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Photographic Center Northwest offers workshops in Seattle and abroad, classes, and accredited courses as well as the Certificate Program. Students interested in pursuing a bachelor of fine art degree may take advantage of our partnership with Seattle University. Interested in learning more about upcoming PCNW workshops as well? Visit our workshops page. Class Schedule | Summer 2009Class information also available as a PDF.
ClassesBefore registering online or by phone, please read the course descriptions in their entirety to ensure that you satisfy any prerequisites. Students who have completed equivalent coursework elsewhere or learned equivalent skills through experience may ask to have prerequisites waived. Contact the Registrar for details. Words in capital letters at the end of course descriptions refer to PCNW Certificate Program requirements. You may enroll in any class other than Thesis whether or not you are or plan to be in the Certificate Program. Film Photography *FULL Mon 6-10pm June 22-Aug 10* $615 + $150 lab Jahnavi Lisa Barnes Fri 12-4pm June 26-August 28 $615 + $150 lab Tracy Cilona Master the fundamental skills of photography that will serve you throughout your life. Learn to use a film camera, develop and print in the darkroom, and become skilled in the use of depth of field, shutter speed and exposure. * Additional field classes on 6/27 and 8/8 10am-2pm. PREREQUISITES: NONE. 3 CREDITS Tue 6-9pm June 23-August 25 $615 + $150 lab Mateo Zachai Expand your technical skills and aesthetic awareness. Explore film processing options, contrast control, and printing on fiber papers. Put these skills into action through projects, critiques, and demonstrations. PREREQUISITE: B&W 1. 3 CREDITS Wed 6-9:30pm June 24-August 5* $615 + $150 lab Jahnavi Lisa Barnes Concentrate your skills on the principles of the zone system. By testing film and learning how to create amazing negatives, you will be able to creatively use the zone system and darkroom techniques in the development of your personal style. * Additional field class on July 18, 10:00 am-3:00 pm PREREQUISITE: B&W 2. 3 CREDITS Tue 6-10pm June 23-August 25 $615 + $150 lab Seth Thompson This introductory course will explore the aesthetic qualities of color photography, and teach students how to control the variables involved in making traditional color prints. Along with exposing and printing their own color negative film, students will engage with a variety of historical and contemporary topics in color photography, participate in critiques, and are encouraged to create an individualized final project. Text required: Color Photography, A Working Manual, Horenstein, Henry PREREQUISITE: B&W 1 OR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY 1. 3 CREDITS Thu 6-10pm June 25-August 27 $615 + $150 lab Seth Thompson The long blue twilight of summer presents a special opportunity for color photography. Explore the aesthetic possibilities of twilight, moonlight, and the glow of the city at night. Learn more about the technical challenges of photographing interiors and outdoor scenes in low light. Class will incorporate in-class printing and field trips for supervised on-location work. PREREQUISITE: INTRODUCTION TO COLOR. 3 CREDITS Color Seminar: Individual Projects Mon 6-10pm June 22-August 24 $615 + $150 lab Seth Thompson A seminar for motivated individuals with personal artistic goals. The instructor and class will help students define and pursue individual work plans, which might include completing a portfolio, finessing color prints, or exploring a new area of practice. The class will emphasize in-class printing and the realization of the full potential of an image in print form. PREREQUISITE: INTRODUCTION TO COLOR. 3 CREDITS Fri 6-10pm June 26-August 7* $615 + $150 lab ($20 materials fee) Jahnavi Lisa Barnes Gain a basic understanding of large format camera operations through hands on experience. Learn Black and White sheet film processing and darkroom operations specific to large format film. Practice working with camera controls, focus and perspective, bellows extension, and metering calculations while working in the field. Trips to sites around Seattle and Puget Sound will be central to this class. PCNW has some large format kits available for student check-out. *No class on July 24, additional field class July 11, 12-6pm PREREQUISITE: BLACK & WHITE 1. ELECTIVE. 3 CREDITS. Digital Media *FULL Tue 6-9pm June 23-August 25 $615 (+ $150 optional lab) Patricia Ridenour *FULL Tue 1-4pm June 23-August 25 $615 (+ $150 optional lab) Patricia Ridenour Intensive - Mon/Thurs 6-9pm June 29-July 30 $615 (+ $150 optional lab) Janet Neuhauser Introduce yourself to core photographic concepts while working with your digital camera. Learn basic digital camera functions, printing techniques, and technology as well as principles such as depth of field, shutter speed, exposure, color theory, and composition. For those interested in taking digital printing classes or photography electives at PCNW, this class provides an ideal starting point. Students must have a digital camera with full manual control, including a range of shutter speeds and aperture settings. Text required: Photography, London & Upton, 9th Edition. The third section of this course is offered as an intensive five week program covering the same topics and material as the ten week courses. PREREQUISITES: NONE. 3 CREDITS Thu 6-9pm June 25-August 27 $615 (+ $150 optional lab) Neil Lukas Explore advanced digital photography techniques while learning to expose correctly for different lighting situations, including on-camera and external flash. Discover how to adjust files in Photoshop for various outputs. Intensive, hands-on work throughout the quarter will broaden your skill set both on location and in the digital lab. Students must have a digital camera with full manual control, including a range of shutter speeds and aperture settings. Text recommended: The Creative Digital Darkroom, 1st ed., Katrin Eismann & Sean Duggan PREREQUISITE: DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY 1 OR EQUIVALENT. 3 CREDITS Mon 6-9pm June 22-August 24 $615 (+ $150 optional lab) Juan Aguilera Tue 6-9pm June 23-August 25 $615 (+ $150 optional lab) Michael Tsay Survey Photoshop applications through real-world projects in this overview of the digital imaging process. Explore the digital darkroom. Learn retouching, colorizing, and printing using scanned images and digital capture. Discuss the aesthetic and ethical issues of image manipulation. Basic computer experience and skills required. Text recommended: The Creative Digital Darkroom, 1st ed., Katrin Eismann & Sean Duggan PREREQUISITE: DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY 1 OR B&W 1. 3 CREDITS Tue 1-4pm June 23-August 25 $615 (+ $150 optional lab) Michael Tsay Mine the creative potential of Photoshop by using layers, filters, and masks. Starting with a review of the primary functions of Photoshop, discover a range of tools for crafting composite images, performing selective adjustments and further refining your digital photographs or scanned negatives. PREREQUISITE: DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY 1 AND DIGITAL IMAGING I OR EQUIVALENT. 3 CREDITS Pictures and Process: Digital Photography Thu 1-4pm June 25-August 6 $410 (+ $150 optional lab) Michael Tsay Bridge the gap between shooting on location and the digital lab. Learn how to make adjustments in the field before editing in the lab, formulate a digital workflow that will keep your images organized, and gain insight into the entire process from capture to editing, printing or publishing. PREREQUISITE: B&W 1 OR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY 1. 3 CREDITS Ideas and Practice Light Control: Lighting from A-Z Wed 6-9pm June 24-August 19* $615 + $150 lab Rosanne Olson Become more aware of how light shapes every photograph. Master the fundamentals of studio strobe, tungsten lights, and portable flash to create photographs that match your vision. Assignments can be processed and printed at a commercial lab or done with digital media. Sync cord or remote required. *No class on July 22, one additional field trip TBA. PREREQUISITE: B&W 1 AND INTRO TO COLOR OR DIGITAL EQUIVALENT. 3 CREDITS Style and Sequence: Cinema and Photography Thu 6-9pm June 25-August 27 $615 (+ $150 optional lab) Mateo Zachai Sequences in films, -- a car chase, romantic moment, or a slowly unfolding mystery -- have a potential to create meaning beyond a single images or scene. Find inspiration for a photographic narrative through movies, create a scene and develop a storyboard for your photographic project. Experiment with cinematic styles as a way to expand your visual and photographic vocabulary. This class takes its cue from ideas in the history and theory of cinema and will encourage students to explore montage as a distinctly photographic concept. The class will examine the evolution of the movie still, and explore the possibility of implied narrative within the photographic image. PREREQUISITE: B&W 1 OR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY 1. 3 CREDITS Thu 6-9pm June 25-August 27 $615 + $150 lab Patricia Ridenour Capturing the human form has been a primary interest of photographers since the very beginnings of the medium. In this class, students will discover the rewards and challenges of photographing the human figure. Learn how to find, pose, and communicate effectively with models with a focus on creative lighting. PREREQUISITE: LIGHT CONTROL. 3 CREDITS Tue 6-9pm June 23-August 25 $615 (+ $150 optional lab) Neil Lukas The word Motel stems from 'motorists hotel', and was coined to market lodgings geared towards leisure travelers during the age of expansion in the American highway system. These structures have long been part of the urban landscape, particularly on urban thoroughfares like Aurora Ave in Seattle. Each building offers a wealth of social, aesthetic, architectural or kitch subjects, inside and out. Using a film or digital camera, explore the photographic possibilities of these fascinating, yet mundane buildings. PREREQUISITE: B&W 1, DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY 1, OR EQUIVALENT EXPERIENCE. 3 CREDITS Shaping the Land: Seattle's Community Gardens Wed 6-9pm June 24-August 26 $615 (+ $150 optional lab) Neil Lukas Summer is the season when community gardens throughout Seattle come to life; over fifty plots around the city become sites of cultural and culinary production, explosions of color, and studies in formal composition. Learn macrophotography for photographing flowers and leaves, or explore the stylistic differences between plots and plants. Record the process from late spring to the harvest, or focus on the people who tend to these gardens. This class will offer photographers a unique opportunity to concentrate their photographic creativity on the garden, a site of great historical, mythological and scientific value. Seattle's community gardens have roots in the urban gardens encouraged during WWII, but today they constitute far more than their output in fresh produce. PREREQUISITE: B&W 1, DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY 1, OR EQUIVALENT EXPERIENCE. 3 CREDITS Experiential Seeing and the Visual Journal Process Mon 2-5pm June 22-August 3 $410 (+ $150 optional lab) Jahnavi Lisa Barnes Creating an expressive photograph is ultimately about bringing together the inner and outer worlds of experience. To strengthen what we are saying through our images requires self-exploration and personal understanding. Through the Visual Journal process, investigate the inner experience of creating photographs to cultivate a deeper awareness of our motives and our responses. Create a sketch book of ideas, inspirations, experiences, and feelings about your photography that will help you get more in touch with the significance of the images you are creating. All size formats are welcome, and you may work in color, black and white, or digital output. PREREQUISITES: NONE. 2 CREDITS Wed 1-5:20pm June 24-August 5 $615 + $150 lab ($35 materials fee) Jahnavi Lisa Barnes Learn Gum Bichromate photographic printing. Gum, one of a family of processes utilizing dichromate salts, is one of the most versatile of alternative print processes and unlimited in terms of creative possibilities. This class will give an introduction to mixing, coating, exposure and registration techniques. Mix your own light sensitive emulsions with watercolor pigments to print new works from black and white images. Using existing negatives or prints you will learn to make enlarged digital negatives with Photoshop and then print these on fine art papers hand coated with your own light sensitive photographic emulsions. Adding watercolor pigments with each layer, you build your image tone by tone, color by color, through this contact printing process. The class will have an opportunity to see historical and contemporary work by artists working with these processes, and will explore new areas of printmaking based on student projects and images. Those studying this 19th century process have an opportunity to re-interpret their work into a medium which easily allows for use of text, multiple imagery, combined imagery, or simple single color images defined by paint on paper. PREREQUISITE: B&W 1. 3 CREDITS Muses: Connecting through Portraiture Mon 6-9pm June 22-August 3 $410 (+ $150 optional lab) Mateo Zachai The artist's muse is often cited as a familiar inspiration and source of artistic power. Find a muse who lends force or beauty to your photographic project and through studio or environmental portraiture, develop an inspirational connection that will further your artistic goals. Work in the same vein as masters in photography like Harry Callahan or Nicholas Nixon, who photographed their partners as part of lifelong projects, or explore a broader interpretation of the term. In Ancient Greece the muses were closely aligned with the performing arts, poetry, and music. PREREQUISITE: B&W 1 OR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY 1. 2 CREDITS
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