Certificate In Photography

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Description

This course prepares you for a career in the photographic industry. It creates awareness and understanding in the industry, helps develop knowledge and skills in using a camera to a professional standard, and teaches you all-important communication and business skills needed to be successful in the real world.

Lesson Structure

The certificate consists of six modules:

Introduction To Photography

There are 8 lessons in this course:

1. Origins of Photography:
2. Film
3. Photo Equipment: Cameras
4. Photo Equipment
5. Processing/Developing Images
6. Enlarging and Photo Manipulation
7. Lighting
8. Fault Finding

Photographic Practice

There are 8 lessons in this course:

1. Composition
2. Photographing People
3. Nature & Landscape Photography
4. Colour vs. black & white
5. Special Techniques
6. Illustrative Photography
7. Publishing
8. Business Opportunities in Photography

Photographic Technology

There are 8 lessons in this course:

1. Image Formation
2. Lighting
3. Sensitometry A (ie. Film Sensitivity)
4. Sensitometry B
5. Understanding Colour
6. Chemistry of Colour Photography
7. Optical Filters and other activities
8. Lenses

Digital Photography

There are 11 lessons in this course:

1. Introduction To Digital Technology
2. Equipment
3. Digital Technology
4. Digital Cameras
5. Taking Photographs
6. Scanners
7. Uploading Images
8. The Digital Darkroom
9. Compositing & Imagine
10. Special Effects
11. Outputs & Applications

Photoshop

There are 9 lessons in this course:

1. Learning The Menus
2. Working with Digital Image Files
3. Understanding the Tool Palette
4. Using Layers, Actions and History
5. Digital Painting, Shapes and Colours
6. Selecting, Resizing, Transforming and Masking
7. Adjustments and modifications
8. Adding Filters and Styles
9. Preparing Files for Print and Web

Photographic Lighting

There are 8 lessons in this course:

1. Light Characteristics and Lighting Concepts
2. Light Sources
3. Meters and Filters
4. Other Equipment for Lighting
5. Contrast and Composition
6. The Zone System
7. Studio Lighting
8. On-Location Lighting

Note that each module in the Certificate is a short course in its own right, and may be studied separately.