Before signing up and registering, please make sure that you have a solid basic understanding of photography. As this is an advanced workshop, I assume that you know the exposure triangle, metering modes, white balance, difference between a Jpeg and RAW and the different focusing points.

What to Bring

All your camera equipment - camera/s, lenses, flash, tripod, cleaning kit, and most importantly, the camera manual for referencing the functions of your specific camera make and model.

Workshop Highlights

• Working in Manual Mode. You will learn when to switch to manual and when to use semi-automatic modes. The same with focussing, when is it best to use manual focus as oppose to auto-focus.

• MLU - Mirror Lock Up, what is it and how to use it.

• Bracketing - Why and when to use bracketing for difficult lighting situations.

• Burst or Continuous shooting mode - very valuable with sport and wildlife photography.

• Self Timer - how it can be used when you don't have a cable release.

• Lighting - the ability to read the light for maximum impact, how to see it.

• Settings - how to decide which lens and settings to use for certain shooting situations.

• Camera Equipment - what are the essentials and what are the nice-to-haves.

• How to save custom user settings for quick usage later.

• Sensor Dust - how to deal with it.

• Movie Shooting

• Focusing Points - how to choose the right ones.

• How to take people shots - available light and with flash (on-and off-camera)

• Head-and-shoulders portraits - fast lenses and HSS flash.

• Landscape Photography - best settings for maximum depth of field.

• Sport and Nature Photography - best camera, best lenses and techniques.

• Sunset and Sunrise - best options for great shots.

• Star and moon photography (Astro)

• Many more topics as time permits.

Practical Sessions in Between

Day 2

Adobe Lightroom

Adobe Photoshop