This is an intensive 33 hour photography course over 11 days aimed at the ENTREPENEUR who wishes to gain comprehensive, thorough knowledge of this skill without applying for permanent studies. The course consists of 9 days training in photography followed by a 2 day workshop in photoshop.  The latter covers all the various applications to adapt your images for print and industry standards.

Photography outcomes:

• History of Photography and Visual Literacy
• Camera functions, accessories, lenses and flash
• Digital Photography – exposure, resolution, white balance, colour temperature, pixels, ISO ratings, memory cards, software, downloading images, digital camera image noise, image types and sizes, shooting in RAW.
• Aperture and depth of field
• Shutter and motion
• Exposure, natural lighting, artificial lighting
• Lenses and Filters
• Composition, perspective, viewpoint, design elements influencing photography
• Specilised photography – night photography, travel, close-ups, portraits, sunsets, water and safari.
• Photoshop for Photographers

Photoshop outcomes:

• Moving around the Photoshop Workspace: toolbox, menus, palettes
• Histograms, levels and curves: adjusting tonal values of photographs
• Retouching with the Clone Stamp tool and the Patch tool
• Cropping and transforming Images
• Using Selection Tools
• Making Colour Adjustments
• The effect of using Filters
• Basic introduction to Layers
• The idea of Masking to create Hand-colouring
• Opening, Creating and Saving Images
• Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts

Requirements:  Your own Digital SLR camera

Facilitators: Carolyn Koopman/Corianna Heise  

Cost: R3 500 (SUBJECT TO 8 PERSONS)    

Days and Times: TUESDAY EVENINGS From 18h00 – 21h00 

STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY STUDENT COURSE This course has been designed to meet the requirements of the international student office of the University of Stellenbosch.  The public are welcome to join these classes but need to consider that the timetable of this course is scheduled according to university holidays and the students schedules.

University Fridays   Daytime :   10h00 – 13h00