Session 1
Sunday 10 August
Introduction:
Course participants. Cameras, pictures, essential techniques.
Identifying hurdles to great photography.
Sharing photography via Internet
Using your camera: planning, accessories, key controls.
Location shoot :
Botanical Gardens
Close up and nature
photography
Subjects and lenses. Advantages of digital. Macro photography and
lighting. Traditions in nature photography.
Project for next week:
Using aperture to control depth of field.
Session 2
Sunday 17 August
After the
camera: processing, presentation, winning an audience.
Work flow: from camera to archive to hanging.
Proofing/indexing, digital printing, sizing, paper surfaces,
permanence, Framing, Albums, workbooks.
Photography and computers: PCs & image manipulation. Software
review, scanning,
Picture review:
Session 1 exercise, Nature photography shoot.
Location shoot:
Night photography
Practice and techniques, timing, blur,
manual exposure. As well as exploring the potential of night
photography, this session explores the camera control in practice.
Bring tripod, shutter release
Project for next week: Use the Internet
or books to identify the greatest landscape photographers. Find out how
they work.
Lucy with her little pony, Botanical Gardens ,2007
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On
course with 
THE
PORTRAIT
Frame
a face to describe and focus attention on the personality.
Night light seller, Darling Harbour, 2007
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On
course with
COLOUR & LIGHT
Night photography opens the mind
& imagination to experiment.
Opera
House from Bridge Walk, 2007
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On
course with
COMPOSITION
Construct a complimentary
foreground to highlight familiar scenes.
Session 3
Sunday 24 August
Composition:
Viewpoint and framing. Theories of picture
construction; Simple or complex? Composing with
people.
Landscapes:
Techniques; History and traditions; use of zoom/special
lenses. Panoramas.
Project for
next week: Use digital black
& white settings (or film) to explore three of composition
theories from this session.
Workshop
& picture review: night
photography and look at the great landscape photographers.
Location shoot:
Landscape, cityscape and seascapes
Meet at Watson's Bay
Session 4
Sunday 31 August
History of
the medium through photographers' eyes. Technologies,
movements, impact of art traditions, Black &
white or colour? Some of the big names in photography
Workshop
& picture review: Landscape photography
and black & white project from last week.
Location
shoot: Street & People photography. Working
with people to achieve an effective portrait. The
questions of eye contact, smiling and backgrounds.
