Dusk-to-Night Photography
Saturday 16 November
Lighthouse Beach - 5pm - 3 Hours
Ray Galea
In this workshop, we will explore the art of capturing stunning and dramatic landscape images during the hours of dusk and night. This might seem a bit life magic if you're just getting started in this genre.
Your host will guide you through the process of understanding and applying the principles of after-hours captures, using tripod and long exposures.
Participants will receive a digital tutorial maniual.
Landscape Photography
Saturday 30 November
Pacific Drive, Port Macquarie - 9am - 2 Hours
Ray Galea
Woodland Photography is a sub-genre sitting between Nature Photography and Landscape Photography.
Many wonders of this rainforest reside above ground level. Thereby, exploring this natural woodland environment with camera and lens is the way to capture from seven metres above ground, This type of photography is all about reflecting the natural colourful sculptures in this busy habitat.
Participants will receive a digital tutorial on various aspects relating to this sub-genre of landscape and nature photography.
Note: Entry fees are not included in the ticket price.
Street After Hours
Saturday 14 December
Town Green, Port Macquarie, 2444 - 6pm - 2 Hours
Ray Galea
Explore the local after-hours street scene with camera and lens together with our host who is highly skilled in Street Photography and Photojournalism. Shooting from waist-level takes the camera away from your eye and allows you to see subjects from a new angle. This unconventional shooting method is more discreet and disguised rather than be seen point cameras at people's faces.
Wikipedia defines Street Photography as "photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents".
Typically, Street Photography is about candidly capturing life in public areas. And contrary to its name, this genre does not have to be done on the streets. You can do it in any public space.
Street Photography requires quick responses and react intuitively as you would shooting sports. Just like Travel Photography, you must master storytelling. This 2-hour workshop is aimed at enthusiasts with basic and intermediate skills. At night, backgrounds can be much more beautiful than during the day, so it often pays to have people become the secondary element in the scene, rather than the primary focus.
Beginner's Photography Workshop
Saturday 18 January
Town Beach, Port Macquarie - 9am - 3 Hours
Ray Galea
This 3-hour tutorial introduces students to various aspects of this medium, from gaining an understanding of the Exposure Triangle, learning the different types of camera lenses and their specifications, angle of view, depth of field, shooting modes, photographer's stances to take sharp images, metering modes, exposure compensation, the three main aspects of photography.
The expert guidance will give you personalised attention and valuable insights to accelerate your learning process. You will also receive a digital manual to enhance your learning process.
Participants will receive a digital tutorial manual.
A Frozen Moment
Saturday 22 February
Town Beach Park, Port Macquarie - 9am - 2 Hours
Ray Galea
It does not take years of diligent practice to realise that a moving subject can be one of the greatest challenges for any photographer. Unlike the human eye, a camera lens can depict motion in countless ways. That is going to be our main subject for this 3-hour session. Participants will explore the stunning diversity of methods and theories we can use to capture motion in stills photography.
For many people, the instinctive answer has something to do with motion blur. In the right hands, motion blur can add a sense of speed to your final image that can be very impressive, even immersive to the viewer.
Many enthusiasts have only a vague notion of how motion blur forms. To create motion blur, no single aspect of your camera is as important as the shutter setting.
Your host will run you through a series of subjects that more or less move at the same speed but at different shutter settings. Using a long exposure technique to show movement is hardly a rule. In this session you will use various shutter speeds from ultra slow to ultra fast and gauge the amazing differences.
Participants will receive a digital tutorial manual.
Lifestyle Portraiture
Saturday 08 March
Park Beach picnic area - 9am - 2 Hours
Ray Galea
Gaining the skillsets in Lifestyle Portrait Photography gives enthusiasts the opportunity to commemorate milestones or special events, to help individuals market themselves in an increasingly non-formal digital world, or even just to create a memory of a certain point in a associate, friend or loved-one's life.
Portrait Photography, also referred to as portraiture, is a genre of photography in which the subject is one or more people, and the aim is to convey something about the human identity, personality, or story. An important component of portrait photography is understanding how to pose a subject while helping them look natural and comfortable. Lifestyle Portrait Photography, however, takes a more casual approach than traditional portraits. Rather than being shot in a studio, lifestyle portraits are typically shot in a real-world environment and more closely resemble real life. They may still make use of professional lighting setups, but the style is natural and realistic.
Monochrome Photography
Saturday 22 March
Town Green, Port Macquarie, 2444
- 9am - 2 Hours
Ray Galea
In the extremely diverse world of photography, photographers are often confronted with the challenge of finding and developing their artistic vision. Whether it is monochrome (black and white, sepia) or colour, the challenge is ever there.
In this 2-hour session, your host Ray, will emphasise that Monochrome Photography teaches us how to see differently and how to capture differently. This genre removes all distractions and focuses on three things: the subject, light, and the background. You will learn to incorporate tones of a single colour used to represent all the different monochromic hues within an image. After all, the definition of Monochrome Photography is an image displaying a single colour or different shades of a single colour. Monochrome is photography in which the entire image is recorded and represented by differing amounts of light instead of different hues.
Participants will receive a digital tutorial manual.
Macro Photography
Saturday 05 April
Macquarie Nature Reserve, Port Macquarie - 9am - 2 Hours
Ray Galea
This is one of the most rewarding genres of photography you can do. So, let your creative side run wild and see the world in a different way. In this 2-hour session, you will get as close to items as you can to see the change in perspective. It is possible that new ideas and creativity could be born and something unique created. Your tutor will touch base on this photography genre and cover various aspects. Participants are welcomed to bring small personal items as props, and gain an opportunity with a professional macro lens which will dramatically increase the degree of magnification and makes even the most minuscule details visible.
You will also have time to experiment with focus on small subjects and opportunities to gain the perfect shot, which is true of macro's utilisation in Nature Photography. This is where you may not get another chance to be so up close and personal with fauna and flora subjects.
Participants will receive a digital tutorial manual.