Creative digital technologies and photography

This hub offers cutting-edge resources to facilitate a wide range of projects using digital media.

Spaces in this hub are designed to support all aspects of visualisation, digital imaging and moving image post-production processes.

It is open to all Creative Arts students and has previously been used to produce outputs including: fashion photography, corporate advertisement campaigns, children’s book illustrations, websites, smartphone and tablet apps, brochures, computer games, illustrated comics, puppet animations and animated films, to name a few.

Visualisation labs

These are open to all staff and students, offering a range of applications and processes.

These include Adobe Creative Cloud software plus a collection of desktop and mobile apps and services for photography, design, video, web, UX and more.

Photography and video

Our photography and video facilities are open to all within the School and consist of a professionally equipped photographic studio, imaging and lighting studio, processing rooms and darkroom.

Photography studio

This space is fully equipped with state-of-the-art flash equipment for high-quality imaging. We use the latest in digital SLR and digital medium-format cameras, often working tethered to multi-core Apple Mac Pros for maximum precision, quality, and professional image capture. We are also able to support traditional photographic approaches with single-lens reflex, medium-format, and large-format cameras, which are all available for student loan.

Imaging and lighting studio

The imaging and lighting studio uses continuous light sources rather than flash and can be used to produce photographic and moving image outcomes. It supports green-screen production and offers a selection of moving image cameras that are available for loan, from handheld camcorders to broadcast-quality filmmaking cameras.

Processing rooms and darkroom

These areas facilitate traditional photographic processes. Black and white roll and sheet film can be processed in deep tanks to produce negatives – these can be turned into traditional prints of archival quality using the darkroom, or they can be digitised using our high-end scanners and outputted using digital printers.