Master Your Cameras secrets and Learn how to get the best from your lenses.

Course One: The Technical (Foundation, Intermediate, Advanced & Expert Series)

Course Summary

This Course is an ideal place to start if you're new to photography. The Advanced and Expert versions of this course will also be extremely beneficial if you're an experienced photographer either returning to the medium or wishing to revitalise your skills.

Even if you're good at reading and understanding instruction manuals, it really helps to be guided through the various features, either visually or by actually experiencing the processes involved.

It’s not an uncommon scenario to spend our hard earned money on a ‘state of the art' piece of equipment, with all good intentions of thoroughly reading the manual. Sometimes we may even purchase a specialised book. We might read some of it, and even apply some of it. Months turn into years before we come to upgrade, and it's then that we realise that we never really got around to learning and applying all the wonderful capabilities of the equipment we’re replacing.

In this Course and its Tutorials we go back to basics, and in doing so we take your photography 'to another level’, just by discovering, reviewing and practicing the amazing features hidden within our camera.. and lens (just about every camera lens is a compromise in its design, to gain something the designers have to give up on something. Don't underestimate how considerable the improvements in our photography can be, just by understanding a lenses character, it's idiosyncrasies, as well as its strengths, and it's weaknesses).

TUTORIAL ONE (in Tutorial One the learning points are scaled in their level of complexity, appropriate to the experience level selected i.e. Foundation, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert).

  • A Step by Step ‘walk through’ of your camera and lens, covering the features detailed within the Manufacturers Manual which are relevant to the experience level you have selected.

  • Demonstration, Theoretical and Practical Application of the features of your Camera and Lens/Lenses to the experience level selected.

  • Learning and demonstration of the skills required for completion of Assignment One (assignment brief provided on location).

TUTORIAL TWO

  • Review of Assignment One.

  • Foundation: Introduction to the ‘Exposure Triangle’, Take Control by coming off ‘Auto’ (Theory and Practice).

  • Intermediate: Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, Exposure Compensation, ISO Settings (Theory and Practice).

  • Advanced: Why Manual Controls? Why Manual Focus? Experiment with Metering Options. Your Cameras Hidden Features - Part One (Theory and Practice).

  • Expert: Your Cameras Hidden Features - Part One and Two (Theory and Practice).

  • Learning and Demonstration of the skills required for completion of Assignment Two (assignment brief provided on location).

TUTORIAL THREE

  • Review of Assignment Two.

  • Foundation: Influence the outcome by controlling the ‘Exposure Triangle'. (Theory and Practice).

  • Intermediate: Influencing the outcome by controlling Aperture and Shutter Priority. (Theory and Practice).

  • Advanced: Influencing the outcome using the 'Manual Controls, Metering, White Balance and Manual Focusing'. (Theory and Practice).

  • Expert: Influencing the outcome using ‘Depth of Field'/Why you should Master Hyperfocal Distance. (Theory and Practice).

  • Learning and Demonstration of the skills required for completion of Assignment Three (assignment brief provided on location).

TUTORIAL FOUR

  • Review of Assignment Three.

  • Foundation: Introduction to Depth of Field. (Theory and Practice).

  • Intermediate: Influencing the outcome using the 'Manual Controls, Metering, White Balance and Manual Focusing'. (Theory and Practice).

  • Advanced: Influencing the outcome using ‘Depth of Field'/Why you should Master

    Hyperfocal Distance. (Theory and Practice).

  • Expert: Creative Depth of Field for Fine Art. (Theory and Practice).

  • Learning and Demonstration of the skills required for completion of Assignment Four (assignment brief provided on location).

TUTORIAL FIVE

  • Review of Assignment Four.

  • Foundation: Influencing the outcome using the 'Manual Controls and Focusing'. (Theory and Practice).

  • Intermediate: Influencing the outcome using ‘Depth of Field'/ Why you should Master Hyperfocal Distance. (Theory and Practice).

  • Advanced: Creative Depth of Field, Creative Bokeh and other Artistic lens characteristics. (Theory and Practice).

  • Expert: Really Master your lenses (Theory and Practical), (up to three lenses).

  • Learning and Demonstration of the skills required for completion of Assignment Five (assignment brief provided on location).

TUTORIAL SIX

  • Review of Assignment Five.

  • Foundation: Influencing the outcome using ‘Depth of Field'/Why you should Master Hyperfocal Distance. (Theory and Practice).

  • Intermediate: Creative Depth of Field, Creating Bokeh and other Artistic lens characteristics. (Theory and Practice).

  • Advanced: Really Master your lenses (up to three lenses) (Theory and Practice).

  • Expert: 100% Practical. Show me your skills, Your favourite Genre (from the list covered by these Courses), practiced in the perfect location, with a live critique. (Where applicable Models available for Portraits at £30 per hour, entry fees at cost).

  • Learning and Demonstration of the skills required for completion of Assignment Six (assignment brief provided on location).

 

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