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Explore your photographic potential with fun in-camera techniques, breaking the rules and exploring creative styles to develop your abstract, impressionist, and expressionist style!
This course will bring out the playful side of your creative photography. We will explore techniques that you might not have used. Intentional Camera Movement (ICM), creating impressionist painterly looking photos in-camera. Using shutter speeds to creative effect and learn how to use different white balance settings to transform and develop different aspects to your images.
The day will look at how to adapt your camera settings: aperture, shutter and ISO and how to apply those to composition and layout of images. We will look at using the techniques for different types of images such as architecture, landscape and flower subjects.
We will explore developing Multiple Exposures (ME) in camera combining creative images, different settings to produce abstract images, artistic effects and new styles from your favourite subjects. An introduction to in-camera blending techniques will be included to start your creative journey.
The course will include tutorials, time to take your own images with a short ‘show-and-tell’ review at the end of the day. We will try different zoom techniques, ICM and different camera angles to produce creative images in a matter of minutes – with no post processing or knowledge of software applications required!
The Creative Capture Workshop is a 1-day course, from 10:00am to 4:30pm. You will need to bring your camera with memory card, fully charged battery and a spare battery. Creative techniques often use a lot of battery and memory cards so please bring spares.
You won’t need any fancy sensors or lenses; a standard zoom lens (around 70mm to 100mm or 200mm) will provide the best results. Half frame (APS-C) sensors are perfectly fine (and in fact provide better results sometimes!).
Please check to confirm that your camera has a multiple-exposure capability, many DSLRs have this capability and most mirrorless cameras will have it. You may have an overlay capability to mix two exposures, and some go up to mixing nine images. You can mix and blend images out of camera using photo processing software but that is not covered in this course. A smartphone can be just as useful and the Slowshutter and Photosplit apps are a good starting point.
Depending on the weather, neutral density filters are useful – especially the screw on types as creative techniques use slow shutter times and the filters will reduce the amount of light to the sensor.
You don’t need to be an expert but to get the most out of the course, students will already need to know basic control of aperture, shutter speed and ISO and understand how these settings interact and will have some understanding of compositional techniques. These skills are taught on our Beginner’s (Part 1), Beginner’s (Part 2) and Intermediate Photography. You may also be interested in our Abstract Photography course.
Neil has been taking photographs for many years, mostly landscape, travel, and portrait images until he found abstract photography and caught the bug! He has been using creative techniques for many years as an amateur; he has a day job as a Civil Servant but uses the impressionist and abstract techniques to wind down and put fun into the images he creates.
Neil believes the techniques explore his artistic and creative side, he has published books and been featured in articles and loves to explore new ways of achieving things.
Explore your photographic potential with fun in-camera techniques, breaking the rules and exploring creative styles to develop your abstract, impressionist, and expressionist style!
This course will bring out the playful side of your creative photography. We will explore techniques that you might not have used. Intentional Camera Movement (ICM), creating impressionist painterly looking photos in-camera. Using shutter speeds to creative effect and learn how to use different white balance settings to transform and develop different aspects to your images.
The day will look at how to adapt your camera settings: aperture, shutter and ISO and how to apply those to composition and layout of images. We will look at using the techniques for different types of images such as architecture, landscape and flower subjects.
We will explore developing Multiple Exposures (ME) in camera combining creative images, different settings to produce abstract images, artistic effects and new styles from your favourite subjects. An introduction to in-camera blending techniques will be included to start your creative journey.
The course will include tutorials, time to take your own images with a short ‘show-and-tell’ review at the end of the day. We will try different zoom techniques, ICM and different camera angles to produce creative images in a matter of minutes – with no post processing or knowledge of software applications required!
The Creative Capture Workshop is a 1-day course, from 10:00am to 4:30pm. You will need to bring your camera with memory card, fully charged battery and a spare battery. Creative techniques often use a lot of battery and memory cards so please bring spares.
You won’t need any fancy sensors or lenses; a standard zoom lens (around 70mm to 100mm or 200mm) will provide the best results. Half frame (APS-C) sensors are perfectly fine (and in fact provide better results sometimes!).
Please check to confirm that your camera has a multiple-exposure capability, many DSLRs have this capability and most mirrorless cameras will have it. You may have an overlay capability to mix two exposures, and some go up to mixing nine images. You can mix and blend images out of camera using photo processing software but that is not covered in this course. A smartphone can be just as useful and the Slowshutter and Photosplit apps are a good starting point.
Depending on the weather, neutral density filters are useful – especially the screw on types as creative techniques use slow shutter times and the filters will reduce the amount of light to the sensor.
You don’t need to be an expert but to get the most out of the course, students will already need to know basic control of aperture, shutter speed and ISO and understand how these settings interact and will have some understanding of compositional techniques. These skills are taught on our Beginner’s (Part 1), Beginner’s (Part 2) and Intermediate Photography. You may also be interested in our Abstract Photography course.
Neil has been taking photographs for many years, mostly landscape, travel, and portrait images until he found abstract photography and caught the bug! He has been using creative techniques for many years as an amateur; he has a day job as a Civil Servant but uses the impressionist and abstract techniques to wind down and put fun into the images he creates.
Neil believes the techniques explore his artistic and creative side, he has published books and been featured in articles and loves to explore new ways of achieving things.
Explore your photographic potential with fun in-camera techniques, breaking the rules and exploring creative styles to develop your abstract, impressionist, and expressionist style!
This course will bring out the playful side of your creative photography. We will explore techniques that you might not have used. Intentional Camera Movement (ICM), creating impressionist painterly looking photos in-camera. Using shutter speeds to creative effect and learn how to use different white balance settings to transform and develop different aspects to your images.
The day will look at how to adapt your camera settings: aperture, shutter and ISO and how to apply those to composition and layout of images. We will look at using the techniques for different types of images such as architecture, landscape and flower subjects.
We will explore developing Multiple Exposures (ME) in camera combining creative images, different settings to produce abstract images, artistic effects and new styles from your favourite subjects. An introduction to in-camera blending techniques will be included to start your creative journey.
The course will include tutorials, time to take your own images with a short ‘show-and-tell’ review at the end of the day. We will try different zoom techniques, ICM and different camera angles to produce creative images in a matter of minutes – with no post processing or knowledge of software applications required!
The Creative Capture Workshop is a 1-day course, from 10:00am to 4:30pm. You will need to bring your camera with memory card, fully charged battery and a spare battery. Creative techniques often use a lot of battery and memory cards so please bring spares.
You won’t need any fancy sensors or lenses; a standard zoom lens (around 70mm to 100mm or 200mm) will provide the best results. Half frame (APS-C) sensors are perfectly fine (and in fact provide better results sometimes!).
Please check to confirm that your camera has a multiple-exposure capability, many DSLRs have this capability and most mirrorless cameras will have it. You may have an overlay capability to mix two exposures, and some go up to mixing nine images. You can mix and blend images out of camera using photo processing software but that is not covered in this course. A smartphone can be just as useful and the Slowshutter and Photosplit apps are a good starting point.
Depending on the weather, neutral density filters are useful – especially the screw on types as creative techniques use slow shutter times and the filters will reduce the amount of light to the sensor.
You don’t need to be an expert but to get the most out of the course, students will already need to know basic control of aperture, shutter speed and ISO and understand how these settings interact and will have some understanding of compositional techniques. These skills are taught on our Beginner’s (Part 1), Beginner’s (Part 2) and Intermediate Photography. You may also be interested in our Abstract Photography course.
Neil has been taking photographs for many years, mostly landscape, travel, and portrait images until he found abstract photography and caught the bug! He has been using creative techniques for many years as an amateur; he has a day job as a Civil Servant but uses the impressionist and abstract techniques to wind down and put fun into the images he creates.
Neil believes the techniques explore his artistic and creative side, he has published books and been featured in articles and loves to explore new ways of achieving things.
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