Course Content

Your Ability

Adavanced Amature? Total Beginner? Semi Pro?

 

Just let us know your ability when you book a course and we can tell you whether it will suit you. With approx 5 students per tutor we can guarantee plenty of one on one time.

 

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All our courses cover similar ground, and we've found that we can work well with groups of different experience. That's because there is a practical and a creative component to every course.

 

The Practical

The Camera for Beginners

  • Digital SLR basics: get that dial off "AUTO"!
  • Exposure modes and when to use them
  • Focus Lock, AE lock, exposure compensation.
  • Getting the right exposure (& understanding the histogram for the adventurous)
  • Selecting the right ISO

Technique for Beginners

  • The relationship between Depth of field & aperture
  • The relationship between aperture & shutter speed
  • Selective focus basics (the relationship between aperture, focal length and depth of field)

Advanced Camera Wrangling

  • Creating panoramas
  • Braketing for HDR and exposure fusion
  • Highlight zebras and histogram antics

Advanced Technique

 

Yes the 1st three are the same, but you can explore these relationships for years

  • Depth of field
  • The relationship between aperture & shutter speed
  • Selective focus basics (the relationship between aperture, focal length and depth of field)
  • When to expose for the shadows/highlights

The Creative

This is where we can bring or experience to help you com away from each course with images you can be proud of. This is why we pick the locations we do - for their visual potential and for the variety of subject matter. Each location will promute using certain techniques which we'll explore with you.

 

  • Framing (seems obvious but somtimes sublte changes in framing can make or break an image)
  • Seeing the wood for the trees – Picking your subject selectively
  • Finding the un-obvious
  • Using light creatively
  • Creative use of all the techniques listed above

 

You'll need to bring

 

DSLR

Tripod

Waterproofs, just in case.

Umbrella (see note above)

Hand Towel

Something to drink (not VB!)

 

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