Travel Photography
6 Weeks | $350 | Online
Are you planning the trip of a lifetime or even a local excursion and you want to capture better images? Designed for photographers with sound experience with camera and software operation, this class teaches strategies to make the most of your journey. Discussions, demonstrations and individual critiques will help you learn and develop improved approaches to pre-trip preparation, shooting on site as well as storing and sharing your images from the road or once you are home. The class consists of lectures, demonstrations, assignments and instructor and peer critiques that are designed to provide you with insightful concepts and strategies for this genre of photography. By the end of this course, students will be able to adapt their shooting skills for different locations and to tell a specific story about a place and culture.
What You Will Learn:
- Gear selection, cultural sensitivities towards photographers, lighting, composition and other technical and aesthetic considerations.
- A strong understanding of location photography in its challenges and potential for self-expression.
- Through research, practice and discussion, you will learn how to utilize skills needed to capture meaningful and technically competent photographs on location.
- How to best capture images in lighting and weather challenges along with acknowledging and respecting different cultural nuances.
- How to be able to adapt your shooting skills for different locations and to tell a specific story about a place and culture.
Quarters Offered: Summer | Online
Course Fee: $350
Prerequisite: none
Materials: 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: Elective course for Photography: Images & Techniques professional certificate. Please note, in October 2023 this course was renamed from "Destination Photography" to "Travel Photography". The course content is the same for both "Destination Photography" and "Travel Photography".
Contact: For more information about this course, please email unex-digital@ucsd.edu.
Course Number: ART-40575
Credit: 2.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Photography: Images and Techniques
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6/24/2024 - 8/3/2024
$325
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, Ellyn, 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:
REQUIREDWithin the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision (Voices that Matter) 2nd
by David DuChemin
ISBN / ASIN: 9780134288628
You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.
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POLICIES:
Early enrollment advised.
No UCSD parking permit required.
No visitors permitted.
No refunds after: 6/28/2024.
Early Enrollment Discount: $325 ($350 if enrolled after 6/3/2024).
1st no meeting date: 7/4/2024.
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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.
6/24/2024 - 8/3/2024
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.
There are no sections of this course currently scheduled. Please contact the Arts, Humanities, Languages & Digital Arts department at 858-534-5760 or ahl@ucsd.edu for information about when this course will be offered again.