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  • 3.00 Credits

    Class hours: 2.0 Lecture/4.0 Laboratory This course provides an introduction to the basics of digital photography. Topics include use of digital cameras; scanning techniques; file compression and formatting; use of image editing software (primarily Adobe Photoshop); printing techniques; and legal, philosophical and sociological issues associated with digital photography. Emphasis is placed on constructing meaning in imagery through digital techniques. Transfer Credit: CSU
  • 3.00 Credits

    Class hours: 2.0 Lecture/4.0 Laboratory Prerequisite: PHOT 110 or ART 192 or equivalent with a grade of Pass or "C" or higher. This course continues the instruction in digital photographic technique begun in PHOT 110, and explores digital photography as a new visual arts medium. More intensive use of tools and filters in Adobe Photoshop and other art and photo-related software, advanced camera techniques, and scanning and output methods are included with emphasis on constructing meaning in imagery through digital processes. Transfer Credit: CSU
  • 3.00 Credits

    Class hours: 2.0 Lecture/4.0 Laboratory Prerequisite: PHOT 100 or equivalent with a grade of Pass or "C" or higher. This course provides instruction in the practical and theoretical principles of color photography. The student will examine choices in film, scanning, digital capture, and digital output. Image evaluation will include technical considerations of light, exposure, color correction, computer monitor calibration, and color profiles for printing. Furthermore, color and vision, color theory, and color symbolism will be examined at length. Specific assignments will be addressed with individual and class critiques. Transfer Credit: CSU
  • 3.00 Credits

    Class hours: 3.0 Lecture Recommendation: PHOT 100 or equivalent with a grade of Pass or "C" or higher. This course deals with the photographer as a journalist, focusing on theory and practice in press and publications photography, with emphasis on using the camera as a reporting and communications tool. Covered are news and feature photography and photographic essays, including composition, impact, and creativity, for newspapers, magazines, Internet and other mass communications media. Students must have access to a 35mm camera. This course is not open to students who are enrolled in or who have received credit in JOUR 130. Transfer Credit: CSU
  • 3.00 Credits

    Class hours: 3.0 Lecture This course is a survey of the history of photography from its origins to the present, speculating on the future. This course traces the development of photographic theory and practice form its inception, through postmodernism to the present. The major concepts of photographic representation and the impact of photography on society are also covered. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC
  • 1.00 Credits

    Class hours: 1 lecture Corequisite: Enrollment in 7 or more units, including Occupational Work Experience in Photography, in a declared Photography major. One unit of Occupational Work Experience in Photography requires 60 non-paid hours or 75 paid hours of work per semester. Recommendation: None. Work Experience/Career Internship provides the opportunity for students to apply skills and knowledge learned in the classroom to related experiences on the job/training site. The aim of the course is to assist students in expanding specific job skills. This creates greater communication with increased understanding between the students/workers, the college, and the employers/trainers. First semester students meet with their instructors for a minimum of one hour per week. Students also pursue a program of self-evaluation to determine individual job weaknesses and strengths. Semester projects that relate to their major and job skills must be completed on the job/training site. Students will meet weekly with the instructor until their approved projects are completed. This course may be taken a maximum of 4 times. Transfer Credit: CSU
  • 3.00 Credits

    Class hours: 2.0 Lecture/4.0 Laboratory Prerequisite: PHOT 102 or equivalent with a grade of Pass or "C" or higher, or a combination of PHOT 100 and PHOT 110 or equivalent with grades of Pass or "C" or higher. This course is designed to advance student's knowledge and skills beyond Intermediate Photography. This course will cover advanced large format camera use, studio strobe lighting techniques, digital photography, and professional presentation of photographs. At the end of the semester, student will be excepted to present portfolio of photographic prints that represent a body of work. Class will include black-and-white as well as color assignments. Transfer Credit: CSU
  • 3.00 Credits

    Class hours: 2.0 Lecture/4.0 Laboratory Prerequisite: PHOT 100 or equivalent with a grade of Pass or "C" or higher. This is a course in the theory and practice of portraiture. Lectures will present lighting and contemporary retouching techniques for professional studio portraiture. Topics also include self-portraiture, extended environmental portraiture, typological portraits, narrative, documentary portraiture, candid camera, the snapshot aesthetic, figurative portraiture, directorial portraiture, and fashion. Issues regarding idolatry, gender and sexuality, "the gaze," ethics, exploitation, and legal questions will be explored. Transfer Credit: CSU
  • 3.00 Credits

    Class hours: 2.0 Lecture/4.0 Laboratory Prerequisite: PHOT 100 or equivalent with a grade of Pass or "C" or higher. This course examines a variety of approaches to studio lighting in photography. Concept development and execution in the studio environment as well as studio construction, location work, and lighting and exposure techniques will be covered. Students will concentrate on a semester-long project in a specialized area of studio work. This course may be taken a maximum of 2 times. Transfer Credit: CSU
  • 3.00 Credits

    Class hours: 2.0 Lecture/4.0 Laboratory Prerequisite: PHOT 102 or equivalent with a grade of Pass or "C" or higher, or a combination of PHOT 100 and PHOT 110 or equivalent with grades of Pass or "C" or higher. This course is designed to address the marketing aspects of photography. Preparation of portfolios, care of original photographs, photography markets, legal aspects, and gallery exhibition are the primary course topics. Transfer Credit: CSU
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