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Architectural Photography

ART-40607

Architectural Photography
6 Weeks | Prerequisites: Photo 1 and Digital Photography Workflow

Architecture, new and old, makes for amazing photographic subject matter. Build the skills necessary to photograph both interior and exterior structures utilizing current digital equipment and techniques. Through discussions, demonstrations and hands-on assignments, you will learn about the materials and equipment, cameras, lenses, and post-production software required for making stunning architectural photographs. You will examine inspiring and educational examples of architectural photography, discuss the various components that make the images work, and try your hand at developing a series of your own images, applying the concepts you have learned to weekly assignments.


What You Will Learn:

  • Gain experience in problem-solving.
  • Learn how to render a three dimensional object into two dimensions.
  • Discern the best angles of view, and the time of day most suitable for each project. 
  • Learn representational approaches versus interpretive approaches. 


Quarters Offered: Winter, Summer | Online
Course Fee: $350
Prerequisite: Photo I: Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO (ART-40629) and Digital Photography Workflow (ART-40705).
Note: Elective for the Photography: Images & Techniques professional certificate.
Contact: For more information about this course, please email unex-digital@ucsd.edu.

Required Materials and Software:

  • Fully adjustable DSLR Camera or prosumer digital camera
  • Memory Card
  • Tripod
  • Wide Angle Lens with Lens Hood (example: 24-70mm or 18-55mm Lens)
  • Off Camera Flash (with a Foot Stand)
  • Batteries for Camera & Flash
  • Storage Device: Portable Hard Drive
  • Adobe Lightroom Classic, Adobe Photoshop, and Creative Cloud Photography Plan

Recommended Materials and Software:

  • Cable Release (remote trigger)
  • Card Reader
  • Extra Memory Cards and Batteries
  • Camera Strap
  • Flash Trigger / Commander
  • Photo Mechanic (software for fast culling)

Course Information

Online
2.00 units
$325.00
Notes: Elective for the Professional Certificate in Photography.

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This course applies to these programs

Photography: Images and Techniques

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Section ID:

186215

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.

Textbooks:

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Policies:

  • No refunds after: 1/31/2025
  • Early Enrollment Discount: $325 ($350 if enrolled after 12/9/2024)
  • Early enrollment advised
  • No UCSD parking permit required
  • No visitors permitted

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.

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Instructor: Melanie Fiander

Melanie Fiander
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 Together, The Newport Bride, and Wedding Chicks.

Melanie has also shown her fine artwork at Masterworks Museum and the Bermuda Society of Arts in Bermuda, The Dunes in Washington D.C., Jason Simon’s One Minute Film Festival in New York, The Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA, The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Space Gallery, and Portland Museum of Art in Maine.

Although still photography is her passion, she also has experience in time-based media and video. A large portion of her work created during graduate school was centered around video and audio; one of which was shown at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine.

Melanie has also hosted and curated a short film festival called the "Fiander Film Festival" in February of 2012, a sold-out event that was held at The Dunes in northwest Washington D.C. Artists and directors from all over the US, England, Italy, and Bermuda were screened at the festival including her video created in collaboration with her husband, Jim West, titled "Heartbeats". Directors with many different levels of experience in film entered their pieces into the Fiander Film Festival.

Melanie has worked as a photography professor at The Art Institutes, Sessions College, Southern Maine Community College, and McIntosh College.

 
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