Comprehensive Photography Workshop ( 3 days + 1 evening ) $3,200
This photography workshop is designed for beginners and advanced amateurs. Don't worry if you've only ever used your camera in the fully automatic mode! That's one of the purposes of this course, to teach you how and why and when to use the "other" modes on the camera, besides the green "idiot" mode, so you can have some degree of creative control over the result.
In three days and one evening, I'll teach you all the most important basics of good photography. You'll learn how your camera works, what all those buttons, dials and menus are for, and how to use your camera like a professional.
The basics apply equally well to both film and digital cameras, so it doesn't matter what kind of camera you bring to the class, as long as your camera has some degree of manual control over the aperture and shutter.
Even if you've attended photography lessons and classes before, I promise that you'll learn something new in this workshop. This is the most established photography class in Hong Kong, operating since 2002 with hundreds of happy graduates.
Here is a brief rundown of the course content:
1. Terminology. 2. Lenses. 3. Exposure. 4. Exposure errors 5. Handling contrast. 6. Sharpness & depth of field. 7. Composition & framing. 8. Lighting. 9. Flash exposure. 10. Portrait lighting with flash.
There's a lot of hands-on practical during this workshop, so you'll genuinely develop real skill. I won't let the information just go in one ear and out the other!! I'll make sure you really do know how to operate your camera correctly, and how to improve the "look" of your photos.
Digital Camera Class ( 3 hours in 1 evening ) $650
This three hour photography class teaches you how to operate your digital camera correctly. There are many things that one can get wrong when using a digital camera, and those errors will result in a disappointing image quality. You'll learn a useful checklist of items to confirm each time you take your digital camera out of the bag to use it, thus avoiding the embarrassment of ruined images.
Here is a brief rundown of the course content:
1. Theory of operation for digital cameras. 2. White Balance. 3. ISO. 4. Exposure & the histogram. 5. Resolution & Image Size
Photoshop Class ( 3 hours in 1 evening ) $650
(Students must bring their own laptop with Photoshop software installed)
This three hour photography lesson teaches you how to adjust, straighten and touch up your photos in Adobe Photoshop software. Students must bring their own laptop computer with Photoshop installed. Students who book this class as a private one-on-one lesson are welcome to use the studio's workstation.
You'll learn the basic workflow for correcting contrast, brightness, and colour. You'll learn how to straighten and crop images. You'll learn how to remove blemishes, wrinkles and other unwanted distractions from an image.
These Photoshop skills are what you need in order to bring out the best in your digital images so that they really shine and impress. Most images direct from a digital camera look a bit dull and flat. But with a few tweaks in Photoshop they'll look like you expected them to in the first place. These are the skills of the so-called "digital darkroom" that now supplants the traditional wet chemical darkroom.
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