Photographic Portraiture I
ART-40689
Photographic Portraiture 1
5 Weeks | Hybrid (Live Online with In-Person classes)
Develop competence and confidence as a portrait photographer while learning the photographic techniques associated with portraiture – proper aperture and shutter speed, posing, expressions, and environment. Learn portraiture composition rules to enhance your subject and create meaningful, powerful portraits. Participate in weekly shooting assignments and demonstrations, discussions, and class critiques to help make the most of digital imaging technology for the entire portrait process – from image design and capture to processing and printing. Class includes a discussion of the digital workflow of portraiture, including coordination, planning, and design of portrait session, image management and post-processing techniques, image exports, and how to provide image selection to your subjects and/or clients.
Quarters Offered: Winter | Hybrid
Course Fee: $425
Prerequisite: Photo I: Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO (ART-40629) and Digital Photography Workflow (ART-40705).
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). Tripod recommended.
- Students must have a camera with a hot shoe capable of supporting a flash. If you have a camera that is not Canon, Sony, or Nikon please contact unex-digital@ucsd.edu to ensure your camera will work for this course.
Contact: For more information about this course, please email unex-digital@ucsd.edu.
Course Information
Course sessions
Section ID:
Class type:
This learning experience is intentionally designed as a combination of in-class and web-based instruction. In-class meetings follow the published schedule. Students are also expected to engage with course content online during the published course dates.
Textbooks:
No information available at this time.
Policies:
- No refunds after: 1/18/2025
- Early Enrollment Discount: $400 ($425 if enrolled after 12/9/2024)
- 1st meeting mandatory
- Early enrollment advised
- No UCSD parking permit required
- No visitors permitted
- Prerequisite required
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Schedule:
| Date | Day | Start | End | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/16/2025 | Thu | 6:00 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. | UCSD Division of Extended Studies University City Center, 6256 Greenwich Drive, San Diego |
| 1/23/2025 | Thu | 6:00 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. | Room 111, UCSD Division of Extended Studies University City Center, 6256 Greenwich Drive, San Diego |
| 1/26/2025 | Sun | 9:00 a.m. | 3:00 p.m. | UCSD Division of Extended Studies University City Center, 6256 Greenwich Drive, San Diego |
| 1/30/2025 | Thu | 6:00 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. | Room 111, UCSD Division of Extended Studies University City Center, 6256 Greenwich Drive, San Diego |
| 2/6/2025 | Thu | 6:00 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. | Room 111, UCSD Division of Extended Studies University City Center, 6256 Greenwich Drive, San Diego |
| 2/8/2025 | Sat | 8:00 a.m. | 3:00 p.m. | Room 111, UCSD Division of Extended Studies University City Center, 6256 Greenwich Drive, San Diego |
| 2/13/2025 | Thu | 6:00 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. | UCSD Division of Extended Studies University City Center, 6256 Greenwich Drive, San Diego |
Instructor:
Christopher Wood, M.S.
Taught geography at the university level and lectured on photography at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido
Christopher Wood teaches Photo I: Aperture, Shutter Speed, & ISO, Photo II: Technique & Style, and Photographic Portraiture I for the Photography: Images and Techniques certificate program. Chris earned his master's degree in geography before embarking on his career in photography. He has taught geography at the university level and lectured on photography at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido. During the past 10 years, Wood has worked extensively as both a wedding and sports photographer.
