Creative Digital Photography

• Types of cameras
• How cameras work

Materials Required
One manually controlled digital SLR camera and memory card of at least 512Mb.

Objectives of the Module
This module will enable you to use a 35mm digital SLR camera competently. You will understand how to use the full functionality of your camera to take great photographs instead of hit and miss shots. This includes manual exposure reading, knowing what ISO, shutter and aperture controls to use for a given photograph, manual focusing and lens choice. You will also learn how to manipulate the camera to produce special effects.

Practical Exercise
Shoot images following exercises in handouts.

• Manual camera controls
• Camera techniques

Materials Required
One manually controlled digital SLR camera and memory card of at least 512Mb.

Objectives of the Module
This module will enable you to use a 35mm digital SLR camera competently. You will understand how to use the full functionality of your camera to take great photographs instead of hit and miss shots. This includes manual exposure reading, knowing what ISO, shutter and aperture controls to use for a given photograph, manual focusing and lens choice. You will also learn how to manipulate the camera to produce special effects.

Practical Exercise
Shoot images following exercises in handouts.

• Composition

Objectives of the Module
In this module you will explore different areas of photography such as portraiture, landscape, sports, travel and night photography. You will also investigate compositional techniques such as subject placement, angle of view and framing and technical considerations such as choice of film, lenses and exposure controls. You will discuss the work of professional photographers and examine your own work and understanding of each process and plan a further course of action or study to improve on the skills you have learnt.

Practical Exercise
Slide presentation on Professional photographers work Discussion on composition Shoot one roll of film following exercises in handouts.

• Black and white film
• Filters for black and white film
• Exposure techniques

Materials Required
Module 202 is aimed at those with a sound understanding of aperture and shutter combinations and use of varying exposure settings for different effects. The course assumes that students are confident in how to achieve the correct exposure using manual controls. This means knowing how and when to use your aperture to gain shallow depth of field or shutter to obtain blur and know where to take an average brightness reading from a scene. If you feel you may need to take an introductory session in these technical skills please consider taking a course that consists of module 101 such as Camera Introduction, Camera Basics or Basic Photography, which are designed as a lead into courses with this module.

Objectives of the Module
In this module you will look at film construction and light. You will learn how the colour of light affects black and white film and how we can use colour filters to alter the tonal qualities of the image produced. You will learn what choices of filters are available and which are best suited to you. You will learn different exposure techniques for difficult lighting conditions.

Practical Exercise
Shoot a roll of black and white film during the session making use of tonal correction filters Complete film experimenting with different exposure techniques following exercises in handouts

• Colour and wavelength
• Colour film
• Filters for colour film
• Natural light
• Available light
• Portable flash
• Cross Processing

Materials Required
Module 202 is aimed at those with a sound understanding of aperture and shutter combinations and use of varying exposure settings for different effects. The course assumes that students are confident in how to achieve the correct exposure using manual controls. This means knowing how and when to use your aperture to gain shallow depth of field or shutter to obtain blur and know where to take an average brightness reading from a scene. If you feel you may need to take an introductory session in these technical skills please consider taking a course that consists of module 101 such as Camera Introduction, Camera Basics or Basic Photography, which are designed as a lead into courses with this module.

Objectives of the Module
In this module you will explore the colour of light and wavelength. You will look at different light sources and how they affect colour film. You will look at the differences of natural light and available/artificial light as well as portable flash. You will investigate different filters used for colour correction and white balance functions of digital cameras. You will also learn cross processing techniques with slide film.

Practical Exercise
Experiment with different available light sources and different filters to correct colour casts. Cross Processing using slide film

• Colour Modes
• Main File Formats
• Resolution and Pixels
• Menu bar
• Option bar
• Palettes
• Selection Tools
• Adjustments

Objectives of the Module
The objective of this module is to become familiar with the work area and a number of basic tools. You will learn how to crop and rotate an image, how to retouch it, how to make parts of the image lighter or darker. You will become skilled at selecting a photograph's specific areas, change their colour and move them on to a different canvas. You will be taught how to adjust the colours, the brightness and contrast in an image so that you can make a flat image with a colour cast stand out with more contrast and remove its colour cast. You will learn how to convert a colour photograph into black and white and introduce some colour into a converted black and white photograph. You will be introduced to layers so that you can work on one part of an image without disturbing the rest, and adjustment layers so that you can apply colour and tonal adjustments to your image. You will finally learn how to save your images, which file format to use and at what resolution.

Practical Exercise
This module is completely practical and you will be working through exercises as you learn.

• Where to get prints
• Editing work
• Presenting work

Objectives of the Module
The objective of this module is to consolidate what you learnt in the first module and apply those techniques practically to your own images.

Practical Exercise
This module is completely practical and you will be working through exercises as you learn.

• Where to get prints
• Editing work
• Presenting work

Objectives of the Module
In this module you will discover where to get your photographs printed and examine the qualities of different printing services and papers available for film and digital at mini-labs, pro-labs as well as printing them yourself. You will ascertain the best way to edit your photographs. You will look at different methods of presenting work and how to use different presentation styles depending on the purpose of your photographs, whether you are preparing a portfolio to promote yourself as a photographer, applying for further education or simply creating stunning photo albums.

Practical Exercise
Evaluate different prints from different labs and different papers Edit a set of images Present a set of images for a specific use