Company Name: Stellenbosch Academy Telephone: Fax: Cell Phone: Email: infostellenboschacademy.co.za Website:

Course Title:   Comprehensive Photography and Photoshop

This is an intensive 33 hour photography course over 11 sessions aimed at the ENTREPENEUR who wishes to gain comprehensive, thorough knowledge of this skill without applying for permanent studies. The course consists of 9 days training in photography
followed by a 2 day workshop in Photoshop. The latter covers all the various applications to adapt your images for print and industry standards.

Photography outcomes:

• History of Photography and Visual Literacy

• Camera functions, accessories, lenses and flash

• Digital Photography – exposure, resolution, white balance, colour temperature, pixels, ISO ratings, memory cards, software, downloading images, digital camera, image noise, image types and sizes, shooting in RAW.

• Aperture and depth of field

• Shutter and motion

• Exposure, natural lighting, artificial lighting

• Lenses and Filters

• Composition, perspective, viewpoint, design elements influencing photography

• Specialised photography – night photography, travel, close-ups, portraits, sunsets, water and safari.

• Photoshop for Photographers

• Moving around the Photoshop workspace: toolbox, menus, palettes

• Histograms, levels and curves: adjusting tonal values of photographs

• Retouching with the clone stamp tool and the patch tool

• Cropping and transforming Images

• Using selection tools

• Making colour adjustments

• The effect of using filters

• Basic introduction to layers

• The idea of masking to create hand-colouring

• Opening, Creating and saving images

• Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts

Course dates: 

Course 1: 19 Jan - 30 March 2010 from 18h00 – 21h00
Course 2: 13 Apr - 29 June 2010 from 18h00 – 21h00
Course 3: 20 Jul -  28 Sept 2010 from 18h00 – 21h00

Course 4:  5 Oct - 7 Dec 2010 from 18h00 -21h00

Course Title 2 Comprehensive Photography and Photoshop Classification Photography -> Advanced Photography Course Requirements Own Digital SLR camera. Price Cost of course: R 3800-00 per course Notes Each candidate will receive a certificate upon successful completion of the course. Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography is a fully accredited private higher education instituition, registered with the Department of Education, 2004/HE07/002.

Course Information Location Western Cape - Stellenbosch Course Type Part Time Evening Start Dates Length of Course 11 Weeks, Tuesday evenings Final Registration Date 2 weeks prior to commencement date of course

Contact Details Name Louise van Wyk/Stellenbosch Academy Phone Email infostellenboschacademy.co.za