Intermediate Digital Photography Workshop
This workshop is for you if you’ve taken the Beginner Photography Full-Day Workshop, the Beginner Digital Photography Series, or have the equivalent level of experience. In this workshop, we’ll get further into the equipment and the creative choices and challenges of consistently taking good photos, even in challenging lighting conditions.
We’ll pick up where the beginner classes left off and go deeper into important technical controls on your camera and then move into the creative aspects of photography, including composition and lens choices. This is a hands-on workshop with a small group, live shooting demonstrations, and time for your questions. The instructor will cover all the topics listed below. We keep the class size small, so there’s time for interaction and problem solving.
In the afternoon, we’ll shoot professional models under a variety of lighting conditions, some of them challenging, so you can test out your new skills and control. We’ll end the day with a live editing session of your images and a concluding slide show.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
- The light meter: understanding how your camera reads and measures light and how it can sometimes cause exposure problems.
- Exposure control: bracketing, exposure compensation and reading a histogram.
- Tricky exposures: how to get good exposures in tricky situations including backlight and high contrast settings.
- Support & stability: keeping your images sharp and vibration free through the proper use of tripods, monopods, stance, leaning & breathing.
- Dust & cleaning: when to worry about lens and sensor dust and how to get rid of it.
- Focal length and maximum aperture: deciphering the numbers on your lens.
- Lenses: creativity vs practicality (and cost!). How to select lenses as creative tools. A look at ultra wides, telephoto, zooms, primes, macro and some surprisingly affordable options.
- Sensor sizes: full frame vs. cropped sensor and what difference it makes to your photography and lens selections.
- Creative motion blur: using slow shutter speeds as a creative tool for both low light situations and to purposely blur movement.
- Composition: the architecture of a photograph, some rules and when to break them
- The art of photography: stepping beyond the elements of exposure and focus and thinking about color, gesture, timing and other creative aspects of photography.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
- Professional modeling fees (so we have some subjects comfortable in front of the camera to test your shooting skills)
- Lunch (and individually packaged water and soft drinks throughout the day)
This is an intensive full-day workshop. Some people learn best in that environment; others prefer smaller doses. If you’d prefer to break it into individual classes, take a look at the Beginner Digital Photography and Intermediate Digital Photography online series.
- Cost per person is $240.
- The workshop is held at Dallas Center for Photography – 4756 Algiers Street, Dallas, TX 75207.
- All DCP members receive a discount on class registration! Not a member? Join now!
- Workshop price includes modeling fees and lunch.
- Doors open at 8:45am. Workshop starts promptly at 9:00am and ends at 5:00pm.
- Classes will be held in the DCP upstairs classroom.
- Parking is available on the street or in the adjacent lot at Electric Light & Power.
Richard Klein
Richard is committed to passing on the craft and joy of image making by teaching classes and workshops at the Dallas Center for Photography, University of Texas at Arlington, the University of North Texas, Texas Woman’s University and as a contributor to lynda.com.
“Learning is a process and I see myself as a lifelong learner continually taking on new subjects, being in a state of Beginners Mind. My commitment as an educator is to share complicated material in a way that is easily understood by the student regardless of their experience level.”
Peter Poulides
Peter is the director of Dallas Center for Photography and teaches several of the classes and workshops. In over 30 years of shooting assignments for national magazines and corporate/stock photography he’s learned a few things and likes to pass it on. His favorite student review is “You remember what it’s like to not know”.
He also works one-on-one with clients to further particular shootings skills, organize their photos with Lightroom or work on projects like books and exhibitions. He still shoots occasional commercial jobs but is busy with personal book projects and running the expanding DCP.