Our Sydney Photography Courses are ideal for beginners who are new to
digital photography and for the enthusiast who’d like to take their photography
to the next level.
Unlock the potential of your digital SLR camera. Start using
it in manual mode and take pictures you always wanted to take. Learn all the
functions of your camera; understand what every button and dial on your camera
does. Learn the best camera settings for landscape photography, portraits or
night photography.
Learn from practicing professional photographers how to
shoot beautiful portraits by focusing on your model and isolating it from a
blurry background. Learn how to take great images of your children. In our
photography courses we will teach you how to control the Shutter Speed to take
amazing images of waterfalls or fireworks or how to control your camera in
Manual mode and take beautiful landscape photographs of Sydney at night.
Our Photography Courses Sydney are ideal for
beginners who are new to digital photography and for enthusiast who’d like to
take their photography to the next level. Book a photography workshop with us
and we’ll help you become better photographers.
About my photography workshops
My goal in my photography
workshops is always to teach something. Private photography lessons are the
best way to insure that my students come out of the workshops knowing more than
they did before. One of the most frequent complaints I heard from my students
is that when they attended a large group photography workshop they learned
absolutely nothing and just got even more confused than they were before. In my
private photography lessons I can go as slow or fast as necessary to deliver
knowledge my students can digest and understand. I don’t need to stick to a
particular curriculum, I don’t need to rush through my material. I’d rather my
students learned and understood a few great new things about photography than
being introduced to 20 new concepts, and understanding none of them.
Photography courses
Sydney In my new group photography workshops I will
try to keep to my promise of teaching something to everyone who attends. I am
not comfortable taking anyone’s money and giving them nothing in return. In
fact, if you feel that you missed something or you think that you need more time
to digest the material, if my next class is not full, you can repeat the
workshop for free.
I would never promise anyone that I can teach them
photography is a few hours. I’ve been a student of this art form for the last
25 years and I still learn something new and exciting almost every day. My goal
is to de-mystify the process of taking pictures. To show and explain in simple
words what it takes to make an image, and to prove that technically speaking
there is really nothing to it. By removing the mystery from the process of
taking a picture we open ourselves to infinite possibilities of creative
expression.
My workshops are never about what camera brand to use, what
gear to buy or upgrade. I do my best to persuade my students not to worry too
much about the gear, be happy with the camera they have and just concentrate on
the art. There are always some photographers who still insist that if only they
had better and more expensive lens their photography would improve. In this
case I always suggest to buy the best and most expensive lens there is. Once
they are in possession of something that cannot be surpassed, they may stop
blaming the gear and actually learn how to take pictures.
My message to those obsessed with getting new, better or
shinier gear is this: Just about any camera manufactured in the last couple of
years will be better than anything Henri Cartier-Bresson or Ansel Adams had
access to 60 years ago. When they start taking their pictures off the walls of
museums and art galleries to make room for your pictures, then you may have
exhausted the capability of your camera, and maybe it’s time to upgrade. http://www.candidtown.com/photography-courses-sydney/
I don’t want to suggest that gear has no impact on the
quality of produced images, but it’s certainly not the most important factor.
If during my photography workshop I notice that my student wants to re-create
an image they saw on the internet and their camera or lens is not capable of
it, I will suggest an upgrade. In most cases it will be someone who wants to
take a picture of their children with nice blurry background. Kit lenses that
most cameras come with are not capable of a great portrait. I will then suggest
investing in a prime lens with longer focal length and aperture of about f1.8.
My suggestion, however will not cost them thousands of dollars, maybe hundreds,
and often just dozens of dollars if they are adventurous enough to get and use
some of the great old manual lenses on ebay.
My private Photography Courses Sydney or the group workshops are meant to
teach you becoming a better photographer, using the gear you already have. I am
always open to questions and happy to explain in detail any concept that you
are struggling with. In a photography workshop environment you will be able to
not just hear the answer, but also see how to solve the problem and that will
make it so much easier to understand.
Whether you choose a Photography courses
Sydney lesson or join our group photography workshop
I am pretty sure you will come out a better photographer. I will teach you how
to control your camera, explain how to decide on your aperture value, shutter
speed and Iso, but most importantly, how to use your camera as a tool to
achieve what is the real goal of every photographer – great images. If you take
one of my advanced classes I will teach you “how to see”. Don’t laugh. Our
brains are conditioned to skip over most of what we see and only just notice
things that practically scream at us. A photographer will notice infinitely
more details in a frame than an average person. We actually have to force
ourselves to notice things. Little things sometimes that often give us so much
pleasure to observe. I will also make you obsessed about light, not about gear.
If you learn to see the light, photographically, you will be better than most
photographers, even the professionals. With our obsessions about gear we forgot
what photography actually is. It literally means “painting with light”. Come to
my photography workshops in Sydney and let’s start painting.