Photography: The Art of Smartphone Photography - Beginners

Photography is bound up in the history of technological innovations, from the invention of the Daguerreotype to the digital revolution. Each new technological breakthrough has shifted the way we see and represent the world photographically.

This course will provide practical guidance to help you make your photos really stand out and how to develop the use of format, orientation and editing for different grounds. To use your phone’s inbuilt technology to crop your images, adjust contrast, colour, and exposure Mastering how to find the proper light for your subject: to identify light sources to take pictures of portraits, landscapes and objects.

Gain confidence in using, controlling and manipulating smartphone’s cameras.

Accomplish the fundamentals of photography to strengthen your mental muscles: to tell a story with a single picture or with a series of them. A lot of what makes an interesting image. Interesting is not always about the technical know how of the photographer but in the composition of the elements within the image itself.

Both technical skills and creating great photos will be covered in an understandable way, with a view to applying the skills learnt in your own environment. You will be encouraged to take part in group discussions throughout the course.