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School: Focal Point - The Visual Arts Learning Centre
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Flash Photography
Course Format: Classroom
Explore and open up the world of flash photography. In this course you will discover how to use your flash more effectively, through understanding how to properly light using in-camera flash, studio and in the field. As well as developing your skills with fill, effective bounce flash and mixing ambient and flash. The course will include many learning approaches from in studio work, field trip...
 

The Creative Portrait Workshop
Course Format: Classroom
This 10-week advanced workshop focuses on a style of portraiture that is creative, modern and professional. Studio & natural lighting techniques are taught in the form of workshops along with group critiques. Classes will be held at the Focal Point Studios and on location during field trips. Multiple chances to shoot a variety of people will give students a great opportunity to build a professi...
 

Contemporary Nude Portraiture
Course Format: Classroom
The human obsession for the undraped figure started with female figurines, roughly carved, in the Stone Age. The photographic nude can be a landscape nude or a nude in a landscape. The nude can be at home or in a studio. We shall review all these options. Students will be able to use both digital or film cameras. I have a special fondness for shooting nudes with b+w infrared film so we will le...
 

Building Your Portfolio
Course Format: Classroom
The purpose of this course is to facilitate in-depth, communicative sessions that inspire students to create conceptually rich imagery. Each session will mostly be led by group discussion with the exception of guest lecturers & gallery visits. The art of critique is looking for strong thinkers who crave intellectually stimulating conversation and see the value in receiving and giving criticism.
 

Photography as an Illustration
Course Format: Classroom
This proposal is for a very creative side of photography for students who wish to explore the potentials of their creative approach and techniques. Each student will choose at the beginning of the course a short literary work/text/poem, which he/she would attempt to illustrate within the scope of the course. Each class would demonstrate a particular technique to give the students the tools for...
 

Photographic Composition and Design
Course Format: Classroom
Part of the pleasure of photography stems from the satisfaction of creating images that not only record an event, but are pleasing to look at in their own right. Effective photographic composition and design are the major keys to a successful photograph, skills that any serious photographer must learn and master.
 

Night & Existing Light Photography
Course Format: Classroom
Explore the world of night, existing, low light and expand your photographic potential. This course is designed to show you how to photograph people, objects and places under any low light condition. Environmental portraiture, night photography, light painting and fill - flash are among the topics that will be covered.
 

Narrative Photography
Course Format: Classroom
This course introduces students to various traditions and concepts of narration in photography using examples from the genres of photojournalism, documentary photography and travel photography. Narrative Photography is taught by Christopher Grabowski, a Vancouver based photographer whose works have been published worldwide. Students are expected, at some point during this course, to present the...
 

The Natural Portrait
Course Format: Classroom
This course is a combination of a studio and outdoor photography to demonstrate various techniques in portraiture using simple yet effective techniques to improve portraiture skills. Students will learn the basic principles of studio lighting for portraits and also tips and techniques for outdoors. At the end of the course each student will present his/her portfolio of various portraits taken i...
 

Food and Beverage Photography Workshop
Course Format: Classroom
Bring your appetites to this course designed to teach the mysterious intricacies behind the specialized field of food photography! Students will learn hands on about style development, lighting and handling of food & beverage for photography. Tips, tricks and techniques in food styling are shared and de-mystified along with anecdotes from the field. Lectures, demos and workshops demonstrate and...
 

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