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This class gives students a basic understanding of digital photography. Students will learn to understand ISO, aperture & time value; enabling them to use a fully manual setting on the camera.
Together with leaning the camera manual settings, students will obtain a basic understanding of photography theory including perspective and movement as well as the difference between camera RAW and jpeg.
Knowledge of Lightroom and Photoshop will be obtained through metadata, archival and basic photo retouching
Please bring your own camera. All other film equipment will be provided by Pacific Design Academy.
Know your camera; Camera Basics, Shooting in Manual mode, and Exposure Triangle.
Exposure Triangle continued; Speed photography, and Visual effects with shutter speed.
Theory; Perspective, and rule of thirds, and Photo Critique.
Light control; Leading lines, Reflecting light, and visual effects with filters.
Creative photography; Focus point, Painting with light.
Light control; Camera Light metering, Painting with light as fine art, and introduction to camera flash.
Light control; on/off camera flash.
Lightroom; Library module, personalization, metadata.
Lightroom; Develop module, intro to retouching.
Lightroom; Develop module, masking, introduction to Photoshop.
Lightroom and Photoshop; Putting it all together, class review.
Quiz, Photoshoot, Editing, and Presentation to class.
This program has been approved by the Private Training Institutions Branch (PTIB) of the Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills of the Government of British Columbia.
WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE LEKWUNGEN TRADITIONAL TERRITORIES THAT PACIFIC DESIGN ACADEMY STANDS UPON, AND THE SONGHEES, ESQUIMALT AND W̱SÁNEĆ PEOPLES
WHOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH THESE LANDS CONTINUES TO THIS DAY.