GET CREATIVE WITH PHOTOGRAPHY
Online Photography Course from Light & Life Academy
Sessions
Weeks
Languages
FEES
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 online photography course with a structured learning programme, developed in India, for photography enthusiasts across the world. Learn photography in Indian Languages ( Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu) + English.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
1. Exposure
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.
2. Shutter
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.
3. Lenses & Aperture: Part One
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.
4. Lenses & Aperture: Part Two
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.
5. Color
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.
6. Light: Part One
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).
7. Light: Part Two
This session will further your understanding on the first quality of light – Direction of Light (Part 2).
8. Light: Part Three
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.
9. Light: Part Four
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.
10. Composition
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.
10 reasons that make the LLA online course special
- Designed by Iqbal Mohamed: This online photography course 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. Read more about Iqbal Mohamed.
- Structured programmes: 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.
- Practical application: The online photography course 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.
- Mentor feedback: 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.
- Peer group review: Every online photography course participant also has the opportunity of reviewing the work of the other participants in the forum. A major part of online photography learning will happen through these forum interactions, making it wonderfully motivating
- Multiple languages: This online photography course is offered in nine Indian Languages (Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu) apart from English This will help participants learn in a language that is most comfortable for them.
- Rigorous, more in-depth learning, inspired by LLA: After 17 years of honing the ideal classroom environment for photography education at Light & Life Academy, LLA Online strives to bring the same online! This online photography course is a rigorous one. Over the years, we have experienced that Optimal learning among participants happens when one sets aside time every week to commit to the course.
- Experience with diversity: LLA Online draws from a reservoir of experiences in imparting knowledge to a whole generation of professional photographers, through the courses at the Academy. This helps anticipate the needs of participants from various backgrounds
- Completion certificate: Once you have progressed through all the required assignments, meeting the requirements, a certificate will be awarded by LLA Online to signify this achievement
- Membership of the LLA Online Club: Every participant who is awarded a certificate of completion will automatically qualify to become a member of the LLA Online Club. This will give you access to the entire LLA Online family with regular updates that will add to your learning and information on upcoming courses/Vlogs.
Guide to the Program
You can enroll for the programme at any time. Once you enrol, the programme will begin on the first Monday following your enrolment. At the time of enrolment, you will be given access credentials (username and password) to your account on LLA Online and you will be placed in a group (of other participants starting with you) for discussion and feedback.
On the first Monday, following your enrolment, the first session will be made available on LLA Online. The content could be in the form of a video and/or PDF(s) and/or a multimedia presentation.) Based on the course content of the session, you will be given an assignment. Each assignment will require you to take a set of images and upload them onto the group forum latest by 11:59 PM on the following Sunday.
For Example: If you start the course on Monday, 18th of September, you will have to upload your pictures onto the forum by 11:59PM on 23rd of September (Sunday).
Important Note: You can upload only ONE IMAGE per Assignment. You have to choose your best image and upload it.
How the Forum Works
1. You can upload the image you have shot for the assignment anytime up to Sunday Midnight under the specific assignment heading.2. You can view everyone else's image posted on the forum.
3. You can rate others images of your choice from 1-5 stars, 5 being the highest.
4. You can also comment on any image that you choose to, on the forum.
5. You can post queries for discussion among the members of the forum and also for the LLAOnline team to answer.
6. You have the option of shooting again and replacing any image that you have uploaded before the deadline for that assingment.
7. Mentors will answer queries raised and will give feedback to the group on the forum.
8. Work submitted by you will be graded and posted on the forum by the following Wednesday.
Important Notes:
All content will be given in 9 different Indian Languages + English
*All Feedback, Forum discussions and queries will be in English only
Feedback by Mentors
Mentors will review the images posted by the entire group. They will identify common themes that serve as relevant critique for the group and provide feedback accordingly. In addition to this, the mentor will address queries, relevant to the course content in consideration, that are raised on the forum.Once the mentors have evaluated the images, feedback will be presented on the forum. All group members will be able to view every participant's performance on the assignment. A core tenet of our pedagogy is to encourage learning from the work of the group peers. This helps you improve, both individually, and collectively, as a group.
One of the following will happen after Mentor's evaluation:
a) All approved images will be given a pass mark, with grades A,B or C (A being the highest).
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b) The images that you have submitted may not be approved by the Mentors (If you do not get the minimum requirement of Grade (C), in which case, it will be marked as RS which means Re-Shoot. The mentor feedback will give you the reason for re-shoot and how to get it right the next time. In this case, you have to re-submit a new image for the previous week's topic along with the submission pending for the current week's topic.
Note: ONLY ONE RE-SHOOT OPPORTUNITY WILL BE GIVEN PER TOPIC TO YOU. IF YOU FAIL TO PASS AFTER RE-SHOOT, YOU WILL ENJOY ALL THE FACILITIES PROVIDED BY THE ONLINE PROGRAMME, HOWEVER, YOU WILL NOT GET A CERTIFICATE FROM LLA Online.
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c) If there is a non-submission from you for whatever reason: You have the option of requesting for an extension, providing adequate reason for the non-submission. This request is then sent to the Administration, that will arrive at a decision on whether or not the extension will be offered, based on the reason for non-submission and will also brief you on how to continue with the course.
A certificate will be provided at the end of the programme only if you have met the passing criteria for each session.
PARTICIPANT GALLERY
TESTIMONIALS
FAQ
- Content rich videos with demos and example images. 198 professionals contributed more than 500+ images.
- Time bound structure with practical assignments that is integral to the course.
- Feedback from Mentors who are practicing Professional Photographers.
- Peer-to-Peer interaction through forums.
- First of its kind, in 9 Indian languages (Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu) + English.
Yes, after the successful completion of the course, a certificate from LLA Online will be given.
While enrolling, you will be asked to select a preferred language. However, if you want to change this in the middle of the course to another language, you can. All you have to do is send an email to support@llaonline.in requesting a change in language and which language you would like to change to.
No, this is an online photography course and is not valued as a Diploma. However, Light & Life Academy does offer Diploma courses in Photography , For more details, visit www.llacademy.org
There is no prerequisite to take up this online photography course. You can do so after your 10th and 12th standard as well. You do not need to complete your graduation to apply for this course.
This online photography course is ideal for beginners. It comprehensively covers the fundamentals of photography, ensuring that your understanding of the core concepts in photography are concrete.
Currently, we offer only one Online Photography course. The fees is 10,000 INR + GST
You cannot pay for the course in instalments, however, if your bank offers instalments for your payments, it is possible. The fees for the online photography course is 10,000 INR + GST.
The minimum requirement to join this course is a DSLR camera with a 50MM, Tele and wide angle lens. The other equipment required are a Tripod and a laptop/desktop with Photoshop.
If you need any further assistance in choosing the equipment, please send an email to support@llaonline.in and someone from our team will get in touch with you to help!
While enrolling, you will be asked to select a preferred language. However, if you want to change this in the middle of the course to another language, you can. All you have to do is send an email to support@llaonline.in requesting a change in language and which language you would like to change to.
Yes, you will get a personalised feedback from one of our mentors who is a professional photographer. To know more about the mentors, click here
We generally do not offer a refund of any kind.
Yes. During the course of the 10 weeks, you will be able to extend an assignment only ONCE. In order to extend your assignment date, please mail support@llaonline.in and tell us why you need the extension. The LLA Online team will validate the reason, after which, an extension will be provided for only a WEEK.
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