2 Day Beginners Photography Course
Duration: 2 Consecutive Days / 10am – 4pm
Location: Birmingham, UK
Date: This is a 1-2-1 course, book a date that suits you.
No. Participants Up to 3 people can attend this course at no additional cost.
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Are you looking to take the next steps on your photography journey by learning new skills, mastering new concepts and most importantly improving your photographs? This 2 day beginners photography course with professional photographer Paul David Smith is the perfect way to achieve your photographic goals.
Most people start taking photographs on the cameras automatic modes and you can often get some good results. What you are likely to find is that these good results are inconsistent and littered with moments when you are left scratching your head wondering why on earth the camera did what it did. On this course Paul will guide you through the fundamental principals of photography, teaching you how the camera works, when to use each individual setting, how to compose good photographs, using lighting to your advantage and so much more.
Day One
We’ll dive straight into teaching you how to master the all important settings of shutter speed, aperture and ISO, often referred to as the exposure triangle. By learning how to control these settings yourself you can ensure in focus, sharp shots each and every time. You’ll also enjoy a whole host of other creative benefits like learning how to blur the background to shots when setting these yourself too.
Paul has developed a tried and tested technique to not only learn how to balance these settings easily, but also implement them simply and effectively during your photoshoots. If you have ever tried learning from a book or YouTube then it can be a frustrating process, you’ll be taught in a simple, jargon free, easy to remember way.
A few examples of what you could learn on this workshop in Birmingham:
- Take control & get out of auto mode.
- Benefits of using P, S, TV, A, AV or M modes.
- How to shoot pin sharp images every time.
- Blur backgrounds using aperture.
- Master difficult lighting conditions.
- Understand ISO and the exposure triangle.
- Camera equipment advice.
- Choose the correct camera image settings.
- Use different White Balance settings.
- Stop motion using shutter speeds.
- How to use off camera flash.
- How to avoid out of focus images.
- Understand lenses and focal lengths.
- Master composition for strong images.
- Post production image techniques.
- You tell me what you’re struggling with!
Day Two
We’ll cover composition, this means learning how to actually take a good photograph once your settings are already in the camera. There are many rules and guidelines you can follow that will instantly improve the appearance of your photograph, simply by putting a little more time and effort into the composition that you perhaps normally would.
We’ll also look at lighting, including adding in artificial lighting from a speedlight or flash unit. This will allow you to take better shots in darker environments and adding in additional lighting also offers many creative advantages which you’ll discover along the way too.
Finally we’ll look at editing in Adobe Lightroom, this is a program Paul has used for many years and he rates highly. All of Paul’s images are edited in Adobe Lightroom and you’ll learn how to apply global edits to the entire image, but also processes that allow you to easily edit certain elements of an image only like the sky, the subject and the background to a shot for example.
- 2 DAY BEGINNERS PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE IN BIRMINGHAM
- £695.00
- 2 Full Days 1-2-1 Photography Instruction
- Focus On What Is Important to You
- Up To 3 People Can Attend At No Additional Cost
- PRIVATE GROUP 2 DAY PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE IN BIRMINGHAM
- £795.00
- 2 Full Days 1-2-1 Photography Instruction
- Focus On What Is Important to You
- Up To 10 People Can Attend At No Additional Cost
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