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Hi everyone. I’m Ashley Crichton writing again for RIT Photo! This week I will be writing about one of the classes I am taking this semester Photographic Instrumentation. It is a class offered in the photo sciences department. It is a class where I learn how to use an Arduino – a device used to […]

For the second consecutive year, more than 70 students from the School of Photographic Arts & Sciences photographed the New York State Special Olympics Winter Games in and around Rochester on February 22-23, 2019. Photojournalism professors Josh Metlzer and Jenn Poggi coordinated the various components of the events and shared this blog post. Beginning with […]

Hey everyone, this is Ashley Crichton writing again for RIT Photo! For this post, I will be writing about my experiences shooting portraits at the New York State Special Olympics Winter Games! This is my second year photographing at this event and it has been amazingly rewarding both times. Here is a picture of the […]

The RIT Fine Art Photography Class of 2019 is excited to announce the opening of their BFA senior thesis exhibition, AMALGAMATION. The show will open Friday, March 1st at 5PM in the William Harris Gallery located on the RIT campus. It is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. AMALGAMATION features […]

by Ted Kinsman Recently, a student showed me an Instagram post with floating scrabble letters and asked me how I thought it was done. After a few moments of reflection, I decided there was a number of ways to photograph floating letters and it would be a great idea for a student lab. The students […]

Hi everyone! This is Ashley Crichton writing again for RIT Photo! In this post, I will be discussing the RIT Photojournalism Class of 2019 Capstone Exhibition – One With Us. For some background about what a Capstone experience is and a few elements of the gallery show, shared below is the program’s description of the […]

Hi everyone. Happy Winter. This is Ashley Crichton writing again for RIT photo! I’m excited to return to sharing my experiences at school. Winter break was good and then we were back. It has been a blur. This semester, I want to dive a little deeper into people that support students in the photo program […]

Hello everyone.This is Ashley Crichton making my last post of the semester for RIT Photo! For this post, I wanted to talk about my semester both in and out of the classroom. During the semester, I frequently wrote about some of my adventures in the School but in some cases other things I was doing […]

A Quick Look Back at almost a Half of Century of Flying Model Airplanes by Frank Cost RIT Advertising Photography major Meghan Marin has been working on a project for Clay McBride’s class to make portraits of people holding objects that represent their deeply-rooted interests and passions. Meghan asked me whether I would be willing […]

the NYC AD Photo Class by David Turner This year’s 2018 RIT Ad Photo Trip took twenty students to New York City in October. Hosted by Clay Patrick McBride and David Turner, the class visited industry titans such as Rolling Stone, Harper’s Bazaar, Atlantic Records, and a host of inspiring and helpful advertising photography leaders. […]