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Duration

up to 2 years

Tuition

$1,229

  Calgary

May 6-May 6

Plus 2 other start dates

Jun 19 - Jun 19 2027

Sep 3 - Sep 3 2027

Commitment

Part-Time

Delivery

Classroom

Credential

Certificate

Year Founded

1916

Scholarships

no

SAIT’s newly developed certificate program provides the knowledge, tools, and techniques students need to refine their skills and embark on a fulfilling career in photography.

For beginners, the program covers essential topics such as aperture, shutter speed, and flash. More experienced photographers can broaden their skills with optional electives in Darkroom techniques or Adobe Lightroom.

Throughout this certificate program, students will build a strong knowledge base and a diverse array of cutting-edge techniques that can be applied immediately. All classes blend lectures with hands-on assignments, offering real-world experience behind the camera.

Required Courses

  • Photography Foundations 1
  • Photography Foundations 2
  • Photography Foundations 3

What You’ll Learn

  • Demonstrate best practices in digital image processing and file management.
  • Control the main components of a digital camera with interchangeable lenses.
  • Employ the tools and techniques used to improve image composition.
  • Customize an image using ISO, shutter speed, and aperture to control exposure.
  • Produce a controlled lighting set-up, by changing the quality and direction of light on a subject.
  • Evaluate different focal lengths and how they affect perspective, depth, and compression in photography.
  • Apply advanced equipment, exposure and focus techniques to common action/event-based photographic assignments.
  • Demonstrate basic off-camera flash photography techniques using wireless flash triggering methods.
  • Predict location-specific challenges that impact your gear requirements and photographic approach for different genres of photography.

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Student Reviews (8)

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Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)

Dismal

Anonymous

Calgary • March 4, 2024

Graduated From

Electrical Engineering Technology

Overall:

2 out of 5

Instructors:

1 stars

Curriculum:

1 stars

Job Assistance:

1 stars

If you want to pay out of your nose to try and learn from instructors who can barely speak english let alone interface with you in figuring things out, this is the school for you. What a worthless program and diploma-mill of an institution. Spend your ...

If you want to pay out of your nose to try and learn from instructors who can barely speak english let alone interface with you in figuring things out, this is the school for you. What a worthless program and diploma-mill of an institution. Spend your time and money pursuing things closer to you than the pigeonholes places like this would have you shoved inside.

Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)

poor customer service

Anonymous

Calgary • February 21, 2023

Graduated From

Welding Technician

Overall:

3 out of 5

Instructors:

4 stars

Curriculum:

4 stars

Job Assistance:

na

Half-way through course, and still no resolution on 360 email. No one available to talk to, and contacts noted in email are never available. Was like this when I registered last year. You'd think I'd learn.

Half-way through course, and still no resolution on 360 email. No one available to talk to, and contacts noted in email are never available. Was like this when I registered last year. You'd think I'd learn.

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