This lighting and composition for photography course covers:
- Composing your images
- Effects of color, lines, and position in image composition
- Understanding color temperature and the effect on your image
- Using neutral density and gradient filters
- Fill flash and reflectors to enhance lighting
- Using selective focus
Please call 800-851-9237 or 781-376-6044 to schedule a course.
Composing your images
- Understanding simple compositional rules
- Cropping images for maximum effect
- Framing your image
- Compositional rules that apply to portraitures
Effects of color, lines, and position in image composition
- How elements can draw the viewer’s attention
- Leading lines
- Converging lines
- Curving lines
- Implied triangles
Understanding color temperature and the effect on your image
- Lighting your image
- Temperature for various light sources
Using neutral density and gradient filters
- Examples of when to use a ND filter
- How to use a NH filter
- Using a gradient filter
- Knowing your densities
Fill flash and reflectors to enhance lighting
- Understanding when to use fill flashes
- Experimenting with reflectors
Using selective focus
- Modifying exposure to use aperture creatively
- Depth of focus
- Using focal point to alter focus
Custom and private Photography classes
This Photography course is available as a private class. Curriculum can be customized for your specific needs. Photography classes can be delivered at your location, online, or in our classrooms. For more information, call 781-376-6044 to speak with a training consultant or contact us.
A camera that can be set in manual mode and a flash, either detached or integrated, is required for this class. All other lighting used in this photography course is supplied for the workshop.
You will receive a comprehensive course manual for this class developed by the Adobe Certified Instructors at AGI. AGI instructors have created many of the official training guides and books for Adobe Systems.