What will you learn?
- How to understand exposure and digital capture
- The “language” of creative expression and how this can improve your own photography
- Identify pixels and levels and how they construct a photographic image
- How to use key features on your digital camera
- What is RAW, and the reasons why you should use it
- The key contemporary photographic narratives, and ways in which they can help you think about your own photography
- How a lens draws the image, and how this can help you make more effective compositions
- How aperture and shutter speed works
- How to understand some of the tools and functions of image editing software
- How to navigate some of the hardware choices available to contemporary photographers
- Ways to consider what kind of photographer you might be, and ways this can help you to determine subject matter
