CAMERA CRAFT

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STREAMED On-Demand delivery +
LIVE Tutorials via ZOOM

This advanced workshop is attended via STREAMING On-Demand delivery so the course material can be studied in your own time and at your own pace, while your practice and questions are subsequently addressed, clarified and supported via four follow up  LIVE Tutorials. The cost per person/workshop is AUS $330 and includes all fees and charges.

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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 LIVE Tutorials answer your questions and the opportunity to compare, share and evaluate your experiments, testing and findings.

The workshop is supported by a resource rich website and presented in four ‘ninety-minute’ sessions accessed by clicking on each Session Button below:

Session 1 – 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

Session 2 – 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

Session 3 – 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

Session 4 – 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

The ‘Flipped Classroom’ facilitates a uniquely comprehensive yet individual learning experience where your creativity, knowledge and needs focus the inquiry, while your engagement and participation defines your outcomes. Our LIVE Tutorials are designed to maximise our time together clarifying the course content and answering any follow-up questions and topics.

Venue: STREAMED On-Demand delivery
Duration: 14 hours (workshop + four tutorials)
Resources:  Extensive course notes, videos, test images, actions, macros, luts
Cost: AUS $330 (includes all fees and charges)
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Updated 28 September 2024