REGULAR PHOTOGRAPHY COURSES & INTENSIVE WORKSHOPS
SCHEDULE – January 2010
Classes in English (or French) - Teachers: Vincent Sung & Nikki Kim
*Introductory photography courses (analogue & digital)
Mixed course for beginners to build a good foundation about the basics of photography (film and/or DSLR cameras)
Topics covered will include:
- choosing a camera model, selecting the right lens, brand reviews
- technical aspects: aperture, shutter speed, ISO
- exploring different functions of film/digital cameras, color t°, color balance
- exposure control, composition
- lenses, filters, bracketing
EVENING B.P. 1: Basic Photography I (2x 2hours + 4 hours practice workshop)
Wednesday, Jan. 13th & 20th 2010 (6:30pm~8:30pm)
+ one Saturday intensive practice workshop (4 hours)
(choose: Jan. 16th or Jan. 23rd, 2010 - from 2pm to 6:15pm)
MORNING B.P. 2: Basic Photography II (2x 2hours + 4 hours practice workshop)
Thursday, Jan. 14th & 21st, 2010 (10:30am~12:30pm)
+ one Saturday intensive practice workshop (4 hours)
(choose: Jan. 16th or Jan. 23rd, 2010 - from 2pm to 6:15pm)
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*DSLR - Digital Photography
MORNING course (2x 2hours + 4 hours practice workshop)
Evening courses are also available on Tuesdays 6:30pm~8:30pm or other hours upon requests with a min. of 3 students
Tuesday, Jan. 12th & Jan. 19th (10:30am to 12:30pm)
+ one intensive practice workshop on SATURDAY
(choose: Jan. 16th or Jan. 23rd, 2010 - from 2pm to 6:15pm)
A course focusing mostly on digital DSLR, basic retouching (Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop) and its unlimited possibilities
- DSLR, hybrid cameras
- Formats, CCD, resolution, sensors
- Advanced techniques for digital photography
- Advices for digital files and archives
- Create a web presence (Flickr, Facebook, Web Blogs, etc)
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Tuition: 250,000 won for each course
*pay before January 11th, 2010 for early birds discount: 200,000 won (20% discount)
Bank details: KEB – Korea Exchange Bank 620-172580-309
(name of beneficiary: Verstraeten)
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*Intensive Weekend course & Practice Workshops
– Every Saturday from 2pm to 6:15pm
(also Sunday & Full Weekend workshops are available upon requests – min. 3 students)
Workshop themes:
Fashion in studio/location, Nude in studio, Portrait in studio/location,
Travel & Documentary, Reportage
Specialized Workshops (on demand): B/W darkroom, POLAROID transfers, POLAROID Emulsion lift, Digital Creative Master Classes
§ Practice and experience working with live model(s)
§ Create your own lighting.
§ Put in practice what you have learned during classes or fine tune and put in action what you have read in books!
§ Share knowledge with other fellow students and get immerged in real situations!
SATURDAY, Jan. 16th, 2010: PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY (location/studio)
Teacher –Vincent Sung 010-4547-8364
– Learn the art of portrait photography with live model
– Soft lighting techniques appropriate for portrait (bouncing flashes)
– Special effects with color filters
– Creative approaches
Workshop only: 180,000 won (cost cover professional model - please give photos to the model at the end of the session)
*This workshop can be chosen as one workshop for regular (B.P. 1 & B.P. 2) Basic Photography or DSLR – Digital Photography course 1 or 2
**min. of 3 students required for this workshop / max. 7 students
SATURDAY, Jan. 23rd, 2010: TRAVEL Photo-journalism (locations around Seoul or Korea *if weather permits)
Teachers – Vincent Sung & Nikki Kim 016-253-8553
Travel together with our teacher(s) in our STAREX van to some remote Korean islands or locations near the sea/mountains. You will learn how to confidently take photos of the surroundings around you with techniques to produce truthful, objective, and candid photographs of the places, people and unusual things that are visually different from big cities like Seoul
- Learn to create a travel story for future magazine assignments
- Critique sessions for images
- Understand composition and editing/contact sheets techniques (Adobe Lightroom)
- Compose a travel theme and get eventually published
Workshop only: 180,000 won
*This workshop can be chosen as one workshop for regular (B.P. 1 & B.P. 2) Basic Photography or DSLR – Digital Photography course 1 or 2
SATURDAY, Jan. 30th, 2010: REPORTAGE JOURNALISM
(various locations around Seoul) Teacher –Nikki Kim 016-253-8553
Head out to the streets and put your skill to the test! Learn to see through a different set of eyes! Here you will learn how to confidently take photos of the surroundings around you. You will learn techniques to produce truthful, objective, and candid photographs of the people, places and things that surround you!
- Learn to create a visual story
- Critique sessions for images
- Understand composition and editing techniques
Workshop only: 180,000 won
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Payment Details:
All tuitions and workshops fee should to be wired to the following bank details:
Name: VERSTRAETEN
Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) 620-172580-309
or
Kookmin bank (KB) 375902-01-009683
For further information, please call the Studio/Institute: +82.2.2235-8364~5
or e-mail: Vincent Sung visualsponge@gmail.com +82(0)10-4547-8364
Nikki Kim vs.photo.institute.seoul@gmail.com +82(0)16-253-8553
Samples of portraits/fashion works: www.studio504.net (Vincent Sung)
*EVENING Intermediate Courses
A course in several MODULES – Evenings from 6:30pm ~8:30pm
Module 1- JANUARY 2010
NIKKI KIM: Introduction to Photo/Travel journalism
VINCENT SUNG: Introduction to Fashion & Commercial Photography
1. Nikki Kim: Thursday, Jan. 21st & Jan. 28th, 2010
+ two intensive SATURDAY - 4 hours specialized workshop: Reportage/Documentary/Street/Travel workshop (January 23rd + January 30th)
2. Vincent Sung: Thursday, Jan. 7th & Jan. 14th, 2010
+ two intensive SATURDAY - 4 hours specialized workshop:
Portraits/Fashion workshops (January 9th + January 16th)
An exciting course on how to create visuals and get work with newspapers and travel/lifestyle magazines (DestinAsian, Lifestyle+Travel, THE BC Korea, etc.)
o daily life journalism
o creating a visual story / fashion spread
o spotting news, categorizing & editing your work
o approaching medias (magazines, newspapers)
Module 1 – tuition fee: 300,000 won
