Evening Courses

Morning & Evening Classes in South Dublin

Basic Digital Photography

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Level

IMPROVERS

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Start Date

Jan 20th 2025

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Tutor

Anthony Griffin

Course DESCRIPTION

BEGINNERS (AUTUMN TERM Sept. 2025)

Basic Digital Photography y is a beginner DSLR instructional course designed to introduce students to the basic processes and techniques of working with digital photography. The course will cover camera operation, equipment, composition, lighting, digital workflow and aesthetic understanding. Students will learn how to use photography as a creative tool for self-expression, social exploration and still documentation. This is a fun, hands-on course. A digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera is required.

COURSE OUTLINE:

1. Equipment: Cameras, Lenses, Flash
Discuss lenses, Composition, Perspective
2. Manual Settings, Exposure, Depth of Field
3. Camera Settings I
Metering Modes, Focus Modes, Selective Focus
4. Field Trip
5. Camera Settings II
Exposure Compensation, White Balance, In-Camera Flash
6. Lighting
7. Digital Workflow
8. Field Trip
9. Types of Photography and Iconic Photographers/Images
10. Aesthetics and Display

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IMPROVERS COURSE: (SPRING Jan 2025)

Course Requirements:

Basic knowledge of manual control of a DLSR/mirrorless camera.
Basic knowledge of computers.
Must have a laptop with Adobe Lightroom* (Classic) and Photoshop* or a Tablet with Lightroom and Photoshop installed.
*This software can be obtained from Adobe Creative Cloud (Photography Plan €12.29 per month, inclusive of VAT: includes Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, Photoshop on desktop and iPad and 20 GB of cloud storage.

Adobe Photography Plan link: https://www.adobe.com/ie/creativecloud/plans.html?filter=photography&plan=individual

Course Overview:

Over the course of this 10-week course, participants will be introduced to Adobe’s Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. These are two of photography‘s industry/practice standards in terms of editing, post-processing, final presentation and printing.

As well as learning the practical applications of both software, participants will also learn photographic techniques such as bracketing (HDR), creating panoramas, composites, Monochrome conversion, and elevating good images to great images!

The course will include the practical learning of LIghtroom and Photoshop, workflow practices, process tutorials and photography. Image files will be provided where appropriate and necessary.

Course Content:

Adobe LIghtroom:Introduction to LIghtroom Classic

Importing Raw files, Adding Keywords, Image Rating, Creating Collections;

Develop Mode: White Balance, Cropping, Post-Production Tools, Presets, Hue Saturation B&W Panels, Batch Processing, Exporting, File Sizing and Types;Book Mode: Book Layouts;

Slideshow Module;

Print Module;Web Module.

Associated photographic techniques.

Adobe Photoshop:

Introduction to Photoshop

Photoshop Tool Bar

Layers

Associated photographic techniques.

Book your place on a Class

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Book MONDAY Evening

IMPROVERS

please see requirements above

7.00 – 9.15pm
(10 weeks)