Photography 1: Digital Photographic Practice

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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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One of the key purposes of this course is to develop your photographic skills in terms of the quality of the images you produce. Specifically, to ensure that whatever equipment you own you can produce the best quality images for print or web. In the increasingly democratic world of digital photography these skills are essential to make your work stand out.

A second key purpose of this course is to start you thinking about images and ethics; photographs are representations of fact or as expressions of your personal vision. The many small changes which are possible in digital images can enhance an image or mislead a viewer. In your learning log you will think about images you see and your reactions and how it informs your practice.

The course is written to form a coherent level one undergraduate programme when taken in conjunction with Art of Photography and People and Place. Student studying for a degree cannot take this course in conjunction with its forerunner Introduction to Digital Photography.

If you want to study this course as part of a photography degree, click here: BA Hons Photography Degree.

Student discounts
Save the cost of the course by purchasing Adobe software with your OCA student discount, for more details click HERE

The Freeman View

Visit the blog of OCA's Photography course author Michael Freeman.
The Freeman View

Workflow
Digital image qualities
Processing the image
Reality and intervention
The final image

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

To enhance your ability to produce high quality digital images
To understand the issues associated with image manipulation and visual representation
To bring this learning together in a personal project

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.

25 projects and five 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.