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Whether you are photographing landscape, a person or a building, the essence of taking a good image is in: understanding the potential of your equipment, learning how to write with light, knowing how to compose your image and realising the importance of colour. Designed to give you a very good understanding in the various elements of photography and how they combine to make an image,
Get Creative with Photography is the first of its kind structured learning program, developed in India, for photography enthusiasts across the world.
A good image must have the right exposure. This depends on the light available in a given situation, the subject and your personal sense of aesthetics. This session will help you understand how to achieve the exposure that works best for you.
This session will help you gain a good understanding of how to use shutter speed creatively, to freeze or blur motion with intention, to create the image you want.
The area in the image that is in focus will impact the visual appeal of the image. Aperture, in conjunction with different lenses, gives you a range of possibilities that you could choose from, to get the image you want. This session will help you explore the world of Depth of Field.
The extent of a scene that is covered, left to right and top to bottom, is the angle of view offered by the lens. Perspective is the visual relationship between the foreground, middle ground and background in the frame. A good understanding of how the focal length of the lens affects the angle of view & perspective is essential to photograph creative images.
Color plays a definite role in an image. It is a fundamental component in telling a story. An understanding of the way color combine, contrast and add meaning to a story is a crucial learning for every photographer.
Light is the most important area of study in photography. Understanding the six main qualities of light and how it helps create dimension, reveal texture, form and how it creates mood are the fundamental stepping stones in photography. This session will cover the first quality: Direction of Light (Part 1).
This session will further your understanding on the first quality of light – Direction of Light (Part 2).
Hardness, Softness, Intensity & Contrast of Light - These are qualities of light that influence the mood you create in an image. Understanding these qualities is essential in helping you visualize the picture and the mood you will achieve before taking the picture. Based on the subject and your sense of aesthetics, you can use these qualities to your advantage.
Just like the colour of the subject, the colour of light too has a huge impact on the subject and the mood. This session will give you an insight into how the colour of natural light as well as artificial lights have different kinds of appeal.
Composition involves how you handle the various elements in an image. What elements you decide to include/exclude and how you choose to place these elements within the image determine the composition of an image. This session will give you some guidelines on how to achieve a good composition for your image.
The programme is designed by Iqbal Mohamed, a renowned professional photographer, who pioneered professional photography education in India, setting up the Light & Life Academy. This gives courses on LLA Online technical depth and clarity.
The learning takes place in a step-by-step manner, ensuring that everyone learns in a systematic manner, LLA Online is committed to ensuring that the participants progress in a way that will enable them to express their creativity.
The programme takes participants beyond theory and ensures that every aspect taught is followed by an assignment, with a specified time frame to practically shoot and submit images for review. This fosters a deeper, more intricate learning of the subject.
An exclusive team of our alumni, who are practising professional photographers, will review the assignment submitted and offer guidance to help improve your work. Interestingly, through the programme, rather than being assigned to a single mentor, various assignments are likely to be assessed by different mentors.
Every participant also has the opportunity of reviewing the work of the other participants in the forum. A major part of learning will happen through these forum interactions, making it wonderfully motivating
For the last 17 years Light & Life Academy has been imparting quality professional photography education. The LLA Online program brings the same standards online!
