Professional Diploma in Photojournalism

• Visualization and representation

• History of photography

• Purpose of Photography

• Basics of Camera in Film SLR format

• Exposure - interplay of shutter speed & aperture

• Colour Theory

• Understanding light and shadow in black and White and colour

• Aesthetics of Composition

• Basics of Light

• Digital photography

• Understanding - Natural Light, Flash, Reflector

• Studio lights, lenses and Filters

• Documenting life through Portraiture

• Developing curatorial capability

• Post-production of Images - cropping, colour correction, Enhancem

• Introduction to Photography

• Understanding of Photogrpahy Exposure – Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO

• Understanding of Camera and their Menus

• Digital photography

• Masters Work in Photo Journalism

• Understanding Photojournalim relation with commercial photography

• Understanding of Photojournalism relation with Travel, editorial and Wildlife photography

• Outdoor Photography / Nature and Landscape photography

• Editing and Photoshop

• Learning of Lightroom

• Understanding Documentary photography/photojournalism

• Understanding commercial photography and basics of artificial lighting

• Basic types of artificial lights and light modifiers

• Setting up lights for people photography

• Natural light portraiture vs artificial light portaiture

• Understanding flash photography

• Light painting

• Stereo Photography

• HDR

• Introduction to Photojournalism.

• Career opportunities as a photojournalist.

• Life as a photojournalist.

• What it needs to be a successful photojournalist

• Ethics of photojournalism

• Working as an independent photographer / freelancing

• Role of a Photo Editor.

• Basic Picture Editing in a newspaper /magazine.

• Art and science of editing pictures.

• Selecting, cropping and transmitting your pictures from location.

• Introduction to different aspects of photojournalism

• Understanding your photography gear as a photojournalist

• Telling stories through pictures.

• Development journalism through photography.

• Portfolio development and Resume writing

• Understanding professional goals, business plans and marketing tools

• Understanding photography markets

• Students display their work and share their experience.

The Six months photojournalism course at Creative Hut is the opportunity to learn under Gurukulam. It’s perhaps the only photojournalism course in Kerala, India, that covers all aspects of the profession with such high levels of expertise and in such detail. Creative Hut teaches how to cover latest news, travelling news, documentary articles and handling photo essays, photography blogs etc. We teach the magazine layouts, article writings and works as independent photographer. Creative Hut is the only institute in the country that provides the gurukulam way of teaching in photography. In our photojournalism course, it covers the latest technologies, latest trends and marketing etc.

The course in photojournalism will enable our students to start or make the magazine by capturing and collecting the photographs, reports for it. The students will also learn the marketing system in this field and will learn how to make income out of it. At last but not the least, we also teach the latest trends of video journalism in this course.

Admission Procedure:

• For booking the seats you needs to pay Rs.1000. DD ?drawn ?in ?favour? of? "Creative Hut" ?payable? at ?Ayarkunnam. By online transfer: Account name: Creative Hut, Account Number : 18800200000175, IFSC Code: FDRL0001880, Branch : Ayarkunnam, Kottayam, Kerala, Bank : Federal bank

• For online registration or admission, kindly fill up the admission form Download from the website. It has to be downloaded and take the print out of it. Fill this form and send it back to The Director, along with form you need to submit one attested copy each of your id-address proof and the certificate of your latest passed out exam.

• Maximum 10 students per batch for all course. Registration & admission will be closed anytime before the closing dates if the batch gets full. Hence, participants / students are requested to register their names at the earliest before the seats are full.

Course Fees: Rs.45500/- ($1000 for non Indian nationals)