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Photography Course | For Beginners
By Gavin Jacob Power | Photographer
The essential course for those starting from zero who want a private lesson guidance. You will leave shooting in manual mode and composing a frame like a pro.
Rhino 3D Evening Training
By London Design Training Courses
Who Should Attend Rhino 3D Evening Training Course? Click here for info. This Evening Course is for individuals seeking to learn 2D and 3D modeling skills in a supportive and creative learning environment. Whether you are new to Rhino or want to expand your existing knowledge, this course is for product, furniture, architectural, and jewelry design industries. Duration: 10 hrs Method: 1-on-1, Personalized attention Schedule: Tailor your own schedule hours of your choice, available from Mon to Sat between 9 am and 7 pm Course Inclusions: Free Lifetime email support: Enjoy the flexibility of a free lifetime email support. Expert Instruction: Learn from experienced architects, designers, and software professionals, ensuring top-notch teaching. Hands-On Learning: Engage in practical, hands-on lessons with personalized project work to apply your skills effectively. Digital Reference: Access valuable video tutorials and a digital reference book for convenient revision and continuous development. London Design Training Course Certificate of Completion: Receive a certificate upon course completion, enhancing your CV and LinkedIn profile. Free Career Guidance: Benefit from career guidance, including tips on job applications and setting up a creative business, to stand out in the competitive design industry. Rhino 3D Basic to Intermediate Training Course Course Duration: 10 hours Introduction to Rhino and Interface: Familiarizing with Rhino's command system and toolbar usage. Navigating the geometry menus, command line, and status bar efficiently. Understanding the Properties window and its functionalities. Managing file operations, including opening and saving files. Grasping the three entity types: curves, surfaces, and solids. Exploring various geometric elements, such as Bezier curves, B-splines, NURBS objects, isocurve surfaces, and mesh surfaces. Setting measurement units for accurate modeling. Navigation: Introducing the viewport and its features. Using construction planes to aid in modeling. Utilizing shading modes for better visualization. Learning essential viewport controls: pan, zoom, rotate, and reset. Workflow Basics: Creating basic objects like curves, surfaces, and solids. Performing fundamental transformations to manipulate objects. Organizing projects efficiently using layers. Drawing: 2D Geometry: Understanding the creation of lines, polylines, rectangles, polygons, arcs, circles, and ellipses. Drawing freeform curves for more creative designs. Modeling: 3D Surfaces: Comparing various 3D surface types. Utilizing extrusion to add features to models. Creating surfaces with loft, revolve, rail revolve, sweep rail, and network surface commands. Constructing complex surfaces with the Network Surface tool. Modeling: 3D Solids: Introducing solid modeling techniques. Creating solids with primitives and curves. Applying Boolean operators to create unique shapes. Editing solids using the solid edit tool. Transforming solids and incorporating modeling aids like Grid Snap, Ortho, and Planar. Editing and Transforming Objects: Using Fillet and Chamfer to edit corners. Employing curve Booleans for trimming and splitting. Mastering the Drag and Nudge tools for object movement and rotation. Copying, pasting, and grouping objects effectively. Scaling and duplicating objects with the Mirror command. Analysis and Degrees: Understanding degrees of curves and surfaces. Creating screen captures for quick proofs. Generating 2D views and rendering projects. Preparation for 3D Printing and Manufacturing: Preparing models for prototyping by ensuring closed gaps. Using the shell technique to create wall thickness suitable for 3D printing.
“Any good photography is a successful synthesis of technique and art.” – Andreas Feininger Discover the magic of Black & White Photography and learn some of the secrets the masters use to make stunning photographs. Explore the fundamentals of light and time and no longer be a slave to the Auto setting. Master the manual functions of your 35mm SLR film camera and unlock its true potential. Get to grips with the complete darkroom workflow from processing film to printing your own black & white photographs. Perfect for those with no experience or those looking for a full refresher. If you don’t have a 35mm SLR camera we have a limited number available for use during the course – please make your selection from the dropdown at time of booking. Week 1 Capture, technical notes, discussions, art context Understand the fundamentals of light and time in balancing an accurate exposure; No longer be a slave to the Auto setting! Learn how to utilise the Manual functions of your 35mm SLR camera including aperture, shutter speed, film speed and metering. Understand depth of field, composition and creative photo-making techniques; Appreciate photography within an art context – Begin to look at the work of other photographers Assignment: You will be given one roll of B&W film to be shot for the second week Week 2 Film processing Learn how to process B&W film by hand in Stills’ darkrooms. We will discuss different film types and chemistry, as well as best practice procedures for film handling. Appreciating photography within an art context-Sally Mann. Week 3 Contact Printing Gain an appreciation of general darkroom procedures;understand how to set up your enlarger and make a contact print using the traditional analogue method; learn how to make 8×10″ work prints using the single filter printing method. All paper and chemistry will be provided. Week 4 Darkroom printing This last session will allow participants to keep on printing with some one to one attention. We will also explore some basic dodging and burning and other printing techniques to get the most from your negatives and make a series of final prints. Courses are subject to minimum enrolment. Please register early, within five days of the start date, to reduce the likelihood of course cancellation. Please read our cancellation policy before booking. Students, anyone over the age of 65, and those in receipt of any form of benefits can claim the concessionary price, offering a 10% discount on the full course price. Valid proof of eligibility must be produced on the first day of the course. Please use the code CONCESSION when prompted at checkout. Stills uses ILFORD PHOTO chemicals on this course that can potentially pose a risk to pregnant and breast feeding women and asthmatics. We take every care to ensure good working practices and adequate ventilation in our darkrooms. If you feel you may be adversely affected, please visit the Health and Safety section of Ilford’s website for further information. General Guidance Notes for Pregnant and Breast Feeding Women and Asthmatics: From a risk assessment standpoint, provided all necessary control measures (such as good working practices, adequate ventilation, and the use of appropriate PPE) are in place then pregnant and breastfeeding women should be able to continue to work safely with photochemical products.Inhalation is the main route by which fumes and gases enter the body, making good ventilation a high priority. Exposure to irritant chemicals that would not affect most people may provoke an asthma attack in a person who already has asthma. For example, low levels of the gas sulphur dioxide can be produced by some ILFORD PHOTO processes. Most individuals would be unaffected but asthmatics may suffer adverse affects. ILFORD PHOTO products include no known human carcinogens, and no substances to which phrase R46 (May cause heritable genetic damage) or R64 (May cause harm to breastfed babies) applies. Most ILFORD PHOTO developers use hydroquinone, and their classification therefore includes R40 (Limited evidence of a carcinogenic effect) and R68 (Possible risk of irreversible effects). Some ILFORD PHOTO chemicals use boric acid or borates. These substances are classified as toxic for reproduction. As a result, the classification of some of the powder developers includes R60 (May impair fertility) and R61 (May cause harm to the unborn child).
Intermediate Adobe InDesign
By Platform Training
During this 1 day Intermediate level InDesign course you will explore powerful layout and typographical controls, working with layers, creating multipage documents, using clipping paths and preparing for print. This course is ideal for anybody who already uses InDesign and wishes to progress to a professional level. Comprehensive colour management, typography and advanced graphics and effects are also covered.
This course will introduce you to the beautiful world of colour analogue photography. Taking as a starting point the work of contemporary photographic artists working with colour, we will discuss and explore theory as well as developing core skills essential for the capture and printing of your own colour images. You will learn how to correctly expose colour negative film and learn more about the characteristics of different types of film and the effects that they can have on an image. Within Stills’ darkrooms you will learn how to process your colour film by hand and print high quality analogue C-Type prints. Day 1 Morning: Colour Theory, Inspiration and Refresher for SLR Camera Controls During the morning we will be looking at contemporary photographers and artists that have used colour to inform their practice in specific ways. We will look at the ways in which colour revolutionized the artworld and vernacular photography. We will also look at basic colour theory, exploring which colours compliment each other and why. We will also refresh basic camera controls, load cameras and head out to the streets to shoot a roll of film. Afternoon: Colour Film Processing During this session, you will learn how to hand process your colour film. We will discuss the loading of the tank and the preparation of the machine to ensure correct processing temperature. We will look at different film types, why you may want to use them and the range of effects that can be produced. Day 2 Morning: Introducing the Colour Darkroom and Contact Sheets You will be introduced to Stills colour darkooms and become familiarised with the range of equipment you will be using. You will be taught how to set up your darkroom for printing, how the colour print processor works and how to print a contact sheet for viewing your negatives. Afternoon: Printing In the afternoon you will be expected to make a series of final C-Type prints. You will be shown techniques to improve your printing skills and produce the images you desire. This last session will allow you time to print with some one-to-one attention. We will discuss some printing techniques to help you get the most from your negatives. We will also have time at the end of the day to look back on all the work produced over the course and discuss it in relation to theory we learnt at the beginning. By the end of the course you will have: Learned more about colour theory and have a knowledge of contemporary artists working with colour photography Learned to process your own colour film Experimented with a variety of specialised darkroom printing techniques Printed contact sheets and a collection of colour photographs Feel confident in a colour darkroom using specialist equipment Courses are subject to minimum enrolment. Please register early, within five days of the start date, to reduce the likelihood of course cancellation. Please read our cancellation policy before booking. Students, anyone over the age of 65, and those in receipt of any form of benefits can claim the concessionary price, offering a 10% discount on the full course price. Valid proof of eligibility must be produced on the first day of the course. Please use the code CONCESSION when prompted at checkout.
