Digital Photography - Creating a Professional Portfolio Microcredential

Overview

Digital Photography - Creating a Professional Portfolio Microcredential at The Open University by FutureLearn will encourage you to explore different areas of photography to help you identify where you want to develop your creative photography skills, confidence, and knowledge.  Some of the subjects covered in this course include: 

• ‘Things’ – including product and food photography
• ‘People and events’ – exploring portraiture, sports, and photojournalism  
• ‘Environment’ - looking at wildlife, buildings, architecture, and landscapes

You will learn how to work to a brief and how to prepare and take images to create a body of work within these subjects that tell a visually cohesive story. You will discover how your approach to taking or displaying an image can affect how it is understood and explore the conventions related to particular genres.

What you will achieve

By the end of the microcredential, you’ll be able to:

• Recognise photographic genres/areas and their conventions, styles and approaches

• Create a set of high quality (visually and technically proficient) images in your chosen subject genre that communicate a clear narrative

• Communicate clearly in writing about your individual photographic approach to your chosen subject

• Use information technology to organise and publish your images online

• Use communication skills to participate in online discussion areas