Hurley/Fergus Photography

workshops

NEW FOR 2010…Learn how to make the best shots with your new gear after Christmas.

Now offering workshops in the following categories: (click for details)

• + Understanding your camera and lenses: The digital SLR workshop

  This is a basic entry level workshop that allows participants to better understand the capabilities of their equipment and to understand the basics of camera and lens operations. This course will cover plenty of the technical 'jargon' associated with cameras and lenses but will be easy to understand and will allow the participant to become a more advanced shooter. We will cover metering, aperture, focal lengths, depth of field, focusing and framing as well as basic flash operations.

  * Remember to bring all your equipment AND manuals.

  $195.00 plus HST request course

  Classes begin Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 and run every Wednesday for 5 weeks consecutively. 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM

• + Advanced Shooting: The Lighting/small flash and filters workshop

  This course will cover outdoor and indoor mixed lighting techniques, shutter dragging techniques, outdoor/indoor wireless flash operations as well as all the metering tricks that go along with complex lighting situations. We will also discuss the use of filters - for making HDR images inside the camera. Along with this course we are offering post-shoot analysis of the first stages of post-production inside Photoshop CS4.

  $195.00 plus HST request course

  Classes begin Thursday, January 21st, 2010 and run every Thursday for 5 weeks consecutively. 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM

• + Photoshop & the Digital Image: After the camera and into the computer

  This course will provide participants with the knowledge they need to bring their digital photos into the computer and begin post-production in Photoshop. The course will be centered around Photoshop version CS4 and will cover all file types and advantages and disadvantages of JPEGS, TIFFS and RAW files. The course will also include basic information on RAW processing, curves, colour correction, layering, filtering and some advanced techniques such as HDR, panoramic seaming and B&W colouring methods and more.

  *participants should have access to Photoshop CS2 or later and ideally have a laptop with the program(s) to bring to the session. Some screen shots of certain techniques will be provided as paper copies to participants but if participants do not have a computer to bring with them they are encouraged to take detailed notes to practice at home.

  *this course is considered an introductory course to digital post-processing using Photoshop CS4. If you already have a firm grasp of the course content try our advanced, custom one-on-one private workshops.

  $195.00 plus HST request course

  Classes begin Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 and run every Tuesday for 5 weeks consecutively. 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM

• + The Landscape Sessions Workshop: Digital, Large and Medium Format Cameras

  if you want to make great landscape images but just need to build that extra bit of confidence try this workshop. We will actually go to a location and work it together and learn to control the light and not let it control us. You will learn filtering techniques, HDR layering, film vs. digital, you will use large and medium format cameras and learn the advantages to digital SLR's. If you love the outdoors and landscape photographs this course is for you. It's all about having fun outdoors with our cameras and taking great images of our province.

  * this course will be offered beginning in the spring, summer and fall of 2010 but feel free to sign up now!

  $195.00 plus HST request course

  Classes begin January 2010.

Custom and private one-on-one courses are available by request on everything from shooting, to post-processing in Photoshop. Just email us your request and we'll get back to you ASAP.