The course is 5 meetings of both theory and fieldwork to put the various concepts learned into practice right away.

The course has a maximum of 10 participants

Requirements:

Have an SLR or mirrorless camera and a desire to learn!

 

It is also possible to do ONE to ONE or small group (2/3 people) portrait or landscape courses.

 

Course topics:

The magnificent three:

Time, Apertuta, Iso

Shoot Your Way:

Auto, Program, Portrait, Landscape, Sport, Macro, Night Portrait

Total control: Manual!

Exposure meter:

How it works, Evaluative, Center weighted, Partial, Spot

Exposure Lock (AEL)

Basic on-camera flash functions:

Auto, Fill flash, red-eye reduction, slow synchro

The White Balance:

The color temperature

The Focus: autofocus modes (AF singoal, Continuous, burst)

The Lenses, who are these unknowns?

Focal length, crop factor (crop), Maximum aperture, Macro lenses

Zooms vs Fixed

What lenses to buy?

Problem solving: the Backlight, night photo, sporting event

 

Clarification: Raw or Jpeg? What is the pixel? What about the print resolution? Cropping?

Understanding Light is essential!

The basic characteristics of light (Color, Direction, Intensity, Magnitude).

Composition (but wasn't that stuff for musicians?).

 

Life after the Click: downloading, backing up, posting, sharing