Topic outline

  • Course schedule

    Welcome to Photography Workshop! 
    Welcome to Photography Workshop, course is held online, you'll find the link below.
    You don't need to know anything about dslr-cameras, you'll learn the basics during the course. I emphasize artistic approach and using camera as a tool for thinking and making art.

    Zoom link: https://aalto.zoom.us/my/avoinvalokuva1
    Upload assignments to Padlet in jpg-format for comments and discussion!

    26.4. mon 9.15–16.00  

    • You don’t take a photograph, you make it

    • Assignment: Composition 

    • Pick up cameras from Väre Takeout 13.00–16.00

    27.4. tue 9.15–16.00

    • Basic controls of the camera

    • Assignment: Shutter speed (Tv-mode)

    • Assignment: Aperture (Av-mode)


    28.4. wed 9.15–16.00

    • Manual exposure 

    • Holy trinity – how camera works

    • Canon Play

    • Focus points and focusing

    • Assignment: Portrait / positive & negative space


    29.4. thu 9.15–16.00

    • Photo editing (Photoshop & Camera RAW or Lightroom)

    • Discussion of Portrait Assignment


    30.4. fri 9.15–16.00

    • Assignment: Light and mood in photography (underexposing, overexposing, metering light, dynamic range)

    • Assignment: Moments and observations – Documentary Photography

    • Copyrights and publishing images

    • Assignment: Variations with objects (creative process)


    10.5. mon 9.15–16.00

    • Assignment: Food photography, still life, lighting and home studio


    11.5. Tue 9.15–16.00

    • Focal length, lenses and filters

    • Camera sensors and Crop factor

    • Histogram

    • Working on digital portfolio: Light and Mood & Moments and Observations (or something else)

    12.5. wed 9.15–16.00

    • Critique (Personal digital portfolio with selected 5-6 photos, text and link/links)

    • 9.15 – 12.00: 8 students (max 20 min. each) + one 15 min break
      lunch
      12.45 – 16.00 8 students (max 20 min. each) + one 15 min break



    Contact:
    Outi Laine
    050 535 9396
    outimarja.laine(at)gmail.com