“Photography is the icon of reality” Ronald Mountain Stills Photography is not simply a camera that everyone can buy and it is not simply pushing a button to shoot souvenir pictures. In spite of its apparent simplicity, stills photography is a noble art requiring a lot of technical and aesthetic skills in order to achieve creativity and the capability to shoot the reality with spontaneity and credibility. This training course will expose participants to the basics of stills photography and will help them to deeply understand it to enable them to record the reality around them in a more aesthetic and profitable way.
Objectives
At the end of the course, participants should:
Become familiarized to the art of stills photography, understand its fundamentals and know its principal elements and tools.
Cultivate the basics of the visual culture in youth in order to create a generation which is able to contribute to the world creativity and arts
Level Expectations
General introduction
Definition of the concept of the art of stills photography
The philosophic and aesthetic difference between stills and motion pictures
The difference between digital cameras and filming cameras and types of cameras
The concept of art and reality in stills photography
Types of photography
Shooting techniques
Introducing the stills photography tools
Introducing the camera components
The tripod
Camera settings
Types of lenses, differences between them and uses
ISO and white balance
The concept of nature lighting and artificial lighting and how to use them
Aesthetics and creativity in photography
The visual composition
The elements of image attractiveness
Understanding the criteria of picture quality
Handling the common mistakes in stills photography
