Advertising and Still-Life Photography
Our still life course will teach you many of the techniques, tricks and tips that professional photographers employ when shooting images for advertising & still-life. Our tutors have a knowledge and ability that few lecturing photographers can match. In their day jobs they transform the mundane into the magical and this is proven in the top-end advertising campaigns they regularly shoot, a wealth of high profile clients and an enviable portfolio of stunning images.
Over the duration of the course we will set about photographing a number of different subjects in the studio. Each one will be used to illustrate a different lighting style and the relevant factors that combine to create the polished professional look photographers strive for. Every photograph we see published today goes through a degree of postproduction. Be it enhancements in Photoshop & other design programmes or indeed colour correction for printing. We will show you a variety of Photoshop and RAW processing techniques that can improve a captured image and turn if from a good image, to a stunning image.
What you will learn in the studio:
Knowing your light source
Modifying the light
Lighting ratios
Filters and gels
Turning the ordinary into the extraordinary
Technical lighting
Coping with high dynamic range
Creating mood and atmosphere
Constructing the set
Working with an art-director and shooting to a brief
Shooting difficult subjects
Controlling and utilising reflections
What you will learn in Photoshop & Aperture software:
Working with levels and curves
Improving colour contrast and saturation
Multiple exposure layer merging
Optimising for print
Working with layer masks
Selections and paths
Cross-process and monochrome effects
Lecturer & Group Critique:
Picture Critique
Artistic Interpretation
Composition Techniques & discussions
Analysing your work
