Creative Photography – Developing Techniques (Stage 2)

Learning in our modern, dedicated specialist resource areas, you’ll be expertly led by your tutor and have exciting opportunities to experiment and develop your photographic skills and creative visual voice.

You'll focus on a variety of areas of photography and your industry-experienced tutor will share with you a different aspect of photographic practice each week. Areas covered will include: camera functions, equipment, colour and workflow management, studio lighting, portraiture and still life photography. You'll also be encouraged to use your newly acquired knowledge and skills to develop your own photographic style and creative ideas.

You'll begin to appreciate the controlled environment that photographers use. You'll have access to various lighting and portable flash equipment, as well as other photographic equipment. You'll also be introduced to image post-production platforms such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom.

Demonstrations will explain how to get the best from your photographic and imaging equipment, whilst there’ll be ample opportunities to discuss your images and techniques with fellow student photographers.

Project-based workshops will be followed by informal critique to help you evaluate your work and look at further study opportunities or professional practice routes.

• Explore camera controls and advanced features
• Different photographic practices and genres
• Benefits of ancillary equipment, such as speedlights and portable flash
• Post-production options and applications
• Individual and group project-based assignments

• Possess a comprehensive understanding of your camera's advanced controls and how to use them efficiently and effectively to achieve stunning, creative images
• Understand a wide range of photographic genres and practices
• Possess the technical skills to employ ancillary equipment, such as portable flash, effectively and efficiently
• Have an insight into professional practice routes or further study options
• Be able to edit your images using post-production software with confidence
• Have increased confidence in your own skills and feel inspired
• Have boosted creativity and imagination
• Be encouraged to experiment and explore your ideas, remembering that there's no right or wrong way to be creative
• Possess the foundations to continue creating beyond this course

All students with 100% course attendance will be issued with an official AUB Short Course certificate of attendance.

After this course, you could:

• Continue to harness your creativity and develop your photography skills further; explore our full range of Photography short courses
• Broaden your creative horizons and try your hand at a range of disciplines; explore our full range of evening and weekend courses
• Continue to develop your skills at home as a hobby

• You'll study at a leading specialist university – we know what we're doing when it comes to providing unparalleled courses
• Our tutors are industry professionals, so you'll learn from the best
• We cater for all abilities and have no formal entry requirements for this course, so there's nothing holding you back
• You'll learn in a safe and encouraging environment where there's no right or wrong way to be creative
• You'll learn 'by doing' and always feel fully included and supported
• Benefit from our incredible campus and its industry-standard studios, and use state-of-the-art equipment and software to unleash your creativity