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LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY BPH203

Duration (approx) 100 hours
Qualification
Statement of Attainment

Why Study Landscape Photography?

Photography is a skill. Landscape photography builds on that skill, expanding and developing your photography skill further. Taking photos of people or cars or animals takes different techniques and skills. This course enables you to focus specifically on the skills and techniques use to photography landscapes and nature.

The course will help you to discover how to take powerful landscape photographs.

Capturing a dramatic landscape takes a lot of technique and skill. 

Almost everyone at some point has taken a photograph and been surprised when the picture doesn't look nearly as dramatic as the landscape did in reality. This course will explain how to capture what you experience in the moment and transport that same 'feel' into your images.

Who Is This Course Suitable For?

The course is suitable for anyone who wants to take great landscape and natural photographs.

Suitable for –

  • Professional photographers who want to expand their skills in taking images of landscapes.
  • Amateurs who want to improve their photography skills.
  • Writers/bloggers/teachers/marketing personnel or anyone who wants to take better images of landscapes and nature for their work.

This course is suitable for professional/career development, CPD or personal interest.

What Will You Learn in This Course?

DISCOVER THE ART OF CAPTURING LANDSCAPES

Learn to capture the essence of the landscape in your images. 

This course will show you the techniques necessary to capture the individual expressions of each landscape.  Learn about special effects, colour richness, photographic terms, & achieving sharpness. Develop your skill in creating different effects and using different materials and equipment and see the difference show in your pictures.

You will learn a wide variety of things, through a combination of reading, interacting with tutors, undertaking research and practical tasks, and watching videos. Here are just some of the things you will be doing:

  • Basics of photography.
  • Starting a resource file.
  • Principles of landscape photography.
  • Selecting the right equipment and materials.
  • Using filters.
  • Dealing with a range of problems found in natural areas, including uneven light, shade, glare, etc.
  • Photographing buildings and streetscapes.
  • The characteristics of water and its effect on photography.
  • Selecting and composing a photograph to create the predetermined effect.
  • Create a folio of landscape photographs.

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Lesson Structure

There are 8 lessons in this course:

  1. Introduction
  2. The Main Principles
  3. Creating Different Effects
  4. Photographing Natural Areas
  5. Photographing Streetscapes
  6. Photographing Water
  7. Developing Your Photographic Style
  8. Major Project

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Aims

  • Discuss the nature and scope of photographing landscapes.
  • Develop a firm understanding of how you can work at improving your capabilities with respect to taking landscape photographs.
  • Develop a framework, upon which you will base your work in future lessons.
  • Increase the variety of effects which you are able to create when photographing landscapes.
  • Develop your capacity to take better photographs of natural areas.
  • Develop your capacity to take better photographs of buildings and streetscapes
  • Develop your capacity to take better photographs of water landscapes.
  • Develop your flexibility of being able to capture landscape images in different photographic styles.
  • Develop a folio of quality landscape photographs.

What Are the Advantages of Studying Photography With ACS Distance Education?

  • You can start at any time to suit you.
  • The courses are self-paced.
  • You can study when and where suits you. They are flexible to fit in around you and your lifestyle.
  • Keep up to date on your learning.
  • Update your CV.
  • It is not just a course, it is a package of learning that includes – course notes, tutor feedback, self-assessment tests, research tasks and assignments.
  • Our tutors are all experts in their field, with years of experience in photography and teaching.
  • They are also keen and enthusiastic about their subject and enjoy working with students to improve their knowledge and skills.
  • Courses are also updated regularly to meet the demands of the changing needs for knowledge and to keep our courses up to date.

What Next?

If you would like to learn how to create exceptional landscape photos, then this is the course for you.

You can enrol today by clicking the “Enrol Now” button above.

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Meet some of our academics

John MasonWriter, Manager, Teacher and Businessman with over 40 years interenational experience covering Education, Publishing, Leisure Management, Education, and Horticulture. He has extensive experience both as a public servant, and as a small business owner. John is a well respected member of many professional associations, and author of over seventy books and of over two thousand magazine articles.
Rosemary Davies (Horticulturist)A graduate of Burnley Horticultural College; Rosemary has over 30 years of experience in horticulture. Her training was extensive covering both amenity and production horticulture; developing pactical skills and a deep understanding of the sciences that underpin horticulture. She worked with the Agriculture Dept in Victoria as a consultant or advisor to both farmers and home gardeners. Over the years, her experience has been as broad as her training, working on radio with ABC radio, a garden editor (with several major publications) and as a teacher, writer, garden designer and consultant. Rosemary has led several garden tours to the UK and Europe. In 1999 Rosemary was BPW Bendigo Business Woman of the Year and is one of the founders and the Patron, of the Friends of the Bendigo Botanic gardens. She has written six gardening books and collaborated on many others. Rosemary brings a unique personality, knowledge base and passion to the school; an an infectious love of horticulture in support of our students. She holds a B.Sc Hort,, Dip.Hort.Sc., Dip. Advertising & Marketing and B.Ed.
Tracey Jones (writing)Tracey has enjoyed creative writing since she was a child. She has had several short stories published and a novella. She is also a keen writer of children's stories and poetry. She has also written many academic and non-fiction books in the fields of psychology, sociology, child development, writing and marketing.


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