Check the current part-time calendar to see if this class is running. Email part-time@spao.ca to express your interest in this class!

Beyond the Basics moves beyond basic camera knowledge and offers a next step towards deepening your photographic practice. Designed around a series of shooting assignments, students will broaden their understanding of exposure and composition while improving their creative judgment and technical abilities.

Using Capture One and Photoshop, this course will also include a comprehensive introduction to the principles, techniques, and workflow of image-editing. Students will learn to:

• Recover and enhance flawed images

• Compensate for shortcomings in the original composition

• Correct exposure and white balance

• Introduce contrast and sharpness

• Experiment with a variety of visual ideas and creative approaches

Course participants will be encouraged to treat every assignment as a project, with the ultimate intention of publicly presenting and sharing their work with their colleagues. Students can expect to leave Beyond the Basics with the knowledge and confidence to execute critical, high quality images.