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•  Online Photography Colleges
•  Associate Degree in Photography
•  Bachelor Degree in Photography
•  MA in Photography
•  MFA in Photography
•  Photojournalism programs

What Are the Top 10 Best Online Photography Colleges?
Boston University: Boston

Photojournalism Program

: Students are taught with an emphasis on experiential learning in this prestigious program. Graduates have gone on to become Pulitzer Prize winners and pursue careers in new media, the newspaper and magazine industry, and more.

American InterContinental UniversityCITY
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communication

: Several of AIU’s campuses offer this BFA program, which lets students concentrate in one of the following areas: Graphic Design, Illustration, or Photography. The program teaches students to become well-rounded, professional photographers who understand photography theory, practice and equipment.

International Academy of Design and Technology: Tampa
Associate of Science in Digital Photography

: Courses in this introductory program include Lighting Basics, Marketing and Business Practices, Photoshop for Photographers I, Photojournalism, Portrait Photography and more, giving students a very well-rounded approach to photography. Students are expected to take advantage of opportunities which allow them to develop advertising and fashion images, cover real-life events, and more.

Pratt Institute: Brooklyn
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography

: This elite art school offers an 8-semester BFA program. Classes cover the history of photography, working in the studio, understanding color, and general academics.

Savannah College of Art and Design: Savannah, Atlanta, Online
Bachelor of Arts in Photography
: This program requires students to complete 25 hours of foundation studies including drawing and color theory classes; 90 hours of general education classes; and 45 hours of photography classes and seminars. Photography classes cover the history of the field and artistic techniques.

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography

: SCAD’s BFA Photography program emphasizes more arts and creative classes, but students must still take 55 hours of general education classes, including courses in art history, English, speech and more. The major curriculum includes photography electives, history of photography classes, instruction in studio techniques and a senior project.
Master of Arts in Photography

: Students pursuing an MA in Photography can choose to concentrate in general photography, commercial photography, digital photography or documentary photography. Each of these concentrations requires 45 hours of study.
Master of Fine Arts in Photography

: SCAD’s MFA Photography program requires students to complete 90 hours of coursework. Classes include upper level courses in color craft, studio craft, contemporary photography, art criticism, and a field or teaching internship.
Minor in Photography

: Students who want to minor in photography must complete 40 hours of photography coursework. Topics covered include large-format technique, black and white technique, and photography history.

The Art Institute of Philadelphia: Philadelphia
Associate of Science in Photography

: In this program, students learn how to use the darkroom and get an introduction to photography equipment. Concepts covered include composition, light, color, digital imaging, and more.
Bachelor of Science in Photography

: This degree program challenges students to develop a more critical and creative eye when analyzing photographs and photographic methods. Courses are scheduled on the quarter system and include Advanced Principles of Photography, Location Photography and others.

Academy of Art University: San Francisco
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography

: Students are taught by working professionals in this program and are encouraged to find their own personal artistic style. Skills learned include the ability to create visual metaphors, organize and maintain a professional portfolio, work with clients, understand straight and conceptual photography and more.

Master of Fine Arts in Photography

: This graduate level program learn a combination of digital photography skills, business skills, lighting and equipment skills and conceptual photography skills. Graduates are highly qualified and eligible to work in a variety of photography and design environments.

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers, The by Martin Evening (Mar 18, 2012)

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The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby (May 14, 2012)

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The Digital Photography Book, Part 4 by Scott Kelby (Mar 6, 2012)

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Understanding Exposure, 3rd Edition: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera by Bryan Peterson (Aug 10, 2010)

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Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team (Jun 6, 2010)

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The Florida Photographic Collection is a nationally recognized component of the State Archives of Florida and contains over a million images, and over 6,000 movies and video tapes. Over 150,000 of the photographs are available through the web site.

“Featuring over 150,000 digitized photographs from the State Archives of Florida, the Florida Photographic Collection is the most complete online portrait of Florida available–one that draws its strength from family pictures, the homes of Floridians, their work, and their pastimes.”

The collection spans a wide range of visual images from copies of mid 15th century maps to current photographs. Topics of note are rocket launches from Cape Canaveral, Land Speed Record attempts on Daytona Beach (particularly the work of Richard LeSesne) and a vast number on holidaymaking.

Courtesy: Wikipedia

Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. Typically, a lens is used to focus the light reflected or emitted from objects into a real image on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera during a timed exposure. The result in an electronic image sensor is an electrical charge at each pixel, which is electronically processed and stored in a digital image file for subsequent display or processing. The result in a photographic emulsion is an invisible latent image, which is later chemically developed into a visible image, either negative or positive depending on the purpose of the photographic material and the method of processing. A negative image on film is traditionally used to photographically create a positive image on a paper base, known as a print, either by using an enlarger or by contact printing.
Photography has many uses for business, science, manufacturing (e.g. photolithography), art, and recreational purposes.

Etymology

As far as can be ascertained, it was Sir John Herschel in a lecture before the Royal Society of London, on March 14,  1839 who made the word “photography” known to the world. But in an article published on February 25 of the same year in a German newspaper called the Vossische Zeitung, Johann von Maedler, a Berlin astronomer, had used the word photography already. The word photography derives from the Greek φωτός (phōtos), genitive of φῶς (phōs), “light” and γραφή (graphé) “representation by means of lines” or “drawing”, together meaning “drawing with light”.
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The camera is the image-forming device, and photographic film or a silicon electronic image sensor is the sensing medium. The respective recording medium can be the film itself, or a digital electronic or magnetic memory.[6]
Photographers control the camera and lens to “expose” the light recording material (such as film) to the required amount of light to form a “latent image” (on film) or “raw file” (in digital cameras) which, after appropriate processing, is converted to a usable image. Digital cameras use an electronic image sensor based on light-sensitive electronics such as charge-coupled device (CCD) or complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology. The resulting digital image is stored electronically, but can be reproduced on paper or film.

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