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ClassBento money-back guarantee
Our mission is to improve mental wellbeing through our workshops and experiences. We curate our teachers and hosts carefully to ensure that they are of high quality.
That's why we provide a money-back guarantee*: If you're unsatisfied with this experience, just leave it at least 20 minutes before it ends, and tell us (the ClassBento team) the reason for your dissatisfaction within 4 hours of that time, and we'll provide you with a refund.
For extra peace of mind, all our bookings are covered by our $20 million public liability insurance.
* We may choose to limit our refund per customer at $1000. In some rare cases, we may also require you to show us your photo ID before we process the refund.
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card_giftcard Get a gift cardBeginners Photography Workshop
Capture stunning photos on the Gold Coast!
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$195 - $440
($195 for Public Class; $440 for Private Class)
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1. Learn to Navigate Your Camera
We’ll start by going through your camera step by step so you know exactly where to find the key settings and how to navigate the menus with ease. You’ll also learn how to check that everything is set up correctly, so you can avoid common mistakes and feel confident every time you pick up your camera.
2. How to Get the Correct Exposure
Learn how to make sure your photos aren’t too dark or too bright. We’ll show you simple ways to balance the light in your shot so your images come out clear, vibrant, and just the way you want them. With a few easy techniques, you’ll quickly gain the confidence to get great results in any lighting.
3. Get Perfect Colour
Discover how to bring out natural, vibrant, beautiful colours in your photos in any situation. Within a few minutes, you’ll feel confident capturing colours just the way you see them. No more boring sunsets and dull landscapes.
4. Master Your Focusing
Next we'll master your cameras autofocus modes show so you can capture action in any situation. No more missed actions shots, out of focus portraits or wildlife shots when the branch is sharp and the bird is blurry.
5. Understand Apertures
Dive into understanding apertures and how to use them to create beautiful soft backgrounds to make your subjects (and your photography) stand out.
6. Shutter Speed
The ability to control motion is at your fingertips. Learn how to freeze the action, or slow time down to create images you never thought possible.
7. Lenses and Focal Lengths
Take a guided tour of your lenses. Get to know the differences between lens types, focal lengths and what type of lenses are best for different types of photography.
8. Shooting Modes
We'll progress of Auto and work our way through the 4 key Shooting Modes: Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority and Manual - and when to use each one and why.
9. Conclusion
Finish the day with some free time to shoot at this wonderful location as well as have the time to recap and ask questions.
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What you'll get
A complete set of comprehensive notes from the workshop to study and refer back to long after the workshop.
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Beginner-friendly.
Your teacher
I’m a passionate photographer and workshop creator, and I love nothing more than seeing people connect with their cameras and with photography. Over the past few years I’ve helped hundreds of photographers achieve those ‘light-bulb’ moments at my beginners photography course. It’s that wonderful feeling when you understand what all those numbers, buttons and dials mean, and how you can now use them to be able to create the images you’ve always wanted. Because once that happens it starts to get really fun. And it’s all backed up with a comprehensive set of notes from the day as well. My journey in photography has taken me all round Australia and overseas. My work has featured in numerous campaigns for many leading Australian brands as well as leading celebrities and athletes like Delta Goodrem, Jessica Mauboy, Ricky Ponting, Hawthorn AFL, Shelley Craft, Ashley Hart, Lleyton Hewitt, The Wallabies, Master Chefs George Calombaris, Olympic basketballer Liz Cambage, Bondi Vet Chris Brown,  Olympic Gold medallist Sally Pearson and All Blacks captain Kieran Read. My favourite campaigns are Swisse-Scudera Ferrari campaign shoot in Maranello Italy; Ricky Pointing in Mumbai, India; Dutch Olympic and World Champion Seed-skater Sven Kramer in Amsterdam, Netherlands. That said, my favourite thing in the world is to be in a city I’ve never been to, with just my camera in my hand. I know you know that feeling too and I look forward to seeing you at one of my workshops soon.
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