This first-year course meets the one full-year UC/CSU (F) and District graduation requirement for Visual and Performing Arts. Photography I is a yearlong introductory course in photography. This course will provide students with opportunities to gain knowledge and practical skills used in the art and industry of photography. This course will familiarize the student with fundamentals of light, exposure control, photographic equipment, editing software, File management, materials, methods, and processes often used in digital photography. The students will also study the history, principles of art, composition, presentation, critiquing, aesthetics and potential careers of photography.

"A GOOD PHOTOGRAPH IS KNOWING WHERE TO STAND"

~Ansel Adams