4th December 2024, 17:00 - 20:00 at Witney Campus
Course code: QCXU601P
Subject area: Photography
Study level: Part Time
Course level: U
Course time:
19:00 - 21:00
Days of week:
Wednesday
Course date:
8th Jan 2025 - 26th Mar 2025
Course location:
The Cherwell SchoolOn this course, you will: • Explore what equipment to use to enhance your photography skills. • Consider different genres such as night, still life, documentary and landscape.• Experiment with your camera’s functions, such as on camera flash and manual mode and look at available equipment. • Explore several genres, discuss other photographer’s work and build your own skills and confidence. • Discover the best lenses and filters for individual situations. • Practice and develop your confidence in using the camera in manual mode.• Examine the rules of composition and how they relate to the new genres taught, such as night, still life, documentary and landscape. • Explore the use of lighting techniques by using on camera flash and painting with light. • Evaluate your own photographs, drawing on the knowledge of the techniques taught over the course.
At the end of the course you will have had the opportunity to:
• Explain the best lenses and filters for individual situations.• Experiment with using the camera in manual mode.• Explain the rules of composition and how they relate to the genres night, still life, documentary and landscape.• Explore use of lighting techniques by using on camera flash, for example, painting with light.• Produce a workbook/portfolio with at least five photos in the genre of your choice.• Evaluate your own photos drawing on the knowledge of the techniques taught over the course.
Please be aware that there will be no class 19/02/2025.No refreshments available, please bring your own.Free parking onsite
In order to avoid disappointment, it is advisable to enrol at least 2½ weeks prior to the course starting. We will confirm course information two weeks prior to the start date.
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Please note this course is not suitable if you own a standard point and shoot compact camera.
There are no entry requirements for this course.
Courses can fill fast, so please enrol early to avoid disappointment. Decisions on whether a course is to run are made two weeks prior to the start date - an email will be sent to you should there be changes to your course or if it is cancelled. Please check your inbox leading up to your course, including the junk folders. For anyone without an email account, our Admissions team will phone you instead.
For the first week of the course you will need to bring a valid form of identification; this includes passport, driving licence, debit/credit card, Birth Certificate or National Insurance card.
Please note - you should be 19 years old or over at 31st August 2024 prior to starting the course.
Courses offered by the college are fully or partly funded by the Government and the published fee takes account of this funding.
Before starting a course, the College is required to check you meet conditions relating to that funding, e.g. age, residency status within the UK/EEA, prior qualification level and employment status. In some circumstances (such as with online enrolments), these checks can only be completed after you have enrolled and paid.
If you are unable to pay in full for this course at the time of enrolment, and the course tuition fee is £300 or more, an instalment plan is available. If this is your preference, please do not enrol online but rather call the Admissions Team on 01235 216400 to enrol.
Once enrolled, Admissions will take the first instalment payment from you and pass on your details to the Finance team who will email you to set-up your payment plan. Please return a fully completed instalment plan to Finance as failure to do so could result in being withdrawn from your course.
The rules on fee reduction are complicated, we would encourage you to talk to our Admissions Team on 01235 216400 to discuss these options. You can find more information on our Fees and Bursaries page - search "Fees and Bursaries" at the top of the page.
19+ Fee:
Tuition Fee: £211.20
Exam Fee: £0.00
Total Cost: £211.20
19+ Reduced Fee:
Tuition Fee: £105.60
Exam Fee: £0.00
Total Cost: £105.60