Topics covered in this HALF-DAY real-life class:
Theory Session, participants will learn the fundamentals of landscape photography that covers the following topics:
- Basic rules of Landscape photography
- Understanding the concept of 'Subject' & 'Foreground Subject' and their importance in defining the theme for a good scenery photo
- Knowing what makes good 'Subjects' & 'Foreground Subjects' and what doesn't
- Understanding the various Auto-Focusing Modes and Focusing Areas to use in Landscape Photography
- Understanding the importance of achieving 'Deep Focusing' in Landscape Photography
- Learning the three distinct options of 'Auto-Focus Single + Auto Area' vs 'Auto-Focus Single + Single Area' vs 'Hyperfocal Focusing' in obtaining deep-focusing in Landscape Photography
- Understanding what is Dynamic Range and how that effects your landscape photography
- Learning how to extend the dynamic range of your shoot to cover a more extensive range of lighting and exposure when shooting scenaries (choice of Bracketed Exposure shoots, in-camera HDR, software-based editing)
- Learning to use various White Balance pre-sets and Kelvin to obtain stunningly accurate colors in landscape photography
- Learn the techniques of obtaining vividly saturated colors in photography
- Learn the tricks of how to obtain lovely blue skies when shooting scenaries
- Learn to stabilise your shots in single frame captures and also multi-frames bracketed short via hand-held and also tripods
- Learning how to use your Tripods correctly
- Learning to use Neutral Density Filters and also Graduated Neutral Density Filters
- Understanding the value of Stops in calculating exposure and also learning to read the cameras' Exposure Meters.
- Learn to use the 'Golden Hours' and 'Rayleigh Effects' to obtain stunning Landscape photos
- Understanding the vital 'Compositional Rules' commonly used in Landscape Photography
Participants will spend 2 hours in a lovely scenic part for the practical session of this class and obtain hands-on skills of the above topics.
