COURSE STRUCTURE
There are 8 lessons as follows:
- Introduction
- The Main Principles
- Creating Different Effects
- Photographing Natural Areas
- Photographing Streetscapes
- Photographing Water
- Developing Your Own Style
- Major Project
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school’s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
SUMMARY OF AIMS
To know and understand the equipment and materials used in photography.- Create different affects photographing the same landscape.
- Compose a well-balanced photo.
- Utilise form to create a three dimensional affect.
- Develop your own photographic style.
WHAT THE COURSE COVERS
Here are just some of the things you may be doing:
- Revision of the basics of photography.
- Building a resource file.
- Applying principles of landscape photography to evaluate published photos.
- Choosing equipment and materials appropriate to specified needs.
- Using filters to create different effects.
- Dealing with a range of problems found in natural areas, including uneven light, shade, glare, etc.
- Photographing buildings and streetscapes.
- The characteristics of water and its affect on photography.
- Selecting and composing a photograph to create the predetermined affect.
- Create a folio of landscape photographs.
