Photography Courses in Buenos Aires, Argentina - Photography Program in Argentina - Academics - Photography Courses in Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Photography Course - Creative Photography

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Objective

This course seeks to foster the development of creativity and imagination by training the eye and exposing students to different aesthetic approaches. The course is a workshop grounded in artistic and photographic theory that relies on the work of great photographers to help guide students to creative photographic production. The goal of the course is a dynamic evolution of style which will refine photographic technique and artistic vision as it encourages an open exchange of ideas between students and instructors.

Contents

The course’s key concepts are learning how to use and manipulate artificial lighting, like quartz tube lights, camera flashes, studio lighting and other accessories. Students will learn about lighting schemes like those used in portrait work and fashion photography. This course also covers advanced Photometry, and color temperature management, both with film and digitally and in various camera formats. Students will study the works of selected authors, necessary workshop dynamics, and theoretical contributions to photography and art. All students will develop a characteristic style and will be provided with a form-guide to keep a record of their work.

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Photography Course - Photography Basics

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Objective

The course seeks to encourage the student's personal creative evolution by teaching solid technical skills and basic concepts of photography, in a dynamic, interactive environment.

Contents

Introduction to the basic operation of a camera: aperture, speed, exposure and sensitivity of the film. Reflex camera management with instruction on manual functions (digital and analog). Photometry and how to use natural light and manipulate artificial lighting. The course also covers information on types of lenses, filters, color and flashes. Students will be provided with expressive resources and instruction in composition. The course will end with a study of methods of analysis of photography works.

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Photography Course - Handling and Digital Retouching

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Objective

The course encourages the creative use of digital image editing and teaches well-founded applications for these skills in the professional realm.

Contents

Students will learn how to use the editing tools interface, including color management, color settings, profiles and management of color spaces, editing tool calibration and applied color theory. The course seeks to help students develop a web portfolio, image optimization skills, quality printing techniques, and learn how to monitor and implement ICC profiles. The course will discuss how to create professional quality images, handle color contrast, assemble hyper-realistic photomontages, and how to edit video frame to frame in Photoshop. Instructors will teach students how to face complicated image and resolution problems through interactive exercises. Digital manipulation in combination with photo production, digital matte painting, digital restoration will also be discussed.

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Photography Course - Photojournalism

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Objective

The course is aimed at those students with a basic knowledge of photography who want to move into photojournalism, photo essay compilation and documentary photography. Instruction will teach and encourage guidelines for the construction of various styles of photo stories and other image based reporting techniques.

Contents

The course dynamic will be in a workshop style with a lot of hands on experimentation. The curriculum will span topic selection, research and documentation, forms of production, editing, and synthesis. At the end of the course, students will create and give photojournalism presentations on a topic of interest in Buenos Aires to demonstrate what they have learned.

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Photography Course - Advertising Photography

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Objective

This course is intended for students with advanced skills who have already studied lighting and studio production and want to venture into commercial and advertising photography. It aims to encourage the creative use of varied techniques for producing professional advertising photography.

Contents

Students will learn advanced techniques and professional lighting specific to each family of products (food, bottles, plastics, automotive, glass, etc.) The combination of learning little tricks to improve product appeal and techniques to achieve high-impact visual effects will prepare students for work in any industry. The program also addresses classes of production, composition, and special techniques used by the most talented and well known advertising photographers.

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Photography Course - Introduction to Fashion Photography

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Objective

Students will learn about the history of fashion and trends through its photographic documentation. You will see the types of lighting used in different styles of shoots and discuss classic and contemporary photographers in this field.

Contents

The course will analyze of some of the most influential classic and modern fashion photographers and will discuss today’s trends in the world of fashion photography. Instruction will cover what a fashion editorial is and how to coordinate and execute one. During the class, teachers will give lectures on relevant topics and then students will practice using the techniques taught in the lecture. The course will start with theory and then develop into a study of its application in practice, emphasizing each student’s realization of their own ideas and creative development.

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Photography Course - Lighting

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Objectives & Contents

The course will focus on key concepts in lighting and the creation of lighting schemes. Students will work with artificial lighting, such as quartz tube light, camera flashes and electronic studio flashes, and will learn about lighting schemes like those used in portrait work and fashion photography. Students will also learn how to illuminate a set with main and secondary lighting of different intensity to achieve effects like: white backgrounds, high contrast shadows, etc. Students will be required to complete a creative project that involves designing a lighting scheme. This course also covers advanced Photometry, and color temperature management, both with film and digitally and in various camera formats. Instructors will teach students how to design a photo shoot, including conceptual brainstorming and planning, set assembly and how to communicate themes and ideas with models and still life subjects.

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Photography Course - Digital Art

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Objectives

The course seeks to encourage a creative and proficient understanding of digital image editing programs for both amateurs and professionals.

Contents

The course begins with an introduction to digital photography where the halide is now seen as a pixel. Color depth, and types will be covered as well as digital applications, presentations, and tools. Course topics will include: file types and characteristics; formatting; digital image editing tools: fill, define colors, brushes, guides; duplicate documents; imaging work; using brushes, shading and clarifying tools; selection tools: marcos, lasso, magic wand, separate images, layers, resolution; scanning basics, transformations; paths; changing light and shadows; filters; text and figures; and Adobe digital illustration. Advanced tools discussed in the course will include in depth photo design concepts and different options for printing and publication.

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Photography Course - Advanced Laboratory

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Objective

The course is intended for students with basic knowledge of photography, developing and printing who wish to improve the quality of their black and white prints. The course focuses on creating quality black and white images while identifying technical factors/materials that affect the developing and printing processes.

Contents

Students in this course will have access to a professional dark room and photo lab. The course offers intensive laboratory practice and teaches professional printing techniques, negative reading, chemical mixing and access to special printing and image manipulation equipment.

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Photography Course - Retouching and Digital Photomontage

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Objective & Contents

This course is intended for students with an understanding of the digital world of photography. The course begins with a review of the most important tools and techniques in Photoshop. Editing and assembly techniques will be taught through workshop activities. Students will also learn technical and post production techniques necessary for creating photomontages and perfecting images.

The course is based on practical exercises which will allow students to master the skills involved in retouching and photomontage as the course progresses and becomes more challenging..

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Photography Course - Creative Photography II

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Objective & Contents

This course is designed for students that have completed Creative Photography I and want to progress to a more technical understanding of the craft. The course materials will cover the works of photographers and authors selected by the instructor. Creative Photography I students may attend these lectures, but only to see some of the more advanced course material, they are not allowed to actually take the course. All photographers will need to develop their artistic perspective and individual aesthetic. Each student will be assigned a form-guide to keep track of their work so they can see a record of their progress. It will also contain advice for the student on how to professionally present their work in a portfolio and display it in galleries.

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Photography Course - Photography presentation

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Objective

This course is designed for students who have completed comprehensive basic instruction, but wish to improve their technical understanding of the craft. The course materials will cover the works of photographers and authors selected by the instructor. All photographers will need to develop their artistic perspective and individual aesthetic and learning how to present their work is a key part of that process.

Contents

Students will learn presentation techniques including, framing, matting, hanging and creating a thoughtful and effective order of their pieces. Each student will be assigned a form-guide to keep track of their work so they can see a record of their progress. It will also contain advice for the student on how to professionally present their work in a portfolio and display it in galleries.

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Photography Course - Documentary Photography

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Objective

The course seeks to provide students with conceptual and practical skills to create and execute documentary photography projects, providing them with an opportunity to gain fieldwork experience.
The type of training can help students work with modern media on editorial portraits, landscapes, stories on location, photo illustration and photo editing. The numerous features and possibilities of contemporary documentary photography will be studied and discussed.

Students will learn to see photography as a mediating tool that allows a look into the reality of communities, individuals and social contexts. The course will create a space for reflection about the use of documentary photographic images that represent social and cultural problems worldwide. Students will generate photographic documentary proposals based on information learned in the course and their views and interests.

Contents

I. Introduction to Documentary Photography:

History of documentary photography / Stages in the representation of reality / Photographic documentary features / Tension objectivity / subjectivity / Difference between documentary photography and photojournalism / Documentary photography: Mirror or interpretation of reality? / Educating the look and consumption of images / Documentary Image language and formats

II. Editorial and Publishing Photography:

Portrait Editorial: Definition of the portrait / Portrait paradigms / The editorial, journalistic and authorial portrait / The interview / Instant-pose / The de-contextualized portrait / Photography in media production / The problem of the body in portrait / The portrait as a means of knowledge / Addressing the subject’s character / Looking at the Other.
Feature Landscapes and Places: The concept of landscape and place / History of the landscape genre in the visual arts / Learning to see: the point of view, the colorful landscape and monochrome / Abstraction in the landscape / Manipulation of the landscape / People and their relationship with the landscape
Landscape: The landscape as a condition of life / Industrial landscapes / Travel photography
Photo Illustration: The illustration as a synthesis of the news / The creative process / The illustration as recreation of a situation of an environment or a character / The visual component of photography / Relationship between the written and visual.
Photo Editing: Photo Editing Techniques / Contemporary Trends /

III. Documentary Photo Project: Documentary Essay

Technical exploration and expression: critical, conjectural, denouncing and persuasive / Position taken by the author / The style and control, combination and repetition of methods and techniques Methodology of documentary photography / Theoretical framework of documentary photography / Photo script creation and guidelines / Development of documentary photography / Making the documentary / Preparation of documentary portfolio / Editorial Design Concepts.

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