To exchange your experience click add to cart and proceed to checkout.

Once there, enter your voucher number to exchange for a different experience.

To pay the difference on your voucher, please add this product to cart by clicking the button below and proceed to checkout.

Once there, enter your voucher number into the gift voucher field to pay the difference.

Photography Workshop - Photography Essentials

Highlights

  • 4 hrs tuition with a working professional photographer
  • Explore Sydney’s unique and historic photographic locations
  • Social and interactive experience
  • Controlling colour

Explore Sydney Harbour's iconic foreshore and Rocks precinct with a passionate professional photographer as you are introduced to the fundamentals of photography. Grasp the camera in all of its creative modes to discover the true capabilities of your photographic equipment investment.

What's included?

  • 4 hours tuition with a working professional photographer
  • Explore Sydney’s unique and historic photographic locations
  • Understanding your camera
  • Introduction to the kit
  • Lens selection
  • Shooting modes explained
  • Focus techniques
  • Aperture & Shutter Priority
  • ISO
  • Developing the photographic ‘eye’
  • Understanding & working with light
  • Portrait & landscape techniques
  • Compositional tips
  • Controlling exposure
  • Shooting in manual mode

In this 4 hour photography workshop your tutor will take you to some well known and hidden photographic locations around Sydney. You will learn what all of the different shooting modes of your camera are used for and how they can be applied to essential photographic technique. Starting at the very beginning, we introduce you to your camera, lenses and other essential items that comprise a good photographic kit. The Workshop then logically progresses to giving you an understanding of the operation of your camera in manual mode where you will gain true creative control.

Throughout the workshop we will stimulate your creative eye by introducing you to simple compositional techniques as well as developing an understanding of working with various lighting conditions, a main key of photography. We will help you to develop the ability to pre-visualise a photograph and create some amazing images. This photography Workshop is suitable for any camera with full manual capability. NOT SUITABLE FOR COMPACT CAMERAS.

Important information

This workshop runs for 4 hours. This experience is available on various Saturdays throughout the year, and runs from 12pm to 4pm or 1pm to 5pm during daylight saving.

Participants must bring their own camera, memory cards and a fully charged battery and spare if you have one. Please bring all camera accessories and your own pad and pen. Tripods are optional. Classes are run subject to meeting minimum numbers.

  • Change your booking up to 7 days before the start time of your experience
  • Changes are not permitted within 7 days of your experience
  • Late arrivals or no shows may result in you forfeiting your experience

This experience is limited to 6 participants minimum and 10 maximum. Should minimum numbers not be acquired the experience will be postponed to the following date.

We will run the workshop in light showers but in the cases of heavy or persistent rain we will re-schedule. You will be contacted on the morning of the workshop should we need to do this.

Please dress casual and comfortable. Please wear comfortable shoes for walking.

You must have a camera with full manual capability. NOT SUITABLE FOR COMPACT CAMERAS. You will require moderate fitness for this workshop as we will be walking and standing for 4 hours. Participants must be over 15 years of age.

In and around Sydneys Harbour Foreshore and the Rocks district.

Reviews

4.7
80 reviews
5 stars 58
4 stars 18
3 stars 4
2 stars 0
1 star 0
Recommended

Terrific instructor, learnt a lot!

Keira 18 March 2024

Had a wonderful afternoon with Glenn around the rocks and Sydney harbour. Highly recommend. I am much more confident with the functions of my digital camera now

Mya

Hi Keira, it is always great to hear about the wonderful experiences our customers have, thank you for sharing!

20 March 2024

Well delivered, small group, learnt a lot

Ian 20 February 2022

By not trying to do everything, but deliver the fundamentals well and clearly, this course is a really goo reminder or staring point for people with a camera they want to start using more confidently

Husband couldn’t stop talking about it.

Olympia 8 September 2019

I purchased this as a Father’s Day present for my husband who was interested in taking quality photos but not really sure of all the functions on his camera. On his return from the experience he couldn’t stop talking about it. He said he’d learnt so much and said the guide was very knowledgeable and very good on passing on his knowledge. Definitely recommend to beginner photographers.

Feeling blue?

Jenny 2 February 2019

You need to enjoy a healthy dose of professional photography training. This 4 hour learning journey was very informative and has left me begging for more! I would like to acknowledge Glen's deep knowledge and attention to the diverse needs of the group. Although the learning pace was rapid, there was follow-up accorded to each individual 'student'. I appreciated the generous time allocation.

Very helpful

Kevin 18 December 2017

It was Good experience for me as I learnt helpful tips from Glen starting from focus to ISO to Aperture to Shutter to Manuel modes and can say now I have started shooting in manuel mode more confident and my practice is bringing some good fruits. This workshop was helpful to know the theory behind the photography by face to face interaction with experienced photographer. Good course if some one is new and like to understand professional photography.

Was a pleasant experience

Liza 2 October 2017

I wanted to learn about different aspects of my camera. There was alot we were told but it was too much information in one hit, Overall I understood all the concepts of what we were taught. Difficulty in the way camera operated made it hard for me to keep up with the class. From this experience I will now attend a personal class. I felt our instructor on the day had problems navigating my camera. It is only 3 years old....But it was a pleasant experience pity he was not more competent in the use of my camera.....

Relaxed learning experience

Kim 18 September 2017

Did the Essentials of Photography workshop with Ben. He took us through all the technical stuff in a stepped way that made it easy to understand. Opportunities to practice, ask questions and get a handle on all those tricky settings (well, the main important ones) to let you effectively use the camera in manual. Ben was also great at troubleshooting with individuals' specific cameras. The following day I went out and spent time playing with the different settings we leant about and had the confidence to try different things. Ben taught us a number of very handy "tricks" (features) to use to make the pictures even better. I also find that reading the manual now makes a lot more sense! Thanks Ben for an enjoyable and informative afternoon.

Photography course

Stuart 23 April 2017

I had a great day doing this course, everyone met on time and exactly to the instructions sent to us. Our teacher for the afternoon was a pleasure to listen to and really made it easy to learn, within the first hour he'd solved and corrected so many things I had been doing wrong or wondered about. Great experience.

great course

Matthew 9 April 2017

I learnt more in the four hours of the course than the four months I've owned the camera and been trying to figure it out.

A great introduction to photography

Kath 27 February 2017

This introductory course was great! The leader was very knowledgeable and happy to assist where ever he could. I really enjoyed the workshop and learnt a lot of new things about using my camera. It has inspired me want to learn more. The only downside was the very wet weather so getting around the city while learning to use everything we were shown was impossible. I would have preferred if they had postponed our session. Still a great experience though and I will be booking in to do the night session soon.

Buy as a gift
From
$150 each
or 4 payments of $37.50 with buy now pay later
Buy now pay later

Learn more by clicking on any provider below.

4 interest-free payments of $37.50 More
Own it, interest free, From $10 per week. More
From
$150 each
or 4 payments of $37.50 with buy now pay later
$150 each

or Book now
or
Limited Availability
Next available date:
Next available date:
Please select a date.
Please select a time.
Or
Bv load URL: