Cabrillo College Photo Lab

01/13/2025

Happy New Year!
Spring photo classes start on Monday, February 3rd, 2025 ...
and you can sign-up and plan for Spring photo / video classes now!

SPRING 2025 Courses
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AP-1A Foundations of Photography
One day a week - with Lesley Louden and Janet Fine. Film, AltProcess & Digital in our Photo Labs!
Tuesdays: 9Am-12pm (12 week class), late start course, starts March.
AP-401A Foundations of Photography [FREE Non-Credit Course]
-Free, repeatable, non-credit course for up-skilling or continuing education, Pass/NoPass.
*Sign-up in the same way as regular credit classes.
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AP-9A Black & White Photography I.
B&W Film Photo
Greg Mettler (in Photo Lab), T/TH 2:30pm-5:30pm
AP-409A Black & White Photography I. [FREE Non-Credit Course]
-Free, repeatable, non-credit course for up-skilling or continuing education, Pass/NoPass.
*Sign-up in the same way as regular credit classes.
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AP-42/52 Alternative Photographic Processes I & II
In-Person with Beverly Rayner
Experiment and have fun with experimental photo-techniques. If you need to challenge the pre-req, please fill out eform online in registration and/or email [email protected]
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AP-6 Introduction to Digital Photography
Online with Andrea Masslaski
Learn to use your digital camera in this all-online course. 16-week online course.
AP-406 Introduction to Digital Photography [FREE Non-Credit Course]
-Free, repeatable, non-credit course for up-skilling or continuing education, Pass/NoPass.
*Sign-up in the same way as regular credit classes.
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AP-46A Photoshop for Photography I
Online with Neeley Drown
AP-446A Photoshop for Photography I [FREE Non-Credit Course]
-Free, repeatable, non-credit course for up-skilling or continuing education, Pass/NoPass.
*Sign-up in the same way as regular credit classes.
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AP-46B/46C Photoshop for Photography II & III
Online with Sean Peeler
Learn Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop!
AP-446B/C Photoshop for Photography II & III [FREE Non-Credit Course]
-Free, repeatable, non-credit course for up-skilling or continuing education, Pass/NoPass.
*Sign-up in the same way as regular credit classes.
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AP448 Basic Product/Food Photography [FREE Non-Credit Course]
Online with Lesley Louden (5 weeks online - April 7 - May 10)
Learn to use your cellphone camera or a digital camera to make food/product photos. No experience necessary.
-Free, repeatable, non-credit course for up-skilling or continuing education, Pass/NoPass.
*Sign-up in the same way as regular credit classes.
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AP-15 History of Photography
Online with Greg Mettler
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AP-35 / AP35H Photography, New Media, and Social Change
Online with Lesley Louden
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AP-55 Moving Image Studies: Film, Video, and New Media
Online with Neeley Drown
Surveys the evolution of the moving image through the analysis of film, television, new media, and video art.
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Photo by
Laurie Aiello, On view in Music Building,VAPA 5000

11/27/2024

Please Sign-up!
Amazing Opportunity • Spring 2025

AP42 Alternative Photographic Process I
AP52 Alternative Photographic Processes II

Here is some of what we will do:
- Learn some of the OLDEST historical photo-processes.
- Expose images inside a paint can!
- Make GIANT negatives in the darkroom.
- Have fun printing out in the SUN!
- Use plant extracts to make photographs in beautiful colors!
- Experiment with darkroom papers and chemicals for amazing colors and effects.
Use our 5,000 square foot darkroom lab and digital lab in this course.
- Make blue or brown photos on unusual papers, fabric, wood and more!

Need to challenge the pre-req?
Please fill out the pre-req challenge form in e-forms in mycabrillo where you register for classes. Email us with questions about this.

Reach out to Beverly Rayner or Lesley Louden with any questions.
[email protected] & [email protected]

Both meet at the same time: 1:00 pm-4:05 pm Tuesdays & Thursdays: 2/03 - 5/31

To Register, go to this link.
This course, led by mixed media photographic artist Beverly Rayner, will lead you through a whole new world of possibilities in photography.

08/14/2024

We have some super good news!
A few spots open in AP26A / 426A Visual Storytelling!
(Online course, starts Aug 26th).
Photos by Berry Shahani
Class Description
AP26A Visual Storytelling is a class of visual artists, photographers, and writers using their cameras and words to tell stories about their dreams and lived experiences. Using photographs, video, audio, and written word, students create visual stories about themselves and their communities, while also critically examining ethics and exploring emerging storytelling forms.

“We need to be the storytellers of the next phase of the future. And we need to concern ourselves not just with the content of our liberating imaginings, but with how we will imagine together.” adrienne maree brown

Learning through Creative Process:
Creativity is a muscle, so we do most of our work in this class through creative exercises. We encourage experimentation, trying new things, and not getting things “exactly right” the first time. Some of the themes we will practice together include:

Home and Self
Ecology and our Environment
Family and Ancestors
Neighbors and Community
Objects as Memories
Contamination and Repair
Walking, Weaving, and Journeys
Traditions and Rituals

Enroll: cabrillo.edu

07/31/2024

07/31/2024

Imagine boosting your skills or adding a new certificate to your resume without paying a dime for tuition! Now you can with Noncredit classes at Cabrillo!

This Fall, we’re offering over 6 tuition-free certificates in a wide range of exciting photography courses. Whether you're interested in digital photography, black and white film photography, studio lighting, multimedia storytelling, or Photoshop, we've got you covered.

Our Noncredit classes and certificates are designed to make learning stress-free by focusing on skill-building rather than grades. Offered in various disciplines, these tuition-free classes are perfect for improving workforce skills and job training to enhance your employability. Plus, they are repeatable and graded on a pass/no-pass basis, making them ideal for continuing education and lifelong learning.

Don’t miss out! Check out our fall courses and register today—classes start on August 26!

Open Seats:
AP457 - Portrait Photography (MW 9am-12noon)
AP406-L02 - Intro to Digital Photography (online course, starts Sept 23)

Full:
AP401 - Foundations of Photography - FULL
AP406-01 - Intro to Digital Photography - FULL
AP409A - Black and White Photography I - FULL
AP409B - Black & White Photography II - FULL
AP406 - Intro to Digital Photography - FULL
AP426A - Visual Storytelling - FULL
AP446A - Photoshop for Photography I - FULL

07/25/2024

Many California Community Colleges now have new NONCREDIT courses.

Fall - Noncredit Courses:
FREE, repeatable, Pass/NoPass.

AP-401A Foundations of Photography,
AP-409A Black & White Photography I.,
AP-406 Introduction to Digital Photography (online)
AP-446A Photoshop for Photography I (online)
AP-426A Visual Storytelling (online)
AP-409B Black & White Photography II
AP-457 Portrait Photography (and studio lighting)

What is the difference between a credit course and a noncredit course?

Credit Courses:
-Earns credit for transfer or an AA Degree or Certificate of Achievement
-Fees apply for credit courses, credit courses required for Financial Aid
-Not repeatable if passing grade earned (limited number of non-passing grades for a credit course available)
-Earn a letter grade or Pass/No Pass for a credit course

Noncredit Course:
-Free
-Repeatable up to 20 times
-No credit will be earned for transfer, an AA -Degree or a Certificate of Achievement
-Provides career skills that are in high demand in the region and leads to the award of a Certificate of Completion.
-Earn a Pass/No Pass or Satisfactory progress (no letter grade for noncredit classes)

SIGN-UP:
cabrillo.edu

07/25/2024

AP47 Lighting for Photography
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AP57 / 457 Portrait Photography (with studio lighting)
Instructor: Sandi Frank

No matter if you are a beginner in the studio or advanced, there are options to sign up to learn studio lighting for photography with Sandi Frank!
AP47 & AP57/457 will be offered concurrently in the lighting studio this fall.

Starts: Monday August 26th
Monday/Wednesdays: 9am-12noon

AP457 is a noncredit option, FREE, pass/no pass, repeatable!

Sign-up: cabrillo.edu

Let me know if you have any questions!

Photographs of Cabrillo’s Theater Art actors from sp24, Marie Antoinette by Cabrillo AP57 students:

Chela O’Brien
Matthew Zachary
Laurie Aiello
Ava Tobin

07/16/2024

AP26A / 426A Visual Storytelling (online)
Starts Aug 26th‼️
AP-26A Visual Storytelling (3 Credits)

•Teaches the production of image-based stories utilizing photography, video, audio, and text. •Students will analyze historical and contemporary narrative forms and research ethical practices in the documentation of a subject's personal experiences, ideas, and feelings that consider the subject's well-being, dignity, and safety.
•Covers digital imaging tools and software used in the production of image-based narrative content and practical in marketing, entertainment, and/or fine art applications.

Instructor Carmina Eliason is fantastic!!

Also a FREE noncredit class, repeatable 19xs, pass/no-pass AP426A Visual Storytelling.
Beautiful photographs here from AP26A by Jamie Paratore.

Sign up: cabrillo.edu

06/19/2024

We are so proud of this project that we just keep sharing it! 🤗🌸📷

Aphasia, Communication, & Growth ...
Hands Photo-Project

Students in AP1A Foundations of Photography and the Cabrillo Stroke and Disability Learning Center SPED210 Aphasia: Speech & Language students participated in a joint collaboration this semester at Cabrillo. The main focus of the project was to learn about communication methods such as spoken language, written words, and visual images. AP1A met the Aphasia students and got to share about each of their lives. Then we made photographs of the SPED210 student’s hands as an important form of communication such as body language and gesture. The hands also symbolize the shapes of flowers and the idea of constantly growing and persevering. In May, we had a pop-up gallery to celebrate the project!
Kenry Garcia (first images in b&w)
Gelatin silver print, hand colored + embroidery.

06/19/2024

Food photography, product photography, and portrait photography … all require knowledge of light! Actually, all photography requires knowledge of light … and AP47 Lighting for Photography is being offered this fall, don’t miss your chance!
Stunning food images by Leslie Williams Von Flue .