If you already shoot for friends, this turns it into work. You cover lighting, colour, editing, commercial shoots and freelance basics. Bring a camera that takes lenses and go at your speed.
Light, colour and a brief do most of the work.
Enhancing, manipulating and outputting images is taught here.
Providing services to clients gets its own study.
Photography work runs through studios, weddings and product shoots. A day is setup, shoot, edit, deliver.
Shoot to a brief and hand over the files.
Carry, light and load for a working shooter.
Take your own clients, on your own terms.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Clients hire on portfolio, so build one as you go.
Camera first, then light and colour, then clients.
Three things to weigh up first.
Interpreting and responding to a brief is assessed.
You finish by realising a project of your own.
Lauren McConnell shoots and teaches photography.
Plus a body of creative work
Issued once the modules are complete.
Your own project, finished and presented.
Briefs, merchandise shoots and freelance service.
It needs to take changeable lenses.
Unit list, software and kit, in writing.
Upfront, in four, or week to week.
The first unit puts you behind the camera.
Any camera that takes changeable lenses. A DSLR or mirrorless both work.
Phone cameras can be used through the course as well.
It is a separate cost. Adobe offers student pricing through Adobe for Education.
None. Capture and safety come first.
Some students complete hours on top of weekly study.
None. Shoot tasks, portfolios and written work instead.
Providing freelance services is a unit. Clients hire on portfolio, so build one as you go.
Any day. There are no semester intakes.
Open Colleges delivers this course online, from Australia.
Trainer Lauren McConnell has sixteen years shooting and teaching.
Picture the first invoice that goes out with your name on it.