Southwestern College Photography & Digital Program

09/11/2025

We just added a new late start class.
Art 138 is the advanced level digital art course.
We will build on your knowledge from Art 192 and help you develop new skills for image enhancement, manipulation, and composites.
Here are just a few of the topics:
Tone and Color Treatments
Professional portrait retouching
Shooting subjects and different backgrounds for composites including lighting for success
Planning composites for success
Textures, Borders, Brushes
Color management from capture to edit to print
…and much more

This will be an 8-week hybrid course starting on 10/20.
This course meets T, TH from 8:15am – 11:25am in person.
Room 52-103
The other portion will be online through Canvas.
I encourage you to register ASAP.

Questions,
contact Micajah Truitt at: [email protected].

08/20/2025

Welcome to Fall 2025. Here are the Photo & Digital classes for the fall semester.

12/19/2024

Checkout our course listings for Spring 2025.

12/19/2024

Art / FTMA / NC 217 Drone Photography And Cinematography - Spring 2025

12/19/2024

Art 210 Portrait Photography - Spring 2025

12/12/2023

Looking to do aerial photography and cinematography?
Check this out...

04/24/2023

OU ARE INVITED ! Photo Work Based Learning Event! Guest Speaker April 25, 2023 at 12 Noon: Donna Cosentino, Gallery Director, on "Finding Your Way With Photography"

Hello Students,

You are invited to attend the guest speaker event for Photo Work Based Learning on Tuesday April 25, 2023 at 12 Noon in classroom 52-103! See details in the flyer below. Feel free to invite other classmates from your other art classes! This event is open to all !

Guest Speaker: Donna Cosentino, Gallery Director, The Photographer's Eye Collective

“Finding Your Way With Photography”

Photography Can be Your Destination OR a Part of Your Journey

Spread the word and SEE YOU THERE!

Instagram username is: donnadcosentino

For a look at some of her photographs check out these links:

https://www.thephotographerseyecollective.com/meet-donnaLinks to an external site.

https://www.thephotographerseyecollective.com/p223940423Links to an external site.

Flyer is embedded below but also attached as a printable jpg file.

01/17/2023

08/22/2022

Congratulations to our students!

We had 63 total student entries under photography by Southwestern College students. Here were the award winners:
1 Donated Award from North County Photo Society
Malika Charles

7 Best in Class Awards
Violet Catajola- Macro Color
Malika Charles -Digital Manipulation
Malika Charles- Digital Composite
Miguel Topete - Scenic Black & White
Shawn Fampulme - San Diego County
Araceli Marceleno - Scenic Color
Max Rottenstein - Other Black & White

1 Fair Themed Special Ribbon
Violet Catajola

In addition, there were...
12 First Place Ribbons
29 Second place Ribbons
22 Third Place Ribbons

01/10/2022

Enroll now in Art 205 Beginning Digital Photography! Classes start 1/31/22.

12/16/2021

Interested in Portrait Photography, Studio Lighting, or On Location Lighting? Check out Art 210 in spring 2022. This is an in-person class.

12/09/2021

This spring 2022, checkout out our Intermediate Photography class. It will meet in person.