Workshop Details

This seminar is designed for
Beginner - Intermediate
Photographers

6 packed hours of information for $299.95

You will learn:

  • The difference between a good photo and a bad photo!
  • About the 'Art of Seeing'
  • How to use your camera equipment more effectively
  • What equipment you will need to do the job the right way
  • Key points to creating style in your photography
  • How to improve the quality of your photography with Photoshop and other software
Workshop Outline

Morning Session

  • Introduction
    1. What’s the difference between a good picture and a bad picture?
    2. What are the purposes / scope for the photo shoot?
    3. Why should you care?
    4. Understanding your role in the process.
    5. Understanding the photographer’s role
    6. Planning your day, allocating enough time for the proper shots
  • What makes a photograph saleable
    1. 3 wall rule
    2. Tunnel lighting
    3. Candles
    4. Vision
  • Composition
    1. Background
    2. Floor to ceiling
    3. Detail shots
    4. Wide angle shots
    5. ¾ Shots
  • Cameras
    1. 35mm Cameras (DSLR / point and shoot)
      • Shooting JPG vs. RAW
      • Formatting your disk in the camera before every shoot
      • Shoot a back-up disk for important shots
      • Where possible, view images on a computer before you leave the location
    2. Medium Format
    3. Large Format
    4. Digital resolution
    5. Color management, color space and white balance
    6. f stops and shutter speeds
    7. ISO
    8. Depth of field
    9. Proper focusing technique
    10. Inverse square rule
    11. Reflection rule
    12. Tripods
    13. The importance of having and using a level
    14. Lenses (Wide angle and zoom)
    15. Filters
    16. Multiple exposures
  • Lighting
    1. Strobe (Flash)
    2. Tungsten (Hot Lights)
    3. Color Temperature
    4. Filtration
    5. Fluorescent
    6. High Lighting
    7. Reflectors and white boards, Black boards
    8. Soft Boxes and umbrellas
    9. Daylight and sun spots
    10. Black holes
  • Styling
    1. Staging
    2. Composition
    3. Details
    4. Prepping and shopping
  • Seeing what’s not there
    1. Background
    2. Foreground
    3. Details
    4. Reflections
    5. Angle to camera
    6. Lens distortion
    7. Shadows
  • Q&A from the morning session

Afternoon Session

  • Photoshop
    1. Color Management
    2. Color space
    3. Monitor Calibration
    4. File sizes and storage
    5. Lightroom
    6. Meta Data
    7. Preferences
    8. Basic tools
    9. Histograms
    10. Curves
    11. Output
    12. JPEG vs TIFF
    13. Workflows
    14. Presharp and sharpening
    15. Color adjustments
    16. Multiple exposure applying
    17. Masking and clipping paths
    18. Layers
    19. Plugins
  • Printing
    1. Color management
    2. Printer Calibration
    3. CMYK vs RGB
    4. Size
    5. Paper
    6. Sharpening
    7. Viewing
  • Afternoon Q&A

*Important Notice

We are covering a lot of material in 6 hours.

Everyone attending our "Photograhy Workshops for Contractors" will receive a "Photograhy Workshops for Contractors" workbook that will outline the complete course with key information we believe you will find invaluable when you're out in the feild trying to remember what you learned during the photography workshop.

Plus... Valuable Coupons from both Nextstep4u.com, House and Home Magizine and others!

You will also be allowed to send in 3 follow-up email questions that you may have after you get started using your new skills.

We want this to be a truly valuable learnig experence for you so that you will tell your friend and they will attend our next photography workshops.

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