Level 1: Introduction To Your Digital Camera
Saturday 27 Feb and 6 Mar – 10am-12pm (Online)
Wednesday 24 and 31 Mar – 6pm-9pm
Saturday – 1 and 8 May – 2pm -5pm
You will get an introduction to your camera’s manual controls, focusing on how to control aperture, shutter speed and ISO to correctly expose your photographs. This course will also enable you to apply a practical and theoretical knowledge to help you use a digital camera effectively and creatively.
Level 2: Develop Your Photography Skills
Saturday 3 & 10 Apr – 2pm – 5pm
Saturday 5 & 12 Jun – 10am – 1pm
You will learn new camera settings and develop your photography skills, focusing on how to use white balance, metering, bracketing, focusing, histogram and more. This course will also enable you to apply a practical and theoretical knowledge to help you use a digital camera effectively and creatively.
Level 3: Studio Photography
Saturday 13, 20 & 27 Feb – 2pm – 5pm
You will gain knowledge of studio lighting setups and techniques to enable you to take quality studio images from family portraits and stylish fashion shots, to interesting still lifes and eye-catching products. You will learn how to set up the lights and various lighting techniques that you can easily replicate in your home as the cost of studio lighting has fallen dramatically.
Level 3: Landscape Photography
Saturday 13, 20 & 27 Mar | 10am – 1pm
Day 1 is based in the studio where we will fully prepare you with the knowledge to move into the field of landscape photography with confidence, looking at both historical and contemporary work. Day 2 is on location. The location will be decided on day 1, as well as the choice between a morning sunrise shoot or an evening sunset shoot. Day 3 is back in the studio. The photographs taken on day 2 will be reviewed, with the tutor providing valuable, constructive feedback.
Level 3: Street Photography
Saturday 3, 10 & 17 Apr – 10am – 1pm
A street photograph usually features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places, and often has an idea, story or message going on beneath the surface. This creative and practical course will help you to develop and gain confidence in street photography, how to approach your subject, shoot candid shots and develop your personal style and technique.
Level 3: Documentary Photography
Saturday 15, 22 & 29 May | 2pm – 5pm
The course offers contextual knowledge together with the technical skills and project planning skills. The course will cover all areas of documentary photography, from its origins and working photographers to setting challenges for each participant to think about their photography and the development of their project.
Level 1: Black & White Photography
Monday 15 & 22 Feb | 6pm – 9pm
This course will be run over 2 x three hour sessions starting with picture taking, through to editing, processing, and printing your negatives. We also look at composition and taking images in full frame capturing the entire scene and obtaining correct exposure and metering techniques. The image taking skills are mirrored in our post-production learning.
Level 2: Printing Your Negatives
Monday 10 & 17 May – 6pm – 9pm
This course will be run over 2 x three hour sessions starting with picture taking, through to editing, processing, and printing your negatives. We also look at composition and taking images in full frame capturing the entire scene and obtaining correct exposure and metering techniques. The image taking skills are mirrored in our post-production learning.
Level 1: Learn the Basics of Video
Saturday 1, 8, 15 & 22 May – 10am – 1pm
The course provides a general practical introduction to the field of video. It introduces basic concepts of the moving image with a limited amount of theory. You will learn how your DSLR/digital camera can introduce a new world of practical and creative options, however the field is vast and the uses and techniques available are many. The course therefore is intended to get you started on the path of further individual experimentation and exploration.
Photoshop Basics
Saturday 20 Mar – 10am – 4pm
Saturday 26 Jun – 10am – 4pm
The course will introduce you to the Photoshop interface and will cover the basic Photoshop features such as working in layers, and techniques that you can use to adjust, correct and enhance your photographs.
Lightroom Basics
Saturday 24 Apr – 10am – 4pm
The course will cover the basic Lightroom features and techniques that you can use to adjust, correct and enhance your photographs, how to prepare your photographs for printing, and how to catalogue and organise your library of images.
Creating a Photobook (Online)
Saturday 6, 13 & 20 Feb – 2pm – 5pm
This course will cover initial ideas, photographic terminology, editing and sequencing, publishing and marketing, printing and binding, expectations of production costs, and other issues you may encounter when producing a photobook. During the course there will be a guest speaker discussing the joys and follies of their photobooks.
Portfolio Review
Dates can be chosen
The purpose of the review is to provide photographers, and artists working with photography, the opportunity to present their portfolio and gain a professional opinion on their work and constructive feedback on their artistic development, and expand their professional network and exchange ideas.
Wet Plate Collodion
Saturday 6 Mar – 11am – 5pm
Wet Plate Collodion is a 19th century photography process of creating images on glass or metal plates. This one day, intensive workshop will let you relive the excitement experienced by the pioneers of photography. Each participant will shoot and process their own unique ambrotypes, from start to finish.
Bespoke Training Courses
Dates can be chosen
BE also offers bespoke training courses, where our facilitators can create a one-to-one training experience specifically designed to suit your needs.
To book, email Belfast Exposed at training@belfastexposed.org
