Digital Photography: Discover your Genre and Develop your Style

This microcredential was created in collaboration with Royal Photographic Society, the UK's foremost photography organization. It will provide a broad overview of many photographic genres as well as the knowledge and techniques needed to create better photographic narratives.

This course will allow you to explore various areas of photography and help you determine where you want your creativity to flourish. This course covers the following topics:

Things include product and food photography

Portraiture sports and photojournalism are explored by people and events

Environment' - Looking at landscapes and wildlife architecture

This course will teach you how to manage a brief, how to take and prepare images, and how to tell a cohesive visual story with your work. Learn how the way you present or take an image affects its understanding and how that is communicated.

You'll be able to build on your photography skills and learn how to write a Statement Of Intent to explain the purpose and objectives of your portfolio.

The course will be delivered via the FutureLearn platform. You also have access to a third-party site for image sharing at no additional cost. This site allows you to share images with other learners, and to practice giving feedback on each others' images.

The Open University and the Royal Photographic Society created this site to help you learn from experts in specific genres and approaches to photography.

You will be able to share your ideas and experience with other learners, building skills confidence, knowledge through peer to peer feedback, and weekly challenges to explore and experiment with your creative approaches techniques and practices as well as the concept behind you intent.

FutureLearn's social learning environment is intended to encourage learners to connect and gain from a supportive learning community. Mentors are available to help learners collaborate and provide guidance. Your fellow learners will provide feedback on your images throughout the course. You will receive feedback from academics and subject matter specialists at the end of each module.

This course replaces Digital photography: Creating a professional portfolio (OU course code TZFM200.). Although it is a new course, the assessment is identical in form and level. We are available to answer any questions you may have before enrolling.