Photography course
A practical course for beginners on which you will learn a sought-after profession, build your portfolio and start earning money as a photographer.
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"How to boost your career" by Victoria Hills
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A photographer is an in-demand profession
>1336 vacancies are open in the UK
Photography and retouching skills allow photographers to choose what suits them: photoshoots for magazines and advertising, wedding or portrait photography, or fashion photoshoots. It is a profession at the intersection of the arts and technology, in which it is vital to know how to tell a story and share emotions through a camera.
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Photographers with retouching skills are in high demand and can earn a high income if they have a quality portfolio.
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Photographer’s income the first year
Portrait Photographer, Event photographer, Studio photographer, Family photographer, Wedding photographer, Landscape photographer, Content creator
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You want to change your job
The course will be suitable if:
You work with content creation
You want a new experience
You want to improve your practical skills
Our beginner's photography course will help you take the first step towards a profession as a photographer that is both interesting and in high demand. After just the first few lessons you will be able to start working with real clients.
Do you make content for blogs and social media, to promote a personal brand or a company? Creating colourful and informative visual content will help influence your audience into choosing your service or product.
Do you have a professional camera, but don't know how to fully use all its features? This course will help you to master all your camera's settings and set up the lighting for your photographs.
After finishing this course you will be able to style yourself as a professional photographer, and can start taking high-quality photographs not only of close relatives and friends, but also of real models. You will be able to see how suited you are to professional photography.
We'll help you to achieve the profession you dream of, from scratch to your first earnings
We will immerse you in the profession
• How to use your camera's features, retouch and correct colour.
/ 01
We will help you create a portfolio
• You will learn to take photos for advertising, menus, and catalogues, bring out textures and various facets of objects, work in a flat lay, and create quality food photography for clients.
/ 02
We will teach you how to promote yourself
• Build your portfolio and earn as a photographer.
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• Select camera settings for different shooting conditions and take photos with artificial and natural light.
• Master colour correction and retouching of photographs.
• How to work with models, families or at weddings and events. You will learn how to work during photoshoots, select the best poses, and very importantly, converse with them in a comfortable style that puts them at ease.
• How to work with a group of people, and in different styles: studio or lifestyle reportage.
• Turn your creative vision and talent into a hobby or full-time career and earn a high income.
• Learn how to expertly liaise with commercial customers and start to earn up to an extra £3000 per month from your photo sessions.
• Use Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom to edit photos quickly and efficiently.
Course programme
8
practical workshops
per week
per week
week
course
course
2
each workshop is 2 hours
Open curriculum
You will learn
⦁ Create photos with a sharp foreground and blurred background
⦁ Take photos at slow shutter speeds whilst focusing on moving objects
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
⦁ Take photos at slow shutter speeds whilst focusing on moving objects
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
Tools
Settings
Aperture
Exposure
Shutter
1. Camera mechanics
2. Aperture features and their effects on exposure
3. Changing the depth of field
4. Influence of shutter speed on the depicted subject
2. Aperture features and their effects on exposure
3. Changing the depth of field
4. Influence of shutter speed on the depicted subject
You will practice
You will learn
⦁ Take photos using different types of light
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
Tools
Directed light
Diffused light
Background light
The light pattern
1. The basic principles of light setup
2. Types of light (drawing, filling, backdrop, background), and its influence on the composition of the frame
3. Determining the optimal light
2. Types of light (drawing, filling, backdrop, background), and its influence on the composition of the frame
3. Determining the optimal light
You will practice
You will learn
⦁ Create photos with different backgrounds and textures
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
Tools
Perspective
Symmetry
Framing
Landscape
1. Basic concepts of composition
2. Photo accents and balance
3. Frame capturing by diagonals
4. Work with backgrounds in photography
5. Balance of the object and background
6. Perspective creation in the frame
2. Photo accents and balance
3. Frame capturing by diagonals
4. Work with backgrounds in photography
5. Balance of the object and background
6. Perspective creation in the frame
You will practice
You will learn
⦁ Create outdoor portraits with natural light
⦁ Take staged and reportage photos
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
⦁ Take staged and reportage photos
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
Tools
Light filter
Full-body portrait
Deflector
Composition
1. Basic outdoor portrait skills: a portrait with the city background
2. Work with natural light
3. Light filters. Colour temperature. White balance.
2. Work with natural light
3. Light filters. Colour temperature. White balance.
You will practice
You will learn
⦁ Taking landscape, portrait, and flat lay photos with your smartphone
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
Tools
VSCO
Snapseed
Rookie Cam
Facetune
1. The nuances of taking pictures with your smartphones, and its relevance today
2. Features of taking portraits and landscapes with your smartphone
3. Flat lay shooting
4. Editing photos on your phone: VSCO, Snapseed, Rookie Cam, Facetune
2. Features of taking portraits and landscapes with your smartphone
3. Flat lay shooting
4. Editing photos on your phone: VSCO, Snapseed, Rookie Cam, Facetune
You will practice
You will learn
⦁ Taking photos with different lenses
⦁ Taking pictures with and without flash
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
⦁ Taking pictures with and without flash
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
Tools
Luminosity
Fading light
Exposition
Viewing angle
1. How to use studio equipment
2. Internal and external flash
3. Differences between lenses: what's best for which type of shooting
2. Internal and external flash
3. Differences between lenses: what's best for which type of shooting
You will practice
You will learn
⦁ Take a portrait with artificial light
⦁ Creating staged portraits
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
⦁ Creating staged portraits
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
Tools
Tonality
Foreshortening
Butterfly effect
Painting light
1. Basic lighting schemes for shooting portraits in the studio
2. Use of light and shadows
3. Differences in perception of light and dark keys
4. Model positioning in the picture frame
5. Side, classical, and Rembrandt lighting
6. Broad and narrow lighting
7. Portrait composition
2. Use of light and shadows
3. Differences in perception of light and dark keys
4. Model positioning in the picture frame
5. Side, classical, and Rembrandt lighting
6. Broad and narrow lighting
7. Portrait composition
You will practice
You will learn
⦁ Create photos in dark and light keys as well as in black- and-white
⦁ Create pictures with clearly predominant colours: red, blue, green or yellow
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
⦁ Create pictures with clearly predominant colours: red, blue, green or yellow
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
Tools
Psychology of colour
Contrast
Colour symbolism
Colour circle
1. Colour or black-and-white photography: which and when to choose
2. Basic concepts of colour psychology
3. Shooting with colour filters and white balance compensation
4. Light and shadow practice for black-and-white photos
2. Basic concepts of colour psychology
3. Shooting with colour filters and white balance compensation
4. Light and shadow practice for black-and-white photos
You will practice
You will learn
⦁ Create photos with compositions of objects or food, using different textures, daylight from a window and a background
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
Tools
Shooting glass
Shooting metal
Shooting ceramics
Food shooting
1. Use of light in object photography
2. Object photography: composition and working with the background
3. Food photography, features of this type of photography
4. Selecting the light for glass photography
5. Handling glare in metal photography
6. Shadow manipulation in product photography
7. Using props
2. Object photography: composition and working with the background
3. Food photography, features of this type of photography
4. Selecting the light for glass photography
5. Handling glare in metal photography
6. Shadow manipulation in product photography
7. Using props
You will practice
You will learn
⦁ Landscape photography practice: take pictures in the city and in the landscape
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
Tools
Staged shooting
Reportage portrait
Urban landscape
Shooting nature
1. Picture perspective and scene diversity
2. Use of non-standard compositions
3. Differences between cityscape and landscape shooting
4. Framing a multi-faceted shot
5. Daylight and evening scenes
6. Reportage: outdoors shooting
7. Shoot angles
8. How to commercialise your hobby
2. Use of non-standard compositions
3. Differences between cityscape and landscape shooting
4. Framing a multi-faceted shot
5. Daylight and evening scenes
6. Reportage: outdoors shooting
7. Shoot angles
8. How to commercialise your hobby
You will practice
You will learn
⦁ Install Lightroom and Photoshop
⦁ Choose five photos and do basic editing in the same style
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
⦁ Choose five photos and do basic editing in the same style
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
Tools
File formats
Exposition
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Photoshop
1. Image formats (raw, tiff, jpeg, PSD) and their differences
2. Lightroom interface and its features
3. Working with the library and catalogues
4. Importing and selecting photos, pictures clusterisation
2. Lightroom interface and its features
3. Working with the library and catalogues
4. Importing and selecting photos, pictures clusterisation
You will practice
You will learn
⦁ Analyse some photos in terms of colour
⦁ Colour correction of two images using the tools you have learned about
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
⦁ Colour correction of two images using the tools you have learned about
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
Tools
Colour circle
Colour combinations
Camera Raw
Reference
1. To use Camera raw
2. Colour theory: the concept of the colour circle, primary and complementary colours, and their interactions
3. General light and colour correction, as well as white balance adjustment, HSL and calibration colour correction
4. Correction of black-and-white photos
5. Digital correction, distortion correction, and image noise removal
2. Colour theory: the concept of the colour circle, primary and complementary colours, and their interactions
3. General light and colour correction, as well as white balance adjustment, HSL and calibration colour correction
4. Correction of black-and-white photos
5. Digital correction, distortion correction, and image noise removal
You will practice
You will learn
⦁ Analyse some photos in terms of composition
⦁ Take 5-6 pictures and work with the crop tool
⦁ Basic correction of your old photos
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
⦁ Take 5-6 pictures and work with the crop tool
⦁ Basic correction of your old photos
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
Tools
Settings
Aperture
Exposure
Shutter
1. Initial Photoshop settings and workspace adjustment
2. Importing and exporting of photos
3. Basic composition corrections
4. Cropping as an artistic image processing tool
5. Image rotation and cropping. Size, scale and aspect ratio image correction
6. History of manipulation. Adjustment of history settings
2. Importing and exporting of photos
3. Basic composition corrections
4. Cropping as an artistic image processing tool
5. Image rotation and cropping. Size, scale and aspect ratio image correction
6. History of manipulation. Adjustment of history settings
You will practice
You will learn
⦁ Self-study using layers and masks
⦁ Creation of two collages
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
⦁ Creation of two collages
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
Tools
Background processing
Masks
Layers
Collage
1. Working with layers and masks: creation and correction of layers, layer blending modes, layers adjustment, creating and using masks, local colour correction methods.
2. Collage-making techniques
3. Image toning with layers
2. Collage-making techniques
3. Image toning with layers
You will practice
You will learn
⦁ Self-study using retouching tools on two photos
⦁ Body shape correction with the "Liquify" tool
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
⦁ Body shape correction with the "Liquify" tool
Your teacher will check your results and give a detailed feedback
Tools
Stamp
Patch
Point brush
Plastic
1. Use of Healing Brush Tool and Spot Healing Brush Tool
2. Simple retouching: skin retouching, removal of dress folds; correction of body shape; teeth whitening
2. Simple retouching: skin retouching, removal of dress folds; correction of body shape; teeth whitening
You will practice
How the course is delivered
Participate in live lessons with a teacher in an online class.
Live Online Lessons
Communicate with classmates and the teacher in a closed Telegram chat room.
Homework & Support
Community & Feedback
Do your homework on the platform and get teacher comments on your work.
Face-to-face Online Lessons
Effective learning
Classes are held live in a small group. During the class, the teacher explains the topic of the lesson and answers students' questions live.
Don't worry - if you miss a lesson, it will be available in a recording on the platform.
Don't worry - if you miss a lesson, it will be available in a recording on the platform.
Stay motivated with our live community
Live chatting with your group mates
You will not be alone through all your study. We get all our students together on group chats where you are able to post your photos, ask questions and share your success!
The best way to maintain your motivation is getting live feedback from the teacher and your group mates.
The best way to maintain your motivation is getting live feedback from the teacher and your group mates.
Brigitte Stanford
Professional photographer
Experience
Brig has shot on over 100 international television commercials, with portraits of people as diverse as Andy Green (land speed record holder), people of the Pondo tribe, Jimmy Nevis and Royals in Arabia. She has taught at Orms School of Photography and Vega college in Cape Town. She received another award from EyeEm for Most Eye-Catching Pictures of the year in 2017.
Dreamscapes and strong colours are prominent in her work whether she is shooting a lifestyle campaign, landscape or fashion editorial. She has a contagious laugh and a determination beyond her years, along with an incredible eye for the sublime and a willingness to hop in a car/truck/plane/
sidecar/boat without notice if it means she can shoot something interesting. Brigitte wanted to expand her expertise, so in 2017 she began to Load and Camera Assist and hopes to D.O.P in the future. She is represented in her home country and internationally for her photography work.
Dreamscapes and strong colours are prominent in her work whether she is shooting a lifestyle campaign, landscape or fashion editorial. She has a contagious laugh and a determination beyond her years, along with an incredible eye for the sublime and a willingness to hop in a car/truck/plane/
sidecar/boat without notice if it means she can shoot something interesting. Brigitte wanted to expand her expertise, so in 2017 she began to Load and Camera Assist and hopes to D.O.P in the future. She is represented in her home country and internationally for her photography work.
«I always say, I want my work to be visually arresting. I think and often feel in imagery and so I want your senses to wake up! You must taste it, hear it, and take a moment from your crazy, busy life to feel it. Then I've won the battle. I enjoy playing with metaphors and layers of ideas, pairing things that shouldn't be paired, like sassy, quirky comments but with imagery.»
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