Photography Fundamentals Workshop Course. November 28, 8AM-6PM

Price Reduction $150

To RSVP without payment please send an e-mail to James with the full name of the attendees and what workshops you will be attending

Take a day and learn a semester’s worth of information to control your camera and enhance your talent. This workshop is for anyone that sees a picture in their head, but cant always get it to come out the way they want it. Anyone can turn on a camera, look at a scene and take a picture, but you dont want to be anyone, you want to be a photographer.

Taught by internationally published photographer James H. Pickett with covers and features in many national and international magazines. (Black Enterprise, Skin Art, Tattoo’s for Men, Modified Magazine, Modified Mustangs, European Car, and many more.)

Even if you are making money as a photographer, you can benefit from having the knowledge and ability to venture away from the pre-programmed and automatic modes in order to truly take control of your camera and produce the images your mind sees, instead of accepting images that are “close” to what you desired.

Learn simple secrets that will improve your photography and increase your income.

Learn how to craft a photo, and not just take pictures.

This workshop is designed to educate you and take technical questions out of your photography, allowing you to focus on the creativity of your image.

This is a hands-on, attendance required workshop – NOT an e-seminar. Attendees will be required to bring their SLR and lenses. Laptops are welcome. Broadband Wifi access available. Attendees are also welcome to bring examples of previous works to answer specific questions.

If you are currently working as a photographer your attendance will be kept anonymous to the public.

A Brief Overview

Workshop will include but is not limited to the following:

Shutter Speed
Controlling time
Freezing and showing motion
Hand-held photography
The shutter speed rule of thumb
Tips to help prevent blur and break the shutter speed rule of thumb
The inverse shutter speed law

Aperture
What is an aperture, really?
What is an ƒ-stop?
What is depth of field?
Controlling depth of field
Lens selection

ISO Speed
What is ISO speed?
What is my camera really doing?
ISO speed in relation to noise.
When and where to select a particular ISO speed.

White Balance
The color of light that your mind tries to hide from you
Training your mind
Why it looks different when you get home
Understanding white balance
Setting your white balance for your situation
Using tools to control your white balance

Exposure
Understanding the ƒ-stop
Why not to use automatic modes
How color effects your in-camera meter
When to use automatic modes
How shooting manual can speed up your post production
Picking your exposure battles
Incident light meters
Spot meters
Quick tricks when incident meters aren’t available
The sunny 16 rule

Light
Pinpoint VS. Diffuse
Using reflectors
Shadows
Light direction
Light diffusion
Low light

Your Camera
Focus Modes
Drive Modes
Metering Modes
Sensor type and conversions
Preview screens, histograms and the reality they are not
Lens selection

Technique and Other Info
The human tripod
The tripod, when, where, why and why not
Tripod etiquette
Composition
Model (people) releases, when and where they are needed
Filters

Pre-registration or day of. Paypal, cash, money order accepted. Pre register deadline is November 26, 2009
Pre registration is non refundable, but will be transferable to other times if you cannot make it.

Lunch will be included in your fee.

100 N. Mohawk St
Cohoes, NY
8AM-5PM

Photography Fundamentals