Workshops

Capture the World in a Photo

WORKSHOPS

Germany – Studio Portrait Shooting 22

nd - 29

th November 2013 Regensburg

Finland – Night Sky Photography 19

th - 25

th February 2014 Leppävirta

Croatia – Landscape Photography 5

th - 19

th April 2014 Varaždin

Turkey – Light in Photography 12

th - 18

th November 2014 Istanbul

Spain – HDR 28

th February - 6

th March 2015 Beasain

Poland – Pinhole Photography 19

th - 25

th April 2015 Sierakowice

Germany – Studio Portrait Shooting The Camera ........................................................................................... 1

Basics of Portrait-Studio-Photography ................................................... 2

How you guide your light is one of the most important parts in studio photography ................................................................................ 3

Posing the Body .................................................................................... 4

Photoshop-Workshop ............................................................................ 5

The Print processes ............................................................................... 6

Finland – Night Sky Photography Setting Exposure in Manual Mode ......................................................... 7

Photo Examples 1: Moon and Light ....................................................... 8

Photo Examples 2: Northern Lights ....................................................... 9

6 Steps to take Night Sky Photos ........................................................ 10

Croatia – Landscape Photography Landscape photography ...................................................................... 11

What equipment to use? ...................................................................... 11

Settings for landscape photography .................................................... 12

Other useful things to think about! ....................................................... 13

Turkey – Light in Photography Light in Photography ............................................................................ 14

Sources of Light ................................................................................... 14

Necessary Equipment .......................................................................... 16

Environmental Factors ......................................................................... 17

Camera Setting Techniques ................................................................ 18

Some More Tips .................................................................................. 18

Spain – HDR High dynamic range (HDR) .................................................................. 20

First steps to get HDR images ............................................................. 23

How to create high dynamic range photos ........................................... 25

Poland – Pinhole Photography General Information about Pinhole Photography ................................. 37

Studio Portrait Shooting 1 Germany

Germany 2 Studio Portrait Shooting

Night Sky Photography 7 Finland

Finland 8 Night Sky Photography

Night Sky Photography 9 Finland

Finland 10 Night Sky Photography

Landscape 11 Croatia

Croatia 12 Landscape

Landscape 13 Croatia

Turkey 14 Light in Photography

LIGHT in PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography = Light Writing in Greek

The word ‘photography’ derives from Greek and means literally ‘light writing’ so,

we can say that photography is mainly about how we use the light in our photos.

In this section sources of light will be told in general.

SOURCES of LIGHT

1- Front Lighting:

The light is in front of the object and behind

the photographers. There is no shadow and depth.

2- Side Lighting:

There is a shadow opposite of source of

light. The light comes from the left or

right side. It makes shadow in photos.

Light in Photography 15 Turkey

3- Direct Lighting:

It is the light between 12 - 03 p.m.

outdoors. It makes sharp shadows

4- Back Lighting:

The light is behind the objects of which the

photo is being taken . The object totally

becomesa silhouette.

5- Spot Lighting:

This is the light that comes through

the holes of clouds or the tree and it

lightens just a small spot on the photo.


NECESSARY EQUIPMENT

Wide view Objectives Tele Zoom

Polarised Filters

Parasoley Tripod


ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS

Before taking sunset photographs, it is essential to learn what time does the

sun set and rise. Sunset takes half an hour so you must be quick. You must finish your setting

before that.

It is also important to check the weather forecast. Many people think that

for a beautiful sunset photo , the sky must be completely clear. But that is

necessarily true because you can take amazing photos with clouds.


CAMERA SETTING TECHNIQUES

Of course the settings are changeable in turns of sky , weather, camera quality but there

are some basic and common rules while taking sunset photos.

Camera Settings

Shutter 1/30

Aperture f9/10/11

ISO 100-200

Posing Compensation -1

SOME MORE TIPS

Apart from these three main points ( Necessary Equipment, Environmental Factors and

Camera Settings ) there are some tips we can use to enhance our photos.

Composition:

Decide what you want to take beforehand. Do you want a model or silhouette in your photo?

Or do you just want to take the sun and sky? Which aspect gives the best impression? Try to

use different shades and shadows in your photos. Don’t forget the rule of 1/3 (one in three) ,

put the sky in 1/3 ( two thirds) of the photo and leave 1/3 for length.


Posing:

Another important topic is posing. This affects your photos quality importantly. Also, you can

take photos either with shutter priority or with aperture priority. You’ll have different types of

photos by using these techniques.For the best result , you should use your tripods. Also ,

during the sunset , take as many photos as you can. This gives you a chance to have different

coloursin the photos and you might catch ‘The Golden Light’ in your photo.

Creativity:

Most of us have seen sunset/sunrise photos around. And in our subconscious minds we carry

those images. So it is almost inevitable to reflect them to our photos. But still we can take

more authentic photos if we think creatively.

Spain 20 HDR

HDR 21 Spain

Spain 22 HDR

HDR 23 Spain

Spain 24 HDR

HDR 25 Spain

Spain 26 HDR

HDR 27 Spain

Spain 28 HDR

HDR 29 Spain

Spain 30 HDR

HDR 31 Spain

Spain 32 HDR

HDR 33 Spain

Spain 34 HDR

HDR 35 Spain

Spain 36 HDR

Pinhole Photography 37 Poland

Pinhole Photography

Poland 38 Pinhole Photography

A camera has a few simple components: A light tight box

Aperture – A hole through which light enters the camera.

Shutter – A way to control how long light enters the box.

Lens – A way of focusing light for a sharp image.

Viewfinder – A way to aim the camera.

Film Holder – A way to hold the film in the correct place to

receive the focused light.

A pinhole camera is the

most basic image

forming device in

photography. It is a

direct descendant of the

camera obscura,

(Latin for “darkroom”).


The camera was actually a large room that would be entered by the user.

Light entering a small hole in a darkened room produces an inverted image

on the opposite wall. It was used initially to view solar eclipses, but by the

seventeenth century the process was made portable by fitting a lens to one

end of a box and using a sheet of glass at the opposite end to view the

image. A mirror inserted inside at a 45 degree angle would reverse the

image, giving the viewer a corrected orientation.

Sir David Brewster, a Scottish scientist, coined the word "pinhole“ and was

one of the first to make pinhole photographs in the 1850s.


Instead of a lens, the camera has

a small hole that admits light.

The image is not as sharp as

one formed by a lens, but the

entire field of view has an

equal degree of sharpness.


A pinhole camera has

nearly infinite depth of

field. Everything in

the photo is in focus.

Only a few light rays from each point on the subject can get through the

tiny opening and reach the film in small clusters that cause minimal

blurring.


A larger hole permits a greater number of rays from each point on the

subject to enter the camera. These rays are recorded as large circles which

tend to overlap each other, creating an unclear image. They are called circles

of confusion.

Straight surfaces may look curved if the film plane is curved.


This image was made from a camera with six pinholes.

A nineteen hole camera.


Any deviation from round will affect the sharpness and the perspective of the

image. An oval or short slit will smear the image in the direction of the

longest dimension.


Horizontal front slit,

with a vertical back slit.

A pinhole camera can be made out of just about anything. This one is made

from a red bell pepper, which acts as a safelight for paper.


Sources

http://www.nh.ultranet.com/~stewoody/photo.htm

http://neon.airtime.co.uk/pinhole/

http://www.pinholeresource.com/gallery1.html

Renner, Eric. 2000. Pinhole Photography: Rediscovering a Historic

Technique. Focal Press, Boston.

Upton, Barbara and Upton, John. 1981. Photography. Little, Brown and Co.,

Boston.

http://www.nh.ultranet.com/~stewoody/photo.htm

http://www.pinholeresource.com/gallery1.html

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