Courses
Are you keen on taking photos and would you like to improve your skills or even learn something you do not know yet? Are you interested in spending time in a cosy atmosphere of a charming cottage of Zamagurie area along with a leadership of an artistic photographer? Robo Kočan has been into photography since 1983 and has a wide range of experience in analog black and white photography . There was a time when the photos were taken on camera film, the pictures were enlarged manually which certainly had its own magic and charm. Digital photography also can be quite fast to be processed and very flexible during after processing. You ale welcome to learn that as well!
Topics of photo courses
1. BEGINNER – I will teach you to control your camera instead of using just a. Basic functions ISO, shade and time. I will show you how they influence each other and how to use them to obtain a desired results in your photos.
2. COMPOSITIONS AND WORKING WITH LIGHTS – using different kinds of light and their variations. In the evening we can try the playful luminography which literally meand drawing with lights at night during long exposition.
3. PORTRAIT – daylight and studio light, working with a model – using different types of lights and combining them. How to work with the model, what to think about and how light and angle of view will change the resulting atmosphere. Evening, playful luminography in portrait = drawing with light at night during a long exposure.
4. INTERIOR PHOTOGRAPHY – work with composition and light when photographing a guest house, hotel and other interiors. Postprocess (in Photoshop) and creating the right atmosphere. Photography sells today and must be as engaging as possible on social sites.
5. EXPERIMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY – hand made colouring, goldplating, collage and assembly.
In the evening again playful luminography, drawing with lights during long exposition.
Art photography – how to create unique and original photographs and what is essential to make your pictures „ something much more „ than just documenting everything you like.
In the evening again playful luminography, drawing with lights during long exposition.
6. LUMINOGRAPHY – play and creativity – playful luminography = drawing with light at night during a long exposure for the more demanding. More complex procedures and combinations of several techniques in luminography, but mainly how to make photographs or entire collections with an idea.
7. ART PHOTOGRAPHY – how to create unique and original photographs and what is essential to make your pictures „ something much more „ than just documenting everything you like.
In the evening again playful luminography, drawing with lights during long exposition.
8. CLASSICAL ANALOGUE PHOTOGRAPHY – taking pictures at black and white films, film developing and hand made enlarging the pictures. Suitable for beginners and also inter – mediate, but mainly for those who want to be introduced to the magic aof classical photography.
9. PHOTOSHOP – for beginners and more advanced – mediate , basic work with Photoshop – how to create the basic photo adjustments, preparation of photographies for print, correct enlarging and changing of a form of each shoot, outlook balancing, retouching and portrait correction, work at layers and how to use them creatively and most originally.
10. TRAVEL AND HOLIDAY Photography – practical advice on how and what to photograph on trips around the world or on vacation, how to make a selection of images and how to process them into some form of presentation, book or album, so as not to bore potential viewers = friends, family or in public presentation. Practical advice on what camera and technology are best and most practical for traveling.