Category: Inside the Classroom

Students in 4D Design created their own video projection maps for the quad outside of Gannett (Section 3) or in the Gannett fourth floor studios (Section 4). As a class exercise, students setup their spatialized video mapping skeletons during one class period, generated content and built their composites during another class period, and projected the […]

Architecture Field Trip by Don Cochran  At the end of April, the RIT architectural photography class went to Buffalo and Toronto.  They had a wonderful tour of the interior Darwin Martin house ( Frank Lloyd Wright ) but were unable to photograph because of weather. On the way to Toronto, they stopped first in Mississauga […]

DATELINE: RIT Photo is happy to announce the continuation of an exciting new major: Cat Photography! Get an up close and personal view of this new major and realize the thrills and chills that come from photographing our feline friends. So get out the camera and cat toys! Explore what this new major has to […]

The spring semester began January 27, 2016. A unique class offered at RIT is Photography and the Light Microscope. This class – taught by Professor Michael Peres – was first offered in 1988. It is very popular for the both the technology students as well as those in the arts. MFA students have also enrolled […]

School of Photographic Arts and Sciences (SPAS) faculty members were involved with image analysis of the Kennedy shooting. November 22, 1963,  President John F.  Kennedy was assassinated.  Several SPAS faculty members assisted the U.S. Government and the Warren commission evaluating some of the films and stills that were produced during the shooting. Dr. Robert Loce (low-SAY) […]

Sixteen senior photojournalism students from the SPAS program spent the week of September 23-27 in Washington, D.C., visiting various media organizations and meeting with photojournalists. This amazing experience gave students a unique perspective on the photojournalism industry and a glimpse of the potential internships and jobs that exist in the field. Students met with staff […]

In my new Elements of Visual Media second-year course we have spent the first three weeks studying the fundamentals of typography and learning typographic controls in Adobe InDesign. At the beginning of week 4, I felt that the students needed to get some fresh air and exercise and decided to enlist them as actors in […]

From Michael Peres and Dr. Ralph Pennino, instructors for Surgical Photography In the fall of 2008, the Biomedical Photographic Communications program offered the first edition of a class entitled Surgical Photography. To our knowledge, no where else in the U.S. can a student enroll in such a class. It is a very special opportunity and […]