STREAMED On-Demand Delivery +
One-on-One Workshop Sessions
With Weekly Zoom Tutorials
This workshop includes one-on-one sessions so the course material can be focused on your specific interests and objectives, and any follow up questions can be subsequently answered in our weekly Zoom tutorials. The cost is AUD $350 including all fees and charges.
This is a comprehensive overview of contemporary digital camera craft. It covers Medium Format, Mirrorless, DSLR, and Technical digital camera systems. You will work with your own cameras, tripods, light meters and other accessories, while practical experiments and in-depth investigations inform and refine your practice. We create custom ICC and DCP camera profiles, auto-focus lens calibrations, shift/tilt lens depth of field calculations and applications, MTF lens resolution testing, and creative focus, exposure and compositional stacking. Our aim is to significantly increase your proficiency and expertise while resolving technical errors and uninformed misconceptions, thereby ensuring the finest quality digital captures. The course will also inform the selection, evaluation, and acquisition of new equipment, while our Zoom Tutorials answer all your follow up questions and the opportunity to compare, share and evaluate your experiments, testing and findings.
The workshop is presented via one-on-one recorded sessions, weekly Zoom tutorials, and streamed on-demand resources – Notes, Videos, Test Files, 3DLUTs, ICC Profiles – covering the following topics in a fully searchable database and accessed without restriction via the Workshop’s Resource Website.
The Camera
• Medium versus small format camera systems
• Stability and movement – tripods, gimbals, geared heads, gyro stabilisers
• Camera flare, lens flare and lens hoods
• Tethered capture, live view, and smart phone monitoring
• Cleaning sensors and lenses, weather and dust protection
• Camera craft philosophy and aesthetics
Measuring, Seeing and Interpreting Light
• Spot metering versus incident metering
• Calibrating light meters: hand-held and in-camera
• Determining your camera’s effective dynamic range
• Working with filters: ND, Graduated, Polarized
• The Zone System – calibration and creative applications
• Lighting phenomena, composition and affect
The Lens
• Auto focus calibrations and manual focus refinements
• Generating MTF curves: measuring and evaluating lens-sensor resolution
• Custom lens profiles: colorimetric, geometric, and focus shift
• Depth of Field, Tilt and Hinge distance, and Hyperfocal distance skills
• The creative and practical advantages of tilt, shift and swing
• Bokeh and the aesthetic properties of lenses
Specialisations
• DNG camera profiling
• ICC camera profiling
• Exposure Stacking – controlling the camera’s dynamic range
• Focus Stacking – controlling the camera’s depth of field
• Panoramic solutions: stitching slides, nodal points, and panoramic heads
• The Art History of pictorial design through a lens
Also there are no time restrictions or viewing limits on any of the workshop resources including the Workshop’s Consultation Recordings. And as additional questions arise they can be answered by attending our weekly Tutorials live-steamed over ZOOM ensuring consistent and ongoing support.
Venue: One-on-One Workshop Sessions
Duration: 6+ hours (workshop + tutorials)
Resources: Extensive course notes, videos, test images, actions, macros, luts
Cost: AUD $350 (includes all fees and charges)
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Updated 04 July 2026