Photography 1: Art of Photography

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Level:: 1 (HE4)
Credits:: 40
Length:: 12 months approx.
8hrs per week
Cost:: £625
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Course Overview

Core Requirement for BA Hons Photography
Elective Option for BA Hons Painting, BA Hons Creative Arts

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.

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

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The Freeman View

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The Freeman View

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.

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.

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