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California provides the perfect year round environment for nature photography. Whether the students travel to the deserts in spring to photograph cactus in bloom or camp among the redwoods of Central and Northern California, they are sure to capture the spectacular views native to the state.

Come visit Brooks Institute and take advantage of the natural studio that a Professional Photography Program in California has to offer.
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The Digital Media major is designed to develop an equal command of three main areas of the visual media: photography, film, and the computer. This prepares today’s media specialist to work with digital as well as conventional photographic, video, and motion picture tools and applications. The Digital Media major is aimed at the photographer who may work in the areas of digital imaging, web page design, multimedia, and digital post-production for video and motion picture production. Comprised of a year of photography, a year of video and film work, and a year of digital application, photographers armed with these skills are sought after for their versatility and technical expertise.

The Digital Imaging major offers opportunities for students who find that their interests lie more with the computer than the camera. Students have the opportunity to become proficient with a wide variety of new media, including software, web development, and multimedia production. Electronic image display has resulted in a tremendous demand for photographers with skills in digital and related areas. Digital imaging majors may find career opportunities as specialists in photographer’s studios, web design studios, printing and/or publishing houses, and in advertising or graphic design studios.

The Portraiture major is designed to prepare students for jobs in the largest employment field in photography. Portrait photographers can have successful careers in communities of almost any size, and skills in this field can also be applied to other areas of professional photography. The Brooks curriculum reflects how dynamic the portrait industry has become, providing instruction in traditional, documentary, and fine art approaches, using film-based and digital workflow processes. The curriculum emphasizes a realistic awareness of today’s professional market, and it is designed to develop the technical and artistic competence to consistently make saleable photographs of people, whether for personal or business use.

The industrial photographer provides support for all photographic needs of a company, creating dynamic images for publication, making executive and editorial portraits, and working with writers and designers to produce reports and visual presentations. This major also teaches the crucial specialized skills needed for assignments in research, and scientific instrumentation photography. Capturing what is either too fast or too slow for the human eye to see, these techniques have many advertising and commercial photography applications as well.

The Advertising major is designed to prepare students to enter the competitive and highly rewarding field of creating imagery that sells. Businesses of all types urgently need the skills of advertising photographers to make their products stand out in a media saturated world. Areas of specialization may include still life, product, food, people, fashion, or automotive photography.

In today’s world, communication of thoughts, ideas, events and products is being accomplished more and more with visual images. Photography professionals are needed to create, process and produce the images of tomorrow, and the College of DuPage Photography program is ready to train them.

Graduates of the Photography degree or certificate programs find employment opportunities in many entry-level jobs in the photographic industry, including portraiture, photojournalism, lab processing specialists, studio photographers, photographer’s assistants and freelance photographers.

A rapidly growing area of the photographic industry is computer enhancement of photographs as digital images are being used more frequently, especially in commercial applications. Demand for photographers who have skills in this new technology is increasing, and it will continue to do so.

To access a wider variety of job opportunities, some students choose to continue their photographic education with a bachelor’s degree. Many take advantage of articulation agreements with Columbia College in Chicago and Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA, that let them begin training at College of DuPage and complete it at one of these well-respected schools.

The photography teaching facilities at College of DuPage are among the finest in the greater Chicago area. The darkrooms are fully equipped, with separate areas for black-and-white and color photography. Studios, used for portraiture, product and fashion photography, have 2 1/4″ x 2 3/4″, 4″ x 5″ and 8″ x 10″ cameras, as well as electronic flash and tungsten lighting equipment. A high-end Macintosh computer lab, equipped with scanners and printers, is used for digital imaging classes.