Workshops
Photography 101
This introductory photography workshop will teach you the fundamentals required to get the best possible images from your digital SLR. You will learn how to take control of your camera and use all of its functions to their fullest. We’ll help you understand the essentials of exposure and how to use the settings and presets available in your camera. You will be taught about the quality of available light and when to use it or rely on your flash. You will leave with a strong comprehension of your camera’s focusing system and be able to produce well-exposed, sharp images on demand. We’ll discuss composition and the vital principals of photography that must be followed to produce appealing photos. You will leave this workshop empowered and inspired to start capturing the images you’ve always wanted to.
Course Description:
- Master your camera’s controls, get out of AUTO mode
- Understand your camera’s focusing system and adjust it to meet your needs
- Setting up your camera for different shooting scenarios
- How to recognize and understand light: Quality, temperature and direction
- Reading your camera’s histogram and other exposure tools such as overexposed areas (blinkies)
- Using your camera’s different white balance settings and creating custom presets
- How to overcome challenging photographic situations or ‘bad light’
- Choosing the right lens and understating how different focal lengths affect your subject
- When to use (or not use) your flash
- Learn how to successfully take portrait, landscape and action images
- Discussion on current camera gear technology. What you really need and what you don’t.
- Extensive Q&A
Who Should Attend?
Individuals who would like to learn the fundamentals of photography and take control of all the great features their DSLR has to offer.
Cost:
- Individual – $225 for 3 hours of one-on-one instruction.
- Workshops – $175 per person, maximum 10 per class.
* Additional one-on-one time can be purchased at a rate of $50/hr
Please contact us to book your one-on-one instruction or inquire about upcoming workshop dates.
Sports Photography – Introduction
This introduction to sports photography workshop will teach you everything you need to know about capturing action, both indoors and out. You will learn how to freeze or blur moving subjects at will using available or artificial light. We’ll show you how to push the limits of your camera’s focusing system to teach you just what it’s capable of. We’ll discuss some of the challenging photographic situations to record action in and how to overcome them. You will be show how to quickly turn to your camera’s automated settings or to go manual and take full control over the results. We’ll teach you how to apply these newly learned skills to photograph the action in your life.
Course description:
- Setting up your camera to capture moving subjects
- How to position yourself so that you don’t miss the action
- Fine-tuning your camera’s focusing system for sports photography
- How to freeze action and capture tack sharp images
- How to blur your subjects to convey motion
- When to use burst mode and when to avoid it
- How to nail the timing
- Introduction to pan photography
- Shooting and editing sequences
- How work with available light or your Speedlights to freeze motion
- How to get great images indoors and out
- Working with mixed lighting conditions
- Introduction to event photography, how to get your foot in the door and what to do once you’re in
- What gear is required to capture what your after
- Extensive Q&A
Who Should Attend?
Individuals who would like to learn the fundamentals of sports photography. Wether to capture family and friends at play or shoot your favourite sporting event, this course will get you on the right path.
Prerequisite:
Participants are required to have completed the Photography 101 course or provide a link to images or a portfolio that demonstrates that the have a basic understanding photography.
Cost:
- Individual – $225 for 3 hours of one-on-one instruction.
- Workshops – $175 per person, maximum 10 per class.
* Additional one-on-one time can be purchased at a rate of $50/hr
Please contact us to book your one-on-one instruction or inquire about upcoming workshop dates.
Sports Photography – Advanced
These are the black arts of photography and once you learn them, you’ll be a master. You will be taught everything you need to know about off camera strobes, Pocket Wizards and triggering remote cameras. You will be able to set up complex lighting configurations as well as how to overpower daylight with large battery operated light packs. You will have the opportunity to see and try the gear necessary to take your sports photography to the next level. This workshop will impart you with the photojournalistic side of sports photography and how to come back from a shoot or event with the images required to tell the complete story. Everything from on location team, environmental and individual athlete portraiture will be demonstrated. You will be shown how to configure, pack, carry, travel and work with several popular systems to best use your gear in the field. We’ll teach you how to nail the shots using every trick that’s in the book and many that aren’t. This is a two-day course that takes place on location with both practical and classroom based instruction.
Course description:
- Setting up and triggering off camera strobes
- Using light modifiers in the field
- Remote camera set up and control
- Athlete portraiture with available and artificial light
- How to work with and carry multiple bodies and lens
- Advanced event photography
- introduction to the business of sports photography
- How to make your images stand out from the rest
- Introduction of how to price, submit and sell your images
- A chance to have your images evaluated by experts
- How to capture a variety of action and outdoor adventure images
- Extensive Q&A with instructors
Who Should Attend?
Individuals who would have started to photograph sporting events or individual athletes and would like to take their images to the next level.
Prerequisite:
Participants are required to have completed the Sports Photography – Introduction course or provide a link to images or a portfolio that demonstrates that the have a basic understanding of sports photography.
Cost:
- Individual – $375 for 3 hours of one-on-one instruction.
- Workshops – $275 per person, maximum 10 per class.
* Additional one-on-one time can be purchased at a rate of $75/hr
Please contact us to book your one-on-one instruction or inquire about upcoming workshop dates.
Digital Photography Workflow
In this course you will learn how to quickly capture, edit and deliver your images. We’ll cover what the best formats are to capture your images in and discuss colour, quality and delivery. We will show you the best way to capture images on the road and and how to transfer them once back home. You will be show how to organize, catalogue and keyword your images using Adobe Lightroom. We’ll cover the RAW image editing darkroom and share some popular image editing recipes. You will be show how to properly backup and store you images to prevent loos and have them ready at a moments notice. Finally, we will show you how to prepare your images for print, deliver them to clients or share them on the web.
Course description:
- How to capture your images
- Tethered capture and remote camera control
- Evaluating the images tonal range, clouds, details, sharpness and noise
- How to read the histogram
- Calibrating your monitors
- Colour management
- The digital darkroom, working with RAW images
- Popular editing techniques to make your images stand out
- Best practice for organizing, keywording and filtering your images
- Proper storage, archiving and backup of your images
- How to ready your images for print, customers or the web
Who Should Attend?
Individuals who would are capturing images and would like to learn about what to do with then beyond looking at them on screen as they were shot. If you want to learn how to capture, edit and polish you images into works of art, this class with show you how.
Cost:
- Individual – $225 for 3 hours of one-on-one instruction.
- Workshops – $175 per person, maximum 10 per class.
* Additional one-on-one time can be purchased at a rate of $50/hr
Please contact us to book your one-on-one instruction or inquire about upcoming workshop dates.
Photography – The Business
This advanced course will help teach you how to mange and sell the great images you have captured. We will show you how images are sold and where to sell them. You will learn about pricing your images for commercial and editorial use and well as what terms and conditions should apply. We’ll discuss copyright as how it relates to the business and sale of your images and how they are used. We will teach you how to go about getting more clients and grow the ones you have with additional services. You will leave this class with a firm grasp of the photography business and with the tools you need to start selling your images. Wether you are just starting out in this industry or established already, you will come out of this course refreshed and inspired.
Course description:
- Create your pricing and making your rate card
- Determine what you should be selling
- How to approach companies with your photography services
- Copyright and your images. What you are and aren’t selling
- You will learn about incorporation, insurance and what documents are required to rent photography equipment
- Learn about permits, HST & other applicable taxes
- Event photography and working with the organizers
- We’ll show you how to become the “official” photographer for a company or event
- Sales and marketing strategies
- How to build a website, portfolio and sell images online
Who Should Attend?
Individuals who would like to turn their passion into a career and learn the nuts and bolts of a successful photography business.
Cost:
- Individual – $325 for 3 hours of one-on-one instruction.
- Workshops – $225 per person, maximum 10 per class.
* Additional one-on-one time can be purchased at a rate of $75/hr
Please contact us to book your one-on-one instruction or inquire about upcoming workshop dates.