Wedding Photography

Wedding Photography
9 Weeks | $425 | Online

Wedding Photography offers both a creative and commercial outlet for photographers. Through readings, educational videos, discussions, and shooting assignments, you'll learn how to capture all of the important aspects of a couple's wedding day.  Develop a workflow geared towards this genre: plan, capture, and edit professional images that will be enjoyed for a lifetime by couples. Take your wedding photography to the next level while using a DSLR camera, lighting equipment, and professional editing software.  Students will also study the industries current trends and learn about some of the top wedding photographers in the world.

What You Will Learn:

•    Identify the different aspects of a wedding day couples opt to have photographed
•    Learn how to prepare for these aspects of a wedding day while anticipating and capturing the emotions on your subjects' faces
•    Enhance your knowledge of manual exposure
•    Develop an understanding of how to manipulate both natural and strobe lighting
•    Learn new culling and editing techniques
•    Enhance communication skills with clients, vendors, and venues  
•    Create a professional portfolio


Quarters Offered: Fall, Spring | Online
Course Fee: $425
Prerequisites: Photo I: Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO (ART-40629) and Digital Photography Workflow (ART-40705)
Materials/Software/Hardware: Fully adjustable DSLR camera, 24-70mm lens (or similar), Off Camera Flash, Creative Cloud Photography Plan required (or full Adobe Creative Cloud plan). Lightroom Classic needed (not Lightroom Creative Cloud) and Adobe Photoshop.
Recommended Materials: Zoom lens, tripod, Photo Mechanic software.
Note: Elective course for the Photography: Images and Techniques professional certificate.
Contact: For more information about this course, please email unex-digital@ucsd.edu.

Course Number: ART-40733
Credit: 3.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Photography: Images and Techniques

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4/2/2024 - 6/1/2024

$425

Online

Closed

• SECTION ID:

  179981

• 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.

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Fiander, Melanie, 18+ Years of Photographic Experience; 15+ Years Teaching Experience

  Melanie Fiander is a professional photographer and passionate educator focused on student success. As a full-time photographer, Melanie has run her own wedding and portrait photography business, Fiander Foto, since 2004. While based out of Bermuda and her home state of Virginia, she travels the globe to capture weddings and events. Melanie's work has been featured in Destination Weddings & Honeymoons Abroad, New York Weddings, PDN, The Vendor Report, Scotland Wedding, Tie the Knot Scotland, Ländle Wedding's "Seasons of Yes", Whimsically Wed, Bermuda Weddings and Honeymoons, Bermudian Weddings, How They Asked by The Knot, The Gray Collective, Wedding Wire, United With Love, National Geographic, It Started With Yes, Glittery Bride, 100 Layer Cake, Lets Bee Togethe...Read More

• TEXTBOOKS:

  REQUIRED

  The Art of Wedding Photography 2022
  by Vanessa Joy
  ISBN / ASIN: 1667837214

  You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.

• POLICIES:

  Early enrollment advised.
  No UCSD parking permit required.
  No visitors permitted.
  No refunds after: 4/8/2024.
  Early Enrollment Discount: $400 ($425 if enrolled after 3/4/2024).
  

• NOTE:

  SCBWI/MOPA 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.

• DATE & LOCATION:

  4/2/2024 - 6/1/2024
  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.