The Art of Photography

This course introduces the fundamentals of digital photography and the basic functions of your camera. You will learn how to create photos that demonstrate proper use of the exposure triangle: aperture, shutter speed, and ISO and how to experiment with different focus and colour temperature types. You will familiarize yourself with various lenses, their functions and characteristics, and how the choice of lenses will affect your narratives. There will be assignments and activities throughout this course that will assist you in capturing high-quality images that present both your camera technique and your personal vision. Feedback will be provided with every session to improve your skillset and expand your photographic perspectives.
Prerequisite(s):

• No prerequisites are required for this course.

This course is best suited for students who intend to take their photo editing and organizing workflow to an advanced level. Providing step-by-step lessons in file management and organization, you will create a consistent post-processing routine that works best with your personal style. With keywording, labelling and colour tagging, you will learn how to classify photos in the most efficient and easy-to-find processes. After using the software's basic tools: exposure, white balance and crop, you will learn how to work with the most significant features in Develop module, such as HSL, Color Grading and Tone Curve. Lastly, you will learn how to design a book, portfolio, slideshow and weblink with your preferred layout templates and colour schemes.
Prerequisite(s):

• No prerequisites are required for this course.

After focusing on the fundamentals of digital photography, this course will improve and broaden your photography skills by refining your shooting style and expanding elements of design. Each session, we will review a different approach in photography to challenge and empower your understanding of visual aesthetics. You will learn why it is essential to add and subtract from the scene, evaluate the shot deliberately to obtain a complex composition, and, more importantly, fill up the frame with a distinguishable narrative.
Prerequisite(s):

• Students should know manual exposure and preferably basic editing.

Capture the story of the streets with captivating compositions! This course will teach you how to interact with your subjects and gain more confidence in building strong images. You will learn to anticipate "decisive moments" and show the right reflex by either being quick in your ability to stop the moment or patient to let the drama happen. You will utilize the camera's shutter speed creatively to shoot at nighttime and generate unusual and impactful photographs. By seeing and snapping emotional and dynamic scenes, you will become familiar with the roles of peace, tension, subjectivity, objectivity and most importantly, shadows and highlights in the streets. You will find inspiration and passion from acclaimed street photographers: Gordon Parks, Garry Winogrand, Henri Cartier Bresson, William Klein, Bruno Barbey and others.
Prerequisite(s):

• Students should know manual exposure and preferably basic editing.

​If you are passionate about photography, you need to develop advanced skills in editing. In this course, you will learn how to edit RAW images in Adobe Camera Raw for powerful edits. After working with basic editing tools, you will optimize your images by utilizing exposure, saturation, levels and curve adjustment layers and manage different types of selection tools: healing, cloning, dodging and burning.
Prerequisite(s):

• No prerequisites are required for this course.