Killiney, Dublin - Peter Gordon Glendalough Winter - Peter Gordon Dallas Divide - Peter Gordon Lake Powell - Peter Gordon Pigeon House - Peter Gordon Howth Head, Dublin - Peter Gordon Digital Landscape Photography Workshops Ireland Digital Landscape Photography Night Courses Ireland – Beginners and Intermediate with Peter Gordon Intermediate Commencing Monday 6th September (6 week course) ( Max Class Size 12 ) Stillorgan Park Hotel NEW DATES JUST ANNOUNCED Sign up to our Newsletter for updates on new courses Contact Peter at +353 863586032 or email info@explorelight.com Gift Vouchers Available Our six week Digital Landscape Photography Night Courses are designed to provide participants with concrete and practical advice which can be used while out making images in beautiful surroundings. With small class sizes of just twelve it’s a great opportunity to learn in an interactive environment. At the end of your six week course you will have learned a range of new skills which will greatly improve your landscape photography. We also provide detailed notes on every class so you always have something tangible to refer back to. All night courses are classroom taught and theory based but we also incorporate on week 4 a sunset shoot in Dublin bay to bring all we have learned into practical focus and hopefully make some beautiful images. You will also be taught the 'ExploreLight Landscape Action' which has been developed to pass onto workshop participants a simple but extremely effective way to process images. Actions are a function of Photoshop which allow you to record a series of adjustments. Once this series of adjustments have been recorded they can then be carried out with ease on any image you open. The beauty of the action is that it allows you change the severity of each adjustment on an image by image basis. No two shots are the same so varying degrees of change are required depending on the shots your working on. The adjustments within the action target contrast, saturation and glow, shadow detail and highlight detail all with one click of a button. Each facet can then by individually tweaked after the action has been run. General Course Outline and Location The course takes place in the Stillorgan Park Hotel (located on the N11 and easily accessible form the M50) in privately rented conference facilities. Our first four classes are classroom based and focus on using your camera, filters, lighting and composition. The class runs on a Monday ( see dates listed above ) from 730pm – 9.30pm with a fifteen minute break. Our fourth class will be a sunset shoot in Dublin Bay. Week five and six will be devoted to processing images in Photoshop from our shoot the previous week. Please see below for specific course outlines. Costs and Whats Included The cost of this six week course is €290. For this you will recieve five classes of two hours. A sunet shoot will take place on week four lasting around two hours. Notes will be provided from every course and print costs are included within the above price. Course Outline Intermediate Week 1  - Advanced Exposure - How does our camera record light - Shooting in Manual and Aperture Priority  - Depth of Field and Correct Focusing Points to maximise sharpness - Camera Metering modes – Matrix/Evaluative and Spot Explained Week 2  - Composition – what to include and when – the rule of thirds – suggestions on making great compositions  - Light - the most fundamentally important aspect of photography – how to use different lighting conditions to your advantage. - Dynamic Range – Why are those sky's always blown out Week 3 - Filters – Polarisers and Graduated Neutral Density  - Histogram explained - Exposing to the Right for maximum detail. - Blending Exposures in Photoshop to control Dynamic Range Week 4 - Sunset Shoot, Dublin Bay Week 5 - Layers and the Brush Tool - Introduction to the 'ExploreLight Landscape Action' Week 6  - Blending Exposures Revisited  - "ExploreLight Landscape Action'

Killiney, Dublin - Peter Gordon

Glendalough Winter - Peter Gordon

Dallas Divide - Peter Gordon

Lake Powell - Peter Gordon

Pigeon House - Peter Gordon

Howth Head, Dublin - Peter Gordon

Digital Landscape Photography Workshops Ireland

Digital Landscape Photography Night Courses Ireland – Beginners and Intermediate

with Peter Gordon

Intermediate Commencing Monday 6th September (6 week course)

( Max Class Size 12 )

Stillorgan Park Hotel

NEW DATES JUST ANNOUNCED

Sign up to our Newsletter for updates on new courses

Contact Peter at +353 863586032 or email info@explorelight.com

Gift Vouchers Available

Our six week Digital Landscape Photography Night Courses are designed to provide participants with concrete and practical advice which can be used while out making images in beautiful surroundings. With small class sizes of just twelve it’s a great opportunity to learn in an interactive environment. At the end of your six week course you will have learned a range of new skills which will greatly improve your landscape photography. We also provide detailed notes on every class so you always have something tangible to refer back to.

All night courses are classroom taught and theory based but we also incorporate on week 4 a sunset shoot in Dublin bay to bring all we have learned into practical focus and hopefully make some beautiful images.

You will also be taught the 'ExploreLight Landscape Action' which has been developed to pass onto workshop participants a simple but extremely effective way to process images. Actions are a function of Photoshop which allow you to record a series of adjustments. Once this series of adjustments have been recorded they can then be carried out with ease on any image you open. The beauty of the action is that it allows you change the severity of each adjustment on an image by image basis. No two shots are the same so varying degrees of change are required depending on the shots your working on. The adjustments within the action target contrast, saturation and glow, shadow detail and highlight detail all with one click of a button. Each facet can then by individually tweaked after the action has been run.

General Course Outline and Location

The course takes place in the Stillorgan Park Hotel (located on the N11 and easily accessible form the M50) in privately rented conference facilities. Our first four classes are classroom based and focus on using your camera, filters, lighting and composition. The class runs on a Monday ( see dates listed above ) from 730pm – 9.30pm with a fifteen minute break. Our fourth class will be a sunset shoot in Dublin Bay. Week five and six will be devoted to processing images in Photoshop from our shoot the previous week. Please see below for specific course outlines.

Costs and Whats Included

The cost of this six week course is €290. For this you will recieve five classes of two hours. A sunet shoot will take place on week four lasting around two hours. Notes will be provided from every course and print costs are included within the above price.

Course Outline

Intermediate

Week 1

 - Advanced Exposure - How does our camera record light - Shooting in Manual and Aperture Priority

 - Depth of Field and Correct Focusing Points to maximise sharpness

- Camera Metering modes – Matrix/Evaluative and Spot Explained

Week 2

 - Composition – what to include and when – the rule of thirds – suggestions on making great compositions

 - Light - the most fundamentally important aspect of photography – how to use different lighting conditions to your advantage.

- Dynamic Range – Why are those sky's always blown out

Week 3

- Filters – Polarisers and Graduated Neutral Density

 - Histogram explained - Exposing to the Right for maximum detail.

- Blending Exposures in Photoshop to control Dynamic Range

Week 4

- Sunset Shoot, Dublin Bay

Week 5

- Layers and the Brush Tool

- Introduction to the 'ExploreLight Landscape Action'

Week 6 

- Blending Exposures Revisited 

- "ExploreLight Landscape Action'