5-week Evening Class for Beginners

Our ultimate photography class for beginners

The 5 weeks evening beginner photography class is our ultimate group course recommendation for beginners who want to make a serious step into photography.

During our five weeks program, we meet every week for two hours in the evenings to go through key photography concepts and tips. Then we give you interesting and challenging assignments to complete before the next session next week. These assignments are designed to let you use what you learned and encounter problems that we will resolve in the upcoming class. This method gives you plenty amount of time to digest what you learned, try it with your camera and come back with correct questions in your mind for the next session.

If you expect to miss one of the sessions due to your schedule, no problem. You can always join the same session from the following month’s course.

With our innovative approach to teaching, students find themselves completely immersed in their course of study over five weeks. The project-based curriculum covers an extensive 10 hours of material, which will comfortably get you to the intermediate level.

Course Requirements:

Your camera: DSLR or mirrorless or superzoom
No camera? No problem. We offer free camera hire during the course (just tell us in advance).
Positive attitude and passion for visual arts

COURSE KEY FACTS
	Course level Beginner
	Group Size 3 to 8 participants
	Duration 10 hours
	Price 490 CHF Training, materials & snacks
	Advantage Money back guarantee

Course Outline

This photography class for beginners is made up of five sections by week:

Basic concepts & Camera Settings 101
Exposure Triangle: Shutter Speed, Aperture and ISO in detail with lots of practice. Learn about how to freeze / blur motion, isolate your subject from the background using shallow depth of field, and how to manage ISO.
Composition rules, Focusing, Focal Lengths: Overview of composition rules and how to see them in real world. Focusing settings and how to use each mode when. Understand lenses and focal lengths
Landscapes: Capturing sweeping landscapes, applying rules learned before, shooting on tripod, analysis of photos. Travel photography tips.
Capturing people: Portraiture basics, posing, understanding and using natural light, camera settings for different situations.

Each week we go through the concepts and practice basics. At the end of the course, you will have a lot of interesting homework exercises to do during the week.

Homework exercises consist of practicing what you already learned plus some techniques you will learn the following week. We find that this allows our students to engage much better with new concepts, as they already tried and came across the problems.

The following week, we will go through your photos to give feedback and answer your questions. Then we’ll be off to the next topic.

As with all the courses, we will get you up to speed without wasting time on theory – showing you what you have to do to get specific results. Then we will practice these.

After this course, you will have learned:

A basic but practical understanding of photography principles and concepts like Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO, Depth of Field.
Various features of your digital camera and what you can do to maximise the use of this wonderful tool
Learn by doing, with trained experts there to guide you as you work
How to use your Camera – properties and mechanisms.
Understanding Lenses – what to use, when and why
Creative Use of shutter speeds, aperture (f-numbers), depth of field, flash and exposures.
The art of composition and getting great colors for landscapes
Posing guides for portraiture
Using light in your photography
Common mistakes and great examples
Practical exercises (outdoors / indoors depending on the weather)
Relaxed and Constructive Feedback

Student work

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