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*Early Registration: $215/person (up to 7 days before class date)
Regular Registration: $230/person

9am to 5pm with a one hour lunch break on your own.
Maximum number of students is 12, minimum number to make a workshop is 6

This workshop is for you if you’ve taken the beginner workshop, the first two evening courses or have the equivalent level of experience. In this workshop we’ll dig deeper into the equipment and get further into the creative choices and challenges of consistently taking, processing and displaying great photos.

• Review: shutter speed, f-stops, DOF
• Metering & exposure control: bracketing, exposure compensation, reading a histogram, using manual exposure mode creatively
• Metering patterns: getting good exposures in tricky situations by changing metering patterns and using your spotmeter
• ISO and noise: when to worry about it, why some noise can be a good thing
• Motion blur: using slow shutter speeds as a creative tool
• P*: the hidden Program mode that allows quick, creative control.
• Dust & cleaning: when to worry about lens and sensor dust and how to get rid of it
• Lenses: creativity vs practicality (and $ !) we’ll look at the whole range from fisheye to super telephoto. How to get the most out of your glass.
• Lighting: finding it vs. bringing it with you, an into into working with off-camera flash, great lighting from a lightweight kit
• Software: a look at Lightroom and the basics of digital workflow
• Going further: making great panoramas, getting into HDR
• Prints: some tips on getting good prints, home printing vs. using a lab
• Assignment: we will shoot photos of a live model
• We end the day with a live edit and a slide show of everyone’s best shots