The structure of this course assumes that the master's degree students have vocational and manual
skills, as well as theoretical knowledge on the level of a bachelor's degree graduate, and therefore
focuses in particular on deepening theoretical knowledge and extending specific skills necessarily
essential both in the challenging professional practice, and in free author's creation.
In the 1st semester of the master's degree study, the course is oriented toward the issues of studio
settings, and focuses above all on explication of principal questions of studio creation logistics,
such as analyzing methods of light construction and accompanying questions of primary light reality
and stylized light reality, as well as the issues of studio trick photography in the sphere of table-top,
e.g.: multiexposition both in analog and digital photography, blend-in montage, etc.
In the course programme for the 2nd semester, artistic verification of more or less used illustrative
methods is significantly exposed, such as a pinhole camera, application of a liquid emulsion on various
alternative carriers, Sabbatier effect, contrast-enhanced techniques - Kodalith, Polaroid transfer,
Polaroid lift and other combined technologies.
Tuition in both semesters is based on combination of theoretical introductions and following practical
experiments illuminating individual technologies being examined and creative procedures. Seminar
works in this course are oriented toward practical verification of acquired knowledge and their
inclusion in the student's range of practical skills.
- Učitel: Aleš Loziak