Winter 2008 ART/Special Studies Digital Photography: Photojournalism

The instruction will include lessons on how to capture pictures accurately on location using your digital camera, develop your original point of view to structure the assignments due for the class and learn to communicate you will. For your future use in the real job world. All pictures are evidence of a truthful documentary realistic moment captured from within your environment based on specific assignments one picture is only the beginning of a larger story to inform professional art curators, editors, directors, clients, art directors, and other audiences.

Images talk, attract and communicate. To know how to create an effective photograph using the latest digital camera and computer application of Adobe Photoshop is absolutely crucial to your future success in your chosen career.

For students in the Communications Arts this course will prepare you for an exciting career as a producer, director, photojournalist and photographer. I teach you the basics along with advance techniques in preproduction and post production presentation of your idea using images and caption text to encapsulate your concept for your given audience. Do you want to produce segments? Short essays for newsmagazines or web blogs? Do you want to write and book and be able to design a cover which expresses you idea in one look? Do you want to direct films? Understanding that one picture is just a beginning and a potential to all of the above professional outcomes, and in this course we will consider the ideas of a sequence of images to tell your story as an assignment to get you moving in your personal visual expression.

What, where, how, and why take a picture are questions that require truthful answers. Will your picture establish a mood? Are you recording a high point of an event? Is your picture showing our humanity or inhumanity? Pictures can tell your story from many angles and paint an accurate portrait of what you do now!

Rena Small, M.F.A. 1977 Cal Arts, published in LIFE Magazine, LA Magazine, Village Voice, Pop Photo, American Photographer, Camera Arts, Photo Japan, Guggenheim Museum of Art Speaking With Hands New York City and as an Artist and Instructor here at CSUDH in Communications since 2000 will teach Photojournalism under the new heading Special Studies/Arts Winter Session 2008--Don't miss this valuable intense 3 Unit course that will give you that go-for-it edge in your future professional life!

Any questions about the class call between 9-5pm Fridays: Rena Small direct: 310-548-1093 or e-mail: renasmall@earthlink.net.

Textbook: Digital Photography an Introduction by Tom Ang:
Also on Reserve in CSUDH Library for Reference: Digital Photography by Tom Ang