DESCRIPTION:

The digital camera is now considered an essential tool for estate agents, architects, designers, professionals and travellers who take interior and exterior photos of buildings.

This course will steer you through the essential tools needed and the technique required to shoot quality, dynamic, creative and emotive shots which portrays your clients property in the best possible light. Great photographs of properties and the ability to turn a drab, unappealing property into something attractive for prospective buyers adds value to the property and enhances your business professionalism. For travellers and lovers of fine architecture, you gain the skills to bring back evocative, memorable images of places you have stayed or visited.

The course will also appeal to photographers needing to learn more about flash gun techniques and shooting under a wide range of difficult lighting conditions.  Many of our course students just love still life photography and shooting architecture. In this course they will learn from how to shoot a 1605 Jacobean country home, classic Georgian terraces, Cotswold cottages, Italian villas, Greek tavernas, Turkish mosques, Canadian log cabins...and closer to home... iconic Sydney landmark buildings such as the Opera House, Sydney Barracks, Vaucluse and Strickland house and some prime Sydney residential houses.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

• Learn how to use every feature on your DLSR camera to the full

• Get unbiased advice on what camera gear is best suited for architecture and real estate photography

• Fast track your photographic technical and artistic skills

• Get great shots of iconic Sydney buildings

• Learn low light and night photography techniques

• Learn how to use external lighting sources

• Gain knowledge about external and slave flash units

• Small groups (12 persons maximum)

• Interactive, dynamic, exacting, challenging

• Souvenir e-album

• A professional portfolio and certificate of achievement

• Free camera shopping service & ongoing technical support

WHAT THE COURSE COVERS:

• Overview & PowerPoint presentation of course

• Interior and exterior images of properties around the world

• Advantages of digital

• Suggested cameras and accessories

• Basic camera functions

• Pixels & memory cards

• Controlling light

• Creative composition

• Lens perspective overview and depth of field

• White balance and filters

• ISO speed and shutter speeds

• Colour cast, flash and ambient light

• Still life

• Post production- basic Photoshop manipulation

• Exercises of shooting interiors and exteriors

• Direction of light

• Working with different types of natural and artificial light

• Balancing interior and exterior light

• Handling contrast and dynamic range

• Preparing a property for a shoot.

• Unusual viewpoints, handling tight situations

• Lens and linear perspective for shooting interior and exteriors

• Architecture and exterior building shots

• Eliminating clutter

• Flash and ambient light / twilight and night shooting

• Night & low light photography in general

• Finishing off with a well earned drink in the Sir Stanford Bar

Notes:  (1) This course can be custom tailored to suit specific requests from the participants and we reserve the right to mix around the course content subject to the prevailing lighting conditions.  (2) We supply 500w and 100w spotlights exterior flashes, reflectors and detailed resource notes
 

COURSE SCHEDULE:

instructor:

Your instructor, Andrew Thomasson, is a professional real estate and commercial photographer who shoots for a number of Sydney and London based real estate companies, holiday house agents and for the Property Council of Australia. He has been teaching the Architecture and Real Estate Photography for 3 years.

Pre-requisite:

None

requirements:

• We recommend you have a prosumer camera with a wide angle or (preferably) a DSLR camera such as a Canon EOS 30D, 400D, Nikon D80, D200

• At least one quality wide angle lens such as a 12-24mm. You could get away with an 18mm (such as the 18-55 Canon or 18-70 Nikkor)

• Memory Card(s):  We recommend at least a 1 GB card for each 7 hour session of shooting

• Essential - A sturdy tripod

• Non essential – polarizing filter and external flash unit

• Charged camera battery and a spare if you have one

Next scheduled course:

• Tuesday & Wednesday,  29-30 July 2008

course price & inclusions::

• AUD$395

• Instruction from professional photographer

• Detailed notes

• Camera, lens and accessory shopping service

• Free portraits and e-book

• Personal assessment and critique of your portfolio