Correspondence Course Travel Photography
Course structure
There are eight lessons including a special project in this course:
Introduction
To be able to take good travel photographs, the first essential is to know and understand the equipment and materials used in photography. Part of this first lesson is aimed to ensure that you have this basic knowledge.
The Main Principles
This lesson aims to provide you with a firm understanding of how you can work at improving your capabilities with respect to taking travel photographs. It provides a framework, upon which you will base your work in future lessons.
Creating Different Effects
Learn how to achieve different effects with snapshots and scenic shots.
Photographing Natural Areas
Learn how to photograph wilderness shots and seascapes.
Photographing Streetscapes
Learn the two main types of street photography: posed & candid
Photographing Interiors
Look at the difficulties involved in photographing interior subjects and how to overcome them.
Developing Your Photographic Style
By using photographic equipment skillfully and learning how to sense the way different types of film will respond to different colours and different situations (eg: haze, back light, side light, reflected light etc).
Major Project
Duration : 100 hours
What qualification will I achieve for completing this course?
This is an individual module course. The individual module courses are 100 hour long usually and can be taken on their own or as part of a larger program of study.
If you wish to take an individual module course as a stand alone course, you can elect to sit an optional exam at the end of it.
If you successfully pass the exam and all assignments, you will receive a Statement of Attainment. You can take examinations at a time and location to suit you. If you enrol, you will be sent further information on how to arrange examinations at the end of the course.
If you do not wish to take the exam, you will receive a Course Completion letter when you have passed all assignments.
There is an assignment at the end of each lesson. So for example, if an individual module course contains ten lessons, you will need to complete ten assignments. Assignments can be sent to us via email, post or fax.
Other qualifications, such as certificates, diplomas etc may require examinations to be taken as part of the overall assessment process.
You can find further information on the examinations process by clicking on the “Enrolment” link above.
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Aims
Identify the scope of travel photography, and the resources required to take travel photos
Explain how you can work at improving your capabilities with respect to taking travel photographs.
Apply camera techniques including framing, positioning, timing and borrowed landscapes to create various effects.
Photograph natural areas to make best use of their texture, or even give them human qualities.
Photograph streetscapes to create different moods, or capture elements of your choice.
Photograph indoor scenes making best use of available and artificial lighting.
Create a series of travel photographs which contain a single common feature that differentiates them from other photographs, and in doing so, provides an indication that they are likely to have been taken by the same person.
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How Long will it take to complete the course?
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Home Study Travel Photography
An ideal course for anyone planning a holiday. Over eight lessons, you will be shown how to achieve a quality record of your trip on film. Your tutor will advise you on what type of equipment you need and where to buy it.
