Beginners Guide to Photography Class - Belconnen - 3 pm - 3 hours

Looking to improve your photography? Our Beginners Class is a great place to start. This 3 hour session is a photo walk that will have you weaned off of Auto mode, and transforming your everyday snaps into professional-looking shots.

Beginners Guide to Photography Class - Belconnen - 3 pm - 3 hours

Looking to improve your photography? Our Beginners Class is a great place to start. This 3 hour session is a photo walk that will have you weaned off of Auto mode, and transforming your everyday snaps into professional-looking shots.

Landscape Photography Meetup - Henry Rolland Park - 4pm - 2 hours

Landscape photography is not easy for beginners. There are many issues and unpredictable elements when shooting outside. Under this circumstance, your key parameters, as shutter speed, aperture and ISO need to be adjusted very carefully. And normally your focal length, lens and white balance need to be properly considered.

So this session will be very friendly for beginners, the instructor, Jackie Tan, with over 3 years experience in landscape photography, will help you learn how to do professional settings as a landscape photographer and give some little tricks to improve the quality of your images. And some useful recommendations will be given to help you update your camera gears and lens.

Beginners Guide to Photography Class - Garema Place - 10 am - 3 hours

Looking to improve your photography? Our Beginners Class is a great place to start. This 3 hour session is a photo walk that will have you weaned off of Auto mode, and transforming your everyday snaps into professional-looking shots. And besides, if you have an ND 1000 filter, please do bring it. I will show you how to use it in the daytime and how to create blur motion photos by using ND 1000. Don't hesitate if you are interested in it!

Timelapse Photography Meetup - Acton Penisula - 6pm - 2 hours

Timelapse can take a long time to capture but will receive a fabulous effect after you make it. In this meetup, you will the basic information of timelapse video, a good habit of categorising your timelapse images, a basic guide of your time interval setting and a good setting of your iron triangle (SS, Aperture and ISO). It's a prerequisite class for the timelapse post-processing workshop, which will concentrate more on your camera settings and the primary conceptualization of timelapse.

Editing Timelapse Photographs Class - Marie Reay Teaching Centre - 9am - 3 hours

A timelapse video usually is made by hundreds of images. But after the shooting, what we need to do is to adjust them in LR and LRT, readjust their parameters, synchronise their settings and export them with the best quality. So for this class, we will continue our timelapse study based on the materials we collect from the prerequisite meetup, refine and improve our knowledge about timelapse and put more post-processing skills and tricks during our study. Finally, Jackie will introduce more basic knowledge about hyper-lapse and motion-lapse for intermediate members.

Wildlife Bird Photography - Jerrabromberra Wetlands - 9am - 2 hours

This Meetup is perfect if you want a 'hands on' approach to wildlife bird photography.
Capturing birds (in photography, no nets!) is a game of patience, perseverance and technical know-how. It requires you to be able to think on your feet and make changes to your focus, settings and exposure without taking the camera down from your eye.

Architectural Photography Meetup - The Shine Dome - 2pm - 2 hours

Architectural photography can be a great way of exploring and documenting a city, whether it's your home or on holiday. We'll be looking at ways to take some impressive shots and the camera settings to use.

Prepare For Your Stacking Meetup - Scrivener Dam lookout - 6pm - 2 hours

Photo stacking is a pretty useful technique, especially in post-processing for landscape photographers. But usually, the successful usage of this technique needs good shooting skills to ensure the needed Raw format images are captured with suitable parameters.

This meetup will be a prerequisite class, which will introduce several types of stacking, their advantages, smart usage and how to shoot separately. And for the next workshop, Jackie will tell you how to use the photo we captured to do the exposure stacking, focus stacking and how to use stacking to denoise your image.

Landscape Photography - Australia Police Memorial - 6.30pm - 2 hours

Landscape photography is possibly one of the most popular genres, so we’ll be looking at how you can improve your shots and help your photos stand out from the crowd. We’ll be focusing on composition, panoramas, equipment tips and settings to use.

Ride & Shoot - Photography Meetup - Lena Karmel Unilodge - 5pm - 2.5 hours

The western loop of Lake Burley Griffin Bicycle Lane is 16km and has a couple of nice sites which may suitable for catching the sunset. For this meetup, a bike-riding about the Burley Griffin Lake will be combined with landscape photography near the lane. Some small tricks will be shared during the meetup as well. We will start from Lena Karmel Unilodge and end at Henry Rolland Park. Please ensure that at least 20 km distance of riding is not a big issue for you if register this meetup.
Please BYO with a stable bicycle, helmet, sufficient water, camera and tripod.