Summer Workshop for High School Students

Digital Photography for High School Students Workshop
July  8-12, 2019

This workshop has been designed for :

Students between the ages of 15-18 who are interested in exploring photography.

Overview:

This one-week intensive summer workshop immerses students into a wide range of experiences using photography. The School of Photographic Arts and Sciences offers a BFA degree with a focus in advertising, fine art, photojournalism and visual media and a BS degree in photographic sciences. RIT faculty members from both programs in the School will lead this course and work collaboratively to create a unique and exciting one-week workshop exploring the possibilities. At the end of the week, students will build a self published book that features each student

Participants will Learn the Fundamentals of:

• Digital Capture – proper exposure, color balance
• Composition and Lighting Techniques and Skills
• Camera Controls – shutter speed, aperture, & depth of field
• Hand-held Flash Techniques
• Techniques for approaching/photographing strangers
• Artificial Light Photography in the Studio
• Photojournalism and Picture Editing
• Fine Art Photography
• Photographing in Science

Program Outline

Through daily projects, lectures, demos and daily discussions the instructors will assist students in learning basic technical skills along with basic photographic skills, visual story-telling techniques and much more including high speed and stroboscopic photography.

Course Hours:

9:00am – 4:30pm

Workshop Faculty

Advertising Photography Professor: Rachel Ferraro

Rachel teaches Advertising Photography in the School of Photographic Arts & Sciences. She brings a wealth of knowledge to her courses, with decades of experience in the Advertising and Editorial fields in New York City. Her professional projects include national and international campaigns with leading advertising agencies. Ferraro’s editorial work has appeared in magazines such as Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Rolling Stone, People, Real Simple, and New York Magazine. Her work has garnered awards from Photo District News, Graphis, American Photo, and Communication Arts Annuals. rjfpph@rit.edu

Fine Art Photography Professor: KES Efstathiou

Kes Efstathiou (eF-sta-thEE-O) is an emerging artist based in Rochester, New York. His current practice and research grapples with societal perceptions of masculinity, the gender binary, consumption of nature, and humor. Largely influenced by the history of landscape photography and commercial depictions of the outdoor industry, Kes uses a stereotypical western landscape as a backdrop to his disguised self-portraits and still life photographs. In his free time, Kes enjoys exploring both real and fake nature. He earned his MFA in Imaging Arts from Rochester Institute of Technology and his BA in Photography from Montana State University – Bozeman. Currently, he is a Visiting Lecturer at RIT.

Photojournalism Photography Professor: Jenn Poggi

Jenn Poggi joins RIT as a visiting assistant professor following four years at the White House where she served as a picture editor and deputy director of the Photo Office. Jenn began her career in 1994 as a photo assistant with the Associated Press in New York and later worked as a picture editor covering national, international, and sports news. In 1998, she joined U.S. News & World Report as an assistant picture editor handling national and political news. She went on to serve as deputy director of photography at the magazine. In 2008, Jenn was awarded a John S. and James L. Knight Fellowship at Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication where she taught picture editing and completed her masters course work in multimedia and newsroom graphics management. She is a graduate of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. jappph@rit.edu

Visual Media Photography Professor: Frank Cost

Frank Cost is the James E. McGhee Professor of Visual Media in the School of Photography at Rochester Institute of Technology. He has taught a wide variety of courses in the field of visual media for more than three decades. Frank has been photographing professionally since 1975 and has authored both textbooks and experimental photo books exploring new forms of graphic expression enabled by digital technologies. He can be contacted at frank.cost@rit.edu.

Photographic Sciences Professor: Dan Hughes

Graduate of RIT’s BFA program for Advertising Photography, Dan took a different road than most photographers out of school. In 2009 Dan was brought on by Nik Software to establish, evolve, advance in their educational webinar system. He planned, marketed and executed over 2000 live training webinars. The system and content won his team a TIPA award in 2011; the model he developed is still being emulated in the photo industry today. After Nik, Dan transitioned to a job at Google, working on the Google+ Photos team to help elevate the photographic community on the social media platform. His team worked with influential photographers, organizations, and companies to bolster activity, resulting in the growth of Google+ photos page from 24,000 followers to over 1.5 million followers and the Nik Software page from 14,000 to almost 40,000 followers.

While much of his time is spent developing and delivering photographic “edutainment”, Dan is an avid shooter. A few of his personal projects include: experimenting in historical processes, creating mini-documentaries about the interesting people around him, and helping to produce a photo challenge reality series online. dahpph@rit.edu

Photographic Sciences Professor: Michael Peres
Professor Michael Peres is an award-winning photo educator, author, and photographer. He joined the faculty of the world renown Rochester Institute of Technology School of Photographic Arts and Sciences in the fall of 1986. Peres is the associate director School of Photographic Art and Sciences and served as program director of the Biomedical Photographic Communications department for nearly 25 years. Peres’ expertise includes photomicrography as well as other bio-medical photographic applications. Peres has been actively publishing most of his career and in December 2016 published his 7th book, Laboratory Imaging and Photography Best Practices for Photomicrography and More. He served as editor-in-chief of the Focal Encyclopedia of Photography – 4th edition. For the last fifteen years, he has become one of the world’s leading snowflake photographers and his pictures have been published by Time, CNN, the Weather Channel and Mashable. He also serves as one of the long-standing leaders of the signature annual RIT Big Shot event and the Images from Science project. He has won numerous awards including the RIT Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Louis B. Schmidt Award presented by the BioCommunications Association for life time contributions to the Biocommunications industry. Michael earned a master’s degree in instructional technology and holds bachelor’s degrees in biology and biomedical photographic communications. He is also a registered biological photographer.  Michael.Peres@rit.edu

Program fee:

$400 before May 1

$450 after May 1

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