Auckland Zoo - Digital Photography Workshops

Schedule

Workshop 1: Knowing your Digital Camera and Getting the Right Exposure
Registration Fee: $160 (including Zoo admission and morning tea)

9.00am

Convene at Zoo Plaza - meet at the Zoom Window Introducing - Graham Meadows

9.15 9.30am

Graham or Claire will meet you here at 9.00am Late comers will not gain entry to the Zoo- no refund will be given A PowerPoint presentation summarising Grahams career as a photographer, plus the nine key ingredients a photographer needs. A PowerPoint presentation summarising Claires career as a photographer and African Safari Tour Operator; plus ten helpful tips for photographing wildlife. Light and photons The sensor Colour and white balance Your computer monitor and work space What is sRGB? File compression and image file formats ISO and noise The crop factor Optical vs digital zoom

9.30 9.45am

Introducing Claire Vial

9.45 10.30am

How digital cameras work Powerpoint presentation (by Graham Meadows)
10.30 10.45am 10.45 11.00am
Short Break Knowing your camera modes
Participants questions about their cameras are answered Shutter speed Aperture The relationship between aperture and shutter speed Factors affecting depth-of-field Aperture size Lens focal length Distance from camera to subject Choosing the ISO setting Using flash Direct flash Fill flash Bounce flash Three hours in which to put theory into practice and have lunch Participants choose two images each for display on the lecture rooms large computer screen

11.00 11.30am

Exposure Powerpoint presentation (by Claire Vial)

11.30 2.30pm

Photography around the Zoo

2.30 4.30pm

Participants assess and download their images for group assessment

Auckland Zoo - Digital Photography Workshops

Schedule

An Introduction to Photoshop
Registration Fee: $270 or $220 if providing your own computer (including Zoo admission and morning tea) 9.00 9.15am Convene at Zoo Plaza - meet by the Zoom Window Introducing - Graham Meadows Graham or Claire will meet you here at 9.30am Late comers will not gain entry to the Zoo- no refund will be given A PowerPoint presentation summarising Grahams career as a photographer, plus the nine key ingredients a photographer needs. A PowerPoint presentation summarising Claires career as a photographer and African Safari Tour Operator; plus ten helpful tips for photographing wildlife. Before you Start A few words about pixels Resolutions camera, monitor, printer and image Image formats jpg, tiff, psd, pdf, png Setting your RGB working space adobe RGB or sRGB The menu, options and commands Bringing images into Photoshop Palettes and the palette well Morning Tea The Basic Steps in Processing a Digital Image Adjusting Tonality Histograms Levels Colour balance Contrast Shadow/Highlight Hue/Saturation Brightness Step 2 Using the Tool Box The Zoom Tool The Clone Stamp Tool The Toning Tools The Blur Tool Step 3 Adjusting the image size Cropping Changing Image Size Changing Image Resolution Step 4 Sharpening the image Step 5 Saving your images Step 6 Printing an image Step 7 Backing up your images Two hours to break for lunch and take photos around the Zoo Step 1 The Marquee Tools The Lasso Tools The Eraser Tool Foreground and Background Colour The Move Tool Creating Layers Transforming Images Rulers, Guides and Grids The Type Tool The History Brush How to get clipart into Photoshop

9.30 9.45am

9.45 10.00am

Introducing Claire Vial

10.00 10.30am
Photoshop Basic Techniques (by Graham Meadows)
10.30 10.45am 10.45 12.00
Short Break Photoshop Basic Techniques (cont.) (by Graham Meadows)

12.00 2.00pm

Lunch and Photography around the Zoo Photoshop Advanced Techniques (by Graham Meadows)

2.00 4.00pm