COURSES AND WORKSHOPS

With nearly 30 years of photographic training experience our courses for individuals are designed to be hands on and practical.  Our students get access to industry standard equipment, and our tutors are professional photographers willing to share trade secrets to help you develop your own photography practice.

Belfast Exposed training is open to people of all levels with Fastrack one day sessions which offer bite size photographic training for beginners, to accredited Open College Network (OCN) courses that run over 6-13 weeks for more advanced photographers. 

Courses on offer are Digital Photography, Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom, Studio Portraiture,and Black & White photography.

Fastrack sessions are running throughout June 2010, and the OCN courses will commence from September 2010 (dates and times to be confirmed).

Fastrack Photography Training

Belfast Exposed is offering a series of Fastrack sessions offering bite size photographic training. Whether you have bought a camera for the first time, require a refresher course, or are contemplating pursuing photography further, then Fastrack Training is for you.

Fastrack sessions on offer are Digital Photography, Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom, Studio Portraiture, and Black & White photography.

This training provides a foundation for Belfast Exposed’s accredited Open College Network (OCN) courses that run over 6-13 weeks and cover similar areas of study.

Sign up for any of our OCN Accredited Courses starting in September 2010 and get your Fasttrack Course fee deducted from the cost (that’s a £50 discount!).

Belfast Exposed can offer a Direct Debit option to spread the cost of OCN courses (selected courses only) over 3 Monthly Payment Plan option.

Download the Course Application form on this page and email to training@belfastexposed.org

PAYMENT:
To secure your place in the course payment is required BEFORE the course start date. Cheque or cash payment is accepted at the admin office of Belfast Exposed.

Fastrack: Digital Photography

Whether you have just bought a new digital camera or you would like to refresh your knowledge, this course will introduce you to the skills required to get more confident using your camera to take better pictures.

Course Topics:

- Composition
- Shutter Speeds Aperture Settings
- Lighting & Flash Photography
- ISO speed settings
- White Balance Settings
- Correct Metering
- Loading images correctly onto the computer

Date: Saturday July 24th 2010
Time: 9.30am - 12.30pm
Cost: £50.00

Fastrack: Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom

Learn the basics of how to enhance, manipulate and archive your images. You will need to bring your own digital images to work on.

Topics Covered:

Adjustments
- Levels
- Colour Correction
- Sizing for print & email
- Canvas sizing

Workflow
- From camera to archive
- Creating folders
- Placing onto network sites
- Emails

Date: Saturday July 24th 2010
Time: 1.00pm - 4.00pm
Cost: £50.00

Fastrack: Studio Portraiture

This session is aimed at the individual who would like to gain the basics of Studio Portrait Photography. The course is split into to parts, 2 hours studio portraiture, and 1 hour Adobe Photoshop post production.

Topics covered:

- Direct lighting
- Umbrella Lighting
- Diffuser Lighting
- Creative Lighting techniques
- Correct posing of the portrait subject
- Formal Portrait Set up
- Still Life/ Product Shots
- Remove skin blemished
- Colour Correction
- Burn & Dodge

Date: TBC
Time: TBC
Cost: £50.00

Fastrack: Black & White Photography

A course to help understand the basic principles of photography by using film, and undertaking darkroom printing.

Topics covered:

- Shutter speeds & Aperture settings
- Lighting & flash photography
- Film speed settings
- Correct metering
- Capturing tone
- Film processing
- Producing a contact sheet
- Final print darkroom techniques

Date: TBC
Time: TBC
Cost: £60.00

OCN: Digitial Photography

OCN Level 2 Accreditation option

This course is aimed at photographers who want learn hands on technical camera skills and knowledge.

During the course you will learn the technical workings of your camera, including shutter & aperture settings, white balance and ISO settings, as well as composition skills, what makes a great picture, editing and image manipulation, as well as valuable image archiving skills. Combined with an OCN Level 2 qualification makes for a very unique course.

All our Photography Courses are delivered by working photographers who can share their expert skills and knowledge with all participants.

Course Duration: 8 weeks
When: Tuesday 14th September 2010
Time: 6.30pm - 9pm
Cost: Standard £320, Accreditation £350

OCN: Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom

8 Week Course OCN Level 2 Accreditation option

Through Photoshop learn how to create distinctive images in a structured way. Transform pre-taken images into different styles, from Vogue portraits to dramatic landscapes and be amazed by the results these new skills will have on your images.

You will develop Lightroom skills based on workflow management of your digital images, sending and saving to correct outlets and archiving - a must for today's digital photograph.

Please note, this course does not involve picture taking, please bring a selection of images of your own to work on.

Course Duration: 8 Weeks
When: Thursday 16th Septmeber 2010
Time: 6.30pm - 9pm
Cost: Standard £320, Accreditation £350

OCN: Portrait Studio Photography

OCN Level 2 Accreditation option

This course is aimed at the photographer wanting to gain greater knowledge and develop their existing skills in photography, perhaps with a view to establishing themselves in business. You will further develop technical lighting and creative lighting set ups for individual portraits, family portraits to fashion.

This course will allow you to develop your own style through learning the many different ways in which to take a portrait, giving you the skills to move forward in Studio Portraiture.

Course Duration: 6 weeks
When: Sat 11th September 2010
Time: 9.30am - 12pm
or
When: Monday 13th September 2010
Time: 6.30pm - 9pm
Cost: Standard £250, Accreditation £280

OCN: Black And White Photography

OCN (Open College Network) Level 2 Accreditation option

You will gain the technical knowledge required to get the best out of you camera, and to develop an understanding of how tone and texture in Black and White photography works. This will give you the skills to use your camera in different situations and lighting conditions so you will know how and what you have captured on your role of film.

Darkroom techniques will be learned by processing your own films and printing your own photographs, further developing these skills will lead to the production of high quality images.

This 8 week course allows you to enhance you creative and technical skills which is useful to any style of photography.

Course Duration: 8 Weeks
Start Date: Sat 11th September 2010
Time: 1.00pm - 3.30pm
Cost: Standard £320, Accreditation £350

OCN: Photo Documentary Course

OCN Level 2 Accreditation option

You will gain the knowledge required to undertake a Photo Documentary project in researching and developing ideas, themes and how to use photography to explore concepts further.

You will develop skills from camera operation, image composition, lighting, and flash photography, to establishing contacts for your projects and how to sell your work.

The course offers full support from expert tutors who are working photographers in the area of Documentary photography.

Course Duration: 10 weeks
When: Wednesday 15th September 2010
Time: 6.30 - 9pm
Cost: Standard £320, Accreditation £350

For further information

For bookings and further information on all our courses and workshops, please contact:

Email: training@belfastexposed.org
Phone: 028 9023 1009 or 028 9023 0965