For further details or to book your place in the
next short course call 03 9824 7090 or 0418 509 228.
Supported by
Getting Started in Wedding
Photography
Cost $375
This course is specifically designed for those
individuals wanting to learn more about wedding
photography. It is designed to provide you with the
basic skills and techniques required to
successfully photograph weddings.
Session 1:
Using your digital camera settings for
better photographs
- Equipment needs
- How to set ISO
- Setting the best exposure mode
- Learning about white balance
Session 2:
Capturing Your Wedding Photographs
- How to pose the bride and groom
- How and when to take formal
wedding portraits
- How to take great family groups
- Choosing the best locations
for backgrounds
- Capturing your photographs in a
Photojournalistic style
- How to create a portfolio of
your photographs
Session 3:
What you need to know about wedding
photography
- How to conduct an initial consultation
with the bride and groom
- Questions to ask the bride and groom
- Digital editing and how it can improve
your photographs
- Great ideas to help you get more weddings
- Photography industry secrets to help you
take great photographs
Starting: Monday 6 September 2010.
Each Monday 6.30pm to 9pm
3 weeks 2 ½ hour sessions
Location 1334 Malvern Road Malvern, VIC
BOOK HERE
Photoshop and Lightroom for Photographers:
A Beginner’s Course
Cost $375
This comprehensive course introduces the use of Lightroom and
Adobe Photoshop for photographers. The course is
designed for those with little or no skills in using
Photoshop or Lightroom, and will teach you all the basic to
intermediate skills that will lift your photography to
undreamed of heights.
Session 1
Colour modes, bit depth, file formats and
basic image processing.
Getting started in Lightroom.
The basics of image enhancement and file formats
will be introduced in Adobe Photoshop; colour
modes, resolution, bit depth and basic colour
correction.
- The Levels command will be explored for the
purpose of adjusting the contrast of an image.
- Colour Balance will be utilized to affect
colour casts and white balance issues in
digital images.
Session 2
Batch correction in Lightroom.
Introduction to tools, palettes, cropping,
image sizing and short cut keys.
It’s in this second session that participants will really
start to take control of navigation, tools and short
cut keys within Photoshop’s user interface.
- Particular attention will be paid to the
Crop & Marquee tools
- The various palettes will be explored, with
particular focus on the Layers palette.
- The Type tool and its powerful attributes will
be introduced.
Session 3
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software helps you bring
out the best in your photography, whether you’re perfecting
one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or
organising thousands. Create incredible images that move your
audience. Experiment fearlessly with state-of-the-art nondestructive
editing tools, including world-class noise reduction.
Easily manage all your images.
The power of Curves, Hue/Saturation and
Black & White conversion.
Attendees will be taught the power of Curves so
that they can take control of colour and contrast .
- The Curves command
- Hue/Saturation will be utilized to give
control over image colour.
- The Channel Mixer will be illustrated for its
power in Black & White conversion.
- Blend Modes will be introduced to
encourage more subtle control
Cloning, healing and basic retouching.
This final session will introduce the principals and
practices used by professional image retouchers
to produce flawless results.
The Clone Tool and the Healing Brush will
be used in detail to ensure subtle control
of your retouching outcomes.
The History Brush and the History palette
will be demystified for practical retouching
use.
Next Short Course:
SYDNEY
Full Day Saturday 18 September
MELBOURNE
Starting: Tuesday 28 September 2010
Each Tuesday 6.30pm to 9pm
3 weeks x 2 ½ hour sessions
Location 1334 Malvern Road Malvern, VIC
BOOK HERE
Weekend at Bernie’s
SYDNEY
A Complete Two Day Course
on Wedding and Portrait Photography
Saturday and Sunday 20 and 21 November
Cost $695 TO BOOK
YOU DESERVE TO SUCCEED!
Bernie Griffiths has operated his full time professional studio for over forty years. Opening his wedding/portrait studio in Melbourne when only 23 years old. He has photographed hundreds of weddings, and thousands of portraits, and has develped selling systems that guarantee maximising wedding and portrait sales.
Bernie has conducted courses and seminars throughout Australia and New Zealand over many years, mentoring a number of now world known photographers. The selling systems he introduced are now being used by photographers around Australia.
Weekend at Bernie’s will cover EVERYTHING you need to know
about how to operate a successful wedding portrait studio.
You will learn the the Business and Photography essentials
to run a Successful Professional Studio.
If you are just begining photography, or are already a seasoned
full time professional wedding and portrait photographer,
then this is the weekend for you.
Spend two days with Bernie and your business life will change forever.
In a single weekend he will embed into your head the success formula.
This fulfilling two day course will be at ADINA APARTMENTS in SYDNEY. You will learn real life practical steps to lead you onto the path to expand your dreams and fulfill your passion.
Morning, afternoon tea, lunch and dinner on Saturday night are all included in the cost.
IF YOU KEEP ON DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING - YOU WILL KEEP ON EARNING WHAT YOU ARE EARNING !
What others have said.
“If there is one person who can help you grow your business, trust me it’s Bernie! He challenged me, showed me how to shoot to sell more images and expanded my way of thinking so much so - that I now have one of Melbourne’s most successful wedding studios - that shoots over 200 weddings a year, has fabulous and consistent album upgrades and actually makes a profit! You won’t walk out of the workshop the same person - Thanks Bernie”................. Shireen Hammond.
http://www.fovphoto.com.au.
“Thank you for a wonderful workshop, I have to say it is one of the best ones that I attended this year. It was full of great and useful information that I can take away and put into place into my business straight away!”
“I sometimes get a little down on myself because I have the passion and drive to start my business but am sometimes lacking when it comes to the technical and confidence side of things. What you are doing by letting us see success in the industry gives people like myself true inspiration.”
