​Course content: CRUISE SHIP TRAINING PROGRAM (Week 1)

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This intensive one week photography course is designed to prepare applicants with no previous photography experience. The course is aimed at preparing photographers with a thorough knowledge of photography as well as Adobe Photoshop skills.  If you have completed a photography course at the Stellenbosch Academy of Design & Photography or meet the outcomes of our course with sufficient experience from another institution; you can be exempt from this introductory course.  If you only meet the Photographic outcomes and not that of Adobe Photoshop; you are advised to join the Adobe Photoshop for Photographers training during Week 1.

Photography outcomes:
•    History of Photography and Visual Literacy
•    Camera functions, accessories, lenses and flash
•    Digital Photography – exposure, resolution, white balance, colour temperature, pixels, ISO    ratings, memory cards, software, downloading images, digital camera image noise, image types and sizes, shooting in RAW
•    Aperture and depth of field
•    Shutter and motion
•    Exposure, natural lighting, artificial lighting
•    Lenses and filters
•    Composition, perspective, viewpoint, design elements influencing photography
•    Specialized photography – night photography, travel, close-ups, portraits, sunsets, water and safari

Photoshop outcomes:
•    Moving around the Photoshop workspace: toolbox, menus, palettes
•    Histograms, levels and curves: adjusting tonal values of photographs
•    Retouching with the clone stamp tool and the patch tool
•    Cropping and transforming Images
•    Using selection tools
•    Making colour adjustments
•    The effect of using Filters
•     Basic introduction to layers
•    The idea of masking to create hand-colouring
•    Opening, creating and saving Images
•    Photoshop keyboard shortcuts
•    Template design                                                                                                  

 

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​Course content: CRUISE SHIP TRAINING PROGRAM (Weeks 2 and 3)


•    Shipboard living conditions:  Cabins, food, uniforms, rules & regulations and safety.
•    Customer Service:  The importance of excellent customer service, courtesy and going that extra mile to achieve high passenger satisfaction scores within the industry.
•    Sales skills:   The trainee will be taught the importance of effective selling, selling the photo opportunity, and the right approach to passengers.
•    Positive mental attitude:  The skills to keep a positive attitude to handle the long hours and the demands of this career.
•    Communication skills:  Trainees will be taught the importance of having the ability to understand and communicate in an environment of cultural diversity.
•    Harassment training:  How to handle uncomfortable situations and the correct procedures for dealing with these situations
•    Event shooting:  Embarkation, gangway, restaurant, decks, lounge and costume shoots.  Students will be given an understanding of the atmosphere in the dining room, gangways and other events that will be photographed throughout the ship. Composition, exposure, flash, and the importance of shooting quickly, efficiently and consistently will be stressed.
•    Formal portrait lighting and composition:  A good understanding of the shipboard studio lighting, composition and posing will be covered.
•    Lab basics:  All aspects of developing and printing in a mini-lab.
•    Practical as well as theoretical exams. It is required to pass both exams before you can further your recruitment with Image.

Facilitators: Georg Strydom, Fransien Fick, Corianna Heise

COST FOR THE 3 WEEK TRAINING PROGRAM: R10 950 (4 days of accommodation is included in the course fees through our service provider only)                
COST FOR THE 2 WEEK TRAINING PROGRAM: R7 950 (4 days of accommodation is included in the course fees through our service provider only)

Requirements for the course:
•    An Image approved medical;
•    Your own DSLR camera if possible (we have cameras available for the course)