Digital Photography Course (Private)

Learn to look at and manage everyday reality through a camera viewfinder: this Private Digital Photography course was created to provide you with, or deepen all the skills necessary to successfully explore and practice the world of Digital Photography, in the time of pixel images. Learn all the necessary skills, from shooting to post-production, for those who practice digital photography!

From shooting to various digital technologies, from different models of cameras to post production and file export: we’ll guide you from image capture, through to editing and printing onto fine art paper, planning everything together with you, according to your needs and professional requirements.

Program

Being a private course, you’ll be able to agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher, starting from our standard program. This list is not exhaustive: you can add or delete topics according to your professional needs.

• The Analog camera: functions, characteristics and types.
• The Digital camera: functions and characteristics.
• The Digital Sensor: functions and characteristics.
• The Digital File and Bit Depth.
• Digital Formats: RAW, TIFF, JPEG.
• Managing the RAW file.
• The Shutter: shutter speed scale, motion freeze, selective blur and panning.
• Aperture and Depth of Field.
• Photographic Exposure: Pairing Time and Aperture.
• Light Meter and the Grey Card.
• Sensitivity of the Sensor: ISO measurements.
• Exposure reading of the digital camera: Spot, Center-weighted, Matrix.
• Exposure modes of the digital camera: M, A, S, P.
• Taking a photograph with a digital camera.
• Reading the Histogram.
• The creativity of Manual exposure.
• Bracketing and its uses.
• The Lens: Focal length and perspective.
• Fixed and Zoom lenses.
• When to use Automatic features.
• Framing and image composition.
• White Balance in a digital camera.
• Digital Noise and high ISO.
• Using a Scanner.
• How to manage digital work-flow.
• Software for file management: Lightroom and Bridge.
• The Digital File.
• The Digital Darkroom: Photoshop and post-production.
• The importance of the Monitor.
• Digital Fine Art printing.

As the course unfolds, you’ll also work outside with practical exercises, to fully understand the ideas studied in class.