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(updated 19th November 2009)
Workshop Listings
Basic Digital Photography
Studio Workshop - "ONE LIGHT ONLY"
Black & White Photography (Digital)
Travel Photography
Portrait Photography
Photoshop Basics
Practical Photoshop
Light, Tones & Styles
Business Practice for Photographers
Adobe Lightroom for Beginners
DIY Online Marketing for Photographers
Visual Styles & Personal Voices
Photography as a Visual Language
The Big Picture
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Basic Digital Photography
03 sessions | 1,000 RMB
Concise theory with more practical time.
This beginners' class provides a firm foundation for learning digital photography as a visual art form.
Focuses on practical topics such as "how to avoid common mistakes" and "how to compose a good shot"
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Studio Workshop - "ONE LIGHT ONLY"
02 session | 900 RMB | 12 & 19 December
The key to mastering studio lighting is to understand how each flash contributes to the overall setup.
Most amateurs attempt to solve tricky lighting problems by using more lights - an expensive and tedious approach that usually makes thing worse.
We show you how to achieve more with less
- with just ONE LIGHT ONLY
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Black & White Photography (Digital)
03 sessions | 1200 RMB | 9, 16 & 23 January 2010
Black & White is a timeless photographic expression.
Students will focus on the understanding of lights and shadows, tonalities, contrasts, shapes, form and texture.
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Travel Photography
01 session | 600 RMB | 22 November
A comprehensive 4-hour workshop with insights, advices and experience gathered from a decade of collective experience in travel photography.
Includes a practical field trip to help you digest the theories and tips.
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Portrait Photography
02 session | 900 RMB | 14 & 20 December
A good portrait reveals the soul and personality of the photographed and the photographer.
This workshop goes beyond the typical camera techniques and portrait photography tricks. Also covers studio lighting techniques, related photoshop skills and
classical study of portraiture aesthetics.
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Photoshop Basics
03 sessions | 1200 RMB
9, 16 & 23 January 2010
An introductory course that teaches the fundamentals of Photoshop & Digital Imaging. Comprehensive approach to the entire digital workflow - from image capture to print output.
Students will learn about resolution, color management, tonal and color correction with levels and curves, adjustment layers and masking, non-destructive approach to digital imaging.
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Practical Photoshop
03 sessions | 1500 RMB
20 & 27 February, 6 March
Designed to help photographers adopt more efficient approaches to master digital imaging. It achieves this by showing students how to tackle real world imaging problems through creative solutions with the computer. By introducing faster ways to solve imaging problems, photographers can spend less time working on photoshop and get back to shooting more.
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Light, Tones & Styles
2 sessions | Total 4 hours.
The photographer paints with Light.
Through the use of highlights, shadows and tonal contrasts, students learn how to manipulate light to create mood, fantasy, drama, glamour, mystery and suspense.
This workshop demonstrates how to use different light sources to and styles of lighting to add to the photographer's repertoire of works.
Apart from learning how to shoot better in available light, students also get a crash course on how to use studio strobes and camera flashes creatively.
The concept of tones would also be explained with an introduction to the principles of Ansel Adam's Zone System
Besides mastering the technical skills, the workshop also emphasizes on the aesthetic approach to develop a critical eye for seeing light.
Ideal for students and photographers interested in portraiture, fine art, and fashion photography
Business Practice for Photographers
3 sessions | Total 4.5 hours.
Most photographers excel in the artistic aspect of their craft but they often neglect the business aspect of their work.
Regardless of what you shoot - commercial, corporate, advertising, fine art, stock or photojournalism - you should be aware of good business practices that will help you go further in your photography career.
This workshop explores business issues such as copyright, quoting fees and negotiating usage rights, agreements, contracts and invoices, model and property releases, insurance issues, studio management, hiring assistants, collecting payment, getting work, building portfolios and marketing methods, work ethics and more. It also covers the common business mistakes committed frequently by professionals. Save yourself from the painful and costly school of hard knocks.
In short, a mediocre photographer with first-class business skills will easily earn more than an excellent photographer with poor business skills.
Stop being a starving artist.
Adobe Lightroom for Beginners
2 sessions | Total 4 hours
Good for beginners and photographers new to digital media. Adobe Lightroom provides an easy, intuitive and professional way to organize, adjust, retouch and export digital images web, slideshows and print.
DIY Online Marketing for Photographers
3 sessions | Total 6 hours.
Ideal for freelance photographers who seek a simple, low-cost yet effective way of self-marketing online. By using the WordPress blog engine, students will learn to design online portfolios in a quick and easy way. This workshop also teaches the SEO techniques useful for promoting your website effectively in today's competitive market.
Visual Styles & Personal Voices
8 sessions | 1.5 hours each session
Designed for the intermediate photographer, serious amateurs and budding professionals.
This workshop helps you to stand out in the competitive world of photography by developing your own personal aesthetics. Part theory and part practical, students will study how the masters of photography evolve their works and do likewise in similar approaches.
Students will work on personalized assignments designed to help them explore their personal voices and individual visual styles in photography.
Exercises include emulating famous photographic works to facilitate learning by comparison
Photography as a Visual Language
12 sessions | 1.5 hours each session
Photography is a language that communicates visually. Using the concept of photos stories, this workshop shows you how to define your own photographic vocabularies. It will also help you realize how everyone sees things differently and how to translate these images into personal visions - a critical step to learn how to use photography as an effective tool for communication.
Personalized attention will be given to every student to help him or her find the technical elements that work best for each individual.
The Big Picture
8 sessions | 1.5 hours each session
Great ideas for photography are all around us. This workshop helps students find and explore their own personal projects that will push them further in their photography journey.
This course is for students ready to commit to a long-term project. Students are expected to focus on an idea, story, or theme to develop and shoot for throughout the entire duration of the course.
Students who excel will be recommended to magazine editors, gallery and museum curators for exhibition and publishing opportunties
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