Photography - Street Photography

What you'll learn

Learn to tell visual stories and visually document a place or community with a professional street and documentary photographer. This course includes practical techniques for candid street photography and a more intimate posed style.

Prerequisites: Photography (101) - Digital Photography for Beginners or equivalent. Must have basic camera and photography skills and be able to work their camera with confidence.

Street photography is a mirror of humanity as recorded in daily life. The street photographer recognises and captures those moments as a document of life on the streets.

This course is designed to encourage and guide students to build on their camera technical skills, to see the compositional elements that make image impact, and to understand the psychology of informally photographing people as part of the normal action on the street. Learn what is permissible to shoot, and what is restricted/prohibited by law.

Enrol in our Street Photography course and learn the fine points of Digital Photography with Sydney Community College your centre for continuing education in Sydney. More affordable than university continuing education or TAFE plus.

If you want to learn Street Photography in Sydney, then this course is for you.

Need:

• Working camera skills
• Digital SLR Camera
• Tablet or note pad for taking notes
• Memory card for camera

Agenda

During this course the intention it that the following topics will be covered, but not necessarily in the order given.

• The masters of photography – Henri Cartier-Bresson to Vivian Maier
• Street story telling
• Black & white vs. colour
• Street vs. Photojournalism vs. Documentary
• Legalities & Permission
• How to approach people / take photos of strangers
• Street techniques – candid, aware, covert/overt, brazen, posed/unposed, flash, selfies, snapshot aesthetic, staged, artistic
• Street styles – working with available light / time of day / spontaneity and timing / decisive moment
• Contemporary street photographers – Martin Parr to Trent Parke
• Story-telling in single images
• Telling a story – culling, sequencing and editing
• Compositional elements to provide image impact
• Peer evaluation and printed image review
• Publication – exhibitions, books, magazines, online portfolios etc.
• One or two practical shoots

Outcomes

By the end of this course you will have:

• Learned to visualise available light, shade and texture into images
• Improved compositional skills to give images more impact
• Evaluated and used a range of street-relevant compositional elements
• A better knowledge of when to work in colour and when to work in black and white
• Learned how to approach strangers and gain permission if required to photograph them
• Gained and provided image feedback by peer review
• Participated in image review and positive critiquing processes

Other Information

• For the practical shoots you will need to bring your own camera, lenses, batteries and tripod. The safety and security of your equipment when on the street is your responsibility.
• Please wear casual, comfortable clothes and appropriate walking shoes (with close toes or boots and wear a sun safe hat).

Student Feedback

"The tutor was well-prepared with a clear outline for thecourse at each session. Where’d you find this guy? He’s awesome. Encourages discussion, guides insight. The course material is great. So much so, we all asked for a copy of his slides."

"This course was above what I expected for a theory class. I normally find it hard to focus on a course that is solely theory based, but I had no trouble with the great detail and delivery of knowledge from the teacher. I learnt a lot from this class and met some great people as well."

"Inspirational, thoughtful and passionate. Richard clearly has a lot of experience and passion for the subject. He was very engaging throughout the course and communicated the concepts effectively through different mediums and interactive activities. Richard was very generous with his time, and went above and beyond in leading group photography outings outside of the allotted classroom teaching times. This was greatly valued and appreciated by all of the students."

"Really inspiring and it gave me a new way of thinking when shooting. Very engaging and interesting. Richard has loads of patience and generously shares his wide knowledge of the history of photograpy."

"The classes were relevant, well prepared and well presented in a relaxed and friendly way."

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