From Auto to Amazing: Master Your DSLR
IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
For ages 16 to adult - BEGINNER to INTERMEDIATE skill level
Venue is BELLINGEN HIGH SCHOOL (mobility aid accessible)
Course runs for 5 HALF-DAYS - Monday to Friday 9am until 12pm
If booking two half-day courses, please ensure you check the venues as Camp Creative is unable to provide transport between venues.
Need an NDIS invoice? Call Nicole on 0419 379 146 during business hours BEFORE booking.
Are you a newcomer to using a digital SLR camera - or coming back to photography after a few years? Come get a solid understanding of your camera's modes and use them to your creative advantage.
Complete your camera training by spending each afternoon at Paul’s Adobe Lightroom course ‘Beyond the Click: Elevate Your DSLR Images with Pro Lightroom Classic Techniques’. Find the full details here.
IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
For ages 16 to adult - BEGINNER to INTERMEDIATE skill level
Venue is BELLINGEN HIGH SCHOOL (mobility aid accessible)
Course runs for 5 HALF-DAYS - Monday to Friday 9am until 12pm
If booking two half-day courses, please ensure you check the venues as Camp Creative is unable to provide transport between venues.
Need an NDIS invoice? Call Nicole on 0419 379 146 during business hours BEFORE booking.
Are you a newcomer to using a digital SLR camera - or coming back to photography after a few years? Come get a solid understanding of your camera's modes and use them to your creative advantage.
Complete your camera training by spending each afternoon at Paul’s Adobe Lightroom course ‘Beyond the Click: Elevate Your DSLR Images with Pro Lightroom Classic Techniques’. Find the full details here.
IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
For ages 16 to adult - BEGINNER to INTERMEDIATE skill level
Venue is BELLINGEN HIGH SCHOOL (mobility aid accessible)
Course runs for 5 HALF-DAYS - Monday to Friday 9am until 12pm
If booking two half-day courses, please ensure you check the venues as Camp Creative is unable to provide transport between venues.
Need an NDIS invoice? Call Nicole on 0419 379 146 during business hours BEFORE booking.
Are you a newcomer to using a digital SLR camera - or coming back to photography after a few years? Come get a solid understanding of your camera's modes and use them to your creative advantage.
Complete your camera training by spending each afternoon at Paul’s Adobe Lightroom course ‘Beyond the Click: Elevate Your DSLR Images with Pro Lightroom Classic Techniques’. Find the full details here.
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YOUR COURSE TUTOR
Paul Tidey
Paul has worked in the photographic retail industry for the past thirty-five years and started his business, Fundamental Photography, twelve years ago. He is a passionate and inspiring teacher who still gets excited about educating you on the joys of capturing that once-in-a-lifetime image. To make sure when it happens you are prepared and ready to go. Know your camera and have the ability and confidence to create your own masterpieces.
At Fundamental Photography, Paul offers digital SLR camera courses that cover everything you need to know about your camera. How your camera works, how to set it up correctly utilising shutter speeds, apertures and ISO’s and how to get the results you are LOOKING FOR!
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Enjoy a mix of theory and practical techniques and get started on your photographic journey.
Learn the importance of shutter speeds, apertures and ISO and how to use them to create photographs – not snapshots.
You will learn how to achieve effects such as minimum and maximum depth of field, selective focus, freeze the action, blurred movement, artistic lighting, and composition.
PLEASE NOTE: A DSLR camera is essential for this course
Want to take it further?
Master your camera and your editing – create images you’re proud of.
Learn the entire photography process: from getting the camera settings right in the field to using Lightroom Classic’s tools (with AI-assisted enhancements) to make images pop. Check out Paul’s afternoon photo editing course here.
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Please bring the following on your first day of class:
Digital SLR camera
Charged batteries & charger
Empty memory card
Notebook and pen
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Beginner to Intermediate - Suited to those who are new to the course area or may have little or no experience. Also suited to those who have some experience, but are looking to learn new techniques and explore more complex projects.
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NOTE: THIS IS A PLAN ONLY AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE
DAY ONE
Learn how to set up your camera to capture images.
Camera maintenance and care.
Shutter speeds - control shutter speeds to affect motion blur and freeze subjects.
DAY TWO
Aperture - learn how to isolate and tell stories using aperture.
Using manual exposure and understanding ISO.
The usefulness of tripods and camera releases.
Using polarising and ND filters.
Focal length and how it affects perspective and depth perception.
DAY THREE
Learn creative composition.
Focus modes, learn about AF systems and how your camera uses them effectively.
Timers, drive modes and creative white balance.
DAY FOUR
Metering systems and exposure composition.
How to set your camera for black and white photography.
Using flash creatively.
DAY FIVE
Out in the field practicing your newly learned skills.
“Paul was a consummate photography teacher. He had an infectious enthusiasm that said that he enjoyed the subject matter and had a way of connecting with us students that surpasses my experience & expectations. He knew the subject very well and had taken time to plan its delivery at the right pace up to 4pm on Friday.”
“Paul is a very accomplished teacher, enthusiastic, knowledgeable and always helpful. He obviously loves teaching and his love of photography is inspiring. He had appropriate lessons, good examples and set a good pace, always happy to answer questions and conduct lessons in a fun, engaging way. I will continue photography because I enjoyed the course so much.”
