Group Smartphone Photography Masterclass

Smartphone Photography Masterclass in Sydney

A half day workshop on Smartphone Photography

Minimum group booking of 6 participants 

This beginner workshop is run on various weekdays and weekends with your choice of indoors or outdoors

Learn how to effortlessly take photos that have your friends or clients engaging with you and leaving them wanting more.  Join us at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, or a location of your choice, where we’ll teach you how to take such good photos your viewers will think you’ve gone pro! Bring any smartphone for this Workshop.

EXPLORE YOUR SMARTPHONE CAMERA’S POTENTIAL WITH A GROUP OF COLLEAGUES OR FRIENDS 

Minimum 6 participants . THIS WORKSHOP TAKES GROUP BOOKINGS ONLY and is specifically tailored for your group or team.

We can meet at your premises as we run through the principals of controlling and understanding light. Teaching you all we know about great composition and what you can achieve when you have specific requirements for images for your work or business.

Or – as an example – travel around Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach and its surrounding precinct as you learn all about shooting with your smartphone; the surfers, the lifesavers, the sunbathers and graffiti amongst a whole tonne of other subjects.

We will create an individually tailored training experience – whether it be indoor or outdoor. This can incorporate a visually stimulating presentation followed by a photography challenge for your team, or an exciting fully tailored ‘on-location’ photo expedition for your friends.

Discover the playfulness of the dance between light and dark as you learn how to control exposure and light. This photography workshop will teach you to control your smartphone’s camera to its full potential.

Gain a tactile skill to easily capture the beauty in the mundane, the story behind those stranger’s eyes because that’s what your viewers really want to see and you will cherish for a lifetime.  Captivate your followers on social media, new and old, with a consistent look and style for your feed that is imprinted with you of the essence of your business.

With your camera you’ll explore the beauty of the landscape, understand how to setup for street photography and take candid portraits, play with colour and black and white, and learn how to capture the nuances of architecture and master lifestyle images.

Know your way around your camera!  Join us for this fun, social, creative and informative Workshop led and taught by your own working and multi award winning photographer.

NO PRIORR KNOWLEDGE OF PHOTOGRAPHY IS REQUIRED FOR THIS WORKSHOP

SUITABLE FOR ANY SMARTPHONE

Basic overview of some of the topics we can cover:

• Shooting for Instagram 
• Exposure and light (how to control this on your phone, mirrorless or DSLR)
• Locking focus and exposure
• Framing and composition - training your eye to see
• Perspectives
• Creating interesting images that capture you viewers and makes them look twice
• Create a consistent captivating look and style for your Instagram feed
• Visual storytelling 
• Making the most of the environment for effective selfies
• Street photography - the ethics of shooting in public spaces
• Using colour to make your images pop
• Choosing effective hashtags and building a following
  
• People (portrait, candid and setup)
  
• Shapes, lines, repetition, patterns and reflection
  
• Architectural photography
  
• Shooting for a square format
• Lifestyle images (fashion, food and street art)

This workshop is quoted on a tailored session for your and your group 

Your fee includes the following:

• Tailored tuition by a multi award winning professional photographer

No prior photography knowledge is needed for this photography course.

You will need:

• Your smartphone
• Fully charged battery and back up battery if you have one
• Dress casual & comfortable with sensible shoes (you may get a little dirty at some locations)
• A water bottle is a good idea
• Sunscreen & Hat
• Wet weather gear if any rain is forecast*

* A final weather check will be conducted with the Bureau of Meteorology on the morning of each outdoor workshop.  This may lead to the workshop being postponed in cases of unfavourable weather reports.  The outdoor workshops may run in cases of light showers but not in persistent showers or heavy rain. Should we need to postpone you will be notified on the morning of your workshop.

Indoor workshops will not be affected by the weather.

* Images by Tutors Fiona Wolf and Daniel Linnet taken at the Bondi location