Sydney | 7 hours | Special Interest & Business | Advanced | $290 | 1 Feb 2025 | 1 Feb 2025 | 1 Feb 2025
The Advanced Photography course in Sydney has been designed to impart a high level of proficiency to the serious amateur photographer or to someone considering a career in photography. This course teaches you to shoot at a professional level. The key focus on this course is in upgrading your photographic technical and artistic skills. A series of workshops will cover landscapes, nature, portraits, architecture, product, food, action and more. We also examine various camera systems such as gimbals and drones to expand your imaging repertoire. Places visited include South Head, Vaucluse House and Bondi. Your instructors are professional commercial photographers allowing you to draw upon their depth of knowledge.
■ Equipment review, your camera, your lenses & systems
■ Accessories, filters, tripods, reflectors, external Speedlites
■ Landscapes, portraiture, still life, architecture, nature
■ Shooting modes, RAW vs JPEG, bracketing, HDR, picture style
■ We cater for hi end pro smartphones ( ie iPhone 15 Pro or Samsung Galaxies)
■ All partners can come along at no charge as a special promotional offer
■ Learning advanced camera functions on your DLSR, mirrorless compact (with manual controls) or hi end smartphone
■ Become an all-rounder hobbyist or a part or full-time professional photographer
■ Pro tips to shoot more creative images across a wide range of photographic genres
■ Doing challenging workshops - landscapes, architecture, people, food, product, action, nature and more
■ Camera gear and settings for each photography genre
■ Learning composition, streamlining your workflow
■ covering new imaging technologies including drones and smartphones
■ DLSR, mirrorless and compact (with manual controls) advanced camera functions*
■ Different ways to get the right exposure
■ Balancing available (ambient) light and flash
■ Channels & parameters, white balance
■ The best modes (ASPM) for different photography scenarios
■ Practice photography disciplines with creative, challenging workshops
■ Unusual viewpoints & tilting / lens and linear perspective / HDR / filters / Speedlite flash, rear & 2nd curtain sync
■ Ongoing custom tailored advice on gear, accessories & best buys
■ A series of structured workshops will cover landscapes, portraits, food, architecture, photo reportage, action, still life and more
■ Places visited include South Head, Vaucluse House and Bondi
* Recognising its impossible to learn everything over 7 hours, this advanced course is supported by detailed notes ( see FAQ questions for further details)
■ Previous photographic experience required ( talk to us or by request we have a quick test as to your suitability to do this course)
■ Any full or cropped frame DSLR camera, mirrorless camera, quality compact or hi end smartphone
■ Memory Card(s): we recommend at least a 8 GB card for the full 7 hour course
■ Charged camera battery and a spare if you have one
■ A wide-angle is useful for landscapes. A telephoto for wildlife
■ Your camera instruction book or we can access information on a smartphone
■ Whilst this is not a physically demanding course you should be able to walk 5-8km over the course of 7 hours
■ Inclusions: instruction from professional photographers, detailed notes
* see our FAQ section for further information on your camera gear
Focus 10 runs fantastic, informative and always fun courses and tours. I have done 4 of them now - Blue Mountains, Southern Highlands, 3801 Steam train and the most recent to Jervis Bay. Always a laugh and with excellent like minded, fellow photographers!
"The course was really helpful for our forthcoming jaunt around Asia. We'll take a look at the courses online and book something in (probably when we're back from Cambodia as we've only got a couple of weeks till we leave). These notes are terrific as well. I've already made a note to take a print out with me on our trip. Cheers,"
Andrew has been training our staff, photographing for us over 30 years and has led many Australian and overseas photography tours for World Expeditions. A superb photographer with the ability to handle pressure and to deal with the unexpected. Andrew is very personable and always delivers way more than asked for. Highly recommended.
Thanks for the email Andrew And yes Mate - loved the photos making me look 5 years younger. The make up artist was a good idea. Been busy pitching new business all week.....have some time tomorrow to have a proper look at all the photos but lots to choose from.
As director of a company which represents hundreds of professional photographers running courses around Australia its always a pleasure dealing with Andrew and Focus 10. They run highly professional Australia wide photography courses and from the feedback from my clients they do a great job, they are reliable and honest and always do the right thing by their clients - we highly recommend them.
Thank you for one of the best 5 days ever. Lots of laughs, learn a huge amount, great group, food was fab, and eating out cheap. Super cooking class, brilliant photography with masses of variety each and every day. A highlight for me was the Full moon festival. Amazing! A memorable adventure. Sign me up for your Cinque Terre course in October! Cheers
Andrew is our family photographer! He shot our wedding at Jonah's at Whale Beach last year- the photographs are amazing - Kevin and I love them! I would highly recommend Andrew as your wedding photographer. He has also shot my sisters wedding and does corporate shots for us as well
Focus 10 recently ran a incentive, team building program for us called 'A day in the life at ING'. Their organisation and expertise was impeccable handling over 240 of our staff over 3 days. We think highly of Focus 10 and have a relationship spanning 15 years.
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Why choose Focus 10 Photography?
Our practical and interactive photography courses are designed to stimulate your passion in all things photography. Whether you want to develop your hobby or to become a professional photographer, we have a course suitable for you. 69 lifestyle and business courses across Australia.
We believe in perfectly sized groups , lots of individual attention from our professional tutors & enjoying the camaraderie of fellow photographers. Our business & lifestyle courses are all about improving your photography skills in a stimulating, dynamic and fun scenarios - not passively sitting in classrooms.
You're working with professional photographers who you can trust & whose status has been formally validated & recognised with wide-ranging photographic expertise. Your tutors have instructed 1,000's of people on Focus 10 courses over 29 years & authors of 15 Online Photography courses.
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