Blarney Photography Club · Blarney Photography Club Blarney Photography Club 8 Week Course •Photography for Beginners / Improves course starts on Sep 28th 2017 from 7pm to 8pm

Blarney Photography Club

Beginner’s Course 2017



Blarney Photography Club 8 Week

Course

• Photography for Beginners / Improves course starts on Sep 28th 2017 from 7pm to 8pm in

• Scoil Mhuire Gan Smal (Secondary School)

• The course is intended to provide a general introduction to photography and is suitable for both

absolute beginners and people with a little basic photographic knowledge.

• Each Class is Dedicated to a particular topic and runs over 8 weeks. It’s open to Club Members only.

• •It will be theory and practice so bring along your camera each night

1. The Basics 28th Sep– Getting to know your camera, what to do with your photographs

2. Composition 5h Oct – Composing a good photograph, Composition rules and how to break them

3. Exposure 8th Oct– Getting the right light – Exposure metering – Explain how this works on the camera

3. Landscape 19th Oct – How to move your shots from good to great – Find out about fantastic local locations

4. Street Photography / Architecture 26th Oct – Introducing people into photographs– Learn about manually

controlling aperture (F-stops) – Trip to Cork City at weekend to Practice

5. Close Up and Macro Photography 2nd Nov

7. Portraits / People 16th Nov

8. Post-processing 23rd Nov with software, Printing , Mounting, Competitions, 2


Welcome

• Who am I?

• What do I shoot with?

• Fuji / Olympus / Canon / GoPro

• What do I photograph?

• www.flickr.com/fergalocallaghan

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Welcome

• Who are you?

• What do you shoot with?

• What do you like to photograph?

• How good are you on a scale of 1-10?

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8 Week Course

• Teach you how to drive your camera

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8 Week Course

• More importantly take more exciting photographs that

have good exposure, composition and interesting

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8 Week Course

• This is for beginner’s and improver’s

• If your name is Ansel Adams this course might not be

for you but you are quite welcome to stay. No matter

how good you are there is room for improvement

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Dropbox

• www.dropbox.com

• Dropbox lets you take your photos, docs, and videos

anywhere and share them easily.

• Access any file you save to your Dropbox from all of

your computers, phones, tablets, and on the web

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http://www.dropbox.com/


Facebook

• https://www.facebook.com/

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https://www.facebook.com/

https://www.facebook.com/


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We have a Group on Flickr


Some Basics

• Did you bring your camera?

• Did you charge your battery?

• Did you put in a memory card?

• Does it have space?

• Did you clean your lens?

• Have you turned your camera on?

• Did you take the lens cap off?

• Do you know which button to press?


Camera’s Sensor Size

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Holding your camera

• Camera Shake is one of your biggest enemies


First Decision when taking a

photograph

• Portrait or Landscape?


Which is better?


Focus

• Does this happen to you?


Focusing

• Things we need to learn as we go

• A) What focus mode are you in?

– Manual, Continuously Focusing (Al Servo), One Shot , Automatic

Autofocus

B) What focusing point is active on your camera

C) What type of Focus Point (Single Point Mode

or Dynamic Area Mode


Other Items we will cover

• Exposure – How much light we are letting in

• Composition – How we are arranging the contents of

our photos

• Shutter Speed – The duration the light is getting onto

our sensor. Fast shutter speed for freezing action, Slow

shutter speed for making water smokey!


The Insides of your camera


Side View Olympus

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Line Diagram

Sensor


Mirrorless Camera

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Aperture

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Depth of Field

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What to do with your photographs

• Print them

• Put them in the monthly league

• Display them on your phone

• Display them on the internet

– Facebook / Flickr

• www.flickr.com



We have a Group on Flickr


Critique


The IT Chicken and Egg Problem

• If you are not used to computers it can be difficult to get started in digital photography

• We will do our best to help to explain

– How to get a photo off your camera and onto a PC

– How to get it off a PC and onto a memory stick

– Put a photo on Facebook or Flickr

– How to set up an e-mail account and a Flickr account

• Don’t be afraid to ask for help

– It can be difficult to show someone if they don’t have a laptop with them

– We’ll help as much as we can

– But remember it’s a photography club we can’t solve all IT problems

• A family member who can use a PC and can be at your PC might be even more helpful


Software

• Adobe – Photoshop Elements

• Adobe Lightroom 6

• Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 & Lightroom CC 2015 – Online Subscription

• Other Free Software (GIMP etc)

• Other software - Nik Software, Corel Paintshop, Luminar (for Apple Currently),

Capture 1


Tripod

• If you want to take great photographs it’s an essential

item

• It gives you the best control of light and the sharpest

photographs

• Cheap Tripods are usually not very good

– They wear out quickly and are not very steady

• It’s worth paying a little bit extra for something sturdy

that would last you a lifetime

• Spending money is up to you. There is no limit to what

you can spend on Photography










Thank you

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