PHOTOGRAPHIC COURSES AND TRAINING SESSIONS

Photographic Courses and Training Sessions

With nearly 30 years photographic training experience our courses are designed to be hands on and practical. Participants 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.

For more information or to book a course contact: training@belfastexposed.org or call 028 9023 0965

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20% discount if you have already booked a Winter/Spring 2011/12 Course

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One 2 One Tuition

This arrangement is ideal for individuals to develop their skills further in any field of photography that we cover on our courses on a one-to-one tailor made course.

For further information contact training@belfastexposed.org / 028 9023 0965

Street Photography Belfast

Saturday 4 February from 10am - 4pm

Capture the real Belfast experience in the context of a gallery with over 25 years experience documenting the city and in the capable hands of a skilled and passionate photographer and teacher. Exploring the way photography expresses stories, histories and atmosphere, you will work in a small group, allowing for discreet street photography and more opportunity for one-to-one tuition.

Beginning in the workshop with an overview of Street Photography, you will explore strategies for getting that ‘decisive moment’ and then its out for the adventure that is street photography. There will also be an opportunity to take part in a peer review of the work carried out.

This course is open to all photographers, professional or amateur, no matter what technical stage you are at. You will receive personal feedback from the tutor and advice on how to continue improving your photography. The course notes will be a constant source of information as you begin, or continue, your journey through photography.

The course is taught in small groups (no more than 10 people). You will learn how to capture the real Belfast, the way you see it, but perhaps more importantly how you want your audience to see it.

The small numbers of students allows for discreet street photography and more opportunity for one to one tuition. Each participant will gain new skills no matter what stage of photography they are at.

The course will start in the classroom for an overview of Street Photography; you will discuss strategies for getting that ‘decisive moment’. Then its out for the adventure that is Street photography. There will also be time to have a peer review of the work carried out.

Solid practical skills for professional or personal use.Great peer to peer experience.

Equipment: Bring a camera of any description

Tutor: Christopher Barr
Chris is a photographer who works in both contemporary, commercial and academic contexts. With 7 years experience teaching in Higher Education and in the community, Chris has worked and exhibited internationally in the US, Europe and Africa. His approach to teaching is hands on and jargon free, gladly sharing his extensive insider knowledge and love of photography in ways that are concise, relevant and structured.

Cost: £100 (20% discount if you have already booked a winter/spring 2011/12 course)
Places: 10

Rates and discounts

Returning customer £80.00 GBP Regular £100.00 GBP

1-Day Studio Photography

Saturday 11 February from 10am - 4pm.

A full-day intensive introduction to working with light in the studio. You will work as part of a small group, guided by an experienced photographer, in Belfast Exposed’s well equipped studio in the city’s Cathedral Quarter. Test out and develop your skills and confidence and leave with a selection of shots ready to post on your portfolio.


During the day you will learn:
- Basic handling and Health and safety
- Introduction to high key lighting
- Introduction to low key lighting
- Introduction to light modifiers (umbrellas, soft boxes and bounce)

Equipment: Bring a camera of any description

Tutor: John M Lynch
John has been a full-time professional photographer since 2009. His work has been published in magazines, websites, posters and book covers. His Portraiture can be seen via www.apersure.co.uk. His commercial work can be seen via www.JohnMLynch.co.uk. His wedding photography can be seen via www.DXWP.co.uk or www.DoubleExposureWeddingPhotography.co.uk. He runs his business from his studio near Carryduff. He is a member of British Institute of Professional Photographers.

Cost: £80 (20% discount if you have already booked on a Winter/Spring 2011/12 course)
Places: 8

Rates and discounts

Returning customer £64.00 GBP Regular £80.00 GBP

Introduction to Studio Photography (3 sessions)

Evenings: Wednesday 15, 22 & 29 February from 6.30pm – 9pm

A 3-session workshop in Belfast Exposed’s studio in the city’s Cathedral Quarter. Working in a small group and guided by an experienced professional photographer and model, the course offers a hands on introduction to studio set up and shoot, where you will learn to use lighting to full effect, get some great shots for your portfolio, and gain practical experience in the studio.

The course covers:
- Basic handling skills and health and safety
- Light setup – Key Light, Fill Light and Effect Light.
- Introduction to light modifiers (umbrella, softbox, bounce, ringflash etc.)
- Light setup demonstrating traditional and contemporary setups
- Ideas for developing creative techniques to enrich your photography

Equipment: Bring a camera of any description

Tutor: John M Lynch
John has been a full-time professional photographer since 2009. His work has been published in magazines, websites, posters and book covers. His Portraiture can be seen via www.apersure.co.uk. His commercial work can be seen via www.JohnMLynch.co.uk. His wedding photography can be seen via www.DXWP.co.uk or www.DoubleExposureWeddingPhotography.co.uk. He runs his business from his studio near Carryduff. He is a member of British Institute of Professional Photographers.

Cost: £150 (20% discount if you have already booked a winter/spring 2011/12 course)
Places: 8

Rates and discounts

Returning customer £120.00 GBP Regular £150.00 GBP

Digital SLR Photography (3 weekend sessions)

Saturday 18, 25 February & 3 March from 10am - 12.30pm

Aimed at those wishing to refresh or progress their photography and apply technical skills on a photo shoot to produce a portfolio of photographs. This will enable you to use a 35mm digital SLR camera competently, but also covers composition including what makes a good photograph, framing and subject placement. By the end of the course, you will understand how to use the full functionality of your camera to take great photographs instead of hit and miss shots.

This includes:
- Manual exposure reading
- Knowing what ISO, shutter and aperture controls to use for a given photograph
- Manual focusing and lens choice
- How to manipulate the camera to produce special effects

Tutor: Christopher Barr
Chris is a photographer who works in both contemporary, commercial and academic contexts. With 7 years experience teaching in Higher Education and in the community, Chris has worked and exhibited internationally in the US, Europe and Africa. His approach to teaching is hands on and jargon free, gladly sharing his extensive insider knowledge and love of photography in ways that are concise, relevant and structured.

Cost: £150 (20% discount if you have already booked a winter/spring 2011/12 course)
Places: 10

Rates

Returning customer £120.00 GBP Regular £150.00 GBP

Fundamentals of Website Creation for Photographers

Evenings: Tuesday 6, 13 & 20 March 2012 from 6.30pm - 9pm

An introduction to the basic technologies involved in creating an on-line presence to showcase your photographic work, giving participants a solid and practical grounding in the basic building blocks of a web site.

The course will explain the various steps involved in creating basic web pages, incorporating text and images. As well as covering the theory behind each step of this process, each participant will get direct and first hand experience of working with these various technologies through actual authoring, styling, uploading and testing of web pages.

Equipment: equipment, software and web space provided. Each participant will be given access to a Belfast Exposed computer, including a 'Text Editor' and an 'FTP Programme'. Belfast Exposed will also provide sufficient web space onto which participants will be able to upload the pages they are creating.

Tutor: Stephen Hull
Stephen is the Web Editor at Source Photographic Review. As well as overseeing the day to day running of the Source website, Stephen is the sole developer and technical co-ordinator for Source's Graduate Photography Online project. As a freelance web developer Stephen has over 10 years experience creating and maintaining web sites primarily in the print and visual arts sector.

Course Content
1. Introduction to open standards on the web
2. What is a markup language?
3. Using a text editor
4. Introduction to HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
5. Creating a basic web page and conducting offline testing
6. Adding text to the web page
7. Introduction to image formats for the web
8. Adding images to the web page
9. Creating a text hyperlink
10. Creating an image hyperlink
11. Keeping content and formatting separate
12. Introduction to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
13. Adding inline style properties
14. Adding an internal style sheet
15. Adding an external style sheet
16. CSS properties for styling text
17. CSS properties for styling images
18. CSS properties for styling hyperlinks
19. Overview of server functions
20. Introduction to FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
21. Anatomy of an FTP programme
22. Uploading files using FTP
23. Conducting online testing
24. Validating your web pages

Cost: £150 (20% discount if you have already booked a winter/spring 2011/12 course)
Places: 7

Rates and discounts

Returning customer £120.00 GBP Regular £150.00 GBP

How to Create a Photo Book

Saturday 10 March from 10am – 4pm

Belfast Exposed introduces a new beginners guide to creating your own personalised photo book. Creating a photo book has never been more accessible. Print-on-demand services are available to anyone with an Internet connection, however the processes involved can often be daunting. Whether you have a collection of artistic photographs, a project you want to publish, or family snaps sitting in a biscuit tin, this could be the opportunity you need to learn how to turn those photographs into something expressive and creative.

Course details:
- Introduction to Print-on-demand
- Choosing the right service for you
- Using Print-on-demand software
- Personalizing your book (Choosing your style)
- Introduction into editing and sequencing
- Producing your finished book.

Equipment: Bring your photographs

Tutor: Brian J Morrison
Brian is a photographic artist who holds a first class BA Hons degree in Photography and has exhibited work throughout the UK. Brian has seen his work published in high profile publications such as Source Photographic Review as well as creating a number of self-published photo books. Most recently Brian has been working as an archivist for Belfast Exposed and has been developing new ways to engage with the public via the half million images in the collection.

Cost: £80 (20% discount if you have already booked a winter/spring 2011/12 course)
Places: 8

Rates and discounts

Returning customer £64.00 GBP Regular £80.00 GBP

Creative Adjustment Effects with Adobe Photoshop (CS5)

Saturday 24 March from 10.30am - 4pm

Take your knowledge to the next level and learn how to create stunning effects by getting hands on in our digital suite using Photoshop (CS5). The day will start with a studio shoot producing photographs to work on in the digital suite. This course provides practical skills, while identifying ways to improve your digital photography practice for the future, learning how to create effects using:

- Brightness/Contrast
- Hue/ Saturation
- Colour Chanels
- Multiple Curves
- On Image adjustment
- Levels
- Gradient map
- Vibrance
- Curves
- Colour Balance
- Black & White

Tutor: Louise Smyth
Louise studied Fine and Applied Art in the University of Ulster, majoring in photography and film and gaining a BA Honors Degree and a Diploma in Art and Design. She has taught digital media in schools and colleges and is currently a lecturer at Belfast Metropolitan College where she teaches photography, photoshop, media and film studies to A level and GCSE. With a wealth of experience working with local businesses, the BBC and in the community, Louise has also developed and successfully promoted her own wedding photography business, on and off line, and her work was recently featured in "Getting Married in Northern Ireland Magazine".

Cost: £100 (20% discount if you have already booked a winter/spring 2011/12 course)
Places: 7

Rates and discounts

Returning customer £80.00 GBP Regular £100.00 GBP

Bookings and Cancellation Policy

Bookings: Booking is on a first-come first-served basis. Places on all courses are limited so early booking is highly recommended.

A place may be booked by phone, or online, giving the name and date of the workshop you wish to participate in. Please ensure to give your full name, email, postal address and phone number.

If you book by leaving a phone message, or by email, we will contact you as soon as possible to confirm if a place is available. A waiting list will operate for fully subscribed courses.

Once a place is booked payment must be made within 3 days or the place will be released. A place is not confirmed until payment has been received.

Payments: Payment can be made by cash, cheque (payable to Belfast Exposed Photography), credit or debit card during the hours of 10am and 5pm.

Payment may also be made online using the ‘Buy Now’ yellow PayPal link on our website for your selected course. By Bank Transfer please remit to Belfast Exposed Photography Sort Code 950126 account 9001 4486 and ensure to include your name as reference so that we can credit the payment to you.

Training courses costing more than £150 may be paid in 2 equal instalments. The final balance is due 7 days before the course commences. If payment is not received the booking will be cancelled.

Notice of Cancellation: Please inform us as soon as possible if you are unable to attend a course. A cancellation fee of 25% (minimum £10) will apply to cancellations made less than 10 days before the course start date.

Non-transferable: Bookings for workshops and courses are non-transferable.

Punctuality: It is very important that all course participants arrive in good time. If you find yourself running late on the day of the course, please let us know.

Non-attendance: Please liaise with your tutor about any missed sessions to arrange course information sheets to be held over for you. Missed sessions cannot be transferred to another course.

Please note: Belfast Exposed reserves the right to cancel a course if insufficient places are booked. Based on availability, you may be eligible to transfer to another course or session, or alternatively a full refund will be issued.