Express your creativity and hone your observational and visual design skills while exploring a wide range of photographic methods.
Through Menlo’s photography program, which offers three levels of courses, students have opportunities to explore both film and digital SLR cameras. Students explore classic photographic project themes, like light, darkness, still life, landscape, portraiture, and more. Students are encouraged to experiment, and given the freedom to interpret and discover their own personal interests and styles.
This class is for students who want to learn more advanced photographic techniques and editing processes in both analogue and digital photography. Students use manual controls in both film and digital cameras to experiment with focus, depth of field and exposure. While using analogue process the emphasis is placed on image and print quality using the dark room. While learning the digital process students learn advanced photo editing software to edit and manipulate images. With each project, students explore classic photographic themes; light, darkness, color, still life, landscape, portraiture, composition, abstraction, texture, reflections, patterns, and many others. Students are encouraged to experiment, and are given the freedom to pursue their own personal interests and styles. Students are provided with in-class use of film and DSLR camera, lenses and software tools.
Pre-requisite: Photo 1
Grade: 9101112
Fundamentals of Photography (1S or 2S)
This is a semester-long course.
This introductory class uses both film and digital SLR cameras to teach students the basics of photography. Students explore classic photographic project themes, like light, darkness, still life, landscape, portraiture, and others with each weekly project. Students are encouraged to experiment, and given the freedom to interpret and discover their own personal interests and styles. Open to all grades.
Additional Programs
Photo Club – Weekly, classroom time providing community, inspiration, and technical support for all interested students. Summer Enrichment – A weeklong summer class that provides an introduction to photography for younger students.
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Courses
Amanda Kyed
Amanda believes that photography and animation are at the intersection of art and technology. After receiving her master’s degree in visual and media arts from Emerson College in Boston, she returned to her former high school to work as a technology specialist where she discovered a love for teaching and assisting both students and teachers in all things tech. She spent seven years teaching media arts, film, animation, and sound design at the Windward School in Los Angeles. She came north to the Bay Area a year ago and took on the role of technology coordinator at St. Cecilia School, but found her way to Menlo as she missed teaching and forming meaningful relationships with students.
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