Weekend course

Photographers

COURSE PROGRAM

1 LESSON
Getting to know your digital camera

  1. What is photography for us? A brief excursion into the history of photography.
  2. What is photography (directions in photography).
  3. Introduction to a digital camera.
  4. What are the cameras. Their features. Advantages and disadvantages.
  5. How the image is obtained in a digital camera. The matrix.
  6. The concept of crop factor.
  7. Digital camera file formats JPEG / RAW.
  8. Features of focusing digital cameras. What is Live View mode.

2 LESSON
Technical basics of shooting

1.Aperture. Depth of field (DOF), blurring, and background painting.
2.Shutter speed. Blurring and freezing objects.
3.ISO. The concept of sensitivity. The concept of digital noise.
4.White balance. Features of BB for RAW and JPEG. White and gray map.
5.Lenses. Aperture, focal length, angle of view. Light filters.
6.Manual mode – M.
7.Semi-automatic mode – shutter speed priority, aperture priority.
8.Exposure compensation
9.Flash. Work with the built-in and external flash.

3 LESSON
The basics of composition

  1. The concept of composition. Composition in art and photography.
  2. “Golden section”. The rule of thirds.
  3. Secrets of managing the observer.

4 LESSON
Working with natural light in the studio. Practical lesson

  1. Working with natural light in the studio in M mode.
  2. Features of reflected light in the room.
  3. Working with a reflector.
  4. Application and consolidation of knowledge

5 LESSON
Light. Practical lesson in the studio

  1. Artificial light, the concept of pulsed light.
  2. Working with studio light.
  3. The concept of drawing and filling light sources.
  4. The nature of lighting – soft and hard light.
  5. Light brush.

6 LESSON
Basics of photo management and batch processing for those who shoot a lot

  1. Processing for those who shoot a lot
  2. Cataloging.
  3. Putting things in order in the photo archive or how not to lose photos.
  4. Lightroom basics.