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Photography and Digital Image Processing

Course code

KUA6711.FK

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Fotograafia ja digitaalne pilditöötlus

Course title in English

Photography and Digital Image Processing

ECTS credits

3.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2025/2026 Spring semester

Eve Kiiler (language of instruction:Estonian)

lecturer of 2026/2027 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

To develop the ability to understand photography in the context of contemporary art and visual culture and to build practical knowledge and skills for creating, processing and presenting photographic images.

Brief description of the course

The course combines illustrated lectures and practical work. It covers the possibilities of photographic expression, historical and contemporary questions of seeing, interpretation and representation, and the analysis of students’ creative work. Students work with camera and optics choices, digital photography settings, image processing software, printing and presentation. Topics include the ways of representing flatness and space, viewpoint and distance, the photograph as an object in contemporary art, exhibition and installation contexts, and the relation of photographic image to text and sound in multimedia work. Assignments result in creative photographic works related to interior and exterior space.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- uses manual and semi-manual camera settings purposefully according to the shooting situation;
- processes digital photographs in pixel-based image editing software according to the task;
- knows the main expressive possibilities of photography and applies them in personal work;
- uses photography both as documentation and as a form of creative self-expression in contemporary art;
- develops and realises creative ideas through photography;
- critically analyses artworks in the field on the basis of visual culture and contemporary art.

Teacher

Eve Kiiler

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