Making Great Photos – Digital Photography Basics Workshop
Instructor: Mark Steelman
Location: Hanna Block Community Arts Center, 120 S. Second Street, downtown Wilmington
Dates: Tuesdays: Jan 9, Jan 16, Jan 23, Jan 30, Feb 6, Feb 13, 2018
Time: 7-9 pm
Cost: $165.00 ($145.00 if registered and paid by December 31, 2017) Class is limited to 10 students, to provide time for individual attention
Website: www.marksteelmanphoto.com
To Register:
Email Mark: [email protected]
or call: 919-604-6917
Tentative Schedule of workshop topics
SESSION 1: Basic DSLR Camera Concepts, Accessories and Operation
Full Frame; Crop Sensor; Sensor Cleaning; Lenses; Tripod/Monopod; Triggers; Recording Media; Light Meter; Exposure Concepts: Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO, 18% gray; Table of Standard Apertures; Exposure Increments and Stops; Shooting Modes; Focus Modes; Exposure modes; White Balance; Exposure Compensation; Exposure lock
SESSION 2: Flash Concepts and Flash Modifiers
On Camera Flash; Off Camera Flash; Speedlights; Strobes; Light fall off: Inverse Square Law; Flash temperature; Flash sync speed; High speed sync; First Curtain, Second Curtain; Modifiers: softbox, umbrella, snoot, diffuser, reflector; Flash Modes; Flash exposure compensation; Flash triggers (cell, IR, radio); Gels
SESSION 3: Composition and Posing
Selection of Lens; Posing people; Rule of thirds; isolating the subject; Depth of Field; practice with live model
SESSION 4: Processing and enhancing your photos
Basics of Lightroom: color temp, cropping, exposure level, gradient, lens distortion, adjustment brushes, chromatic aberration, export
Basics of Photoshop: layers, selection tools, layer mask
SESSION 5: Digital Tricks and Techniques
Multi – exposure (composite); Panoramic; Benziger method; High Dynamic Range – tone mapping; Portrait retouching; focus stacking
SESSION 6: Photo critique – review submissions by class participants