The Festival Package is an opportunity to grow as a photographer. Leading photographers from South African and around the world will give you insight into how they access and serve their markets and will inspire you with their work.
You can take part in all or in parts of it. The whole package costs R2,500 (ex VAT).
The 3 main elements of the The Festival Package are:
1) Growing Photo Income Streams: Saturday 6 April (R313 ex VAT per seminar)
2) DocuFest Africa and Encounters SA International Documentary Film Festival on eve Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 April (R40 per film or presentation)
3) Digital Imaging Essentials: An exceedingly popular and vital course. Monday 8 April (R1250 ex VAT for the day)
| Date | Code | Course | Trainer |
| Saturday April 6, 2013 | SDCIS001 | Selling Your Work, Selling Yourself: Building multiple income streams throughout your career | David Larsen |
| SDCIS002 | Selling Time: Best practice in managing commercial, editorial and retail assignments | Eric Miller and Neville Lockhart | |
| SDCIS003 | Selling Use Rights: Creating an income stream from publication and broadcast rights | Rosanne Larsen and David Larsen | |
| SDCIS004 | Selling Products: Maximizing product markets for your photography | Roger De La Harpe and Paul Changuion | |
| SDCIS005 | Selling Rarity: Creating value for fine art collectors | Cedric Nunn with David Larsen |
Digital Imaging Essentials for Media Professionls: Understanding Digital Imaging
Code: SDCPP001
Presenter: Graeme Cookson
Venue: Schlesinger Theatre
Date: Monday April 8, 2013
Duration: Full Day
Style: Lecture
Participants: 60
Prerequisite: None
Cost: R1,250 (ex VAT)
Graeme Cookson started his career doing camera work for prepress at a commercial printers in London and went on to become a freelance photographer working with a range of London-based magazines as well as freelancing for The Times (London), BBC, and Channel 4. He now consults in digital imaging and counts the likes of Reuters and the BBC among his clients.
Understanding digital imaging is the foundation for understanding all digital media. Since 2005, Graeme Cookson has been assisting media professionals in South Africa get to understand what digital is all about. This course is always sold out as it is the essential first step in really understanding digital imaging.
Graeme is brilliant at explaining complex digital concepts in ways in which absolute beginners can understand and apply as well as furthering the knowledge of those who have been working with digital imaging for years.
What content will be covered?
The masterclass covers the essentials of what defines a quality digital image and how to check that the files you are receiving or producing are at the correct standard for various uses. This includes essential theory – pixels, resolution, file size, file formats, compression, bit depth, and colour space, as well as detecting common problems, imaging standards, a productive workflow and levels and curves.
What will I gain?
At the end of the masterclass you will understand what digital is and what all the terms that you hear mean – bits, bytes, bit depth, 16-bit, jpeg, tiff, colour space etc. You will also know the standards you need to work to for output to print, web and broadcast and for building a long terms archive that can generate a return in years and decades to come. So whether you are a photographer, producing images, or an editor, picture researcher or picture editor, you will be aware of the standards to hold to and be able to identify problems in images prior to passing it down the line to publication of broadcast ensuring quality of output every time.
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