Photography Courses

Develop your ability to produce photographs using digital technology (digital or conventional photography combined with computer software and hardware for processing the photographs).

Learn about

• taking good photos
• special effects
• altering images
• how computers can manipulate image and much more.

Take better photos!

• Learn about digital technology.
• Understand digital cameras.
• Select appropriate equipment.
• Learn techniques to digitally capture images from film photographs.
• Learn techniques for processing digital photographs.
• Understand how digital images can be transferred effectively.

The Educational Academy is a recognised institution through IARC (International Accreditation and Recognition Council).

This is a beginners course. An important part of this course involves you putting into practice what we teach you about film speed, exposure and composition of photographs, and developing your photographic style.

• Learn to Become a Better Photographer!
• Discover how your camera works (both digital and film)
• How to compose photographs
• Develop your photographic style
• Learn from expert and professionally qualified photographers
• Take your photos to the next level

Photos which you take are checked closely by professional photographers who advise you on how to improve your photographic techniques.

Learn to take better photos and understand how photography works.

This is a comprehensive introduction to still photography.

• Learn the basics and lay a foundation for serious photography
• Lots of Personal Guidance from Professional Photographers
• Self paced 100 hour course -options to upgrade to a certificate or diploma
• Explore business and career options; or pursue a serious hobby

A crucial fact underlies all photography -though many different technologies can produce images, the quality of those images is eventually judged by our own eyes.

Learn about:

• aperture
• shutter speed
• depth of field
• camera angles etc.

To complete the assignments you need access to a 35 mm camera. (Your tutor can advise on buying a camera if you do not have one).

Discover how to create great landscape photos by developing your skill in creating varied effects, and using different materials & equipment. Learn the techniques necessary to capture the individual expressions of each landscape. This course includes coverage of essentials such as

• special effects
• film types
• colour richness
• photographic terms
• achieving sharpness and much more.

Develop your understanding of light in photography and how to use different lighting equipment and techniques to achieve desired effects in a final image. 

Lighting is a critical thing for photographers; not only because it must be managed to ensure a photo is illuminated; but it can also be used to create all manner of different effects. A skilled and knowledgeable photographer can vary their use of light during a session to create a great variety of very different images; all using the same subject.

This course is designed to be a component of a larger course (eg. certificate or diploma), and anyone attempting it should have first studied photographic practice or a similar course, to develop their skills and style.

This course is not focussed on improving the photos you take; rather it focuses on your ability to select appropriate photos for a purpose, and to then present those photos in an appropriate way.

The culmination of this module is the production of a Portfolio which can be used by the student to sell themselves when applying for a job or making a presentation to a client. This is a new course.

This course develops your hands on practical skills in taking photos, through both theory and highly practical assignments with individual direction and interaction with a professional photographer (tutor).

• Discover how to tell a story with an image
• How to turn your photographic skills into a business
• Understand the photographic industry
• Special photographic techniques
• How to photograph anything well
• Produce photos with special effects

This course can help you understand the potentials and limitations of a camera and conceive ideas to find a way around difficulties you encounter. It is designed to help turn you into a more flexible and skilled photographer.

This course assumes some photographic experience.

This is a fascinating area of photographic study which any good photographer needs to understand in order to not only take good photos, but also identify and understand problems when they occur.

This course is equally relevant to digital and film covering such things as:

• image formation
• light
• lenses
• filters
• colour
• the sensitivity of film or electronic surfaces that record the image.

Did you realize that lenses for film cameras are not going to perform the same if used on a digital camera?

Take Photographs of People at Work, at Play or Anywhere Else

Whether you want to photograph family, friends or strangers from another country, this course will teach you how to create the most effective photographs of people.

You will learn how to 

• set up a photo session
• organize a studio
• create different types of effects
• compose a photo.

This is a is highly practical course, giving you ample opportunity to concentrate in those areas of photography which are of most interest to you.

An Essential Skill for many jobs:

• Graphic Art
• Web Design
• Photography
• Advertising

Develop a basic understanding of how to create and manipulate images and artwork compositions using Adobe Photoshop for use on the web, email and print.

The course is upgraded regularly by a leading graphic artist to retain current industry relevance. This is an excellent entry to medium level course for anyone wanting to use Photoshop in their work or interests.

Is this course right for me?

If you work a lot with images, photos and graphics this course is a must have.

This is an essential course for those working with websites as well as people who are interested in digital photography and are looking to learn to edit their pictures and make suitable for printing.

Over eight lessons, you will be shown how to achieve a quality record of your trip on film.

You will learn techniques needed for

• photographing landscapes
• streetscapes
• wildlife
• people and lots more.

Your tutor will even advise you on what type of equipment you need and where to buy equipment and film.

Wedding photography can be the most critical and stressful type of photography because:

• The event is so very important to the bride and groom
• The bride and groom are usually quite stressed out
• The wedding only happens once

More than at most other types of events, photographs are an integral part of what happens during the wedding.

At other events (eg. sporting events), many different people are part of the event.

At a wedding, the total focus is on the bride and groom - they are the event!

The photography needs to maintain this strong focus on the bride and groom and convey the image that they are first and best in every way on that occasion. The whole concept of a wedding is always romantic, frequently fashionable and preferably overflowing with optimism and life.