WORKSHOP ONLINE CONSULTATIONS +
Tutorials Live Streamed on YouTube
This intermediate workshop is attended via one-on-one CONSULTATIONS so the course material can be focused on your specific interests and aims, and any follow up questions are subsequently answered in our free weekly TUTORIALS. The cost per Workshop Consultation is AUS $330 including all fees and charges.
Thinking Photography Tutorials – Live Streamed
• 16 February 2025 (AEDT) 10.30am to 11.30am
• 03 August 2025 (AEST) 10.30am to 11.30am
• Time Zone Convertor
This intermediate workshop is dedicated to thoughtful and insightful photographic practice. Being a creative photographer is much more than saying ‘yes or no’ to presets, filters, recipes and clichés. Creative photography is about knowing what is possible and then playing with that knowledge. In this workshop we borrow from four genres of photography: The Natural World (Landscape/Natural History), Inhabited Places (Events/Travel), the Built-Environment (Architecture), and Ourselves (Portraiture). Each genre is categorised in terms of Historical Perspectives, Theoretical Foundations, Production Skills, and Presentation Strategies. The aim is to incorporate and refine aspects of these different approaches into your own photographic practice, and thereby significantly enhance your creative outcomes.
The only prerequisite for this workshop is that you are interested in refining your photographic understanding and practice within a Contemporary Art context, and in an encouraging and supportive learning environment. Our survey of how photographic genres are historicised, theorised, and practiced will help you understand and locate your own work within them, while our LIVE Tutorials will answer all your questions and help you become a better informed, more assured and articulate photographic artist.
The workshop is presented via individual consultations and supported by extensive resources – notes, videos, test files, actions, macros, LUTs, profiles etc. – covering the following topics and accessed without restriction via the Workshop’s Resource Website.
Methodology
• What sort of a photographer are you?
• Your aims & objectives (desires & outcomes)
• Historical Perspective vs Theoretical Foundations
• Cultural Attributes vs Production Skills
• Observational studies and interpretative frameworks
• The Psychology of Appearance and Sensation
• The Philosophy of Immanence and Transcendence
Photographing the Natural World
• Contemporary Landscape and Natural History Photography
• Historical: Photographing Spaces versus Things
• Cultural: The Photograph as a Document
• Production: Stacking & Combining Images
• Theoretical: Land Matters
• Case Studies
Photographing Ourselves
• Portraiture, Lighting, Composition, and Staging Strategies
• Historical: Photographing What Can’t Be Seen
• Cultural: The Photograph as a Diary
• Production: Understanding Lighting/Working with Light
• Theoretical: Intimate Lives
• Case Studies
Photographing Inhabited Places
• Travel and Lifestyle Photography, Event Photography, and Reportage
• Historical: Representation versus Presentation
• Cultural: The Photograph as Witness
• Production: Low Light/High Contrast Scenes
• Theoretical: Moments Found/Moments Created
• Case Studies
Photographing the Built-Environment
• Architectural Photography, including its Objects and Spaces
• Historical: The 2D Representation of Space & Time
• Cultural: The Photograph as a Spatial Narrative
• Production: Rendering Responsibility
• Theoretical: The Deadpan Aesthetic
• Case Studies
Praxis
• What ‘sort’ of a photographer do you need to be?
• Artist statements of intent and context
• Exhibition/publishing strategies and collaborative adventures
• Beyond the Literal – atmosphere, dimensionality, and presence
• Beyond Photography – extending our critical engagemen
• What to do next?
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 free weekly Tutorials Live Steamed via ZOOM ensuring consistent and ongoing support.
Venue: Individual Online Consultations
Duration: 3+ hours (workshop + ongoing tutorials)
Resources: Extensive course notes, videos, test images, actions, macros, luts
Cost: AUS $330 (includes all fees and charges)
More Information: See FAQ (Education)
What are the differences between the Understanding Pictures, Exhibition Preparation 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.
Updated 15 June 2025.