This course will steer you through the essential tools needed and the technique required to shoot quality, dynamic, creative and emotive shots which portray your client's property in the best possible light. Great photographs of properties and the ability to turn a drab, unappealing property into something attractive for prospective buyers adds value to the property and enhances your business professionalism. For travellers and lovers of fine architecture, you gain the skills to bring back evocative, memorable images of places you have stayed or visited.

The course will also appeal to photographers needing to learn more about flash gun techniques and shooting under a wide range of difficult lighting conditions. Many of our course students just love still life photography and shooting architecture. In this course they will learn from how to shoot industrial warehouses, classic Federation terraces, workers cottages, Italian villas, Greek tavernas, Turkish mosques - and closer to home - iconic Cottesloe landmark buildings such as The Indiana Tearooms, the Cottesloe Beach Hotel, local cafes, beach and lifestyle scenes and prime residential houses & apartments around Perth.

• Learn how to use every feature on your DLSR camera to the full
• Get unbiased advice on what camera gear you need for real estate photography
• Fast track your photographic technical and artistic skills
• Get great shots of iconic Perth scenes
• Learn low light and night photography techniques
• Learn how to use external lighting sources
• Gain knowledge about external and slave flash units
• Small groups (8 persons maximum)
• Interactive, dynamic, exacting, challenging
• Ideal to build on your professional portfolio
• Free camera shopping service & ongoing technical support

• Overview of camera functions and buttons
• Interior and exterior images of properties
• Advantages of digital
• Suggested cameras and accessories
• Basic camera functions
• Pixels & memory cards
• Controlling light
• Creative composition
• Lens perspective overview and depth of field
• White balance and filters
• ISO speed and shutter speeds
• Colour cast, flash and ambient light
• Exercises shooting interiors and exteriors
• Direction of light
• Working with different types of natural and artificial light
• Balancing interior and exterior light
• Handling contrast and dynamic range
• Preparing a property for a shoot
• Unusual viewpoints, handling tight situations
• Lens and linear perspective for shooting interior and exteriors
• Architecture and exterior building shots
• Eliminating clutter
• Flash and ambient light / twilight and night shooting
• Low light photography

• Start time : 9am
• Finish time : 4pm
• Meet at : Il Lido Cafe - cnr Forrest St & Marine Pde Cottesloe

• Instruction from professional photographers Serena Pearce / Code Lime Photography and/or Andrew Thomasson / Focus 10 photography
• Detailed notes
• Camera, lens and accessory shopping service
• Personal assessment and critique of your portfolio

Food and beverages