
Custom design course
Overview
Highly specialized, tailor-made for your specific needs. Focused training is the surefire way to get ahead, to concentrate on particular problems or creative impulses that you may have. All levels from beginner to advanced are welcome. Before the course, Oliver will assess your level and make recommendations on what topics you may be interested in discovering, a 30 minute Zoom consultation is organised after your level has been assessed. For all custom design courses, the program is put together in consultation with Oliver. You will also be able benefit from a range of practical classes shooting on location with Oliver. Please consult below the range of topics Oliver can teach you. For more in depth information on what you will learn studying any of these topics, please consult the relative programmed courses.
Schedule and pricing
- Each course is comprised of five two-hour sessions
- Flexible schedule: classes at the studio, daytime or evenings Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays or Fridays
- Practical sessions: also available to meet on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays for on location shooting sessions
- Book your dates / times directly with Oliver 078-765-39-23 oliver.ohanlon@me.com
- Valid 12 months
- CHF 950.-
Photography topics
- Beginner: camera functions and settings, aesthetic fundamentals, introduction to portraiture and photographing people, introduction to street and travel photography, introduction to nature and landscape photography
- Intermediate: developing consistency in your picture taking techniques and aesthetic style, learning how to experiment, editing to select your strongest work, image quality and shooting for best file results, colour and black and white photography, introduction to flash photography, Introduction to post-production
- Advanced: contemporary trends, master photographers, aesthetic theory and visual characteristics, alternative photographic mediums, photography within historical and contemporary art movements
- Photographic style: introduction to photographic style & how to build your own visual language, reportage and documentary trends and styles, fine art photography trends and styles, master photographers, artistic expression
- Fine art photography: movements timeline, photography within fine art 1839-2021: pictorialism, surrealism, dada, mixed-media, abstraction, california modernists, snap-shot aesthetic, minimalism, personal-documentary, constructed realities, master fine art photographers (check list on course page), how to start making fine art photography: style, inspiration, experimentation, artistic expression, practical decisions, experimenting with new visual languages: applying technique and visual characteristics to ideas, creating a coherent artistic portfolio: inspiration, artistic expression, quality, consistency, printing
- History: the first one hundred years 1826-1926, pioneer photographers, humanistic photography, photography within historical fine art movements, 20th century master photographers
- Media training: photography fundamentals, portraiture and photographing people, event photography, constructed subjects, strategic visual communications
Address
- Oliver O’Hanlon Photography
- 88 Rue de Saint-Jean, 1201 Geneva
- Public transport: bus 7 stop Ormeaux tram 15 stop Mercier
- Walking: 4 minutes from Manor department store or 6 minutes Cornavin railway station
Gift voucher
- To offer this course as a present you can purchase a gift voucher with this link
- We can send you an A5 printed gift voucher card in the mail
Student photographs
This gallery below is from intermediate level students. You can also consult introduction and advanced students samples here