Photography

Does the Art Department offer photography courses?

Yes, we offer a large number of photography courses including:

• Advanced Critiquing
• Alternative Photo Processing
• Beginning Photography
• Color Photography
• Digital Photography
• Digital Tools for the Studio Artist
• Intermediate Photography
• Large Format Photography
• Studio Lighting
• Primitive Photography

What equipment is available to photography students?

Our state of the art lab/studio/darkrooms have:

• 24 enlarger B & W darkroom with 35mm to medium format capability (10 stations up to 4x5)
• 7 individual enlarging rooms - All color/B&W equipped and formats from 35mm to 4x5 capable
• A unique workroom/lab devoted to alternative (antique) processing, color printing and Polaroid transfers
• Color print processor up to 16x20 prints
• Complete studio lighting equipment including bot strobe and quartz lights
• Large format loaner cameras for use in the advanced studio lighting and large format class
• A separate Mac Lab for digital classes
  • 24 iMac computers with monitors that are calibrated regularly
  • 2 Epson Stylus Pro 4800 ink jet printers
  • 2 HP laser printers - one color and one B&W tabloid size
  • 2 Epson 4990 photo/film scanners
  • 1 Nikon Coolscan 5000 scanner and slide feeder
• Open studio/lab time available to both traditional (wet) photography and digital photography students

What job opportunities are available to photography majors?

Students who earn a degree in photography work as:

• Photojournalists
• Freelance photographers
• Photographers in agencies, studios, and auction houses
• Photography teachers

See what some of our photography students have done.

Who can I contact for more information?

Email marctand@mchenry.edu for more information.

10/13/08