Updated 14 September 2024
HOW CAN I ACCESS YOUR WORKSHOPS?
Our workshops are attended via Streamed On-Demand delivery for viewing at any time and in any time-zone. They are presented as a ‘flipped-classroom’ where the course material is first viewed, and follow up questions, observations and implementations are subsequently addressed through regularly scheduled LIVE Q&A Tutorials via free ZOOM video conferencing software on your Computer, Smart Phone or iPad/Tablet.
WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF A ‘FLIPPED-CLASSROOM’?
While Streaming On-Demand delivery provides maximum flexibility when and how you initially engage and interact with our course material, the flipped-classroom’s fortnightly LIVE Q&A Tutorials ensure our time together is entirely devoted to addressing your interests, questions, practice, aims and ambitions. Plus you can attend any number of LIVE Q&A Tutorials thereby supporting an evolving and comprehensive adaptation and application of that workshop’s content. In other words, LIVE Q&A Tutorials rather than LIVE Workshop Presentations ensure improved access with increased and continuing support.
HOW LONG CAN I ACCESS THE WORKSHOP CONTENT?
Our 2.5K HD recordings with studio quality audio (in English) of the six workshop sessions can be streamed three times each (or any combination to a total of eighteen session views), while our extensive workshop resources (course notes & videos, images, test images, targets, actions, macros, & 3DLUTs) can be downloaded and archived without restriction.
WHO CAN ATTEND THE LIVE Q&A WORKSHOP TUTORIALS?
Anyone who has ever attended a particular workshop can attend any of that workshop’s specialist tutorials at anytime. Also anyone who is contemplating attending a workshop but needs more information, or insights into its content or suitability, is more than welcome to ‘sit-in’ on one of that workshop’s tutorials.
WHAT EQUIPMENT IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND A LIVE TUTORIAL?
You will need a laptop or desktop computer, or a smartphone or tablet, an internet connection, speakers/headphones, a microphone, and a webcam either built-in or attached to your computer or mobile device. For example, if your main workstation doesn’t have a webcam or audio, you can also simultaneously logon via a phone or tablet and use that device for audio and/or webcam while also being able to view and work on your workstation’s larger monitor. ZOOM also runs on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, iOS and Android and we have a commercial license so there are no restrictions. Full system requirements can be found at ZOOM’s Help Centre.
I DON’T LIVE IN AUSTRALIA – CAN I STILL ATTEND A LIVE TUTORIAL?
You most certainly can with over 30% of our participants attending from outside of Australia. Our experience of working with overseas guests has been utterly wonderful despite the Time Zone differences for LIVE in-person events. For example 9.30am to 1.00pm Australian Eastern Daylight time (AEDT) runs from 2.30pm to 6.00pm Pacific Standard Time (PST) the previous day (eg. Los Angeles or Vancouver), or from 5.30pm to 9.00pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) the previous night (eg, Montreal or New York), but can also finish as late as 3.00am Central European Time (CET) (eg. Vienna, Austria). On the other hand time zones like Hong Kong (HKT) are only two hours earlier. But when Time Zone differences are simply too great, then additional tutorials can be scheduled in your Time-Zone.
HOW EXPERIENCED DO I NEED TO BE?
It depends on what you are looking to achieve. Our workshops are intense affairs, covering a lot of information with often surprisingly new or alternative forms of practice for most people. On the other hand we try very hard to ensure our workshops are mostly ‘stand alone’ events in the sense that we do not assume you have attended any of our other events, nor in any particular order. Our only assumption is that you are working at the level the workshop is presented at, or aspire to work at that level. Any familiarity with the relevant applications and processes is a bonus, but not essential. Most important is the desire to learn and understand more about what you are doing and to become better at it.
WHAT DOES INTRODUCTORY-INTERMEDIATE-ADVANCED MEAN?
What we are trying to indicate are the expectations and interests of those who have attended that workshop in recent years. Each workshop’s syllabus is therefore the structured accumulation of questions and topics it has addressed over time. And given how different individual interpretations and applications can be, a workshop’s classification is inclusive and not meant to dissuade anyone from attending.
WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE DIGITAL PRINTING AND CRAFTING A DIGITAL PRINT WORKSHOPS?
Our intermediate Digital Printing workshop concentrates on the processes and procedures underpinning the physical production of fine prints, while our advanced Crafting a Digital Print workshop focuses on perfecting file preparation for printing, and thereby builds upon the Digital Printing workshop’s content. They therefore compliment each other as the two halves of an accomplished printing workflow, where refined creative skills and informed aesthetic judgements are the main aims, while the creation of stunningly beautiful fine prints along with the confidence and pride that comes from being in control of your own production are the main objectives.
WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE UNDERSTANDING PICTURES, EXHIBITION PRACTICE AND THINKING PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS?
Our Understanding Pictures workshop concentrates on Pictorial Design and the construction of pictures for enhanced aesthetic affect. Exhibition Preparation focuses on the refinement of images for public presentation in galleries, publications and online. Thinking Photography refines the scholarship and rationale underlying both the construction and presentation of images. Therefore these workshops effectively address the What, How and Why of research based contemporary artistic practice’s creative and cultural contributions.
WHO ATTENDS YOUR WORKSHOPS AND CONSULTATIONS?
A broad range of people enrol in our workshops and book consultations for all sorts of reasons. Approximately a third are professional artists who want to seriously refine their technique, and/or want to know what is required to significantly expand their understanding, appreciation, and practice. Some are making the transition to digital processing or from basic to advanced digital processes. Approximately a third are enthusiasts supporting their interests and passion for all things photographic. And approximately a third are professional photographers seeking inspiration and/or wanting to up-skill or consolidate their technique, and/or more efficiently integrate and facilitate their daily workflows.
WHAT SUPPORT MATERIAL AND RESOURCES ARE PROVIDED?
Each workshop has its own resource rich website containing extensive and detailed class notes, videos, presets/actions/macros and test forms/images covering the main concepts and processes presented. Each workshop resource website is also updated regularly, and any attendees’ images that have been featured as ‘case studies’ in our LIVE Q&A Tutorials are returned with all adjustments intact.
WHAT ORDER SHOULD I TAKE YOUR WORKSHOPS IN?
Though some people attend our workshops in the order in which they are presented throughout the year, just as many attend on a ‘need to know basis’. It is also not unusual for someone to enrol in an ‘intermediate level’ workshop (to fill in ‘the gaps’) after they have attended some of our ‘advanced’ workshops, while others repeatedly enrol in the same workshops over a number of years in order to keep abreast of the latest developments in that field.
WHAT IF I CAN’T ATTEND A CONSULTATION I HAVE BOOKED?
• Personal consultations can be cancelled or rescheduled as required.