Digital Photography

Been looking forward to this for a long time. The Open University's course T189 Digital Photography: creating and sharing better images. It's a 10 week course that aims to develop your technical, visual and creative skills.

Here's what's involved:

• Practice: each week you do a practical photographic activity that broadens and strengthens your photographic experience. Together these activities form the basis of your portfolio that you’ll draw upon for your end-of-course assessment.

• Learning: each week you learn about different aspects of photographic techniques, as well as relevant aspects of the technology behind digital photography.

• Sharing and reflection: each week you share your work within the T189 online community of photographers. You’ll steadily develop your ability to reflect upon your own and others’ work, and to write about your increasing visual awareness.

The course will:

• teach you the key principles of capturing digital images and manipulating these with Photoshop Elements for PC

• equip you with basic skills to navigate technological developments in digital photography

• teach you how to critically evaluate your own and others’ work in the spirit of continuous technical and artistic improvement

• encourage you to experiment with the principles of digital photography and imaging as part of a supportive online community

• help you to develop a portfolio to be proud of.

Great stuff! Looking forward to getting my hands on Photoshop Elements :-)

I will learn:

• ‘ways of seeing’ and the elements of composition

• the basic principles of capturing light information digitally (e.g. sensors, memory, file types)

• the digital workflow (capture, organise, edit and share)

• how to control exposure

• how to control focus and Depth of Field

• digital colour management – an introduction

• how to print and project your images

• how to technically and creatively improve your own or others’ images using Photoshop Elements.

Bring it on, I'm more than ready :-)