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Gift Certificates are now available for all of our courses. Enroll your gift recipient and you will receive a certificate by email which you can print out yourself. No worry about postal delays and getting it on time for Christmas. You can then present the gift personally.

Christmas Gift Certificates can be ordered up to 12 noon 24th December 2011.

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Nikon D5100

The camera is smaller and neater then the D5000 but this doesn’t mean it has taken anything away. In fact some features have naturally been added and improved. One feature is the 1080p HD video and another is the 921k dot LCD screen, which can be used as a viewfinder for both stills and video. The screen is also hinged so it can be positioned in all sorts of different angles, enabling viewing from most positions.

The D5100 has a 16.2mp Nikon DX CMOS sensor, very similar to what is in the D7000, which is the next step up in Nikons range. Understandably the D5100 wouldn’t have other features the D7000 has but the final image quality would be very similar.

The D5100 has all you would expect from a DSLR. The standard exposure modes including Manual plus the usual scene modes. A maximum shutter speed of 1/4000 sec is adequate for practically all situations and an ISO range of 100 to 6400 will also suffice. However the ISO can be extended up to 25600 ISO.

A new set of features included with the D5100 is the Effects modes. On the exposure setting dial is “Effects” and these are a set of preset effects that can be added to an image when shooting it. One such effect is selective color where a color is keyed in and preserved in the image while all other colors are converted to black & white. Some may see this as an added gimmick but as this particular effect is commonly used in photography, it may be a nice attraction for some.

In the School of Photography we would recommend this camera as perfect for use in our courses.

It is now the Creative Photography Course and like all our recently updated courses, uses the Moodle e-learning management system, which we have found to be very successful. The Course and new system is much more manoeuvrable and we are sure, a much easier learning experience.

When the Basic Photography Course was first rolled out in 2000, film was the main capture media and digital cameras were expensive, poor quality and few people had one. Therefore the course originally only gave mention that digital media existed. Through the years the course had many updates and digital matters increased dramatically with each update. However the framework of the old course still existed and made further changes to the course more and more difficult and time consuming.

Due to the ease of use of the e-learning system we are now using for our systems operators, updates will be much more frequent and ongoing. This is particularly important as the digital media landscape seems to constantly change. This means any new technologies, camera features or standards can be installed almost instantly with little or no upset to the existing course material, which had proved to be a problem with the old system.

The Creative Photography Course is the complete package for learning the art of photography. Our new flagship course is designed for the person who has no prior knowledge in photography. The course starts from scratch. At the end the student will be very competent and confident in the use of a camera and will learn how to take fantastic images.

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