Build Digital Photography Skills at NYFA
This 15-Week Online Digital Photography Workshop is an intensive exploration of photography in the digital age. Students are immersed in the art and craft of still photography, introduced to the tools necessary to capture great images, and learn to refine them through digital imaging.
Workshop DescriptionWorkshop Name: 15-Week Online Photography Workshop
Photography students at New York Film Academy develop the skills necessary to research, compose, and capture digital photographic projects in hands-on courses. Students are encouraged to be creative, and taught to think of each project as a concise statement of artistic and aesthetic intent. They expand their repertoire of techniques as they explore practical sources of light and shadow.
No prior experience is required to enroll in the 15-Week Digital Photography Workshop.
Please note: All students are required to bring a digital camera with manual exposure controls.
To learn more, see NYFA’s Course Catalog or request more information.
Class Details
Photo
This core photography class includes lectures, demonstrations, shooting assignments, and in-class critique while challenging students to execute demanding professional-scale assignments including personal projects, fashion, beauty, still life, portraiture, editorial, complex composites, and more.
Imaging
In Imaging students learn to train their eyes to pre-visualize the possibilities latent in an image, to apply principles of color, and understand how the viewer “reads” an image in order to create photographs that will stand the test of time. This is done through the use of both Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop.
Vision & Style
With a focus on creative queries and challenges, students engage in long-term personal projects, and improve their visual literacy through engagement with and analysis of their fellow students’ work. This culminates in a final critique of either personal or commercial work.
History of Photography
Students study and analyze masterful photographers, not only by analyzing their distinct techniques, aesthetics, and approaches, but also by literally re-creating their images with precise attention to composition, lighting, gesture, format, and palette. Following this photography class, students are able to select the best methods by which to realize their own unique vision.
TIMES AND BREAKDOWN BY WEEK
The 15-Week Online Photography Workshop is a part time workshop held in the evenings. To learn more, request information.
PROGRAM AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
- A DSLR or mirrorless camera (either camera must have manual controls)
- A lens (any focal length)
- Adobe Lightroom Classic
- Adobe Photoshop
- Computer
NYFA New York
17 Battery Place
New York, NY 10004 NYFA Los Angeles
3300 W Riverside Drive
Burbank, CA 91505
17 Battery Place
New York, NY 10004 NYFA Los Angeles
3300 W Riverside Drive
Burbank, CA 91505
Students shoot assignments in multiple genres, which may include fine art, documentary, fashion, street photography, studio and location portraiture, editorial, advertising, and other commercial styles. Location and studio lighting is also covered in the workshop. To learn more about the photography projects, visit our photography projects page .
Please note: Equipment, curriculum, and projects are subject to change and may vary depending on location. Students should consult the most recently published campus catalog for the most up-to-date curriculum.