Focal Point - The Visual Arts Learning Centre
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
http://www.focalpoint.bc.ca/

Painting with Light

This course will introduce you to the art and technique of painting with light. Students will learn to combine flash, flash sources with penlights and flashlights to light paint their subject. This innovative technique can be applied to portraiture, fashion, wedding, stock, advertising, food and editorial photography. Today’s photographic world is extremely competitive so add painting with ligh......
 

Shooting on location requires a critical eye for composition a deep understanding of available light. As a group we will scout and shoot a variety of interesting Vancouver locations and students will have the opportunity to photo-assist photographer Katie Huisman during a Stock Shoot. In turn students will be required to do their own location scouting and execute a shoot that will be reviewed ......
 

Exploring the world through macro equipment is one of the most intriguing forms of photography. In this workshop we will visit the various visual and technical tools used to create the magnified image. Each session will include demonstrations, visual dialogue and hands-on practice leaving you prepared to discover your favorite subject up - close....
 

The West Coast offers the photographer an immense range of subject matter and a wonderful canvas of colours. Combining both technical and artistic elements, this 6 week spring workshop will include field trips interspersed with lectures on botanical photography techniques. Through dialogue and image critiquing, lectures will emphasize composition, a range of lens angles, and lighting in the gar......
 

This course is designed to provide you with a working knowledge of how to create high dynamic range (HDR) imagery. This technique is used to treat scenes of extreme contrast that cannot be fully represented by a single capture. The practical component of this course will pay particular attention to photographing for HDR - learning to recognize natural light and texture situations that are well ......
 

This hands-on intensive course begins with basic HTML and CSS skills for website design including: creating web pages, folder management, hyperlinks, images, thumbnails, lists, stylesheets, configuring automated Flash galleries, and more. While this course emphasizes standards-based hand coding, some of the automated features in Dreamweaver including site management, JavaScript rollovers, etc. ......
 

This course is an extended exploration of the artistic capabilities of Adobe Photoshop CS3. In it students will learn advanced skills in Photoshop to push their photographic images to creative heights. Students will create photographic layouts and photomontages, action scripting and merging photographs, as well as explore the use of text in their image-making process. Students will also utilize......
 

A great beginner course for those wishing to learn about the most popular image enhancement program. Topics include the use of tools and palettes, colour calibration, toning, working with layers, channels, retouching, and filters....
 

This course is designed to introduce the student to the lucrative market of wedding photography. A wide variety of topics include: booking clients, pricing, organizing your time, shooting sequences, backgrounds, posing, film and cameras, lighting, problem solving, albums, delivering and labs. Students have live shooting sessions with models in order to apply their learned skills. In this stress......
 

This challenging hands-on course is designed to give the student a working knowledge of basic lighting techniques and principles, in a professional working studio. Through weekly demonstrations, lectures and assignments, the students will learn various studio lighting methods for still life, portraiture and people. Demonstrations of a wide selection of lighting styles is the focus of this cours......
 

This course will explore the different styles of photographers from the beginning of photography to the present. Students will be exposed and learn about the stiff posing of carte de visite portraits that were all the rage in the latter part of the 19th century and continue with the stark portraiture of masters like August Sander, Julia Margaret Cameron and Lewis Carol. They will explore the Ho......
 

Explore and open up the world of flash photography. In this course you will discover how to use your flash more effectively, through understanding how to properly light using in-camera flash, studio and in the field. As well as developing your skills with fill, effective bounce flash and mixing ambient and flash. The course will include many learning approaches from in studio work, field trip......
 

This 10-week advanced workshop focuses on a style of portraiture that is creative, modern and professional. Studio & natural lighting techniques are taught in the form of workshops along with group critiques. Classes will be held at the Focal Point Studios and on location during field trips. Multiple chances to shoot a variety of people will give students a great opportunity to build a professi......
 

The human obsession for the undraped figure started with female figurines, roughly carved, in the Stone Age. The photographic nude can be a landscape nude or a nude in a landscape. The nude can be at home or in a studio. We shall review all these options. Students will be able to use both digital or film cameras. I have a special fondness for shooting nudes with b+w infrared film so we will le......
 

The purpose of this course is to facilitate in-depth, communicative sessions that inspire students to create conceptually rich imagery. Each session will mostly be led by group discussion with the exception of guest lecturers & gallery visits. The art of critique is looking for strong thinkers who crave intellectually stimulating conversation and see the value in receiving and giving criticism. ...
 

This proposal is for a very creative side of photography for students who wish to explore the potentials of their creative approach and techniques. Each student will choose at the beginning of the course a short literary work/text/poem, which he/she would attempt to illustrate within the scope of the course. Each class would demonstrate a particular technique to give the students the tools for......
 

Part of the pleasure of photography stems from the satisfaction of creating images that not only record an event, but are pleasing to look at in their own right. Effective photographic composition and design are the major keys to a successful photograph, skills that any serious photographer must learn and master....
 

Explore the world of night, existing, low light and expand your photographic potential. This course is designed to show you how to photograph people, objects and places under any low light condition. Environmental portraiture, night photography, light painting and fill - flash are among the topics that will be covered....
 

This course introduces students to various traditions and concepts of narration in photography using examples from the genres of photojournalism, documentary photography and travel photography. Narrative Photography is taught by Christopher Grabowski, a Vancouver based photographer whose works have been published worldwide. Students are expected, at some point during this course, to present the......
 

This course is a combination of a studio and outdoor photography to demonstrate various techniques in portraiture using simple yet effective techniques to improve portraiture skills. Students will learn the basic principles of studio lighting for portraits and also tips and techniques for outdoors. At the end of the course each student will present his/her portfolio of various portraits taken i......
 

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