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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