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Improve your photography no matter what your level of expertise with UWA Extension.
From the popular beginners digital camera and Better Photography series to specialised topics like travel photography, portraits or wildflowers to advanced courses in fine art photography, we meet every need for the keen beginner and the practiced enthusiast.
All our photography courses are run by working professional photographers with decades of teaching experience. All courses include comprehensive course notes.
Learn from some of Perth’s best photography instructors at very competitive prices.
Today’s DSLR cameras offer vast photographic opportunities – if you know how to use them and you understand light. Get started with your DSLR camera with professional photographers Karen Castle and Karin Calvert. This course teaches – in easy, clear terms – how to use the settings on your camera so you can progress to the next level of creative photography. In the morning session Karen will explain the basics: aperture, shutter speed, ISO and how to achieve correct exposure. In the ...
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Designed for those who know the basic functions and features of their digital camera and wish to learn more (or have completed the Beginners course). Topics include aperture priority, shutter speed priority, portrait modes, landscape modes, exposure compensation, eliminating shutter lag, manual white balance and macro. Note that your camera must have manual settings such as P, A, S, M. The course examines all the manual modes in some detail – P, A, S and M. We use landscape photogra...
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Get the most out of your digital camera (intermediate)
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If you have an Apple computer and camera you probably have everything you need to make great movies. This course introduces the iMovie package that comes free with every iMac and MacBook. Learn how to create home movies or movie clips to share or upload to YouTube. Discover how to add wonderful new content to your website or blog. Whether you would like to make the most of your home movies or would like to know how to create professional short clips for your blog or your website the...
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Digital movies made easy with iMovie
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A fun and practical course for digital photographers to enhance your portrait skills. Learn how to capture your family, children, pets and loved ones using available light and natural poses.Tips are provided for digital enhancement, plus how to best archive your digital images and preserve them for future generations. OUTLINE This course will include: A short technical review of the basics of Beginners & Intermediate Design techniques to ensure effective portraits Communication tech...
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Portraits – memories forever
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Composition is one of the most challenging yet rewarding aspects of photography. Mastering its principles can mean really big improvements to your photographs. This course will be particularly beneficial to beginners wishing to develop their expertise with digital cameras, but will also help more experienced photographers refine their skills. Linear and diagonal perspectives, the rule of thirds and the placement of colour, as well as other compositional elements will be covered. THI...
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Better photography – composition
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This advanced workshop takes you far beyond the basics of photography. This workshop is designed to examine and utilise some of the intricate image-adjusting controls buried deep inside your sub-menus. The workshop also provides you with new advanced practical skills, showing you how to test each of your lenses for sharpness, how to accurately copy works of art and how to set a Manual White Balance for precise and accurate colour. The theme of Advanced Digital is the optimisation of...
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Get the most out of your digital camera (advanced)
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A sea change into professional photography may be attractive but fraught with pitfalls. Master Photographer and educator, Dale Neill provides an insider’s guide. He gives a critical analysis of the impact digital has had on the profession and how innovative professionals have coped and profited. Topics include copyright, contracts, GST, professional ethics, legal liability and professional organisations. Perfect for photographers considering entering the profession. What are the ten...
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So you want to be a pro - inside the photographic industry
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This informative and inspirational course will cover tips for shooting the iconic landscape subjects; seeing and composing the landscape; equipment and field techniques and finishing of the images. Nick Melidonis is a triple AIPP Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year. The course will include sessions covering theory, practice and review. OUTLINE The great landscape themes Working the light Camera techniques Useful accessories and when to use them The three Cs – Contrast, Cha...
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Successful landscape photography
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Improve your knowledge of light and exposure. This course will not only cover how to achieve the correct exposure for different light conditions, but also how to experiment with exposures, settings, filters and different lenses to make the most of existing light opportunities. Forget about being a safe photographer and join a group prepared to experiment, with the aim of creating photographs full of atmosphere and impact. This course is best suited to those with DSLR camera and asso...
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Better photography – playing with light
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Don’t come back from holidays with uninspiring photos of great buildings. Discover the secrets and problem-solving tips from a professional. Learn to see architecture exteriors and interiors in a new light. Experiment with angles, pick out details, use depth of field and motion in your images for results you’ll be proud to show. Includes theory, practice and offsite location shoot. This course has a practical focus with assignments to enhance your skills in composition, low light ph...
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Building images: photographing architecture inside and out
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