Students in their fourth year of Photography complete an Advanced Placement portfolio in Studio Art. The portfolio consists of three sections: Breadth, Concentration, and Quality. The Breadth section is a display of aesthetic command of a variety of design skills. We choose to divide this section further into two components: the fundamental elements of visual language (line/shape/light/color), and compositional strategies of figure-ground relationships.

The following images highlight the variety and depth of vision of fourth-year Photography students with regard to use of line, shape, light and color: