Photographic Technique course

The professional photographic technique course

The Photographic Technique course is the ideal photography course for those who are approaching photography for the first time or for those who, despite their experience, wish to consolidate it.
The first part of the photographic technique course – provided by John Kaverdash Academy of Photography – is aimed at explaining what professional photography means and teaches the different steps of an analog or digital shooting, both from a technical and a theoretical perspective.
During this part, special projections of leading authors will also help in giving an idea of how technical skills go hand in hand with creativity.

Focus will then move on to the manual camera control tools, the use of the studio, the large and medium-format cameras and the digital backs. All the typology of lighting and their accessories will be studied as well and put into practice.
Valuable hints will be given on the preparation of the pose room and on the needed equipment.

At the end of the photographic technique course students will receive a certificate of attendance with an evaluation based on their performance.

LESSONS | 16, 4 hours each
HOURS | 64
CERTIFICATE | Certificate of attendance
LANGUAGE | English or Italian
All cameras, lenses and all the equipment are given by the Academy

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Program

Fundamental view differences between eye and camera
Elements of photographic composition
Digital and Analog Negatives: sharpening analysis, texture, highlights and shadows, pixel, grain, noise, raw files, CCD and CMOS sensors
Auto-focus and manual-focus tools, focusing screens, telemeter system, different types of auto-focus and the best settings according to the shooting
Exposure instruments: types of in-camera light meter, exposure latitude and different applications in digital or analog photography. Aperture and shutter, use with continuous lights and strobes
Small, medium and large-format cameras
- parts and functions
- tracking and focus tools
Lenses
- focal length
- aperture
- light dispersion
- lenses luminosity in short-distance photography
- curtain and central shutter, sync with strobes
Depth of field
Sensor
- characteristics and typologies
- technological state of the art: consumer and prosumer solutions
- comparisons between analog and digital photography, case studies
Film: major characteristics: format, grain, latitude
Light meter
- typologies
- incident and reflected light
- spot, semi-spot and full area metering
- intelligent light meters and matrix systems
Filters
Colorimetry
- temperature, white balance and color profile in digital reflex cameras. Auto and manual metering
- elements of color linearization
Lighting equipment
- portable strobes
- studio strobes
- lighting reflectors
- soft-box
- bank
- honeycomb grids
- optical focusing spot and snoot
- fresnel
- ring flash
- umbrellas
- reflectors
- continuous light: daylight, quartz, tungsten
- 5000 Kelvin neon
- HMI light

Lens incisiveness, film precision, sensor resolution, texture differences between analog and digital in different light conditions, motion blur, VR systems
Optics elements, main lens aberrations and solutions
- special glass for lens making
- lenses optical schemes for digital sensors
Large-format Cameras
- shift, tilt and Scheimpflug principle
- exposure coefficient
Lenses for medium and large-format cameras
Lenses prospectic differences
- use of the best lens based on lighting
Spot light meters and mini receptors. Exposure differences between analog and digital photography
- depth of subject
- subject contrast and colors
- subject distance
- filter constant
- lens add-ons and teleconverters
- light as a photographic means
- how light creates volumes and shapes
Lighting how to
- getting ready for a still-life
- main light
- auxiliary light
- effect light
- background light
- backlight and differences in analog and digital photography
Shooting with a digital camera
- choosing the right equipment
- digital backs
- relationship between megapixel, size of sensor and technological solutions
- HMI lights, 5000 K neons, continuous lights
- files and RGB and CMYK color issues
- analog and digital differences, issues and solutions