| Photography Courses | Camera Courses | Digital SLR Training |
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All our camera courses are designed for beginners or those with minimal experience.
They are designed for digital cameras that can be operated manually and support both RAW & jpeg (please contact us if you are unsure).
All our photography courses are run by experienced. In order to maintain a high standard of tuition all courses are limited to a maximum of ten participants.
We have air-conditioned teaching rooms equipped with 10 Apple Mac computer and colour calibrated monitors. Please contact us if you would like to see our facilities. |
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| The Photofusion Digital Suite |
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| ONE DAY DSLR |
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| Maximise your DSLR camera knowledge in one day. For those of you that can’t or don’t want to take a full DSLR course One Day DSLR will teach you all the fundamentals of your DSLR camera, exposure control, lenses & built in flash in a one day workshop. This workshop starts inside the classroom but then moves outside as you make photographs accompanied by the tutor. All participants must have an interchangeable lens digital SLR camera. Compact or hybrid cameras are not suitable.
Course content
Basic camera layout
Memory cards & formatting
Setting up the camera
LCD panel use
Quality settings - RAW & jpeg
Camera menus & modes
Moving away from the programme mode
Aperture, shutter priority & manual
Exposure understanding & control
ISO, shutter speeds & F-stops
Reading histograms
Depth of field
Lenses for composition & framing
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| UPCOMING DATES: Call 020 7738 5774 to book |
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Date: 26 February
Day: Sunday
Times: 10:30 - 17:30
Tutor: Esmeralda Munoz-Torrero
Fee: £105 (10% discount if booked on or before 19 February)
Places: 10 (10 places left) |
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STARTING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
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This photography course is designed for those who own a digital SLR camera and want to maximise its potential. Aimed at beginners and those with minimal experience, this course concentrates on the all important image capturing skills. Each participant will learn how to fully operate their digital SLR as well as understand the fundamentals of photography such as how to make correct exposures, understanding the relationship between F-Stop, shutter speed and ISO/Noise. The course will also cover composition, lenses, colour temperature white balance and understanding light 'etc' . Please note, this course does not include post-production. Click here to see our list of Photoshop, Lightroom and Retouching courses.
Requirements: On booking each participant must be able to tell us the exact model of digital SLR camera they will be using.
Course content...
How a DSLR camera works
Exposure control and light meter
Intro to semi-auto settings (aperture and shutter priority)
Understanding relationship between ISO, F-stops & shutter speeds
Depth of Field
Focussing modes
Memory cards & formatting
RAW vs JPG quality settings
Lenses and composition (Golden Rule and Rule of Thirds)
Sensor size
Colour temperature and white balance
Optimising camera settings (meter modes)
Understanding histograms in detail
Menu funtions
Practical session on location
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| UPCOMING DATES: Call 020 7738 5774 to book |
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Date: 18 & 25 February
Day: Saturdays
Times: 10:30 - 17:30
Tutor: Adrian Wood
Fee: £180 (10% discount if booked on or before 11 Feb)
Places: 10 (6 places left) |
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Date: 21, 28 February & 6 March
Times: 18:45 - 21:45
Day: Tuesday evenings
Tutor: Adrian Wood
Fee: £135
Places: 10 (COURSE FULL) |
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Date: 1, 8 & 15 March
Times: 18:45 - 21:45
Day: Thursday evenings
Tutor: Adrian Wood
Fee: £135 (10% discount if booked on or before 23 Feb)
Places: 10 (10 places left) |
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INTERMEDIATE DSLR
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Take your learning to the next level with our Intermediate DSLR course. This new course will improve your knowledge and understanding of exposure control and introduce you to studio lighting fundamentals, time exposures and special effects with flashguns on location and lastly the all important and often neglected area of Workflow in Post-production.
This course concentrates on taking you up the next level on the ladder of technical and creative competence and introduces you to particular areas of photography not delivered on introductory DSLR courses. Correct exposure is a key fundamental in photography and with this knowledge firmly understood the course moves into the studio with the control of artificial lighting and the use of handheld exposure meters and then onto location mixing portable flashlight with time exposures and finally back to the classroom to process and edit images in a structured workflow through Adobe Lightroom.
After finishing this course participants may consider moving onto a dedicated lighting course or into Post-Production with Adobe Lightroom.
Course content...
Session 1 (classroom):
Exposure Control– reading histograms correctly, fine tuning exposure with 'expose to the right' and in-depth Composition.
Session 2 (Studio):
Principles of Studio lighting – Key light, Fill light, Effect light, Background lights. Using a handheld meter.
Session 3 (on location):
Time exposures and flashguns – mixing on camera & off camera flash with ambient light.
Session 4 (classroom):
Workflow – Processing & editing images through Adobe Lightroom
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| UPCOMING DATES: Call 020 7738 5774 to book |
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Date: 21, 23, 28 February & 1 March
Day: Tuesday & Thursday evenings
Times: 18:45 - 21:45
Tutor: Paul Ellis
Fee: £180 (10% discount if booked on or before 14 February)
Places: 10 (6 places left) |
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INTRODUCTION TO LARGE FORMAT PHOTOGRAPHY
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This one day hands on practical courses introduces participants to the 5x4 large format camera with it’s unique ability to control perspective through the use of camera movements. The morning starts in Photofusion’s studio with an introduction to the underlying theory of large format, the work of photographers using large format and a hands on session to familiarize participants with the camera’s controls and movements. The afternoon session is spent using and making images with 5x4 cameras and instant sheet film both in the studio and in the surrounding area of Brixton Market.
Photofusion will supply all cameras and materials. No previous experience is necessary.
Session 1 (classroom):
Exposure Control– reading histograms correctly, fine tuning exposure with 'expose to the right' and in-depth Composition.
Session 2 (Studio):
Principles of Studio lighting – Key light, Fill light, Effect light, Background lights. Using a handheld meter.
Session 3 (on location):
Time exposures and flashguns – mixing on camera & off camera flash with ambient light.
Session 4 (classroom):
Workflow – Processing & editing images through Adobe Lightroom
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| UPCOMING DATES: Call 020 7738 5774 to book |
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Date: 10 March
Day: Saturday
Times: 10:30 - 17:30
Tutor: Nick Lockett
Fee: £105 (10% discount if booked on or before 3 March)
Places: 10 (10 places left) |
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INTRODUCTION TO FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY
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A two day studio fashion photography course led by fashion photographer
Gino Sprio. Taking place in Photofusion’s dedicated photography studio using equipment ranging from ring-flashes to wind machine this hands on practical course will teach participants how to creatively control and illuminate the subject/s for contemporary fashion styling. Day One introduces participants to the use of studio flash lighting, working with professional models from Models One, how to construct the lighting for the desired mood ‘etc’ whilst Day Two concentrates on more advanced techniques of mixing lighting, creating movement, to make a series of beauty shots.
Photofusion will supply all equipment, camera, and make-up. Models will be provided by Models 1 modelling agency.
Course content
DAY 1
Classic images and the world of fashion photography.
Making stories and narratives
Understanding studio lighting. Learning how to build the lighting
Posing and working with models
High-key and low-key image making.
DAY 2
Re-cap from Day 1
Full length beauty pictures, combining mixed lighting and movement
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| NEW DATES COMING SOON |
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INTRODUCTION TO FILM PHOTOGRAPHY
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This one day hands on practical film photography course teaches participants how to correctly operate their film camera (35mm or 120 rollfim), loading & unloading film, understanding exposure control, depth of field, lenses and composition and then how to load a roll of B&W film onto a spriral and using a developing tank to correctly process their roll of film and to make a perfect contact sheet in the darkroom.
Photofusion will supply all cameras, film, chemicals and equipment but participants may use their own cameras if they wish.
DAY 1
Classic images and the world of fashion photography.
Making stories and narratives
Understanding studio lighting. Learning how to build the lighting
Posing and working with models
High-key and low-key image making.
DAY 2
Re-cap from Day 1
Full length beauty pictures, combining mixed lighting and movement
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| UPCOMING DATES: Call 020 7738 5774 to book |
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Date: 11 February
Day: Saturday
Times: 10:30 -17:30
Tutor: Adrian Wood
Fee: £105 (10% discount if booked on or before 4 February)
Places: 10 (1 place left) |
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| HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE PANORAMA WORKSHOP |
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HDR (High Dynamic Range) is a concept that addresses the problem of a single image capturing the limited range of exposure from darkest shadows to brightest highlights.
The human eye is capable of seeing detail in both the shadow and highlight areas of a scene that is far beyond what normally can be captured with digital sensors. But digital photography with multiple RAW bracketed captures and multi-RAW we can expand the overall dynamic range of a scene by combining the bracketed exposures in post-processing.
Consider a scene where the brightest area of a scene is measured at F22 and the darkest area at F2, it will be impossible to make a single exposure that records detail in both shadows and highlights but with HDR we can make multiple exposures at all exposures between F22 and F2 and merge these images into one single HDR image.
As HDR photography is particularly suitable for landscape images we will learn how to make HDR panoramic images by making multiple exposures from different points of view (using a panoramic adapter on tripod) and then merging and stitching the images together in post-production to produce a HDR Panorama. |
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