How can you use camera techniques and lighting to achieve
professional quality results? This course teaches you the
basics of professional photography.
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“There
is so much to learn but this course really helped put me on
the right track”
Mike, 2005
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This course will enable you to understand your 35mm SLR camera, and
teach you how to use photographic techniques creatively, through an
introduction to cameras exposure readings, aperture and shutter speed
controls, depth of field, film and ISO rating, loading and unloading
film. You will discover how to make the best use of light and creative
exposure techniques. You will look at light sources, colour conversion
filters or white balance, push / pull processing and cross processing.
You will discover how to creatively use tungsten lights, studio flash,
understand hand held meters, meter readings and lighting positions.
You will also learn how best to edit and present your work.
Please see the Professional
Basics for Photography Course Modules for more details on what
you will study on this course.
Course Overview:
Who is the Professional Basics
course aimed at?
Professional Basics for Photography is aimed at the amateur photographer
who wants to further their creative photography skills, or those wishing
to gain professional photography techniques. The Professional Basics
for Photography Workshop is a fast track beginners to advanced lesson
in photography and is ideal for those with a 35mm SLR film or digital
camera who are thinking of taking their photography seriously.
You may also want to take a look at our Medium
Format photography course or Camera
Techniques.
Progression Routes
Professional Basics for Photography prepares students
for academic study and vocational opportunities and our camera based
Advanced Photography courses
such as Medium
Format Photography. You may also want to consider our Camera
Techniques, Darkroom
Techniques or Travel
Photography courses.
When do we hold Professional
Basics classes?
The Professional Basics photography course consists
of four days of approximately three hours each. Please see our Photography
Course Schedule for more details.
How do you join our photography
classes?
To join the Professional Basics for Photography workshop please check
dates, prices and availability on our Photography
Course Schedule page and then fill out our Enrolment
Form. If there are no dates available for the time you want to
attend please let us know by filling in our Course
Enquiry Form.
If you are a group wishing to book
the course please also contact us through our Course
Enquiry Form or call 020 7720 2891 between 9am and 1pm. We only
need two or three students to run this photography workshop, so we
may be able to create an extra course if we have the demand.
Alternatively you may want to consider
attending a couple of one to one sessions, please see our One
to One Photography Tuition page for details.
Where do we hold
our photography classes?
We hold most of our photography courses on our premises in the Clapham
Leisure Centre, details of how to get there can be found on our Zoom
In Location page.
Zoom In is a small community based organisation details of which can
be found on our About Zoom In pages.
Please see our Beginners
Courses page for other introductory and beginner level courses.
Course
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