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Photography for Beginners - Get rid of Auto mode & get confident on your DSLR

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Photography for Beginners - Get rid of Auto mode & get confident on your DSLR

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• Do you want to finally take control of your digital SLR camera ?

• Want to know List of Mistakes to Avoid as a Beginner Photographer

• Want to learn all about shutter speed, aperture, light metering and all of the technical stuff with creative aspects as well ?

• If you are beginner with a digital SLR camera and you want to take high quality digital images for personal reasons, work, or to kick start a career in photography, then this is the photography session for you.

We will explain the intricacies of the digital world in a very simple way, will provide you confident with your newly acquired technical and artistic skills. You will have your digital photography training competent to shoot anything from portraits, products, landscapes, travel, or whichever category you choose.

This Meetup is an all-encompassing one which covers mostly every aspect of photography basic over a full 4-5 hours of Workshop along with practical sessions conducted by one of our Photographer. We will took some great photographs with excellent thoughts at the Venue.

• The Venue is famous for Handicraft and Art cultures, where our Camera Artists will definitely get chance to create their Photo Canvas with Really Beautiful Ideas.

• What we going to cover:

  1. Introduction – What is the Right Approach.

  2. Difference between clicking and Camera Art.

  3. What is an "Exposure"? What is the meaning of an over-exposed or an under-exposed photo ?

  4. What is "mega pixels" ? is it really important ? – understanding about mega pixels.

  5. The TRIANGLE of a good exposure:

• ISO

• Shutter-speed

• Aperture/Depth of Field

  1. Different mode of DSLR and their use:

• Programmable Mode

• Aperture Mode

• Shutter Priority Mode

• Manual mode

• Automatic mode

  1. Parts of the camera: The differences between a point-and-shoot camera and a DSLR.

  2. All about lenses and focal lengths

  3. Understanding the shooting modes and icons of your camera

  4. Learning to shoot using the manual mode, play with it.

  5. Color temperature: Setting the correct white balance

  6. Understanding the Histogram

  7. Metering modes: a. evaluating, b. center weight, c. Partial metering, d. Spot metering

14.Developing your “eye” to see better photos

  1. Characteristics of Lights

  2. Composition : Framing technique.

  3. Foreground/background, etc

  4. Applying technical and composition techniques for common photo applications

  5. Portraits

  6. Landscapes

  7. Fireworks and Waterfalls (Concept and understanding)

  8. Concerts and Low-light conditions

  9. Do’s and Don't of taking pictures

Date/Time Schedule for the workshop: February 2nd, 2014 at 09:30 AM to 2:30 PM. With practical sessions. Please be at the spot by 09:15 AM.

Location for the meetup:

Will Update soon..

Price for the Meetup:

Cost for the workshop will be 650/- (Include Location charge, photography permission, snacks, refreshments and stationery for members)

Payment Mode:
Will collect at the registration time. Confirmed candidate need to send a mail to organizer to confirm their seat before the meet up date.

RSVP Rules:

Please do your RSVP to the waiting list if interested. You will be moved to confirmed list depending on Cancellation of members. And the Final List of Confirmed members will be Post after the RSVP close date.

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