Photo III: Portfolio
9 Weeks | $425 | Online
The key to success as a photographer is distinguishing yourself from your contemporaries through process, practice and vision. This advanced course helps synthesize the skills you’ve cultivated, and solidify your role as a photographic artist. Through purposeful assignments, as well as thought provoking and inspirational readings, refine your ability to analyze photographs from a technical and creative standpoint. Learn how to write a strong, effective artist’s statement of your personal purpose in photography, putting your identity as an artist into sharp focus. Assignments include preparing and presenting a polished portfolio, investigating next steps to becoming a professional, working photographer, essentials in business practices in different markets (commercial, wedding, portraiture, artistic) as well as further exploration of copyright issues.
What You Will Learn:
- Essentials in business practices in different markets and how to brand yourself within a chosen market.
- Re-shooting and reworking current images, based on peer and instructor feedback.
- Contemporary copyright issues.
- How to create and present a polished digital and print portfolio.
- How to further develop a personal voice and artistic style.
- Ability to analyze photos from a technical and creative standpoint.
- How to create a brand or artist statement of personal purpose in photography.
- Apply branding techniques to make a stylized and specific identity within photography.
- Understand copyright issues in photography work.
- Develop awareness about business practices in different photography markets.
- A complete portfolio of images for presentation.
Quarters Offered: Winter | Online
Course Fee: $425
Prerequisite: Must have completed all required courses as well as 10 of the 14 elective units.
Materials/Software/Hardware: Fully adjustable DSLR camera or prosumer camera. Creative Cloud Photography Plan required (or full Adobe Creative Cloud plan). Lightroom Classic needed (not Lightroom Creative Cloud).
Note: Required course for Photography: Images and Techniques professional certificate.
Contact: For more information about this course, please email unex-digital@ucsd.edu.
Course Number: ART-40632
Credit: 3.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Photography: Images and Techniques
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1/7/2025 - 3/8/2025
$400
Online
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CLASS TYPE:
Online Asynchronous.
This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
Norris, Elizabeth, A photo educator and fine art/freelance commercial photographer for the past 25 years and teaches photography in person for the Art Institute in San Diego
Ellyn Norris teaches Photo I: Aperture, Shutter Speed, & ISO , Photo II: Technique & Style , Destination Photography , and Understanding Photographic Light: Studio & Location for the Photography: Images and Techniques certificate program. Ellyn has balanced being a photo educator and fine art/freelance commercial photographer for the past 25 years. She teaches photography in person and online for the Art Institute in San Diego and in Pittsburgh. She has exhibited her work both locally and in Canada. Her dedication to her own photographic work inspires her to share her passion with photo enthusiasts.
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TEXTBOOKS:
REQUIREDNo Plastic Sleeves: Portfolio and Self-Promotion Guide for Photographers and Designers 2nd
by Larry Volk and Danielle Currier
ISBN / ASIN: 978041571180
You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.
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POLICIES:
No refunds after: 1/10/2025.
Early Enrollment Discount: $400 ($425 if enrolled after 12/9/2024).
Early enrollment advised.
No UCSD parking permit required.
No visitors permitted.
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NOTE:
SCBWI/MOPA/SDMA members can receive our $25 Early Enrollment discount prior to course start date. The max discount a MOPA/SCBWI member can receive for one class is $25. It is applied upon course enrollment over the phone or in person with proof of membership. This is an online course. There are no face-to-face class sessions. You'll have access to your online course on the published start date. Login on your MyExtension account, select My Courses and click the link under LOCATION.
1/7/2025 - 3/8/2025
extensioncanvas.ucsd.edu
You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
Please contact the Arts, Humanities, Languages & Digital Arts department at 858-534-5760 or ahl@ucsd.edu for information about this course and upcoming sections.