Online/Mixed delivery by negotiation

This is the ultimate Introduction to Photography course for beginners. Learn from real life professional photographers in this hands-on fundamentals of Digital SLR and Mirrorless course.

Class prerequisites: there are no formal prerequisites, but students should have a basic level of computer literacy. 

Term 1 - 29 January - 26 March 2025
7:00 - 10:00PM

Online delivery only

This course will give you a solid grounding in digital imaging concepts such as bit depth, file systems, colour spaces, and digital manipulation processes including curves, levels, and layers, Photoshop, Lightroom and Digital Asset Management.

This is an excellent all-round introduction course into editing and sorting your images.

Class Prerequisites: Introduction to Photography or equivalent camera knowledge and basic computer skills.

Term 1 - Monday 27 January - 24 March 2025
7:00 - 10:00PM
Online delivery only

Unlock your creativity and shift your thinking with this photographic taster course. Each week learn about a new genre of photography and explore the impact these genres have on photography today. This course is scheduled four times a year.

Class Prerequisites: Introduction to Photography or equivalent DSLR/Mirrorless skills.

Term 2 - Tuesday 29 April - 24 June 2025
7:00 - 10:00PM

Online delivery only

Become a composition badass. It’s that simple. Unpack all of the elements that make for bold, visually engaging photographs that stop people in their tracks. This course is scheduled two times a year.

Class Prerequisites: Introduction to Photography or equivalent DSLR/Mirrorless skills.

Suggested/Optional Prerequisites: You don’t have to have completed Digital Imaging 1, Camera Portfolio 1, and Camera Portfolio 2 to undertake Photographic Design, however some of the skills covered in them can be helpful for this course.

Term 1 - Tuesday 28 January - 25 March 2025
7:00 - 10:00PM

Mixed delivery

Learn various lighting styles for portrait and still-life work. This course is a core component of the Certificate IV in Photography and Digital Imaging.

Class Prerequisites: Introduction to Photography or equivalent DSLR/Mirrorless skills.

Term 1 - 29 January - 26 March 2025
7:00 - 10:00PM

Online delivery only

This course will give you a solid grounding in digital imaging concepts such as bit depth, file systems, colour spaces, and digital manipulation processes including curves, levels, and layers, Photoshop, Lightroom and Digital Asset Management.

This is an excellent all-round introduction course into editing and sorting your images.

Class Prerequisites: Introduction to Photography or equivalent camera knowledge and basic computer skills.

Term 2 and Term 4 dates TBC for 2025

Online only

Take your Photoshop skills from beginner to professional. From portrait retouching, complicated deep etching and digital image manipulation and printing your images to perfection

This course is scheduled twice a year.

Class Prerequisites: Digital Imaging 1 or equivalent Photoshop and Lightroom skills.

2025 dates TBC

Online only

Make incredible high end professional images in this pro-level photoshop course.

This course is scheduled once a year

Class Prerequisites: Digital Imaging 1, Digital Imaging 2, Introduction to Studio, Camera Portfolio 1.

Thursday 30 January - 27 March 2025
7:00 - 10:00PM

Online only

Imagine you are running your own photography business. Learn the ins and outs of creating a consistent style of images in Photoshop and Lightroom to give your work a distinctive look and set you aside from the competition. You will get to know software like ProSelect, Smart Albums and Pixieset; these skill will make your clients want to engage with your work and love what you do.

This course is scheduled 4 times per year.

Class Prerequisites

Introduction to Photography and Digital Imaging 1 (you need both), or equivalent skill level.

Term 1 - Tuesday 28 January - 25 March 2025
7:00 - 10:00PM

Mixed delivery

Learn various lighting styles for portrait and still-life work. This course is a core component of the Certificate IV in Photography and Digital Imaging.

Class Prerequisites: Introduction to Photography or equivalent DSLR/Mirrorless skills.

2025 dates TBC

In-person delivery only

The ultimate technical studio foundation course. Grow from a lighting beginner to a lighting pro.

Class Prerequisites: Introduction to Photography & Introduction to Studio.

2025 dates TBC

Perfect for the would-be commercial photographer or fine artist looking for that extra edge in their studio lighting practice. Practical, hands-on experience in a real commercial studio setting.

Class Prerequisites: Introduction to the Studio

In-person delivery only

Are you going to be getting paid to do photography for a living? You need this course. Learn photographic lighting, modelling techniques and assignments for paid, freelance photographic work.

This course only runs once every two years: Class Prerequisites, Certificate IV in, Photography and Digital Imaging, Advanced Lighting 1, Studio 2 is ideal but not essential.

In-person only

Formal portraits? Informal portraits? Daylight? Studio? It’s all there. If you’re going to be photographing people in any way – you’re going to want this course!

This course runs twice a year

Class Prerequisites: Introduction to Studio or relevant studio experience.

In-person delivery only

This course will push and challenge your studio portrait as well as conceptual skills. Whether you’re a fine art, fashion or domestic photographer this course will push your portrait photography skills into new territory.

Take this course once you have completed Photographing People.

This course runs once a year

Class Prerequisites: Introduction to Studio

Term 1 - Wednesday 29 January - 26 March 2025
7:00 - 10:00PM

Online only

What do you want to say with your photographs? Why make a particular artwork using photography instead of another medium? Explore the qualities of photography that make it a unique form of artistic expression, and learn to work by starting with a concept, then making images to illustrate it.

Class Prerequisites: Introduction to Photography & Camera Portfolio 1.

Suggested/Optional Prerequisites: You don’t have to have completed these courses to undertake Concepts 1. Though some of the skills contained in them can come in handy. Camera Portfolio 2, Introduction to Studio, Photographic Design, Digital Imaging 1.

In-person and Online delivery Available.

This is a playful course all about challenging photographic preconceptions and conventions. Each course will have a slightly different outcome to allow for students' individual vision, motivation and career goals.

Class Prerequisites: Introduction to Photography, Camera Portfolio 1, Camera Portfolio 2, Photographic Concepts 1.

In-person or Online delivery available

Let’s get weird people - no really. If you're taking this course you probably already know what you’re in for – and it's going to be a wild ride!

Class Prerequisites: Photographic Concepts 2.

In-person and online delivery available.

Essential for photographers and modern art history novices alike, the course illustrates art practice since pre-photography starting with Romanticism 1780-1850 through to current art practice with Post-Modernism and Deconstructionism in Architecture.

This course runs once a year

Class Prerequisites: Introduction to Studio