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Tuesday evenings – 17 April to 26 June 2012

19:30 to 21:00h


Click here for more information and  an application form

Improve your photography and find out how to use all those controls on your camera
with this straightforward, non-technical course in English.

Suitable for beginner-intermediate photographers.

This will be a ‘hands-on’ practical course and participants should bring the camera they use.
A photo-assignment will be set each week (optional participation) and a group will discuss the results in the following session.

Topics to be covered will include:

  • Getting to grips with your camera
    How your camera takes a photograph. The basics – aperture, shutter speed and correct exposure. Getting sharp images – focus and depth of field.
  • Moving beyond automatic
    Your camera’s controls. How they work and when to use the different options
  • More sophistication
    Lens types, their uses and effects. Controlling the sensitivity of the sensor with ISO settings. Image quality settings. Exposure compensation
  • Light
    Light sources – flash and available light – how to control them and use them to best effect. Special lighting situations – low light, backlight, sun and shade, fill-in flash
  • The elements of visual composition
    Ways of turning mediocre photographs into good ones and good ones into great. Viewpoint, lines, angles, Rule of Thirds
  • Introductions …
    … to family, portrait, landscape, sports and action photography
  • Troubleshooting
    What can go wrong with your photos and what to do about it
  • Camera care
    Looking after your camera and equipment
  • Photo accessories
    The good, the bad, and the useless

There will also be the opportunity for course participants to take part in guided photo-walks (weather permitting), at reduced cost, at weekends. This will be a chance to apply your classroom learning in a natural situation.

 

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