The basic photography course can be done part time (evenings) at Visual Skills School or correspondence and is followed by the advanced photography course.
Week 1 Class 1 Registration, discuss and implement program. Composition, lecture and notes. Class 2 Golden formula in photography: theory on light, film/sensor and exposure. Weekend Assignment: Build pinhole camera load film and determine exposure times. Take photograph with pinhole camera. Darkroom technique: Develop and print pinhole photo.
Week 2 Class 1 Lenses: All about focal distances, applications, depth of field and the digital influence and conversions. Class 2 Digital darkroom: Understanding RAW, jpeg, tiff and other file extensions. Weekend Assignment: Available light portraiture on location.
Week 3 Class 1 The camera: conventional to digital. Understanding and using different settings. Class 2 Digital darkroom: Image bank file management Adobe Lightroom and RAW manipulation. Weekend City and landscapes-digital.
Week 4 Class 1 Basic studio lighting and flash-light photography, glass and metal. Class 2 Digital darkroom: Working with Photoshop new elements and clever sharpening. Weekend Table top photography: Black and white line with glass and liquids.
Week 5 Class 1 Studio lights portraiture. The five basic light positions. Class 2 Digital darkroom: Working with layers and multi images in Photoshop and Photo Paint. Weekend Portrait photography in studio.
Week 6 Class 1 Theory on commercial photography and display, lay out, composition, placing and type faces. Class 2 Digital darkroom: Optimise portraits convert to good monochromes, duotones and translate into high and low-key images. Photoshop/Photopaint. Basic word processing for advertising. Weekend Compile lifestyle ad. Prepare for exhibition. End of course exhibition and graduation.
Venue
Date: 12 May 2008 Location: Visual Skills School, Pretoria North