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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Photography Capstone Project by Michigan State University

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About the Course

The Capstone Project is your opportunity to take advantage of the knowledge you have gained through our journey in learning about photography, to develop a meaningful project of 10 well formed photographs based in your passion for artistic expression, or a subject for documentary exploration, insightful portraiture, imaging for work-related subjects, or some other aspect of photography. We are confident that it will be a project that you will be excited to share with fellow Learners. You should plan on spending more time on this Course per week than any other in this Specialization, and much of it will be in making photographs. During the entire period of development, you and your fellow learners will be supporting each other as you work independently, by sharing your work-in-progress from the initial Project Plan to the final Portfolio. At each stage, all Learners will share comments and suggestions with each other, helping each other to gauge progress and to learn about different approaches to photography and content. By expressing your own ideas and expectations about quality in response to the work of others, you will be forming your own criteria of excellence as well. Along the way there will be multiple opportunities for sharing pictures and ideas through carefully designed Peer Review. This sharing of photographs and comments with peers, and reflecting on their comments about your photos, will be an exciting learning experience that will help you grow in understanding your own photography and that of others. Your contribution of comments to fellow Learners will not only help them understand their photographs better, but it will give you an opportunity to use the vocabulary of terms that are related to techniques, design principles, and content approaches that you have learned through your success in each of the previous Modules. A unique aspect of this Specialization is that everyone who completes the requirements will receive, in addition to their Certificate of Specialization from Michigan State University, access to substantial discounts on equipment, accessories, and membership benefits through Industry Partners from among the premier manufacturers of photography equipment and related items: Fracture, Gary Fong, Gyst, Lensbaby, LensPen, Lume Cube Lighting, Photo District News, PhotoVideoEdu, Think Tank Cases/Bags....

Top reviews

SL

Jul 30, 2021

thanks goes to everybody who made it a great opportunity for me to be part of this great photography program. I really appreciates and own everyone the promise to use the skill acquired,

L

Nov 30, 2025

Es bastante exigente en el tiempo de estudio de la universidad, pero enseña conceptos valiosos que me sirvieron para ampliar mi conocimiento

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By MAZEN G N A M G N A

Dec 30, 2024

شكرا

By Edwing A L A

Mar 15, 2023

nice

By Angela C

Jun 24, 2022

good

By KAVIPRASATH S

Sep 2, 2020

Good

By Deepsikha M

Aug 30, 2020

Good

By Patan N

Apr 21, 2020

good

By Kaniksha.c

Sep 10, 2020

Use

By Araceli C P S

Jan 27, 2023

ok

By Laura S C

Nov 15, 2023

,

By Robin K

Dec 7, 2025

The first 4 modules, as others have said, were helpful. I saw a vast improvement in my work, thanks to this review of basic camerawork and technique. But the fifth module, the Capstone, was horrible for several reasons. First, requiring the photos to be posted in a discussion thread that is not searchable and that does not go back as far as many of the 6+-month-old portfolios that pop up to be critiqued is bad design and bad practice. Some people were able to add their photos to the actual critique page, and I think that may be the best way to go in the future. Second, from reviewing comments and previous threads, the issue of numerous people posting meaningless "." as so-called evaluations is academic dishonesty at its zenith. Some of these seem to be coming from younger students who may not be mature enough or patient enough to handle an online class that requires significant effort. I strongly suggest that these kinds of responses are cause for dropping the offender from the course. This has been going on for the 12+ years that this course has been on Coursera. Third, we averaged 5.6 peer reviews per module. As someone who has taught and graded numerous online college classes, I think five *substantive* critiques would be enough for the capstone. I had to go through and flag about 100 submissions for which I could not access photos, some of which were so old, they didn't show up in the discussion forum. I'd rather get five solid critiques than 10 fake ones. I appreciate Peter and Mark, and thank you both for discussing these issues offline. Your cheerful demeanor in the face of the platform's lengthly history of non-supportive responses made all the difference. Coursera, step up your game. Update the interface.

By Magali C B

Mar 23, 2021

Actually very useful but too long, take your time and learn, you will get what is worth.

By Angel A S M M

Nov 18, 2021

Gran curso. Dedícale bastante tiempo

By Yolanda S C A

Jun 22, 2022

i really enjoy this course

By Supantha R

Aug 18, 2020

It was quite good.

By Jhan C A S

Jun 24, 2022

me gusto el curso

By Kaustubh M

Dec 12, 2021

it was awesome

By Mashuk-E-Elahi (

Jun 4, 2020

Good.

By Luis A S R

Jul 5, 2020

Good

By SASIDHARAN T

Aug 23, 2020

Nil

By fredy c

May 29, 2025

2

By Marco P A G U

Jul 9, 2025

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