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SimonP
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« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2006, 06:59:49 PM » |
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First of all I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year and continued success with your photography!!
Secondly, I would like to ask if anyone has any friends or family that may be interested in the Advanced Photography Course at the de l'Alliance Francaise de Bangkok to pass on this information to them. Here is a copy of the Course Outline which starts the second week of January:
"Course Outline : Advanced Photography 33 hours
Course Director : Cedric Arnold (London School of Photography Journalism, England)
Week 1: introduction/cameras and lenses
1. Introduction of the class: ambitions etc…
2. We will take a look at different pictures with various styles, black and white and colour to determine the students’ preferences.
3. What cameras to choose and why. What format (35mm or 120…)
4. What is a professional camera/do you need one?
5. Lenses: optical quality, zoom or fixed focal, wide, standard or telephoto.
6. When to use what lenses, subject matter, distortion, distance from the subjects etc…
Week 2: Aperture, shutter speed and depth of field.
1. Determining shutter speed and aperture settings. The relationship between aperture
and shutter speed.
2. The effects of different aperture and speed combinations on the same subject
3. Speed or aperture priority, choosing the right settings for the right subject matter
4. Depth of field and focus, blur and sharpness control.
Week 3: Lighting control: a detailed look at light and Film.
1. Measuring the light, reflected and incident light. Light meters, grey cards…
2. The camera’s light meter: Multizone, centre weighted and spot metering
3. Advanced light measurement techniques mid tones, high or low lights
4. Natural light, weather and time of day
5. Mixed light, colour temperature control.
6. Artificial light. Tungsten/fluorescent… (using filters and special films)
7. Improving bad lighting conditions, filters, reflectors, diffusers etc…
8. Film format, gradation, grain, ISO, tone, colour balance etc…
9. What film for what subject, B&W or colour, fast or slow film…
Ex1: Shoot a roll of film using as many different lighting techniques as possible on similar subjects. (flash excluded)
Week 4: Flash photography
1. A look at the results from exercise 1
2. How and when to use flash, day/night, indoors/outdoors
3. Flash equipment what you need to be versatile (flash functions power…)
4. Manual, TTL or ATTL, guide number calculations vs the TTL system
5. Direct flash or bounced, diffusers and close up flash, extension leads.
6. Flash intensity control, fill in, full power etc…
7. Special techniques: open flash, multiflash, filters, flash “painting”, Invisible flash with infrared etc…
8. Composition basics
Week 5: Static and moving subject matter (landscapes vs action)
1. Outdoor composition exercise (applying techniques acquired the previous week) 45 mins
2. Composition with static and moving subject matter
3. Landscapes: techniques, film and equipment required/Patience and lighting!
4. Urban and natural landscapes, and “scene setters”
5. Action and movement: techniques, film and equipment required to freeze or suggest movement. Panning, blurring, flash, composition effects etc…
Week 6: Black and white photography.
1. Some history and a look at “black and white masters’” work (Cartier Bresson, Smith etc…)
2. Why and when to choose black and white/Is every subject suitable for B&W?
3. Is black and white easier than colour?
4. “Seeing” in B&W, contrast vs colour.
5. Grain, contrast and tone control in B&W.
6. B&W film, from ISO 25 to 3200. Which one to choose, what do B&W specialists use and why.
7. Special B&W films “sepia” and Infra Red
Ex2: (shoot a roll of B&W or colour portraits, portraits only)
Week 7: Portraiture
1. History of portraiture/comparisons with painting etc…
2. Equipment (lenses, camera formats, tripods
3. Film choices and portrait “dedicated” film
4. Look at results form Ex2
5. Applied techniques: the rules to follow and to break to take original portraits.
6. Lighting techniques for original portraits
7. Long lenses or wide angles and distance from the sitter
8. “Character analysis”, setting the mood of the portrait eyes, facial features, hands.
9. How to make your sitter feel at ease, be in control but not a control freak.
10. Props, backgrounds etc… and composition
Work in pairs: find a partner for the next session (practical portrait exercise) you will work 2 by 2 and take pictures of each other (film of your choice)
Week 8: Portraiture (practical exercise).
1. First part of the exercise will be outdoors/on location (natural light). Your sitter can be
positioned anywhere but you can’t change the setting.
2. Second part, we move back into the teaching room, this time everything can be arranged
to your needs you create the “setting”
The above will be the only restrictions, the rest will be down to creativity, lighting control,
and good communication skills with your sitter. You can bring props, backgrounds…
Week 9: People and events.
1. Demonstrations, what equipment, film and techniques.
2. Sports events./fast and precise composition
3. Festivals (outdoors)/creative use of wide angles on location
4. Theatre and music (stage photography)/spot metering and film pushing
Week 10: Shooting stories and features. (Photojournalism)
1. Finding an idea and doing research
2. Choosing equipment in accordance to the restrictions imposed by the location.
3. How to find an original angle
4. Each story has a beginning a middle and an end. (the life formula)
5. How to prepare yourself (the synopsis and the storyboard)
6. The tricks of the trade!
7. Final exercise: shoot a feature. Tell a story in a maximum of 7 pictures.
Week 11: A look at the features and course end debates.
1. A look at the results and applied techniques.
2. The reasons for individual story choices.
3. How to present a story (show it to a picture editor)
4. Crop or don’t crop
5. Question time
Note: this course description is subject to change depending on the students’ level and preferences, for example an extra session on B&W is possible…".
Thanks very much!
Simon.
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May 24, 2012, 04:42:52 PM
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