GENERAL PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE

Duration: 4 months
Teaching hours: 81 hours
Start date: Tuesday February 20, 2024
Hours: Tuesday and Thursday from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Tuition: €850. Possibility of payment in installments (Consult)

Course aimed at those people who have basic knowledge of photography and wish to delve deeper into the world of images, through a practical and technical training proposal.

Structure

Part I. Introduction: The photographic technique. Review of basic concepts in photography.

Image formation
The equipment
The digital image: Sensor, file types, ISO…
light measurement

Part II. Street Photography

Conceptual framework
Job viewing
Departures: Technique and equipment
Assignment (non-face-to-face)

Editing of Street Photography works.

The portrait in the street
Conceptual framework
Job viewing
Departures: Technique and equipment
Outdoor practices with model

Part III. The Digital Laboratory and photographic management. Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.

The aesthetics
The importance of retouching
Photo retouching styles

Introduction
Set up Photoshop and work environment
Keyboard shortcuts

Photoshop
1. Treatment by areas of a photo. From RAW to the laboratory
2. Actions
3 Retouching of studio photographs
4. Layout albums
5. Basic Lightroom
6. Montages and compositions

Part IV. Photography in studio

3.1 Lighting techniques applied to fashion. Juanjo Moreno.

Presentation and viewing of work by Juanjo Moreno
Introduction to Fashion Photography
Briefing---Moodboard development
Relationship with work team...make-up, hair, styling, art direction........
Model casting
Lighting Schemes for the shooting developed in the briefing
Studio shooting with models, makeup artist/stylist
Editing with Capture One and Photoshop
Viewing and analysis of photographs
Editing and digital processing of works. Photoshop and Lightroom applied
Marketing

Methodology

- Theoretical analysis.
- Analysis of a photograph from which and in an attempt to repeat all its parameters we will practice and solve the technique.
- Carrying out a work proposed by the teacher. Practical research on a given topic.
- Development of a personal idea of the student and resolution of technical problems. This work will be tutored by the teacher.
- Viewing and continuous analysis of the exercises and works.
- Viewing of authors and their relationship with our work.

Masterclasses

Editorial photography masterclass. Monica Gumm.

Advertising photography masterclass. Javier Jimenez

New Narratives Masterclass. Antonio Perez.

Sponsors
CP has different sponsors from entities linked to photography. These sponsors will allow the student, among others, to learn about and work with state-of-the-art lighting equipment: Profoto and access the best digital printing and assembly processes: BAB
Both brands offer our students discounts on their lighting equipment and on printing and assembly. photographs.

Internships
Students may choose to carry out specific internships as photographers' assistants during the course. These internships will always depend on the volume of work of the studios and photographers that collaborate with CP:

Participation in CP Projects
CP selects former students of its long-term courses to participate in each pedagogical project that it develops in collaboration with other centers and entities at an international level.
See projects

Library and Video Library
The space has a specialized bookstore-library, as well as a video library. General course students, in addition to consulting and purchasing, can withdraw part of the loaned funds.

Open Wifi Zone

Teacher Bios

Juanjo Moreno (La Linea de la Concepción, Cádiz. 1971). He studied photography in Seville and, self-taught, began to acquire knowledge in the specialty of fashion and advertising. Currently he has collaborated and collaborates with national and international magazines. Highlight the award for Best Photographer in Spain in the Commercial category 2016 awarded by the Federation of Professional Photographers of Spain. www.juanjomorenofotografo.com

Valentin Lujan (Torrehermosa Farm, Badajoz, 1964). A biologist at the beginning of his career, he has worked as a professional photographer since 1998. He has received training from great photographers such as Cristina García Rodero, Antoine d'Agata, Paulo Nozolino, Patrick Zachmann, Navia, Tino Soriano and Jeffrey Silverthorne. His professional field is linked to street reporting, portraiture, advertising and industrial photography and social reporting. Its most frequent clients are private companies, individuals, advertising agencies and Public Administrations.

Antonio Pérez (Tarifa, 1970). After a sculptural past he turned to photography looking for new connections between image and space, thus treasuring a disordered vision of the world of the image. He has developed his work in different European centers and his work has been published and exhibited in different Spanish media and galleries. Carry out different lines of projects; working with the administration in areas of social and equality issues. Since 2006, he has collaborated with different foundations on cooperation projects in different countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Monica Gumm (Hamburg 1967) She studied photography in Hamburg. In 1990 he arrived in Spain with a scholarship to specialize in photojournalism. For two years he traveled throughout Spain doing numerous reports for German publishers. Since 1992 she has worked as a freelance photographer specializing in travel and gastronomy reports. He has traveled around the world several times and has carried out projects for media such as the New York Times, Der Spiegel, Stern Magazin, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Joy, Woman, Shape, Der Feinschmecker, El Mundo and El Pais among many others. He currently collaborates with the German agency Laif. www.monicagumm.de / www.laif.de

Marta Vazquez. (Cádiz 1967) Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Seville (1987-1992). She began as a graphic designer in several advertising agencies and graphic design studios, and completed her professional experience in one of the most prestigious photography studios specialized in fashion, Deinm Estudio. In this last company he began his specialization in image processing for photographers with the transition from analog to digital methods. He currently works independently in his advertising photography studio (coimagen) where he has been developing photographic work for multiple clients for 12 years (Bodegas Barbadillo, Spanish Institute of Perfumery, etc.). It continually carries out training courses, personalized or for groups, on image processing and specialized software for photographers and graphic designers. Among his current projects, he also develops frequent collaborations with contemporary artists such as Salustiano and others, training and helping in the editing of their digital projects.