Night Photography Course

■ The essential night photography skills to shoot in all low light scenarios

■ Learn the settings & how to operate your camera for low light photography

■ We train you on any imaging device DLSR, mirrorless, compact camera 

■ Learning dawn, dusk and pitch dark shooting techniques

■ Fun & creative course with like minded fellow individuals

■ Suitable for smartphones with our recommended Apps & using a tripod

■ DLSR, mirrorless and compact camera functionality

■ How to achieve outstanding results with your Smartphone ( with recommended Apps)

■ RAW, ISO, white balance, shutter speed, bracketing

■ Balancing available light and flash, rear & 2nd curtain sync

■ Mirror lock up, self timer and remote release

■ Zooming, light trails, motion, painting with light

■ Pre shoot recce skills, maximising locations, anticipating the moment

■ Reflections and abstract effects such as zooming & star bursts

■ Shooting city scapes, night portraits

■ How to shoot creative portraits at night

■ Creative night photography settings (expressionistic, art deco, B & W, colour accent etc)

■ No previous photographic experience required

■ A smartphone, compact, mirror-less and/ or a DLSR camera*

■ An all rounder zoom such as a 18-55mm, 24-105mm most useful

■ Memory Card(s): we recommend at least a 4 GB card for each session of shooting

■ Charged camera battery and a spare if you have one

■ A wide-angle is useful for landscapes. A telephoto for wildlife

* See more on camera gear in the FAQ section

Time	Runs from 6pm to 7pm ( daylight saving) to 9pm to 10pm (daylight saving)
Location	18 Argyle Street, Sydney
Meeting Point	Munich Brauhaus / beside outside tables near red phone box

Why do this Night Photography course with Focus 10?
■ You are a beginner and want to expand your skills and to de-mystify night photography.

■ You are an intermediate to serious amateur photographer wanting to gain night photography skills.

■ Expert, professional tuition: created by working professional photographers Andrew Thomasson and Serena Pearce. We are authoritative, consummate professionals in both shooting and teaching low light and night photography - NOT 'armchair' experts.

■ Experience running this course: Andrew has trained over 1500 students on Night photography courses over 29 years.

■ Suitable for everyone: a clear path for the entry-level* to advanced, allowing you to gain the specialist skills in order to become a capable, even expert, night photographer.

■ We operate this course in almost all weather conditions. The only exception is in heavy rain and high winds. We will notify you as to any postponement or you have the option of a gift voucher valid for a full 2 years.

■ We have no minimum numbers. We run his course If you are the only person on it. We also offer you the option of deferring to another date .

■ Professional yet fun: our course is delivered and taught in a light hearted and easy going format, free of technical jargon with assignments delivered with a touch of humour in a non intimidating, relaxed manner.

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Who enrols on this 3 hour course?
■ You are a beginner and want to expand your skills and to de-mystify night photography

■ You are an intermediate to serious amateur photographer wanting to gain night photography skills

■ Those who want to become a professional photographer where you must have the skills to shoot in low light

■ Amateur through to experienced photographers who want to learn low light & night photography skills

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How many people will be on my course?
■ A maximum of 6 persons for a highly personalised learning experience. This ensures plenty of one on one attention.
■ We also cater for larger groups bringing in other tutors and splitting the groups into teams. Talk to us about your special requirements such as a 'team building' Night Photography course for a government organisation, company, your travel or camera club or a private group.

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What camera gear & equipment do I need to do the course?
■ Any full or cropped frame DSLR camera, mirrorless camera, quality compact with full manual controls or smartphone using a pro app such as Camera+ . Full frame cameras with their bigger sensors will give better results if we are forced to select a high ISO setting as in hand held portraits

■ A wide angle lens eg 16-35mm (on a full frame camera) ,10-22mm (on a cropped sensor camera); a 24-105mm on (full frame mirrorless camera), a telephoto lens eg. 70-300mm or 70-200mm; a mid range lens eg 24-105mm or 24-70mm. A 50mm f1.8  is small, cheap and great to have in your kit. 

■ An on-camera flash unit is useful for night photography. An external Speedlite flash is much better. If your camera does not have a flash you will miss out slightly but will learn the technique by observing

■ You will need a sturdy tripod for this course. We have a few spare tripods for client use at no charge. Tripods with a ball, swivel head are the best. 

■ Memory Card(s): we recommend at least an 4 GB card for this 3 hour course

■ Your camera instruction book ( or use your smartphone to access this information)

■ A torch or use your smartphone light to look at camera settings

■ Course notes mirror the practical hands on course workshops with detailed with easy to understand, step by step procedures to teach you camera handling skills, about composition, lighting and a myriad of other techniques to become a competent low light and night photographer

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Do you rent out camera gear or give advice on what to buy?
■ We rent Nikon DLSR cameras with a wide angle 18-55mm lens and a 50mm f1.8 for $40. A full rental package including the camera, 3 lenses, flash and tripod is $60.
■ We sell Lexar 32GB SD cards for $25 or bring your own.
We have a suggested equipment list for night photography. This is a great guide to the best gear to meet your budget and expectations.

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Is the course beneficial in building a portfolio?
With one-to-one guidance from our experienced photography tutors, and quality stylish houses to shoot then yes.. these images will certainly enhance your portfolio.

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What are some of the indoor & outdoor locations we photograph at?
■ We endeavour to go to most or all of the following destinations. This sometimes is not possible due to extenuating circumstances such as inclement weather, health restrictions and so on

The Rocks, The Observatory, Walsh Bay, Cadman's Cove & Circular Quay, Sydney Harbour bridge and Sydney Opera House

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What happens if it's raining?
■ We do not give refunds for inclement weather

■ Bring a raincoat and/or umbrella as some of the best night photographs are taken in the rain - fantastic puddle reflections and increased colour saturation

■ We have a number of indoor shooting location options if its raining to practice technique

■ We also offer a 'repeat for free' weather guarantee. Join the course anyway. If the weather is really bad we will do an hour and you then receive a gift voucher to come back at another time.

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Thanks again for your work at our conference. We were all very pleased.

Got back to the office yesterday and we received via Dropbox all the amazing photographs you took. You captured everthing- the keynote speakers, the sailing events, the party. We will definitely be using you again when we are next in Australia

-- Karen Seidman

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Focus 10 Photography is our corporate photographer shooting all or staff and website photographs. They particularly understand how photographs play a crucial roll in our marketing and branding. Andrew understands that we are a people business. Many of our clients started with us as start-ups and have gone on to become multi-million dollar enterprises. Their services and value for money is hard to beat.

--Dean Sammut | Director

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Great to meet you. Christie and I love your work. We think that the 4 attached, at this phase of our project would fit well and we would be keen to see if any of these would be able to be blown up to a large wall art format.

--Kate Hopwood | Head of Design

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Thanks for the Watagan Park photo shoot of the 4 houses. – Brett was very happy with the outcome and he just wanted to be very clear with the location of the villages (for you to make sure your pricing was correct). He would like you to schedule in some time to go to Wongawilli . Thanks for the great deal on the drone shots as well as the Marsden Parks ones.

-- Sarah King / Graphic Designer

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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.

-- Paul Middleton | Director

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A great weekend and I learnt heaps - hope to do it again sometime.

--Sue Morris

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I cannot thank you enough for spending your Sunday with Hannah giving her excellent photography training. It was a hot day and you had to work hard.
We loved the photos and she learnt a lot, there were smiles all round.

--Pam Jacob / Financial Officer

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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.

--Tony Hattley / regional manager

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