Photography Certificate of Completion

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.