The Beginners' Workshop or the ability to shoot on the Semi-Auto Modes (Aperture Priority Mode, Shutter Speed Priority Mode).

If you have no photography background, or are shooting in the Auto Mode, please take the prerequisite course, The Beginner's Workshop. Even you are already shooting in the semi-auto modes, we still encourage you to sign up for the Beginner's Workshop to build up a solid foundation in photography.

The Beginners & Intermediate  Workshops are designed to help attendees build a solid foundation in photography, each of them have a different focus. 

By completing the 3 Workshops, attendees should be able to shoot confidently in the manual mode with great awareness of lighting. 

In the Intermediates I & II, attendees will be introduced to various types of photography through hands-on practice in the manual mode: Landscape, Portrait, Action, Still-life, Street, Water (long exposure) and Light Painting.

Accessories for long exposure photography such as ND and GND filters will be provided in the Intermediate II Workshop.

While the Intermediates Workshops are totally different from Beginner's, the first 30 minutes in Intermediate I  will be a review of Beginner's Level concepts.

Attendees who have attended the Beginner Workshop in the same day will have an option of taking a longer lunch break and be back at 1:30pm (instead of 1pm). 

It is necessary for us to spend 30 minutes to help attendees from the previous sessions refresh their memories.

Attendees are welcome to bring their own equipment, because it is also our goal to help them use their own equipment (if there's any) eventually.

We need everyone to start with the equipment that we provide, so the whole class can move at the same pace. At the same time, it is also easier to understand the basics with our equipment, and the settings are effortlessly transferable to other cameras once they grasp the concepts. Attendees can use their own equipment in the 2nd half of the workshop with the help of the instructor, and they will be amazed at how fast they pick up the settings.

You'll learn how to shoot on a DSLR camera in the Beginners' Workshop and a Mirrorless camera in the Intermediate Workshops.

In general, a mirrorless camera is lighter, has more functionality and more expensive.

It is essential for beginners to learn the basics using a DSLR camera, so that they can move their way up to a more sophisticated, mirrorless camera in the Intermediate Workshops.

A mirrorless camera is expensive. A lot of DSLR owners aren't sure if they should upgrade their equipment to a mirrorless one. That's why we provide the most up-to-date equipment, which is a mirrorless camera, for taking the students' skill to the next level, and try on it before making a purchase decision.

Yes, and only better! You will be able to shoot on both a DSLR and a mirrorless camera after the Beginners' & Intermediate Workshops.

If you are an existing DSLR camera user and is brand new to photography, please sign up for the Beginners' Workshop before moving on to the Intermediate Workhops. 

Nevertheless, if you are an existing DSLR camera user but already understand how the exposure triangle works, then you can skip the Beginners and directly dive into the Intermediate Workshops.

We will show you how to use a DSLR camera to its fullest, and you'll be amazed by how a mirrorless camera can sharpen up one's skill by that much.

There are only 5 core settings that you need to know to shoot on any cameras, including a DSLR or a mirrorless one. 

The photography world is gradually replacing traditional DSLRs with the mirrorless cameras as a result of the advancement of the imaging technology.

To keep students' skills up-to-date and maximize their learning experience, a mirrorless camera is provided in the Intermediate Workshops, allowing them to see the exposure and composition immediately on the screen, and effortlessly tap to focus and let the camera operate on the "Eye AF", rather than shooting a photo in the traditional way.

Therefore, you'll get to experience shooting on a mirrorless camera before buying yourself a new one, while at the same time you are also applying the knowledge to your already-owned DSLR camera, and more proficiently.

You'll learn the difference between a DSLR and a mirrorless camera in great detail in the Beginners' Workshop. In summary, the advantages of mirrorless cameras over traditional DSLRs are:

1) Faster focusing.

2) Captures an image electronically rather than optically, allowing more accurate focusing.

3) Have Eye AF (automatically places and locks the focus on a human/ animal eye, resulting in sharper portraits).

4) Allows live view shooting, which means the users can instantly see the exposure and composition on the LCD screen. Note that the "live view mode" of a DSLR camera do not work in the same efficient way as a mirrorless one.

5) Lighter.

6) Will replace the DSLR cameras in a few years.

If you are a Canon user, watch this video to understand the namings of Canon DSLR, mirrorless cameras and lenses.

In general, Google 

"_your camera model + dslr or mirrorless?"

and you will see the result.

Yes, teenagers aged 12+ are welcomed!

The class will be a mix of teens and mostly adults students.