Learning Results
PURPOSE OF THE COURSE
The purpose of the course is to provide students with theoretical and technological education in both Analog and Digital Archaeological Photography. To introduce students to the special techniques of Archaeological Photography and Documentation. To enable them to handle and control photographic materials, with the aim of capturing, studying, researching and documenting archaeological material and for the creative development of specific techniques and knowledge in the fields of Archaeological Photography applications.
General Competences
- Search, analyze and synthesize data and information using the necessary technologies
- Adaptation to new situations
- Decision making
- Independent work
- Teamwork
- Working in an international environment
- Exercising criticism and self-criticism
- Project planning and management Respect for diversity and multiculturalism
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical responsibility and gender sensitivity
- Promote free, creative and inductive thinking
Course Outline
Theoretical part AND Laboratory part
- Map of Archaeological Landscape of Excavations and Archaeological Finds.
- Recording – mapping of archaeological finds. Analog – Digital Technology, Belt System, Perspective, Natural and Artificial Lighting, Color Temperature, WB, Reflectors etc.
- Documentation – documentation of portable images, paintings, photographs of burial monuments, bones, etc.
- Printing – documentation of marble bas-reliefs and wooden relief-surfaces
- Special infrared techniques. Scientific analysis – documentation of works of art and antiquities. Discovery of paintings on paintings and portable icons. Chemical Analysis of Paintings and Portable Pictures with Infrared Photography
- Special techniques of Ultraviolet photography Scientific analysis – documentation of works of art and antiquities. Portable picture documentation of deterioration etc.
RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- JohnP. Schaefer Ansel Adams. Ansel Adams guide. Basic techniques of Photography Book 1Little, Brown 1992
- John P. SchaeferAnsel Adams. Ansel Adams guide. Basic techniques of Photography Book 2 Little, Brown 1992
- John Hedgecoe The photographer’s new book. Translated by K. Syrrakos Papasotiriou 2010 ISBN 978-960-7182-81-4
- Harold Davis Creative landscapes. Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1118027325
- Tasos Schizas The technique of analogue digital photography. Photographic Image. 2014
- Michael Freeman The photographers mind: Creative thinking for Better Digital Photos Paperback
- Aristidis Kontogeorgis “Infrared Photography” (B Enhanced Version), Ion editions, (170 pages). ISBN 960-405-926-2.