Digital Photography Courses Cumbria
Want to improve your photography
Do you want to improve your digital photography and take better pictures with your digital SLR camera? Do you want to continue to develop your own photographic style of photography and be more creative?
Digital SLR photography courses
For many years Graeme Cameron Photography has successfully been running digital SLR photography courses in West Cumbria. Understanding the basic’s of digital SLR photography is fundamental. Whether you have photographic interest specifically in beautiful landscapes, stunning portraits, incredible wildlife, gritty urban life, macro or a mixture of many styles we want to help you develop and improve your digital SLR photographic skills.
Topics covered
Some of the topic’s covered on the course?
The basic parts of a camera – all the main parts, explaining what they do and how it works.
The big 3 – Shutter Speed, Aperture & ISO, how they interact with each other.
How to hold your digital camera – often overlooked but can make a big difference to your pictures.
The unique relationship between Aperture & Shutter speed – keeping the balance.
The secret in maintaining proper exposure – changes to one affects the other.
Aperture Priority – explained, demonstrated and practiced.
Shutter Priority – explained, demonstrated and practiced.
How does Shutter speed affect your pictures – lets look at a few examples together.
ISO explained – thank goodness, things have definitely moved on from the days of film.
The impact of 18% Grey – forget 50 shades of grey !
Metering and measuring light correctly – your camera wants to help you but can have a bad day when presented with challenging conditions.
When to use Exposure Compensation – how to help your camera get the exposure right.
How does Depth of Field affect your pictures – examples and scenarios discussed.
Autofocus Points, we’ve all got them – ways and means of working quickly and efficiently to keep focused (no pun intended).
The big argument of RAW verses JPEG – there’s only one clear winner.
White Balance and colour tints – cool blues, warm whites or sick greens.
Good composition explained – rules, guidelines, always a good discussion, everyone has an opinion, it’s all subjective.
Perspective Distortion – it may blow your mind when you see what you can achieve.
Hunday Manor
The Hunday Manor Country House near Workington has proved an excellent venue with great staff and facilities. Through years of experience we’ve found that splitting the course into two separate evening classes works the best. The groups are kept intentionally small. You are encouraged to bring your digital SLR with you. That way, you can practice and familiarise yourself by finding settings and trying techniques as we work through the flexible syllabus together.
Contact us
If you like the idea of coming along and want further information please give us a call or drop us an e-mail.
Best wishes
Graeme