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Certificate/Short Course in Digital Photography

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Certificate/Short Course in Digital Photography
Domestic Entry Requirements
Domestic students
There are no requirements regarding previous academic attainment or English proficiency. However, there are some courses that require prerequisite knowledge. Contact a Career Advisor at your Campus for further details.
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Certificate/Short Course in Digital Photography
International Entry Requirements
International students
There are no requirements regarding previous academic attainment or English proficiency. However, there are some courses that require prerequisite knowledge. Contact a Career Advisor at your Campus for further details.
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YOUR CAREER IN PHOTOGRAPHY BEGINS NOW

Train in world class studio environments Sony and Canon cameras, and Adobe Photoshop.
Practical, immersive training All work is project-based, with no exams.

Course Structure

Duration: 36 hours, 4 Weeks
Days/Week: 3 days per week
Time: 5:30pm to 8:30pm
Course Overview:
• Have an excellent knowledge of the photography world & how it began
• Master controlling the camera and Its options
• Master controlling light equipment and how & when to use them
• Master the usage of modern photography extra gear & equipment
• Knowledge of photo retouching & editing
• Photography Words: learn all the vocabularies that you will need to understand to explore this magnificent world with ease.
• Photography Fields: discover and discuss some of the main photography fields.
• How to use the camera: It’s like a pencil with a lot of buttons, so we will learn what does those buttons do and how to hold the brush and go wild.
• Light Shape & Properties:
We will understand how light creates the scene before our eyes, then will learn how to control it to create what we want to.
• High-Key & Low-Key Scenes:
We will learn how the light of the scene can affect the impact of the image, a lot of shadows add drama and negative energy to the scene (Low-Key), and the opposite with a well let scene that can expose positive energy and happiness (high-key).
• Light & Feelings:
As previously mentioned, light can have a great impact on the scene and the emotions inside the scene too, we will focus on Portrait lighting and the feelings connected to it.
• Color theory:
Have you ever felt that some colors look bad together and other colors looks complement to each other? there is a theory that we can use and apply to achieve the look we want with the best colors ever.
• Colors and Feelings:
Till now we learnt how light reflects feelings, but colors have much more powerful impact on feelings, Orange color give you the warmth feeling of passion and happiness or even love, and every color has its own characteristics
• Where and why?
By Nature we love to capture images of the subject being in the middle of the frame as we think it’s more beautiful and
pleasant to the eye, but that’s not always the case, there some rule of composition that we can use to give more beauty but with messages too.
• Adobe Photoshop (Camera Raw Filter):
After you shoot a raw image, you still need some tweaks to enhance it, and there is no other program to do that than the mighty Adobe Photoshop.
• Image Retouching:
Let’s explain it in three words: Digital Plastic Surgery, Remove Skin Blemishes And black spots, enhance the eyes, manipulate the face, etc....

Course FAQs

All SAE courses focus on practical, hands-on delivery. The amount of practical time you experience during your study varies depending on your course. You will always have an opportunity to access campus resources and facilities outside of class times; during campus opening hours.

It can vary depending on the course. In most cases, lectures have an average of 15 students.

The cost of each course at SAE varies. For information on the tuition fee, contact one of the Career Advisors on your campus at +962 6 4000 707.

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