DSLR Photography

This workshop is based on Digital SLR Photography For Dummies
by Mark Holmes

This workshop teaches you how to use your flash to improve your pictures and how flash can be used for different kinds of effect.

Using Your Camera Flash

Learning to use flash allows you to capture more pictures in low light.
Using your flash in bright sunlight can help remove unflattering shadows from portrait subjects.
Combining flash with slow shutter speeds allows you to take portraits at night and capture the background scene.
Setting your flash manually makes you a creative master of your photography.

In this workshop you explore how the built-in flash functions with your camera and how you can use it to improve your pictures in certain conditions.

Most DSLR cameras have a built-in flash, which can be popped up when you want to use it. Higher end DSLRs often don’t have a built-in flash, because camera manufacturers consider that the professionals who use these cameras would never bother with it. Instead, they would use an external flash or studio strobes.

Although this workshop concentrates on the use of a built-in flash, the principles also apply to external flashes specifically designed for your camera (called Speedlights by Nikon and Speedlites by Canon). If you attach one of these flash units to your camera hot shoe, any flash setting you select on your camera will be applied to the external flash. So, bring your external flash along if you have one.

Subjects include:

Deciding when to use flash
Understanding flash sync speed
Investigating flash range
Using your built-in flash
Making Flash Exposure Adjustments
Locking Flash Exposures
Reducing Flash Red-Eye
Diffusing Your Flash
Using shutter speed to control background brightness
Using aperture and ISO to control flash power
Using fill flash on sunny days
Taking portraits at night
Dragging the shutter
Understanding 1st and 2nd curtain flash
Solving Flash Exposure problems

Workshop format

This is a two-hour workshop. We will meet in fun locations around San Diego with a range of shooting subjects. Each workshop starts with an explanation of the lesson plan, in which we discuss what we are trying to achieve that day. We will then all work on a number of practical exercises with short breaks for explanation and summaries. At the end of the workshop we will come together to discuss what we have learned. The workshop is based on the contents of Digital SLR eLearning Kit For Dummies with additional exercises and information. Class sizes are small to enhance your learning experience.

Cost: $75 FIND DATE AND REGISTER

Individual workshops cost $75 each. Purchase a certificate for all eight classes at a substantial discount (8 x 2-hour classes) = $450 or four workshops (4 x 2 hour classes) for $250.