing. Schewe, Jeff.

  In addition, the material suggested during the course

  
  

Substitutes for Courses

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Substitutes for Courses

Prerequisites

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Prerequisites

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  MyCourses page

  Teaching Language : English

  Teaching Period : 2022-2023 Autumn II
  2023-2024 Autumn II

  Enrollment :

  Minimum amount of participants: 8
  Maximum amount of participants varies according to the implementation of the course.

  Registration for Courses: Sisu.

  Priority order to courses is according to the order of priority decided by the Academic committee for School of Arts, Design and Architecture:
  https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/registering-to-courses-and-the-order-of-priority-at-aalto-arts

• applies in this implementation

  The course aims to produce a series of fine art quality inkjet prints presented as an artist portfolio. 
  
  Prerequisites:

  • Participant needs to have their photographic material (image files). Everything else is provided during the course.
    

  • These image files can be digital negatives (raw files) or/and film material scanned to 3f format.

  • Due to time reserved for coursework (5 days), you must have image files on day one.

  • If you do not have 3f files, We can also scan 3f with Hasselblad during the course.

  • This course is a hands-on workshop where you edit your images and print your photos/images from start to finish.

  • Working in IT-studio F001 may require an external hard drive/memory device to store your big working files and Lightroom database.

  • There have been problems using Aalto Adobe signing. Unfortunately, I don't have the right to repair IT studio software problems.
    If problems arise, please contact:
    IT support:
    https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/it-service-desk-contact-information-and-service-hours
  
  

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