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Developing a Photographer's Eye

Technique | Duration: 4 weeks | Session: Now enrolling for: 2 Jan - 2 Feb 2008 Session

Want to improve your photography, but finding it hard to effectively evaluate your own work? This course will lead you to view your images with a fresh eye. You’ll learn how powerful photographs are constructed and you’ll come away with “tools” to further explore and develop unique creative strengths you never realized you had.

View from Above

Advanced Beginner - Intermediate level of camera proficiency suggested.
Improve your photographs by learning how images are made.
Identify goals and unique strengths in order to grow as a photographer.
Learn to find the best in the you produce.

Toolbox Needs

Digital or film camera (Access to a scanner required if shooting film, or request a CD of your work from the lab, when film is developed).
Knowledge of how to control aperture and shutter speed.
An assortment of prime lenses (fixed focal-length) or a zoom lens in the 24mm -70mm range.

Mwoodward

Michelle Woodward (view profile)

Course Outline

Week 1: What Makes a “Successful” Photograph?
Identifying your genre. Setting course. Hitting your mark.

Week 2: "Making," Not “Taking” - There is a Difference.
What’s your style? A Photo – summing its parts. Interpretation – that “something” more.

Week 3: Selecting Your Best.
Image choice – during and post-shoot. Composition in real-time. Identifying your best – efficiently, effectively.

Week 4: Making "Unique" Work for You.
Fortifying your natural talent. Correcting course. The way forward.