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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.
* 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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Q: What's the cancellation policy?
A: Free to cancel or reschedule up until 10 days before the class
Q: How long does the class run for, and what's the price?
A: 6.5 hours - 7 hours, $299 per guest
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Get to grips with photography in Sydney!
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arrow_right_alt arrow_downward- Choosing the right shooting mode
- File format, size, and quality
- White balance and metering modes
- Drive mode – single shot v. multiple shots
- Manual and autofocus modes – which to use when
- Focus points – selecting only one or using them all
- ISO – how to use it to maximum effect and best quality
- Exposure compensation, bracketing, and HDR (high dynamic range)
- Understanding depth of field
- Controlling depth of field in aperture priority
- Controlling movement in shutter priority
- Using Auto, Program, and scene selections
- What is light? Colour temperature and intensity and how to control it
- Front light – taking well-lit and colourful pictures
- Sidelight – highlighting texture and emphasising 3D
- Back light-capturing silhouettes and rim-lit subjects
- Diffused light – exploit overcast conditions
- Artificial light – tungsten and flash (both on and off-camera). Synching more than one flash
- Principles of composition – rule of thirds
- Use leading lines to direct the eye
- Portrait or landscape format
- Cropping in-camera – leave enough space around your subject
- Portraits that wow – blur the background
- Different angles and focal lengths – distorting reality
- Use natural frames
- Look for reflections
- Play with colour and contrast
- Use repetition
- The power of scale
- Let your picture tell a story
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What you'll get
- Set up your camera menu
- Move away from Auto and use advanced camera settings
- Use different lenses and other attachments for specific outcomes
- Understand and apply the depth of field
- Understand colour temperatures and white balance and apply appropriate settings
- Apply principles of composition, including Rule of Thirds
- Understand basic digital photo editing principles and techniques
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Knowledge required
This workshop is designed for beginners who want to learn to use their DSLR or mirrorless camera.
What to bring
- DSLR Camera
- Laptop with Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom loaded (free trial versions available from Adobe's website)
- Camera manual
- Fully charged batteries
- Writing materials, paper, etc.
Your teacher
Nic Van Oudtshoorn
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Nic van Oudtshoorn is a multi-award-winning photographer, including the 2024 Abstract Photographer of the Year in the professional category of the prestigious international ReFocus World Photo Annual competition. Photographers from over 60 countries took part. He also won a “Highly Commended” award in the professional wildlife section of the same competition.Nic has been a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker for more than 40 years, with a particular interest in black-and-white, as well as macro and wildlife photography.Nic's photos have appeared in books, calendars, newspapers and magazines (including Time and Reader's Digest) around the world.His photographic excellence has earned him the distinction of Associate of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, the oldest and one of the most prestigious such organisations in the world.His footage has been seen on TV around the world, including National Geographic and Discovery channels. He has won numerous international awards for his photographs, both colour and black-and-white.Nic is a qualified instructor with a Master’s degree from Sydney University and enjoys training photographers at local colleges and online. He is the author of 14 books, including The Photographer's Guide to Close-up, Macro and Focus Stacking, available from Amazon as a paperback, as well as a Kindle edition.
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Sydney Community College is a social enterprise with a mission to offer innovative continuing adult education programmes that support individual efforts and facilitate sustainable social change.Our mission is to enrich lives, to strengthen adult individuals and to build communities through innovative high quality continuing education and training.
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