ART 151 - Travel Photography EXPERIMENTAL

Credits: 1
2 Studio Hours

Description
This course is designed for student travelers who want to creatively capture their journey through the lens of a digital camera. Students will explore the fundamentals of travel photography, including camera settings, composition techniques and design concepts. Through hands-on projects, students will photograph landscapes, architecture and portraits while developing their artistic vision. Emphasis will be placed on technical skills, compositional techniques and storytelling, enabling students to create compelling visual narratives that reflect the essence of the places they visit.

Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate an understanding of camera basics
Develop compositional skills using the rule of thirds, leading lines, framing and perspective
Apply the elements and principles of design to photographic images.
Employ basic photo editing to enhance images.
Evaluate images for technical competency and aesthetic quality.
Develop visual storytelling approaches to photography

Listed Topics

Aperture, shutter speed and ISO
Photographic compositional techniques
Elements and principles of design
Editing
Critique
Photography as visual storytelling

Reference Materials
Digital camera, materials as required by instructor

Students who successfully complete this course acquire general knowledge, skills and abilities that align with CCAC’s definition of an educated person. Specifically, this course fulfills these General Education Goals:

Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Culture Society & Citizenship
Technological Competence

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