Name of qualification Name of qualification: Fotografski tehnik/fotografska tehnicaAdd to comparison
Translated title (no legal status) Translated title: Photographic Technician
Type of qualification Type of qualification: Upper secondary technical education
Category of qualification Category of qualification: Educational Qualification
Type of education Type of education: Upper secondary technical education
Duration Duration of education:
4 years
Credits Credits: 240 credits
Admission requirements Entry conditions:
  • Elementary education or
  • lower vocational education.
A condition for enrolment in the programme is a successfully passed artistic aptitude test.
ISCED field Field:
Arts and humanities
ISCED subfield subfield: audio-visual techniques and media production
Qualification level

SQF Level: SQF 5
EQF Level: EQF 4

Learning outcomes:
Certificate holders will be able to: 
  • creatively devise and prepare ideas for photographic assignments,
  • take photographs within the field covered by traditional photographic subjects in a studio and outdoors (landscape, portrait, reportage and architectural photography),
  • take photographs within the field of commercial and technical photography (fashion, advertising, industrial and reproduction photography),
  • take photographs within the field of scientific and technical photography (macro- and microscopic photography and photography for archive purposes, medicine, archaeology, environmental protection, restoration and cartography),
  • take photographs within the field of recording events (news and reportage photography),
  • take photographs using analogue and digital photographic equipment,
  • film using film cameras and video cameras,
  • work with vector graphics software and digital image processing software,
  • work in photographic processing labs (black-and-white and colour photography),
  • manage and work autonomously in a photography studio,

Elective: 

  • realise ideas in audio-visual production,
  • manage and set up lights for the realisation of project assignments,
  • manage multimedia equipment and arrange a simple multimedia project,
  • prepare 2D and 3D projections and arrange audio and video connections.
Certificate holders build on their key vocational knowledge and abilities with key general knowledge in line with national standards.

Assesment and completion:
Students' vocational abilities and skills and the fulfilment of conditions to obtain credits in accordance with the relevant education programme are established through verification and assessment. Assessment of students also takes into account non-formally acquired knowledge, which must be adequately demonstrated. Students are assessed using grades from 5 (excellent) to 1 (inadequate).

Progress:

Students may progress to the next year if at the end of the academic year they achieve a passing grade in all general education subjects and relevant vocational modules set out in the school's operational curriculum, and have completed all extracurricular activities and practical on-the-job training, or progress on the basis of a programme faculty decision.

Fotografski tehnik/fotografska tehnica

SQF 5

EQF 4

Progression:

Matura/vocational course, higher vocational education (SQF level 6), professional higher education (SQF level 7) and academic higher education (SQF level 7)

Conditions for obtaining a public document:
Students must successfully (i.e. with passing grades) complete all general education subjects, compulsory vocational modules, elective vocational modules and the open part of the curriculum. They must also complete extracurricular activities and work placement requirements and pass the vocational matura examination.
The vocational matura comprises a compulsory section (written and oral examinations in Slovene and photography) and an elective section (written and oral examination in a foreign language or mathematics and a product, with oral presentation).

Awarding body:

Vocational and technical secondary schools and adult education institutions.

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