Digital Photography

Dates: June 17-21
9 am - 3 pm
Grades: Students entering 7th - 9th grades in the fall of 2013
Cost: $350 (lunch included)

Digital photography is both an art form and a necessary skill for any creative field. Using their own cameras, students in this class will learn how digital cameras work, what makes good photos good and bad photos bad, and how to manipulate these images post-capture.  Every day we will venture out to capture our world with a different focus such as nature, architecture or portraiture.  We'll also visit a photography exhibit to discuss photographic narrative and vision.  By Friday, students will be comfortable shooting in manual mode, giving them the most creative control of light, exposure, composition, perspective, depth of field and color.  This course is ideal for both beginner and experienced photographers.  Students must provide their own digital cameras with manually adjustable focus and exposure as well as portable digital storage such as a USB thumb drive (min. 10GB).

Instructor: James Jacobus
James Jacobus has taught at SHC for five years and recently developed the newest addition to SHC's Visual & Performing Arts curriculum: the Innovative Design Course.  Jacobus believes digital photography is an essential tool in today's technological world and has incorporated DP techniques into his wide experience as a designer, artist and teacher.  After receiving his BA in Studio Art from Wesleyan University, Jacobus pursued architecture with a San Francisco firm specializing in residential and small commercial design.  He has also studied design, design-thinking, illustration and fine art at CCA, SFAI and Stanford.  Jacobus coaches the SHC Girls’s Volleyball Team, moderates the SHC Architecture Club and is one of the founding team members of SHC's new Maker Lab - a space for project-based learning focusing on the intersection of design, science and technology.