Creative Photography and How to Market your Images -intermediate/advanced

Creative Photography and How to Market your Images

Level: This is an intermediate/advanced course.

What is the Creative Photography and How to Market your Images course.
This course would benefit the advanced amateur photographer, who would have a back catalogue of images that he or she would like to find a market for, or would just like to exhibit more widely. It would also benefit the intermediate photographer who wishes to improve their image-making, as it would demonstrate simple Adobe Photoshop and other creative processes, as well as reviewing top quality and inspirational photographers†work.

Course topics

• Review of established picture libraries
• Review and critique of students†best work ie personal back catalogue
• Looking at consistently top-selling images, with emphasis on finding gaps in the market
• Processing raw images
• Creative photography: Using filters, different lenses, composition, shooting raw images and selecting a genre eg landscape, reportage & abstract
• Local galleries, and other opportunities to exhibit work
• Setting up websites: from Myspace to personal.com sites & self-promotion
• Field trip

Teaching and Learning
Simple projects will be set throughout, and these will be reviewed each week. A local field trip to an interesting location would ensure that the students get their hands-on help with the creative processes, as well as practical demonstrations in the classroom. Each week, some time would be allocated to individuals†needs, if required.

Assessment details
Assessment is by observation with verbal feedback.

Notes

NB There will be no class on Wednesday 3 March 2010

Extra costs : Own transport for the field trip, digital camera, memory stick for saving digital files (this is essential) writing materials and notebooks.

Related items
Adult Education General Information.