Workshop topics

Landscape Photography

Duration: 3h
Max attendees: 6
Skills : beginner to amateur

If your camera is in automatic mode but you want to unlock its full potential, try this course! On the agenda:

  • Vocabulary
  • Types of lenses
  • Camera modes
  • Landscape photography: framing, effects, composition
  • Tips for better shots: weather, golden and blue hours...
  • Camera shooting techniques such as long exposure, capturing movement, creating panoramas, how to achieve background or foreground blur
  • Macro photography
  • How to avoid post-processing?
  • Back home: how to store and classify pictures. Easy and quick retouching (allowed in competitions).

Night Photography and Low-Light Techniques

Duration: 3h
Max attendees: 6
Skills : beginner to amateur

When it’s dark or when there is just low light, you’ll have to learn how to set your camera to get a better picture.
To the program

  • Vocabulary
  • high-aperture lens : why and how to use them
  • Why choosing the automatic mode on my camera is a mistake ?
  • What camera tools can help me ? (white balance, noise reduction, self-timer, flash…
  • I don’t have a tripod, how can i do ? During a party or with many people around you.
  • Low light lanscapes : how to locate a good place during the day ? Long pause, what can i use as a flash light ?
  • Light painting
  • How to take pictures of a town, under a full moon light or with no light at all during a new moon, during blue light (one houre after sunset or one hour before sunshine)
  • A bit of astrophotography

Capturing Great Photos Straight Out of the Camera

Duration: 3h
Max attendees: 6
Skills : beginner to amateur

If you want to create more powerfull and colored pictures and avoid post processing.
To the program

  • What is the histogram and how can i use it to increase pictures quality
  • How to avoid
  • Eraser tool
  • Rotate tool.
  • Vignetting (reduction of the lightning at the field edge)
  • Brightness and contrast
  • Hue tools (or how to manipulate colors directly with your camera)
  • dark and light tones (or how to saturate colors with a special filter)
  • tips

Create a timelapse with a DSLR Camera

Previous skills nedeed, Duration and max attendees

Duration: 3h
Max attendees: 6
Skills : beginner to amateur

How to proceed to create a timelapse

A timelapse is created with many images compiled to create a video. If you want to accelerate clouds and time, it’s the way to do it !

To the program

  • What is a Timelapse ?
  • What Software can I Use ?
  • What do i need ? The intervallometer (on my camera or with a special remote)
  • How to calculate my time lapse. (Clouds, mob, weather, sun or moon..)
  • On the ground : install my tripod, how much time will i have to wait ? how can a prevent wind vibration ?
  • During night, I’ll need much more time.. how to spare it (ISO)
  • Some specific cases : construction sites