Students will focus on creating a compelling and cohesive photography project of 10-15 images with a consistent theme, concept, or style. Depending on their artistic and professional goals, students may opt to center your project on commercial, editorial, fine art photography, or a different genre of photography. This project will allow the opportunity to plan, shoot, and edit a set of works with a unifying message or theme. Students will put on their marketing hats and print, promote, or present their project in physical or virtual media.

• Computer with Internet connection.
• Access to a standalone digital camera with manual control over ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed, and White Balance, that allows for shooting in RAW format.
• Adobe Lightroom Classic or equivalent program.
• Basic experience in the software package needed for this course.

Students in this course can expect to learn to:

• Examine your existing body of work and creative goals to identify a topic(s) and/or project to plan, produce, present, and display as an exhibit (via “brick and mortar” and/or via digital exhibition).
• Research photographers and artists whose work you admire and explore how they exhibit and display their work. Explore multiple venues and strategies for professionally printing, presenting and displaying your creative work along with an artist statement.
• Examine, gather, analyze, synthesize, and professionally present research in alignment with the course content, assignment criteria, and presentation guidelines.
• Actively participate in class discussions/meetings, constructively assess the work of your peers, and enhance your creative work based upon feedback.
• Demonstrate effective and efficient use of your digital camera and create photographs with careful consideration of lighting, color, exposure, composition, art/design principles, and point of view in alignment with the course content and assignment criteria.
• Effectively conceptualize and post-process (cull, edit/enhance, and retouch), manage files, explore multiple image making techniques, exhibition printing/framing, and produce compelling, innovative, and professionally exhibit and/or publish ready images.
• Apply and demonstrate technically proficient retouching, careful consideration of contrast, cropping, exposure, and color correction techniques to improve or enhance photographic images to a professional level utilizing appropriate software such as Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. Consider how to professionally print.