Photography 1: Art of Photography

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Level:: 1
Credits:: 40
Length:: 12 months approx.
8hrs per week
Cost:: £595
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Course Overview

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Designed as the entry point to OCA's degree level photography courses, this course helps you apply art and design principles to photography, use your imagination and learn how to use the technical capabilities of the camera to compose well-structured and satisfying images. Relative newcomers find that they quickly gain confidence and start to use photography creatively. More experienced photographers are offered a structure which helps them to re-examine their approach to photography and to develop their expressive and technical skills. The ideal camera for the course is a single-lens reflex with either a fixed lens covering wide-angle and telephoto or interchangeable lenses, and which allows you to adjust aperture and focus manually. If you do not have one, it doesn’t mean that you can’t do the course, but you may find a few of the projects beyond the capabilities of some automatic cameras.

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The principles of composition
The principles of graphic design in photography
The basic properties of colour
Structuring an image
Using light, both natural and artificial.

To view a sample of this course online, click HERE or to download a PDF of the sample, click HERE.

The course introduces and applies principles of composition; develops understanding and skill in using the different qualities of light and the properties of colour; develops knowledge of the principles of graphic design as they apply to photography.

Distance tuition

You are allocated a tutor and receive their details in your course pack. You work from the course materials and send regular assignments to your tutor. These are returned to you with comment and advice. The course fee includes tutor feedback on your set assignments, but you can purchase feedback and comment on additional pieces of work if you wish.

Face to face tuition is not available for this course.

23 projects and five major assignments. Students also maintain a learning log.

For more information on assessment, click here - Assessment and how to get qualified booklet - to download the booklet PDF.