Our one day Real Estate and Architectural photography course provides a clear path for the entry-level to advanced, allowing you to gain the specialist skills in order to become a capable, even expert, real estate and architectural photographer. Start a small or freelance photography business, work part time or turn your hobby and passion into a professional craft. How to photograph architectural exteriors and interiors. Shooting in different locations, camera and lenses advice, flash gun techniques and shooting under a wide range of difficult lighting conditions. Composition tips, lighting techniques. The perfect photography course for time pressed real estate agents, architects, interior designers and travellers who love photographing real estate architecture. Our one days program mainly concentrates on residential housing.

The digital DLSR and mirror-less camera with a wide angle zoom lens and at least one Speedlite flash is now considered an essential tool for taking interior and exterior photos of buildings. This course will steer you through the camera gear, lenses and accessories needed and the technique required to shoot quality, dynamic, creative and emotive shots which portrays a structure or property in the best possible light. Great photographs of real estate 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.

A series of workshops will cover prepping the property, props, the best cameras and lenses, settings such as aperture priority, shooting RAW, low ISO settings, bracketing, exposure compensation, balancing interior and exterior light, white balance, colour profiling, tripods, reflectors, flashes, colour cast, lighting corners, filters and a brief session on output for screen or print.

• Learn how to use every feature on your DLSR camera to the full
• ISO. RAW, the best modes (APSM), white balance, bracketing, HDR
• Balancing exterior and interior light, use of your Speedlite flash
• External lighting sources, lighting a room
• Pro tips such as reflections, filters, lightstreams, starbursts
• Portfolio building with iconic Sydney architecture
• Viewpoints & tilting, lens and linear perspective
• Quick guide: output for screen and print

Gusto's Cafe - 2A Heeley St Paddington, Sydney NSW

* A DLSR, mirror-less or quality compact with manual functionality
* A sound grasp of photography basics (we have a test if you are unsure)
* At least one quality wide angle lens such as a 12-24mm. Or at least a 18-55mm lens
* Tripod, polarising filter and external flash unit
* Charged camera battery and a spare if you have one

Inclusions

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

Exclusions

Food and beverages

Payments

Paying for your course in full upon booking will confirm your attendance. Places are limited on all courses.

Refunds

We reserve the right to cancel and reschedule any course, due to inadequate enrollment, bad weather, instructor illness, or an 'act of God'. We also reserve the right to cancel any course if there is insufficient demand, especially if it means that our costs would be higher than our income. Please therefore do not leave it until the last few weeks if you are interested in a particular date, as you may find that it has been cancelled. As our costs for each training event remain the same no matter how many delegates attend, like any pre-booked tickets for the theatre, concert, flights etc, we are unable to give a full refund in the event of non-attendance, regardless of the circumstances. If withdrawal occurs within the 14 days before the course starts we will try to put you on an alternative date if places are available. Please note that we cannot be liable for any other costs incurred by yourself, so please check with us before booking any non-refundable accommodation or transport.

Workshop Photography:

We reserve the right to take photographic, (both still and video) records of any of our workshops/courses which may be used for promotional purposes, submissions, advertising and records. We grant permission for participants to use any images captured by them during this workshop for self-promotion only. Participants may not make any financial gain from any images captured during this workshop/course.