Land based photography courses with photographer Adriano Trapani

Land based photography courses

Include:

Pick up to and from your hotel, lunch, tea/coffee, soft drinks and tour around Phuket as specified in the course outline.


BASIC COURSE – 1 DAY

10:30 am. – 1:30 pm. – class
1:30 pm. – 2:30 pm. – lunch
3 pm – 5 pm. – practice in the studio or on location

MODERN REFLEX CAMERA:
• Design & specifications
• Full frame vs crop sensor
• Features of digital images.

THE ELEMENT OF LIGHT A PHOTO:
• Light triangle
• Aperture, photo-sensitivity
• Exposure compensation
• Depth of field
• Shutter speed
• ISO
• Histogram
• Color temperature and white balance.

UNDERSTANDING LIGHT:
• Main characteristics of light (natural/artificial/flash)
• Shooting with natural lighting
• Artificial continuos light
• Flash/studio light (intro)

FOUNDAMENTALS OF OPTICS:
• Main characteristics of lenses (prime vs range)
• Analysis of a shot at various focal length
• Lens choice, depending on subject/location
• Shooting modes
• Focusing
• ND filters.

COMPOSITION:
• Rules and types
• The art of composition, including framing, movement and lighting
• Perception and “story telling” with a photo.

INTENSIVE COURSE – 2 DAYS

DAY 1 – see basic course

DAY 2

10:30 am. – 11:00 pm. – class on how to approach different subjects or type of photography (studio portrait, still life, landscape, street photography…)
11:00 am. – 1:30 pm. – practice in the studio or on location
1:30 pm. – 2:30 pm. – lunch
3 pm. – 5 pm. – class review, constructive criticism on photos taken during the 2 days of course, post production/editing software

TYPES OF SHOOTING AND COMPOSITION:
• Studio portrait
• Still life
• Landscape
• Street photography
• Long exposure
• Night Photography.

IMAGE PROCESSING:
• RAW format and image conversion
• Editing layers
• Curves
• Masks

TIPES OF COURSES

PORTRAIT COURSE – 1 DAY

• Styles and trends in a portrait.
• Light in a portrait.
• Portrait in studio, indoor, outdoor.
• Technical aspects of the portrait photo.
• How to interact and direct your model.
• Work in team.
• Individual, couple, group portrait, self-portrait.
• Portrait genres: dramatic, romantic, powerful, moody, business/corporate, nude, implied nude, boudoir.
• Composition in a portrait.
• Framing. Rule of thirds.
• Spaces in a portrait.
• Perspective of shooting, top, lower, side points. Front
• Light and shadows in a portrait.
• Rembrandt’s light.
• Shadowless portrait.
• Portrait style. High and low key, silhouette portrait.
• Leading lines as the dominating element.
• Light diagrams, power to subject distance ratio
• Types of lights. Use of continuous light, flash and studio lights.
• Model’s behavior, character and posing. Communication psychology.
• (on request) Make-up, hairstyle, clothes, accessories.
• Practical shooting in studio.

Description and schedule on request:

LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY – 1 DAY

REPORTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY – 1 DAY

NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY – 1 DAY