Product Test 4

<table border=1 width=800 style='table-layout:fixed'><col width=290><col width=15><col width=495><tr><td valign="top">Whether you are an amateur or thinking of going professional, this exciting course is an advancement of our fundamental course. It will refine your technical knowledge and expand your creativity towards a specific genre of photography.


COURSE OUTLINE

A quick review of photography fundamentals
Refining the fundamentals
Choosing a niche
What makes a good image great
Perspective – it’s all relative
Practical session
Processing and exporting images
Printing

COURSE DURATION

6 Hours


FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT

Course held at our Chippendale Studios. Students to bring their own camera. If you have a laptop and tripod, please bring these as well. If you do not have these, please advise at time of booking in the event we have loan ones available.



COURSE DETAILS

A quick review of Photography Fundamentals


Refining the fundamentals

Refining the uses of camera mechanics
Equipment choices
Aspect ratios
Pre-visualisation
Lighting – natural / reflectors / fill flash
Flash Duration
Lighting – multiple flash
Drive modes
Filters – on camera and off
Exposure bracketing
Shooting for HDR


Choosing a niche

What is a niche
Review of previous work
What you enjoy versus what you are good at


What makes a good image great

Technicalities versus communication
Backgrounds
Subject isolation


Perspective – it’s all relative

Understanding a brief
Reading an image
Creating a series of images for message delivery


Practical session

Shoot a series of images in your chosen niche for review using creative control and readership perspective


Processing and exporting images

Software choice
Importing and shooting tethered
RAW processing
Image manipulation

We choose one image from the Practical session and process this image ready to print.

Printing

Colour profiling for export source
Paper profiling

We go through the printing process and print each students chosen image at A3.


CLASS SIZE
Maximum 10 students</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td style= "vertical-align: top"><img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47233361/36_20120520204444_40315_medium.jpg" width="700" /></td></tr></table>