Photography and Imaging

New Photo student orientation course.

Students will learn to define the problem at hand and to understand the difference between an idea and a developed concept. The class will explore the nature of the creative process and the value of a focused work ethic. Students will discover ways to think visually and to understand that the quality and quantity of decisions made while working define one's creative style. Students will begin to construct images that show evidence of their understanding of the value of light, pose, gesture, composition, and environment and how to fashion these elements for creative effect and to take responsibility for every aspect of their image.

In this class students will examine the fundamental elements of pictorial construction and learn to apply these through a series of assigned projects. These projects will be based on one or more of the compositional problems examined in class and will give students an opportunity to exercise and apply these compositional concepts. The assignments will begin with simple principles and, as students learn to juggle more complicated material, increase in complexity. In addition to the photographically based assignments students will be required to keep a sketchbook for ideation sketches and drawing. Through drawing students will explore strategies for compositional analysis as well as figural investigations from the live model. The subject matter in the first half of the trimester will be still life followed by figural work in the second half.

This class is designed to give the student a good working knowledge of the use of the View Camera. Both the technical and creative uses of the camera are explored through demonstrations and class assignments. Work will be critiqued in class. Students are encouraged to explore their personal vision.

View Camera Lab a zero-credit lab component designed to coincide with simultaneous enrollment of View Camera (PHOT-107). This hands-on component provides students with scheduled opportunity in a dedicated work environment, under close instructional oversight. Students will have the opportunity to practice, execute, and explore the techniques, tools, and concepts learned in View Camera.

View Camera Workshop is designed to provide supplemental hands on learning for students who took View Camera (PHOT-107) during the pandemic. Students will be allowed to check an out 8x10 View Camera. The workshop will include a demo and provide students with opportunity shoot using the 8x10 View Camera.

This is a photographic lighting course for non-photo majors. The class will cover various methods of lighting for photography to give students the ability to photograph their own work more effectively. Techniques for shooting products as well as copy work and photographing 2-dimensional pieces will be addressed. This course is open to degree students in all majors with the exception of photography.

This course will provide students the functions, procedures and applications of Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom to expand students' creative vision and help them define their personal style. Students will learn to master workflow and develop best practices for photographers. The class will address retouching images, adjustment layers, exposure histograms, color theory and management, color temperature, white balance, resolution and histograms. The course will also introduce students to inkjet and Chromira printing as well as flatbed scanning of images.

This workshop introduces students to inkjet printing as well as flatbed scanning of images. Demos will be covered in the morning; open lab will follow in the afternoon when students will practice printing and scanning. Students will learn to master workflow and develop best practices for applying color management to applications, displays, scanners and printers.

This class allows students to move past the beginning stages of digital photography, exposure and printing and to start to become a power user in a variety of digital software and hardware. Students will learn to work more efficiently and speak the language of digital imagery. After this class, photographic creativity should not suffer due to insufficient technical knowledge. Compositing and retouching should be seamless.

This class allows students to freely explore imaging to fully realize their own creative visions. By focusing on their own projects, ideas, or additional coursework, they can utilize Photoshop to improve images and enhance the overall impact of pre-existing material. It is an opportunity to refine their skills through practical applications rather than abstract tasks.

This is a photographic imaging class for non - photo majors. This course is designed to give the student the opportunity to understand and apply techniques to create more aesthetic images. The course will touch on many topics, including the DSLR camera and lens, the shutter and depth of field. Metering, exposure, natural light and the use of fill cards (reflectors) will also be covered. Also included in the class will be an introduction to composition. Students will be introduced to the best principles of digital capture while processing RAW image files using Adobe Lightroom, controlling exposure, contrast and color globally as well selectively, white balance, basic retouching and image sharpening. While this course is technical in some aspects students will be challenged to explore their own personal style and conceptual possibilities. Upon the conclusion of this course students will understand what is involved in creating an aesthetically pleasing photograph with confidence. Equipment Requirements Students will need to provide their own DSLR camera with raw capture capability, a LAPTOP, ADOBE LIGHTROOM, and a minimum 1T portable hard drive, which they should bring to the first class. (Hard drives will be needed week 2.)

This course will be an introduction to the field of photojournalism and how it is practiced today. Students will be expected to shoot one assignment per week, or work on a course-long story if they prefer. Class time will include constructive group critiques of students work, as well as lecture and discussions on photojournalistic ethics in an increasingly digital era, workflow strategies, and an overview of client expectations within the field.

The Advanced Photographic Processes I class course deals primarily, but not exclusively with the concepts of correct exposure of film, its subsequent development, and reproduction of the negative images into positive prints. After considerable time, energy, and effort in exploring the conceptual entanglements of "Exposure and Development" the student will understand what a good quality negative is, and how it translates into a good quality print.

This 0-credit lab allows students to complete Advanced Photo Processes 1. Students who received an 'Incomplete' for APP1 due to campus closure must register for this course in order to finish their assignments and receive their grade.

Advanced Photographic Processes 1 Lab is a zero-credit lab component designed to coincide with simultaneous enrollment of Advanced Photographic Processes 1 (PHOT-121). This hands-on, two-hour lab provides students with scheduled opportunity in a dedicated work environment, under close instructional oversight. Students will learn the components and functionality of 4x5 view camera, including the equipment and gear that works with it. This lab will also provide hands-on learning, practice, and mastery of film processing, film development, printing, and mounting techniques and skill set providing a necessary foundation for capturing and understanding principles of light, film processes, and printing.

This workshop is an introduction to traditional black-and-white printing techniques. In reproducing the negative images into positive prints, students will understand what a good quality negative is and how it translates into a good quality print. Students will also practice safe use of darkroom photographic chemistry. Morning demos will cover an introduction to Hostert, wet and RC printing, and mounting; afternoons will be dedicated to open lab.

There is authenticity and luminance to a Gelatin Silver Print. The print itself has value as an object of beauty. This course sets out to advance your understanding of the use of black and white film, paper, and chemistry to produce images of exceptional craft. This course will build upon your technical foundation of the silver gelatin medium, however the main goal is to use the techniques to ensure the success of a 10 image, personally driven, body of work. All effort will be made to push this traditional medium to support the concept of the "Final Project". This will be an excellent opportunity to work on a short term or long term project. Techniques for "expressive use" will be drawn from the use of grain, contrast and toning as well other techniques. Archival printing and matting to gallery standards will be accomplished. All format of cameras are accepted as long as the lens has an f-stop and shutter speed. As a class, we will pick the best image from each student's "Final" to form a group show that will be displayed on the wall outside the Black and White Lab.

When you brand yourself, you hold the power of perception. This course will help students think strategically about shaping their identities within the spaces they work. By extrapolating each person's competitive advantage, we will discuss developing your brand and executing a marketing strategy based on that. We will also cover today's common digital tools in marketing including utilizing social media, generating website traffic, making sense of analytics, search engine optimization, and blogging. We hope that by the end of the class, students will have developed a brand strategy specific to their career trajectory.

Photography's reliance on objectivity, aesthetic aspirations, and artistic license has often obscured issues of homogenous viewpoints, imperial visual narratives, and racialized rhetoric. This course explores how certain practices of looking hinders image-making that is fully informed by diverse perspectives. Through in-class discussions of readings, practical assignments, as well as critiques of student work, we will develop an understanding of the contemporary critical lens and its progress towards a decolonial ethic and aesthetic. Topics covered in the course include an introduction to photography's historic imperial roots; contemporary photography ethics in an ever-evolving digital media field; how to engage in community-focused, anti-oppression strategies while photographing; and unpacking the potential social impacts of image-making. Course readings include: photography theory, contemporary news articles and editorials, critical cultural studies scholarship, and a variety of published visual journalism and documentary work.

The course combines a strong focus on research along with planned visits to locations as we delve into the history of the proverbial, natural, urban, and rural landscape. Our study will be grounded on the idea that to create beautiful landscape photography, one must understand the basis of past imagery, its limitations, and its extensions in the modern world. Our aim is to not only study but also create landscape imagery that achieves an emotional and psychological impact on the viewer's soul.

This course consists of a series of assignments designed to cultivate love of, and respect for light. The first assignments will introduce you to the basic vocabulary of lighting: lighting direction and formal definition, hard and soft light qualities, separation, fill ratio, basic laws of light and the dynamics of lighting. My expectations for these assignments will be very specific; your task will be to closely copy given examples, and the assignments will encourage careful and patient observation. Once you have integrated these lessons, once you have begun to intuitively "think in light", the assignments will open up to allow you to apply these skills more freely in the service of your own creative vision.

Core Lighting Lab is a zero-credit lab component designed to coincide with simultaneous enrollment of Core Lighting (PHOT-160). This hands-on, lab component provides students with the scheduled opportunity to execute, practice, and explore the tools and techniques learned in Core Lighting with close instructional oversight.

The purpose of third term review is to assess that students are on track and to identify any apparent shortcomings that a student's work may have. This is not meant to be a comprehensive review, rather we are verifying that each and every student is achieving/applying the expected standard of education appropriate for this term level.

Technical ability, visual literacy, and perspective are all essential in the field of photography, but the written word should not be overlooked as an equally powerful partner. In this course, students will learn how to write about their work and edit prose in a clear, concise manner which invites their audience in for deeper contemplation. Writing about one's art is essential throughout an artist's career, in ways such as; contextualizing exhibitions, pitching stories, sharing works on social media and online portfolios, engaging publishers, and securing grants and artist residencies. Strong photography paired with clear prose will stand out to key decision-makers throughout the photography industry.?. Because photography is both an art form and a trade, techniques learned in this course will be useful when applied to a variety of scenarios encountered during one's career. Both fine art and commercial photography practices alike will benefit.

This course will explore alternative processes to the black and white photographic print including platinum prints, liquid light, pinhole cameras. Students are encouraged to explore the creative uses of a variety of processing and printing to expand their photographic vocabulary and personal body of work.

On the threshold of art created by word-prompted artificial intelligence, this 1-credit course provides an introduction to Generative Image Making with Artificial Intelligence (AI) utilizing Midjourney. Trained on 5.8 billion images, Midjourney is an AI image generation tool that takes user created text prompts and uses it's Machine Learning (ML) algorithm to produce unique images. This course is designed for artists, designers, and photographers that are new to the world of AI-generated images. Through a series of projects, students will explore the capabilities and limitations of generative art. Students will develop their own unique approach to AI-assisted image making and learn how to utilize this new technology in their creative processes. This course will include prompt creation, blend mode, seed images, data sets, and explore the ethics of AI usage.

What's Your Story blends selfie culture, personal history archiving with a direct introduction to the many cultures and cultural experiences in Southern California. What's Your Story takes a page out of NPR's Story Core playbook by asking people to sit down and tell their stories with the added element of photography. Integral to the project is the recognition and visibility that comes with sharing your story with the world. Anyone who comes to the What's Your Story booth will be gifted a portrait on 13 x 19 paper, those who participate further by granting us an interview, will have their stories archived and celebrated through a breadth of social media outlets, exhibitions, and publications. Their stories will reach well beyond their personal social algorithm.

Real World Photojournalism explores the art and practice of news storytelling through understating of the relationship between the written language, audio/sound bites and the visual image. A focus on research, ethics and working on deadlines will be a primary consideration. Students will streamline their photographic and written processes to fulfill the Editor's deadlines utilizing the AP style guide and other resources. Weekly visuals, written assignments, newspaper articles and journal entries will strengthen the classroom experience. Course projects include research, interviews, the production of a one-minute audio piece that either focuses on a subject's failed or traumatic experience, covering spot news assignment on deadline, and more. The class culminates with a final multimedia piece with supporting images. Creating imagery driven by story and narrative will be the central focus of this course.

This course builds on the foundations of lighting learned in Core Lighting. Students will begin to explore and master more advanced lighting techniques while focusing on portrait photography using both studio and natural lighting in both film and digital circumstances. Students will begin to understand how lighting translates into emotion and narrative in both black and white and color photography. The class will cover a variety of lighting options as well as the myriad of light modifiers that can be used to create a personal photographic vision.

Portrait Lighting Lab is a zero-credit lab component designed to coincide with simultaneous enrollment of Portrait Lighting (PHOT-217). This hands-on, lab component provides students with the scheduled opportunity to execute, practice and explore the tools and techniques learned in Portrait Lighting.

In this workshop, students will learn to use the tools and techniques for lighting portraits. Students will work with tungsten light, strobe lights, daylight and a variety of light modifying tools. Because the light that you create needs to be the amalgam of intent and portrayal of character, the goal of this workshop is to help you learn to "feel" light.

NFTrippin' in Web3: Methods, Making, and Minting Non-fungible tokens have recently catapulted from a niche interest to a mainstream force in artistic discourse. Though controversial, NFTs continue to exert an outsized impact on the market. It's important for practicing artists to understand how they operate to make informed decisions about participation (or not). This course highlights the history and conceptual potential of NFTs. Students will learn the basic mechanics of NFT ecosystems and will have the opportunity to mint their own NFT at the end of the course. This course is open to non-photo students. Non-photo students may request to take this course by contacting the Photo department at photography@artcenter.edu.

Although the class is called Zone System, it is not a rehash of that particular technique. It is about producing an image that is exceptional not only in its technical aspects, but also one that embodies the emotional and mental aspects of humanity within the artist exhibited in final form as a beautiful print.

This online class is designed as a discussion/independent research seminar that takes advantage of the immediacy of the internet and opportunities afforded by distance learning. Each week, students will be assigned articles based on contemporary culture and topical events related to art/photography. Class time will involve discussion and on-the-fly research which the students will share. Pre-requisites: Take PHOT-102 Concept, PHOT-104 Composition

Culture: Identity and Ethnicity is a 1-unit course designed to provide a broad understanding of the language, processes, and power of visual experience through material and how we see our individual Culture through our Identity and Ethnicity. This course promotes concept development, creative thinking and visual problem solving. Projects will be based on a concern for how each person examines and explores, ultimately interprets and recreates the world around them. Through a series of interdisciplinary readings, lectures, videos, and field trips, we will explore the "language," "material," and "thought" surrounding contemporary art. Our primary task concerns looking at art and the aesthetic process by engaging a set of related creative and cultural issues that have to do with who we are and how we live.

This studio class will be an exploration of the landscape in personal practice. Strong emphasis will be placed on the history of landscape with a focus on contemporary artists working with landscape. This class will allow the student the opportunity to develop their own use of the landscape as a subject. The role of landscape in film will play a critical role. The class will be a combination of research, technical exercises and shooting.

Neighboorhood Studies in Los Angles will provide students the opportunity to use any combination of landscape, street photography, and portraiture to explore a specific neighborhood in Los Angeles over a period of time. Students will learn to utilize thier skills as a photographer to go beyond the surface level of understanding Los Angeles as a place. An emphasis on the local history of the area and how it may influence the present state of the area will be the foundation of the work produced during the course."

This class guides students into seeing how both natural and artificial light give dimension, texture and mood to a structure or interior space. The ultimate goal is to create a photograph which translates the experience of being in a space to the 2-dimensional world of photography. Students will begin to master lighting in a variety of spaces and the control of multiple light sources and types.

In this course we will assess the role of photography in Art and reciprocally, the role of Art in photography. You will make images. This class will assist you in seeing the differences among photographs and what role photographs play in society. Students are encouraged to create their own distinct images that speak their intentions in a more clearly articulated voice.

Unconventional Printing explores cyanotype on wood, glass, ceramic, as well as solarfast dye on fabrics. Students will learn how to create digital negatives and how to adjust them for an optimal print, depending on size and substrate. Subtstrate sizes can range from 8x10 and smaller or up to 11x14. Classes will include short instructions with a majority of the time focusing on hands-on unconventional printing. Students will be required to complete 3 examples of each process on varying surfaces, with a final critique at the last meeting. Students will be responsible for inkjet transparency film and various substrates that can range from $60-$80.

Course Summary: Theories of color and light are fully examined as a pathway to achieve a sound understanding of color photography. This course will place emphasis on the properties of color negative film and its inherit characteristics, with the stated goal of gaining a working understanding of the relationships between exposure, development and printing. Further discussions will center on the aesthetics of color itself, and its role as a vehicle of effective visual communication.

Color Lab is a zero-credit lab component designed to coincide with simultaneous enrollment of Color (PHOT-257). This hands-on, lab component provides students with the scheduled opportunity to execute, practice, and explore the tools and techniques learned in Color with close Instructional oversight.

This workshop is an introduction to traditional color printing techniques. Students will learn the properties of color negative film, its inherit characteristics, and the relationships between exposure, development, and printing. Morning demos will cover color film enlargers, C-41 processing, printing, and matting. The afternoon will be dedicated to open lab and practice.

This class is designed to give students real world experience of various on-set positions from Digital Technician to Grip and Gaffer. This class will provide a broad understanding of the roles, etiquette, and workflow of a professional photo shoot. The class is separated into three sections that are roughly four weeks each. Section one focuses on the role of Digital Technician (Digital-Tech). Students will learn from a working Digital Capture Technician about the setup, techniques, and workflow of a typical day. Section two will focus on the roles of Gaffer and Grip. Students will learn from a seasoned Assistant to understand and execute the roles and techniques of a Gaffer and Grip during setup and workflow of a photo shoot. During the final section, students will apply learned roles and skills by working with professional photographers to facilitate actual photo shoots. Through the education and training of the on-set roles of a Tech, Grip, and Gaffer, students will not only improve their individual production skills but also be able to demonstrate professional level capabilities of assisting a photo shoot. This course will augment students' creative employment by giving students the skills to step into high level assisting positions.

Location Lighting is an introduction to the particular skills that photographers use when working on assignment outside the studio. Editorial projects such environmental portraiture, architecture and journalism need to be shot on location?\ and specific equipment and strategies are required for successful result. Classroom meetings will present theory and application while location demos and assignments will provide hands on experience. Students are required to have already taken the introductory lighting classes.

In this course students will delve into the research, application, and interview process for artist residencies. Artist residencies offer the opportunity to spend a period of time developing into and focusing on a specific project. No two residencies are alike; though they may offer similar opportunities, they commonly have different requirements. Some provide funding, while others may require you to host a workshop. You may prefer a self-guided residency, while other artists gravitate towards a more structured program. You might be the only artist present, or you could find yourself immersed in a creative community. This class will show students how to identify opportunities that are best suited for their practice. We will research various artist residencies to identify the pros and cons of each. Students will prepare to apply to a residency, while envisioning how it will benefit their creative process. Students will leave this class understanding how to research, prepare application materials, and interview. Students will then be able to utilize their research and preparation skills when approaching work opportunities, mentorships, grants, and more.

The Advertising Photographer: From Concept to Completion, is a course that mirrors the development and execution of a professional advertising photo shoot. Beginning with brand or products' research to concept ideation and storytelling, Students will learn how to communicate stylized ideas through the use of photography, imaging, and photo-treatments. This course guides students through the process of executing a professional advertising photo shoot. Course demos will include a fully produced photo shoot with an automobile, models, professional grip, and stylists. Each student will get a chance to partake in each roll; photographer, assistant, digital tech, and producer. The shoot will be followed by an in-depth look into the process of making selects, as well as building out layered Photoshop files for final finish and color grade. This course will include several industry guest speakers that will provide in depth insight into their area of expertise. The course will culminate with students producing, shooting, and finalizing their own photo shoot. These shoots will be centered around a client or product with an understanding of how the content will speak to the target demographic. Students will learn all aspects of an advertising shoot that include; estimates, pre-production deck, scout locations, pre-block out shots, and team building of stylists, make-up artists, and assistants needed to execute a professional advertising shoot. The outcome will be a composite of multiple images for the application of the perfect color grade.

We Are All Related: A Collaborative Experiment with students from Oglala Lakota College and ArtCenter College of Design. In the Lakota language there is a common phrase, Mitakuye Oyasin, that is often translated to, "We Are All Related." This extends to our plant relatives, animal relatives, including human relatives, and is the underlying theme for this 1-credit class. In this collaborative experimental course, for five weeks, students from ArtCenter College of Design and Oglala Lakota College will collaborate to create work in whatever medium makes sense within their skill sets-drawing, video, photos, installation, performance, and more. This class makes use of the virtual classroom to create a shared experience where students will work to build relationships across the internet, set common goals, and create work that expresses interests and concerns both individually and across culture.

You only get one chance to make a second impression. Your numbers look great, the creative call went amazing, but that's not enough to seal the deal. This course is designed to prepare photography students for the reality of competitive bidding in the advertising marketplace. This course will examine successful treatments from working professionals, and cover strategies to create briefs that have visual impact, are clear in communication, and convincing in approach. The class will conclude with a final assignment that involves a tailored advertising assignment for each student, requiring a polished treatment and photographic execution.

With an emphasis on creativity and conceptual ideas, this course will prepare students for the fast pace world of commercial and editorial sports photography. Skills and abilities to be developed are; historical understanding, camera and equipment essentials, mental and physical demands, timing skills, post production editing and image delivery. Students will be required to photograph one of two professional soccer matches available to them.

With an emphasis on creativity and conceptual ideas, this course will prepare students for the fast pace world of commercial and editorial sports photography. Skills and abilities to be developed are; historical understanding, camera and equipment essentials, mental and physical demands, timing skills, post production editing, and image delivery. Students enrolled in Commercial & Editorial Sports Photography are required to attend 2 - 3 professional athletic events, available to them. These events may be scheduled on weekends and/or evenings. The professional sports events can be 4-6 hours in length not including travel and prep. Students will have the opportunity to be on the field, sidelines, locker rooms, and/or arena of the athletic event. Student will experience the immediacy, excitement, and challenges of Commercial and Editorial Sports Photography. This class is designed for students 5th term and above. This class is ideal for students who are taking or have taken Location Photography.

This review addresses academic, aesthetic, and technical issues in each student146s work. Some kind portfolio (need not be finished) or presentation is required to show the work, but additional work outside that form is also acceptable and encouraged. Students begin their review by making a presentation of their work, direction of study and a short explanation of the outcomes from the classes that the work was done in. In showing the work, the student should clarify a range of skills they are comfortable employing, skills that they want to improve and a plan for how they will continue through graduation.

This course is designed to acquaint the photography student with the working world of fashion photography and to begin to develop a personal sense of style for their images. Students will work with models, stylists, and make-up artists both in class shoots and on their own. Various aspects of fashion and beauty lighting will be explored as well as historic and current trends in the fashion world.

This class is designed for continuing exploration of the world of portrait photography where the use of other than traditional methods and techniques are emphasized. The photographer as a cutting edge, visionary artist is the asis for this class that encourages a personal style and point of view toward representation of the subject. From historical to contemporary artists with 147personal vision148 are studied and how their methodology influences, motivates, and inspires current trends in the world of portraiture.

This course will explore a variety of methods and techniques to develop and produce a classic photo essay. We will examine historical work by renowned documentary photographers. Initial assignments will emphasize aspects of documentary photography such as environmental portraiture, establishing opening shots and narrative structure and storytelling. Students will propose, discuss, refine and produce a body of work throughout the semester.

Whether as a primary focus, or part of a mosaic of professional production, many media producers see incorporating sociopolitical engagement into their work as a necessary aspect of sustaining a healthy, long-term career. The class will cover different strategies for working in the nonprofit and nongovernmental sector-working for organizations and working with organizations. The class will focus on meeting the needs of a nonprofit- social media content, developing and promoting targeted campaigns, etc. One or two nonprofits will be chosen and the class will work as a team to tackle the needs of the organization(s). Student work will be scheduled taking into account skills, interests, and ability to accomplish specific tasks. The class will also introduce the process of producing a personal project in partnership with an NPO/NGO-including community partnership and funding.

Advanced Still Life Photography. Exploration of commercial and fine art. Still life photography with an emphasis on styling, composition, lighting.

In this class students will learn the basic vocabulary and architecture of paginated materials: books, magazines, catalogs, web, etc. Class will focus on an understanding of the principles of scale, size, proportion, position, direction, point of view, cropping and sequencing within this context. Students will learn the roles of designer, art director, photographer, picture editor, editor, and writer in the publication process and to understand how to plan and organize multi-image projects to achieve narrative strategies.

The purpose of this class is to provide you with a method for successful digital capture (studio and location), project asset organization, file management and client presentation. Digital capture is the foundation for your digital workflow, in preparation for developing subsequent workflow segments for image enhancement, file delivery and output, and project acrhiving.

Conscious Communication is an intense immersion course at ArtCenter College of Design that allows students to experience the pace of a professional environment, creating work relevant to current real-world social issues. Led by photographer and creative director Matthew Rolston, students will produce a series of targeted short-form videos, ultimately making powerful pieces of audiovisual communication. The class addresses issues that affect us all, among them: the movements for diversity, equity and inclusion; mental health; the climate crisis; the promotion of joy and kindness; and many other pressing topics. The course is ideal for aspiring advertising professionals, creative directors, filmmakers, photographers, and those who wish to communicate powerfully in the public interest. For more information about the course, please visit www.consciouscommunication.io.

Photographers in today's content creation environment are often expected to deliver motion content along with still photographs. Advanced Video for Still Photographers is geared towards students with a photography background who want to expand their abilities to create motion-based work. Building on INT 176- Basic of Video Production students will deepen their understanding of how to conceptualize and execute a narrative or documentary short film project, taking it through all the stages of production over the course of 14 weeks. Current methods of video production and storytelling concepts will be conveyed through lectures, sample clips, and hands-on presentation. In-class assignments will be completed in groups work to cement the learned skills. There will be an emphasis on students critiquing each other's work.

This class will help students understand what it is like to work for a variety of publications today. Students will be asked to fulfill realistic and challenging assignments from simple portraits to elaborate conceptual stories. We will look at historical and contemporary work and engage in discussions that inspire as well as offer important practical skills. Students will be encouraged to develop a professional approach that includes knowing your potential client, building relationships with photo editors and art directors, shaping ideas and concepts with art reference, and devising a clear plan of production prior to a session. Artistic vision and style will be emphasized simultaneously with the importance of completing a job successfully and professionally. Regular assignments with real deadlines will generate work for weekly critique and portfolio editing and development. Through this range of assignments, students will learn to fulfill the demands of a client, while developing their own artistic voice. They will learn the value of a well thought out production plan, and that collaborating and being professional in all aspects of a job is what may get them hired again. They will grow more comfortable and confident talking about their own work. They will understand the importance of a good edit. They will decide what kind of magazines they want to work for, and how to steer their portfolio and promotional materials towards getting such assignments.

This is a course designed to integrate where still meets motion. Students will be encouraged to look deeper and push their still photographic storytelling into short motion projects. How movement and sound is used to support the still image will be explored thru a series of class projects. Final projects will include a 5 minute motion piece supported by (or integrated with) a series of 5-10 photographs. How the internet is effecting work and where it is seen will be closely examined. The personal story will be encouraged. By looking closely at one's personal history through still and motion work, students will be encouraged to experiment with non-traditional storytelling and the idea of a spatial cinematic experience. Emphasis will be on the importance of detail and how small, concise stories can have big effects. How to approach, interview, find trust and comfort with subjects will also be discussed thru multiple films and internet examples and class exercises.

Students will be exposed to and experience principles of portraiture in regards to art history and the photographic arts. The course's major emphasis will be to guide students to develop their own voice within the creative field. Students will choose a single subject or subject group and develop a hands-on semester-long project. Student will be expected to integrate the given set of portraiture skills and principles and develop a unique final portfolio of 12-20 images by the end of the course.

This class will build on the educational experiences that were created in the Still Life class. Refinement of visual ideas and narrative will be practiced. Special attention to image content through the use of various photographic and digital techniques will be explored. Research, development, planning and practice will be encouraged for all finished works. Assignments for this class will consist of individual narrative constructs as well as an extended series of work that deals with a specific view or narrative them.

This class is intended to develop a cohesive body of work with consistency of subject matter, technique, and process. The class is project-driven. This "series" of images can be an extension, re-vamp, or redirection of subject matter already begun prior to taking the class, or it can be an entirely new concept and body of work. Student must have access to subject matter chosen. The goal is a completed series of new or extended work to augment your portfolio or possibly to become a self-published book. Topics addressed in the course will include the esthetics of a "series mentality", how one delves deeper into subject matter as well as shining a light on the psychological development of artists and the process of creating their work. Collateral materials, research, previous student projects and historical references will be required and will be discussed in class. A completed series of images (either in print of book form) will be required at the end of the 14-week term.

Sensuality, seduction and pleasure are at the core of almost every effort in the worlds of entertainment, advertising and marketing. In order to ignite desire and create brand awareness in consumers and audiences, it is necessary to speak in symbolic visual terms. A curated selection of films, advertising campaigns, photography, brand materials and 'brand codes' will be examined in order to form an understanding of the traditions of the art of visual seduction and how such traditions constantly evolve in response to society's ever- changing conditions and values. Students will create concepts, research documents, mood boards and a short film using pre-existing footage, the focus of which will be an instructor-assigned luxury brand communication project.

This course is a study of photographic scenarios utilized in the photography of automobiles both in a studio setting and on location. The specific issues of lighting large products with reflective surfaces and shooting still and moving objects will be addressed. Discussion of marketing and advertising of automobiles and other modes of transportation will be discussed and show how these strategies were applied historically and are now currently applied in editorial and marketing contexts.

This course will encompass a survey of the historic illustration of the art of sport. From pictorial photo-realism to Impressionism, all these approaches are conscious choices of how the artists hand in the process introduces a personal and distinct signature to the work whether documentary or illustrative. The class offers students the opportunity to become well versed in a variety of visual solutions for portrait, action and lighting solutions specific to this genre. The course will also deal directly with the nuances of directing an athlete and their choreography.

This class will give each student an opportunity to refine how they photograph architecture with a particular emphasis on residential interiors. There will be guest lectures and crits by leading architectural photographers and several class shoots off campus.

This class continues to build upon the foundation lighting courses by exploring in greater depth the creation and control of artificial light in the context of professional product photography. The focus will be on the intent of the photographer in using lighting to emphasize or hide aspects of the objects at hand. The class structure allows the students to experience first hand challenges that they would encounter professionally through class shoots, demonstrations, and critique of student assignments. Students will develop the fluency and the knowledge necessary to determine the perfect lighting for each given situation as it relates to real world product photography, be it in advertising or editorial venues.

A concept based, master portrait lighting class. Course will include studio visits with local photographers, in-depth critique, and will be geared towards students who are intent on building their personal body of work.

What is required to succeed in the fast changing marketplace for commercial and fine art photography? It is no secret that good luck needs good preparation. You need to know the business and how to research your audience. Hard work combined with your talent and education will take you to where you want to be in five years. But there are no shortcuts, a career does not happen without focus and commitment. The class helps you articulate and actualize your five-year plan. We research financial resources to fund personal projects including grants, awards and competitions. We discuss strategies to build your reputation in the fine art and the commercial world by committing to portfolio reviews. We discuss if, why, when and how to publish a book, and how to develop a revenue in print sales and commercial licenses. Most importantly everyone needs a focused marketing strategy thru social media, print and email. Finding your audience is your primary goal and we review commercially available lists and research your own dream client list. We will practice Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) using pictures, photographs and our own work. These exercises help us understand how others read and interpret our work and form the basis of conversation with a wider community of photographers and curators. Guest speakers will talk about developing personal projects, portfolio reviews, and career options. Course work will include two shooting assignments, grant writing, editing and research projects. The syllabus will be reflective of the needs and specific trajectories of individual students.

This course is structured to enable the student to go beyond technique into personal expression and creativity and provides an opportunity to develop confidence in one's ability to "create" and to discover the inherent artist in each of us. The importance of one's passion, perseverance, and personal growth during your career is emphasized. The class establishes a foundation from which the photographer can grow as an artist throughout their career as a student and into their professional practice.

This class builds on PHOT-254 Fine Art Photography and is designed as a production seminar. Each class will have a critique and forum with themes based on student research. Students will be responsible for producing a body of work and provide material-readings, videos, websites, social media-related to their focus, in consultation with the professor. Other readings and media may be added.

Location lighting is an introduction to the particular skills that photographers use when working on assignment outside the studio. Editorial and advertising projects need to be shot on location and specific equipment and strategies are required for successful results. Many jobs require working with talent and lighting them in a specific environment to create a certain look or mood. Classroom meetings will present theory, critique, problem solving, stylized lighting and its application. Location lighting demos, class shoots and assignments will provide hands-on experience. There will be extra assistants and guest speakers during class demos.

This workshop is designed to offer an in-person experience of working on location. Students will be tasked with considering the specifics of the setting and how to partner with the available ambient light. A variety of techniques will be explored. This is meant to be a simulated professional photo shoot with students functioning as crew for each other, taking on the role of gaffer, grip, tech, and shooter. Working with talent provided, students will be expected to explore different lighting schemes that exploit the specifics of the location.

This class is a comprehensive overview of contemporary food photography. Characteristics of food, concept development, lighting and styling are emphasized. The class provides an opportunity for students to observe and assist a photographer in the photo shoot and to work with professional food and prop stylists as well as to begin their practice of developing their own food photography skills and style.

This course provides information and skills fundamental to the working photographer. The primary focus and goal will be to prepare a portfolio for presentation to clients, reps and agencies that is unique and representative of each students work. Students will explore the nature and value of an overall concept, technique, typography and choice of materials necessary to create a portfolio presentation.

In this course students will learn how to use entrepreneurial strategies in their photographic practice to become better image-makers and to move out into their careers in a more professional circumstance. New ideas and opportunities don't come out of thin air, but research, studying and practice and help you adopt the best practices of this shifting information culture and economics to create personal and professional strategies. You can initiate work now that will begin to build a client base, a web following, and a brand that is particularly useful in taking advantage of the hybrid multi-platform opportunities.

Post Rethinking Art is a studio-seminar for advanced undergraduate students working in all mediums including Photography. The purpose of the class is to provide ample studio time for students to develop their individual studio projects in an open studio/seminar environment under faculty guidance. The studio aspect of the class will be enhanced by intensive weekly group critiques of new work or works-in-progress.

SNAP 2 is a class devoted to the expressive portrait. Class discussions and assignments will center on direction, collaboration and the roles of student and patron with the synchronizing of student style with patron expectations being the ultimate guide for the portrait. Every mode of portraiture will be explored from traditional and historic to the most radical forms of creative license. The project schedule for the class will include the 3 patron per student pairings that will produce results based on the unique individual student/patron dynamic. The culmination of the class will be an exhibition and gala opening of those portraits sponsored by The Pasadena Art Alliance. Students will be invited to the opening; the location of which will be determined. A small stipend will be provided by the patron for expenses.

"Advanced Studio" is a studio class for advanced undergraduate students working in all mediums including photography. The purpose of the class is to provide ample studio time for students to develop their individual studio projects in an open studio/seminar environment under faculty guidance. The studio aspect of the class is enhanced by intensive weekly group critiques of new work or works-in-progress. Emphasis will be on creating a thematically cohesive body of work and/or ambitious project which reflects the culmination of knowledge and exploration the student has achieved. Photography Students taking this course must be 5th term or above. This course can be credited towards an elective or TDS.

These reviews will address aesthetic, technical and academic issues. This is not an exit interview, but one designed to assess a student's plan to move into the professional workplace and to give them an additional term to address what is discovered in the review. Reviewers recognize things in the work presented that can be addressed in a student's last term. This is an important review of preparedness, confidence and confrontation with the reality of graduation.

This course provides students with direct access to photographers from diverse backgrounds and specialties, at varying levels of experience with the goal of challenging or confirming their assumptions and expectations about their careers in photography. In addition, students will learn proven techniques for leveraging copyright, contracts, estimates, invoices, negotiations, licensing and standard industry practices to succeed as professional visual artists.

In this course students will refine their skills with regard to conceptualizing, cost estimating, location scouting and producing photographic assignments. Assignments can be geared to students personal photographic direction and potential clients.

Photography is changing along with technology and photographers are being asked to expand their strategies into motion and multi-media projects as well as still imagery. This course will help students explore and address these challenges. Students will be encouraged to experiment with non-traditional storytelling, the importance of detail and how concise stories can have big effects. Students must be willing to approach new avenues for their work and find new ways to visualize, conceive and exhibit ideas. Examples of transmedia stories, documentary film and experimental multi-media projects will be shown and introduced throughout the semester.

This is an advanced course designed for upper level photography students. The class will be project based and will involve discussion of fashion photography, style, portraiture and fine art as well as critique of student work. Students will develop, refine and utilize their personal photographic style for projects they propose and develop over the course of the semester.

The Advanced Product Photography class will continue exploring the highly technical world of Product Photography at a more advance level. With PHOT-338 being the prerequisite, this training will prepare students to enter the ever-evolving world of product photography world where more attention will be given to every aspect of the product at hand. The focus will no longer be just on lighting the product but the complete workflow and the process and at every step of the way, from pre-production all the way to post-production. This class will equally rely on hands-on approach and letting students free to explore. The idea here is to allow the students to bring their own sense of problem solving and let that be the building block of the process within this knowledge rich environment. The class will ultimately be an incubator of creativity with emphases on higher degree of technical knowledge within the realm of Product Photography.

This course is designed to work with graduating students to refine their exit plan addressing issues such as prospective clients, interview skills, self-promotion and their final presentation of their work for Grad Show exhibition.

This is a research and project based class that will prepare students for a study abroad program in Berlin. Actual classes are broken into two components. A: Lecture and slideshow by the instructor. B: The photographic work and research of the students. We meet once a week. There will be a few weeks where we meet every second week. The goal of the class is to get students prepared for the time in Germany. This will be achieved through research, journal keeping and producing a photographic project that will allow students "to hit the ground running" in Berlin. This class will give students the opportunity to research a foreign city and create new work independently while testing and challenging their skills outside the institutional structure. And to expand perspective and global awareness.

What's Your Story blends selfie culture, personal history archiving, with a direct introduction to the many cultures and cultural experiences in Southern California. Students work together at a community event by asking people to sit down and tell their stories with the added element of photography and portraiture. Integral to the project is the recognition and visibility that comes with sharing a story, a history, and culture with the world. This class offers students real-world community involvement and the practical experience of public, fast paced production. Students will crew a festival booth to facilitate the creation of an image and oral history archiving. Based on the community event, assignments will include visiting lecturers, readings, research, video, and discussion. This class may require weekend or evening participation off campus. Anyone who comes to the "What's Your Story?" booth will be gifted a portrait on 13 x 19 print, those who participate further by granting us an interview, will have their stories archived and celebrated through a breadth of social media outlets, exhibitions, and publications. Their stories will reach well beyond their personal social algorithm.

Fringe: From Concept to Collaboration to Creation is a sponsored project TDS with major support from the non-profit The Pasadena Art Alliance. The course is designed around the collaboration between students, the conceptualization of ideas and execution of mixed media artwork. The objects and images produced will loosely relate or include some component of the concept of "fringe". The first two weeks of study will be spent determining the ideas and parameters of the project and forming student teams. Class discussions and assignments will center on direction, communication, problem-solving, collaboration and the roles of pairs. Teams can create mood boards, proposals, and research resources from traditional and historical to the contemporary forms of creative license. Students will take the lead in scheduling, following up and meeting deadlines with teammates and vendors. The culmination of the course will be an exhibition and gala opening by The Pasadena Art Alliance. Students and their collaboration partners will be invited to the event. The PAA will provide a small stipend for production costs and materials for work created.

The course is structured based on real-world simulation of an in-house creative department for a major consumer brand. Advertising, Photo, and Film majors will work together to concept, develop, refine, and complete an image-driven advertising campaign. Advertising students will learn how to think photographically, exploring ways in which photography can help generate a wider and richer range of concepts, and train them in thinking more visually. Photo and Film students will learn more about concept ideation, brand research, telling a company's story, and how to solve communication problems in original and effective ways. The studio will be modeled on professional practice, with students working in art director/photographer/cinematographer teams to complete an ad campaign from concept to execution.

This class is designed to work as a creative think tank, employing the talents of young artists in a real-world interaction with a local Nonprofit Organization or NGO. Students from Photography, Film, Illustration, and Graphic Design, are invited to work in collaboration, to produce media for use as social media content and as targeted campaigns. One or two nonprofits will be chosen and the class will work as a team to tackle the needs of the organization(s). Student work will be scheduled taking into account skills, interests, and ability to accomplish specific tasks. The class will also introduce the process of producing a personal project in partnership with an NPO/NGO-including community partnership and funding. Whether as a primary focus, or part of a mosaic of professional production, many media producers see incorporating sociopolitical engagement into their work as a necessary aspect of sustaining a healthy, long-term career.