(two groups: A: 8yo – 12.yo & B: 13yo – 16yo)
Starting Saturday/ February 10.30 – 12.30
classes will run every Saturday apart from Easter.
COST:
1 lesson (2 hours): £25
First Stage: £25 x 13 weeks = £325
Second Stage: £325
Reservation fee: £50 (deducted from final cost)
It is possible to pay in instalments.
Hands on Photography Workshops
It is an individual training in a small group (max 7-8), not a University lecture with 30 students in class. We focus on workshops to teach practice, creativity and camera techniques. It is a combined course to give your child an inside look not only how to take better images, but how to express themselves, how to look and see in a modern world. And what’s more, it is a fun way to spend Saturday and enjoy different type of course, in a photographic studio, with award winning photographer, photographing different models, different locations, and learning how to see more.
Each participant will end a course with a certificate with a list of skills they developed and with a portfolio created during a course. Every week we will start with discussion on photographs participants took the previous week, to allow additional feedback and teach students to give feedback to themselves and communicate different objectives that can be added to their works.
Photography is not only ‘freezing’ a moment, it is an art that can show various social perspectives, it is a documenting skill, a techincal ability and spontanous reaction to press the shutter in a specific moment. Each course level, after 12 and after 24 weeks will end with a project, that students will create and work on during last 3 weeks of the course. The project will need to be presented on a collective of 6 images, with a short written statement about their work. Students will learn how to choose the images coherently and will be guided through the whole process to give them a chance to improve their skills, teach them how to present their works, how to defend their images and justify why they choose a certain pose, objective, light, camera parameters and what post production they used.
Details:
Each lesson starts with showing 1-2 images taken by each participant, receiving constructive feedback on what could be enhanced and praised what is already great. The topics through the duration of whole course are as follow:
FIRST STAGE: (13 weeks)
- Theory of photography
- History of photography (presentation by participants 2 min on their favourite photographer, showing their works, explanation of daguerreotype, analogue photography, dark room, lights and light physics)
- Composition (Golden rules, theory and practice)
- Camera parameters (how their own camera works, what more is in the camera, settings used for each light source etc)
- Lights introduction
- Creative frame cropping
- Perspective
- Posing (product, subject, person)
- Landscape photography
- Macro photography
- Product photography
- Creative Concepts
- 12 weeks project
SECOND STAGE: (13 weeks)
- Portrait photography studio lights
- Portrait photography outdoor light
- Fashion Photography,
- Pet photography
- Family photography
- Fine Art photography
- Conceptual photography
- Photoshop introduction
- Photoshop retouching
- Photoshop Actions, Masking, creating final image
- Location shoot – Beach (landscape, macro, portrait, fashion)
- Location shoot – Creative Field (depending from participants and their speciality)
- 24 weeks project
Important
A smartphone/ camera of any type is needed to practice, participants will have an access to use professional camera under photographers supervision, but they need to have something to practice on.
Levels:
12 weeks (Stage 1)
24 weeks (Stage 2)
Portfolio Building (Stage 3)
Every interested participant and parent are welcome to book a visit in the studio and hear more from me.
Please register your interest:
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