This lab is a hands-on opportunity for students to learn professional techniques on locations and in the studio; it covers a wide range of genres, aesthetic, logistical, and technical challenges.

The students work directly with the instructor to apply concepts to assignments of increasing complexity. Shooting practicums to various locations and of multiple subjects is a major part of this course.

Digital photography gives us the ability to manipulate images in ways that were never possible with film. Photoshop, Lightroom, and other applications will be used to explore digital imaging, and to create the best images possible.

Class time will be spent downloading and adjusting images taken during the shooting practicum. Lab activities will also include various technical demonstrations by the instructor followed by working on images using the techniques demonstrated.

Ways of seeing is the study, and critique of the work of master photographers, their techniques, aesthetics and approaches, equipping students to choose the most effective means of realizing their own projects.

Students are guided to analyze, and understand the evolution of the medium. Discussions include composition, traditional and non-conventional framing, color theory, design, semiotics (signs and symbols), the effect of technological changes on photography, and personal record.

This course teaches students critical thinking skills, the visual language of photography, and lets them to explore their personal interests in photography as they conceptualize, execute, refine, and critique.

Students will begin to define and develop a personal visual style and specific area of interest, studying master bodies of work across genres as examples. Students will examine principles of composition, color, editing, and presentation through writing, photographic assignments.