Advanced Digital

Taught by Master Photographer Dale Neill this is a very hands-on course with students completing a number of practical projects and learning the finer points of such things as low-light portraiture, copying works of art, macro fill flash photography, landscape and night photography, perspective control, hyperfocal distance and much more. Learn how to control noise in your images, fine tune tonal contrast and colour, use Rembrandt lighting and even perform a manual white balance. You’ll be expected to produce some stunning images and have them reviewed by an award-winning photographer! Course numbers are kept small so everyone can get the requisite attention.

Students enrolling in Shoot Advanced Photography will need to have successfully completed Shoot’s DSLR course or similar.

In the Advanced Digital course you will learn, amongst other things, how to:

• Perform a manual white balance
• Copy works of art
• Shoot a night street scene
• Combine Auto-bracket with exposure modification bias
• Shoot a night portrait using slow-sync, front curtain flash
• Shoot macro using fill flash
• Use Rembrandt lighting
• Use steepened and flattened perspective
• Utilize Hyperfocal Distance
• Embed Copyright ID on your images
• Shoot low light photography using high ISO
• Control noise in your images
• Control your images with fine tuning saturation, contrast, sharpness

Lecturer – Dale Neill

Dale Neill is a Master Photographer AIPP; Cert Photog TAFE; Grad Dip Ed Technology, ECU; BA Social Science Curtin University, Dale is one of Australia’s leading photography teachers. He started teaching professional photographers in 1973 and now presents at UWA Extension. He conducts photographic workshops for WA Gov’t departments, private companies and is the AIPP Mentor for WA. His company, Wild Heart, established in 2001, regularly conducts overseas photography tours. Destinations include Egypt, Borneo, South America and Turkey. Dale has twice conducted workshops in Brunei for Shell. Dale is a practicing commercial and portrait photographer with a studio in East Fremantle.

Course Fees: $350 inc.GST for 3 session course

January 2012