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.
Beginner's Photography Workshop
Saturday 19 April
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.