Photography & Lighting Evening course

Welcome to the Photographic and Lighting training course for beginners. A practical course offering individuals the opportunity to learn more about their cameras as an amateur enthusiast and for those looking to see if photography might become a possible career.Learning in small groups you will benefit by looking at the roots of light and composition, the fundamental roots of taking great photographs, learning those crucial camera techniques and understanding those mysterious buttons.

In Summary, this course takes you on a pure photographic journey, taking great shots using only the controls of your camera.

Experience a practical photographic training course that will also demonstrate to you an insight of the types of lighting currently being used by the pros.Gain more confidence in areas such as depth of field, composition, exposure, ISO sensitivity, digital noise, white balance and lens focal length.

Course outline

Part 1

Light - The source of photography
How light interacts with different subjects
Looking at composition, plus interactive discussion and reviewing some of Photography’s greats.
Looking at your own Digital SLR cameras

Part 2

Looking at F stops & shutter speeds
Looking at histograms and white balance
Looking at light meters incident/reflective
White balance exercise
Histogram exercise
(All exercises done using tungsten and flash)

Part 3

Looking at Raw vs. Jpeg
Depth of field talk
Depth of field exercise
Processing Raw files

Part 4

Group portrait exercise using the studio lighting Q & A session

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